― Sam (chirombo), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 09:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― joan vich (joan vich), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 11:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 28 November 2002 19:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
*sound of feet galloping towards HMV*
― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Thursday, 28 November 2002 19:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 28 November 2002 22:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 29 November 2002 08:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
The earlier, more obviously comedic records are the ones that, for the most part, keep getting cited above but surely by the time they did Keynsham the Bonzos were doing so much more.
― tigerclawskank, Friday, 29 November 2002 10:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
oh and obviously so classic you could never believe. viv was a comic and musical genius, and neil one of the nicest blokes you could ever hope to meet
― chris browning (commonswings), Friday, 29 November 2002 10:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom May (Tom May), Sunday, 2 March 2003 18:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 2 March 2003 19:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom May (Tom May), Monday, 3 March 2003 00:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 3 March 2003 00:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 March 2003 00:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 3 March 2003 01:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
They truly did move beyond parody, and were already beginning to do so from the debut album onwards.
― Tom May (Tom May), Saturday, 14 June 2003 00:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
SO THEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
― Bumfluff, Friday, 6 August 2004 20:03 (twenty years ago) link
REVIVE-O!
Through the exceptionally good, generous graces of fellow ILM'er Abbics Abbie, I have finally aquired the above album (after merely expressing that I'd wanted to finally hear "Eleven Moustachioed Daughters" after reading so much about it here on ILM). Very nicely, she ripped the whole shebang for me, and by gosh is it ever great. All I'd heard previously were compilations, but this album really is fucking fantastic. Moreover, the lyrics to "11 Moustachioed Daughters" are truly creepy in a decidedly occult-bothering sort've way. Witness....
Eleven moustachioed daughters, running in a field of fat The moon is high, the mandrake screams, Please come to our Sabbat. The changeling children shiver, round the fire their mothers dance, With strangely painted faces, That smile but never laugh. The crow-pecked gibbet's victim swings broken in his cage His hands cut down to make a crown. To wear as our homage. Round & round the magic ring soft figures fastly rush And wolf-like things & toads with wings whisper wetly "Come with us".
The fresh-plucked eye of a favourite cat, Pulped and mixed with a white hens fat, A lapwings' wing and lions' gall, And Belladonna to make your eyes Like a beasts. To anoint the body and make it shine, To drink & make thyself divine, To choose another's form and make it thine.
And now they gibber blasphemy & fill the fetid air With ancient lies & leprous cries, This night he will be there. A madness has them, mouths gape wide As one they sway and moan, & every brutish face is turned, To see our Goat-King's Throne.
Anyway, thanks again Abbie and let's hear it for the Bonzos.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 23:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 7 October 2004 00:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 7 October 2004 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 7 October 2004 00:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 7 October 2004 02:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 7 October 2004 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link
"Lipstickgleam Hexachloraphene Cling cling a ring Clang clang she sang It's tragic magic There are no coincidences But sometimes the pattern is more obvious"
― everything, Thursday, 7 October 2004 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 7 October 2004 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link
also "eleven moustachioed daughters" has uncredited backing vocals by germaine greer.
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 8 October 2004 06:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 29 September 2005 05:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 29 September 2005 05:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― zappi (joni), Thursday, 29 September 2005 06:12 (eighteen years ago) link
2006
Saturday 28th January
Neil Innes and Friends(The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band Revisited)FEATURINGRodney SlaterRoger Ruskin SpearLegs Larry SmithVernon Dudley Bohay Nowellplus special guestsTHE ASTORIALONDONDoors Open 1800hrs
Tickets are still available from
STARGREEN BOX OFFICECredit Card Hotline 020 7734 8932www.Stargreen.com
hooooold me back!
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 11 December 2005 17:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 11 December 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
i saw neil innes at the melbourne comedy festival in 2003 - he was every bit as wondrous as i'd hoped. (i was the youngest person there by about 20 years)
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 11 December 2005 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Falling down the stairs again (noodle vague), Sunday, 11 December 2005 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Sunday, 11 December 2005 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link
anyone fancy coming along?
*checks stargreen*
oh bollocks, it's sold out.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 12:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 12:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 12:39 (eighteen years ago) link
The answer is total classic, of course... (off humming Hunting Tigers...)
― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Deluxe (Damian), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:43 (eighteen years ago) link
My dream is that Mike Oldfield could do "The Intro and the Outro".
― everything, Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:26 (eighteen years ago) link
Stephen Fry? It could work, as long as he's not visible.
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 15 December 2005 08:53 (eighteen years ago) link
The NATIONAL TOUR is set to roll. 40th Anniversary tour with special guests.
November sees the start. Check out the www.bonzodog.co.uk website.
See you all there.
― Joe Eastham, Friday, 19 May 2006 12:23 (eighteen years ago) link
Reissues out this week! Finally I will be able to get my hands on The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse!
― Telephone thing, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 02:39 (seventeen years ago) link
Britain's answer to We're Only In It For The Money featuring Actual Ex-Mother (allegedly) Joel Druckman on bass and "come on everybody clap your hands" etc.
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 07:20 (seventeen years ago) link
"Big hello to big John Wayne, xylophone..."
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 02:14 (seventeen years ago) link
I love THIS:
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 06:35 (seventeen years ago) link
I heart "Tubas in the Moonlight"
― Joe, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link
So do I. I love that song.
― Tom D., Tuesday, 11 September 2007 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link
RFI: A long time ago a friend lent me a Bonzo Dog Band dubbed cassette, and it had a track on it that used a tape loop - an early sample, really - of pool balls being hit, and also one of a chainsaw. Does anyone know what this is and where it can be found?
Oh yeah, and there was another track that used a man laughing to similar effect.
― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link
The laughing one is "Slush", it's on "Let's Make Up and Be Friendly". The other one sounds like it could be one of the between-track bits on "Keynsham".
― Tom D., Tuesday, 11 September 2007 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Two words for you: "Big Shot"
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFK980rXCyA
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 August 2019 06:47 (five years ago) link
The Bonzos are so great. Absolute classic for anyone who loves The Beatles, The Kinks, or British whimsy. Also, The Incredible String Band.
If you love the Bonzos, you'll adore this album:
https://img.discogs.com/QTjnzGveKAyjo8jSU7Wt0RADyJw=/fit-in/480x480/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-709666-1275289286.jpeg.jpg
― 3×5, Thursday, 22 August 2019 23:46 (five years ago) link
Also Syd Barrett
― 3×5, Thursday, 22 August 2019 23:47 (five years ago) link
Neil Innes RIP
― Alba, Monday, 30 December 2019 12:08 (four years ago) link
Ouch! :(
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 December 2019 12:18 (four years ago) link
It's a blow, for sure.
― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Monday, 30 December 2019 12:30 (four years ago) link
oh fuck really?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 30 December 2019 12:39 (four years ago) link
"... and stunned!"
― Mark G, Monday, 30 December 2019 13:19 (four years ago) link
my daughter is 3 and likes the Beatles. As i generally can get sick of 'em fast, I thought it would be a good idea to play her the Rutles. Five months after doing so, she demands Rutles music more often that she does that of the Beatles or "let it Go" or "Barbie Girl" or "what does the Fox say?" I suppose I'm not unlike the dad that forces his kid to listen to Remain in Light, but I can't deny that I like that she's very likely the only child who loves the music of Neil Innes within 100 miles of where we live…
― veronica moser, Monday, 30 December 2019 20:38 (four years ago) link
Innes always struck me as a guy whose talent maybe went unnoted a bit because he was, at times, the straight guy in the Bonzos. But he was a great one; his Bonzos songs include some real proto-glam in things like "Beautiful Zelda," "Rockaliser Baby," and "Mr. Apollo" and I think he was one of the best at the old-timey stuff like "Hello Mabel," too. His songs on Keynsham would have fit right in on a Kinks record from the period.
― timellison, Monday, 30 December 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
Story time, and yes it did happen!
Back when, our Alice came home from Brownie Camp. She said she'd had a great time etc, oh and she'd won the talent competition. I said ah fine, what did you sing? "The Equestrian Statue". I did wonder if I'd ruined her social outlook, but the rest you know! (well, some of you)
Anyway, just now we both caught the bus back from town together, and I mentioned I was going to share this tale. She said she didn't remember winning, but she did remember doing it and that "it was very untogether". Ah, I said, I would have expected so, to be quite honest...
― Mark G, Monday, 30 December 2019 21:55 (four years ago) link
Can we talk about how amazing this is?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eFk9bAXzkI
Or how beautiful this is?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-Uuvb3zctA
Or this? This is the weird prog sound of my childhood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzByBZs4c0A
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 30 December 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link
That is great. I've never heard that 1972 album.
― timellison, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 00:38 (four years ago) link
Goodbye Nasty
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 January 2020 02:29 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9SQ7GeiGh8
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 January 2020 16:24 (four years ago) link
icymi
Ira Kaplan joined Gaylord Fields on WFMU for a 2-hr tribute
http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/91049
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 January 2020 18:17 (four years ago) link
Imi, so thanks. Haven’t crossed paths with Gaylord in ages. Maybe last time was at LaLa Brooks show in Astoria at which Ira and Georgia were in attendance as well.
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 January 2020 18:31 (four years ago) link
Glad the playlist features the tune whose title derives from part of my screenname.
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 January 2020 18:34 (four years ago) link
if WFMU web pages still look like that, you should still be able to save the m3u, open it in notepad, copy the mp3 address and put that in getright. they're not playing fair imo.
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Monday, 27 January 2020 20:48 (four years ago) link
ihonestly do not care what web pages look like
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 20:52 (four years ago) link
I'm 100% in favour of radio station playlist pages still being done with tables in Composer, I just want to be able to still take the audio away and listen to it while walking or doing the dishes
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 21:58 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKXsrWrmbAg
― When Harpo Played His ARP (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 19:23 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLQ7ds90xDw
― everything, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 20:33 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlXXUmssNGI
― Ride On Proserpina (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 13:54 (two years ago) link
I'm afraid I'll go to my grave not knowing what this was. It's possible that it wasn't even a BDB song and was just apended to the cassette, I guess, but it was very similar in style to slush in my memory, sort of a slow, 12/8 feel to it.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 14:15 (two years ago) link
#OnThisDay 1973: Roger Ruskin Spear, formerly of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, unleashes his “robots” on presenter Joe Melia and the British viewing public.Straining plastic dolls, baffling games and a Patrick Moore machine are amongst the highlights. pic.twitter.com/ZPM62E3a64— BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) April 7, 2024
Roger Ruskin Spear demonstrating some of his creations.
I love stuff like this and Tim Hunkin's Novelty Automaton/Under The Pier Show, Sam Smith - it all seems of a piece. Does anyone else make things like this? Some of Vic Reeves stuff is similar I guess.
― soref, Sunday, 7 April 2024 08:52 (five months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeN275kLtaE
this documentary about Sam Smith is great, seems like it might be of interest to fans of the Bonzos
― soref, Sunday, 7 April 2024 08:53 (five months ago) link
more Roger Ruskin Spear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0l1hXdp5Zk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwZ_hMDzKmE
― soref, Sunday, 7 April 2024 09:04 (five months ago) link
and Bruce Lacey, or course
― soref, Sunday, 7 April 2024 09:08 (five months ago) link
Wilf Lunn was a mainstay of children’s TV in the 70s, similar absurdist hippy vibe as Ruskin Spear.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/wilf-lunn-protest-bike/zh9y6v4
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 7 April 2024 09:10 (five months ago) link
Worth watching to the end to see his worm catcher.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 7 April 2024 09:12 (five months ago) link
Wilf Lunn is great, it's funny how there was this moment where you had stuff like Vision On where children's tv and experimental stuff could cross over, like Sylvester McCoy dividing his time between kids tv and the Ken Campbell Roadshow. Various Clive Doig shows as well
― soref, Sunday, 7 April 2024 09:22 (five months ago) link