I note with interest, if not horror, that the BBC has commissioned a radio play on the making of Blackstar starring the Mike Yarwood de nos jours, Jon Culshaw.
Given the the quite preternatural terribleness of BBC radio drama, and even allowing for the fact that the agreeable Culshaw isn’t playing it for laughs, what are our expectations? And is this to be part of a trend?
Can we expect Phil Cornwell and John Sessions to reunite for a searing drama about Altamont? Will there be a play about the genesis of the Velvet Underground, with Les Dennis, Bobby Davro and Kate Robbins playing Andy Warhol, Lou Reed and Nico respectively? (With a cameo from Rhod Gilbert as John Cale… come on, it’s a winner)
This is London… with the London Boyyyyyys
The Ottawan double header can only be months away.
…..A crossover with The Archers called Hands Up a Cow. Nice!
Richard Madeley as Mark E Smith, Judith Chalmers as Brix – I am Kurious Oranj.
There are no clips of “The Making of Blackstar” available yet, but I found a clip from its prequel: “The Making of Low.”
Pah! If King Yarwood was still around it’d be every pop star at the Band Aid recording (including Geldof on the phone to Ted Heath and Jim Callaghan) finishing up with a triumphant run through of “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” with a bonus “…and this is me” verse just after the clanging chimes of doom..
He is still around, or alive at any rate (which is more than can be said of the great majority of his ‘characters’).
Are you talking about Yarwood or Geldof?
Even if Culshaw was intentionally playing his Bowie impression for laughs, not many would be laughing. His act and impressions are spectacularly unfunny, and Dead Ringers was atrocious.
But at least Bowie is dead…!
Adam Buxton would be a better choice to play Bowie.
Wuzza wuzza!!
Alistair McGowan as Brian Eno?
Oh no…. they’ve signed up Mr Methane as Donny McCaslin!
Parrrp!
The AW school play this year will be a theatrical re-imagining of the movie SpiceWorld with tkdmart as Sporty, Moose as Ginger (if you thought that Union Jack minidress was tight on Geri Halliwell..), former comrades Styrofoam Plates as Baby and bricameron as Scary.
obviously about half the massive are eligible for the role of “Posh” – rather than auditions there will be an “I think you’ll find that I’m considerably richer than you”-off, where the competitor whose accent is both the hoitiest and toitiest will get the gig..
That dress is terribly short… I feel certain the parents in the front row may be treated to an unscheduled appearance by The Unholy Trinity.
Why d’you think the tickets are selling so well?
Oh gawwwd!
So common, @sewer-robot ,young man. New money counts for nothing you know