March memories

Told my daughter yesterday before I set off on the march that during NUT action on Miners strike I was performing on the back of a truck so would probably be quite alright just as a punter - probably a more significant act. The range of people there was phenomenal: old; young; everybody apart from the overclass who caused this mess.

Would loved to have played this yesterday - we did this at COHSE rallies, Nurse's picket lines with Tom Watt and commercial gigs. Norman Cook's then wife was a nurse so we demoed this version with him at Luke Cresswell (Stomp)'s gaffe in Brighton. He was post Housemartins and about to break huge with Beats International.

Never really enjoyed recording much as too much repetition for me - does it show that much?

Steve and me doing a show in May - don't know if we can guarantee this sound but blimey ain't it good?

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Reggae Hibernian

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From: <brianmulligan3@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 6:58 PM
Subject: Reggae Hibernian
To: brianmulligan3@gmail.com

Reggae Hibernian
Jah rastafaraye dead on

Police and thieves gardai and dem fecking robbers
Cullens powders running round my brain
Carrollstens
major
Harp

Tea and Toasting
Sean south
Hey seamus I want for you to spell me new cross
 Irish life a garden fork
and a bottle of the stuff from cork
Thatsthe way we roll new x

Schooled by the christian brothers and them sisters
I am dynarod been up  begod from the auld sod
That there Guinness gives me the runs
And I wipe me hole with the Irish sun

Gotta beat the setting sun

When i walk in the rain
Burning in my bloody brain
No matter where we treat my guests
Kitchen best

Comedy as football 606 etc
Pundits talkcom

Couldn't choreograph a bowel movement

Grind to this grind the economy into a halt
Uptown top banking

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Comedy is the new football

As I was suffering the truly appalling flogging tour tickets for Ed Byrne/ Russell Kane thinly disguised as Comic relief dancing it struck me that Comedy is not so much the new rock and roll (which Dave Cohen claims is his fault...mmm) but the new football: ludicrously overpaid, fawned over youngish males whose media profile is in inverse proportion to their talent.

On this show recently retired stand-ups deliver verdicts on somehting they know absolutely nothing about - just like football punditry: smug insider gags about each other / nicknames used to alienate audience and all hosted by an inept duo.

Speaking of hosting, James Corden is everywhere and in everything yet has he ever said/ done anything to make anyone laugh? I bet he wasn't even the class clown but just had a really good agent/ class bully who stole gags from his peers. Corden's role in the odious recent Gulliver's competes with Chris O'Donnell's/ Billy Connolly's for the wooden spoon. Truly he is the Ibrahamovic of comedy: keeps getting expensive moves but constantly fails to deliver on big occasions.

When will we get the transfer/ loan system in comedy as it could then pervert the natural order as much as it ruins all football outside of the Prem Lge? Plenty of loaning of gags goes on - not all happily. And if we could transfer all panel shows to Primera Liga Comedy there might be some space for proper comedy on telly. Could work - rehearsed spontaneity delivered like automatons would be just as effective in Spanish as English. Might they take the embarrassment that is the 10 O' Clock show - the Carling Cup of comedy? Or some of that dire oxbridge R4 stuff - the FA Vase?

I saw Steve and myself very much as like a Millwall FC - generally competitive and capable of the odd cup upset, always in the promotion positions but destined never to quite make the big league - of course the Lions did so the analogy does not quite hold true (which ones do? if they were perfect then they would reduce the thing itself - deep).

Premier comics then go on to their new stadia, their sponsorship deals/ endorsements, their ladyboy conquests (not just a rumour) and of course their agents end up becoming as famous as them...