Glam's greatest inheritor of the 21st Century?
Mayhap, which is why 'tis such a savage pity that the series is excruciatingly unamusing
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Some people have compared Kevin Ayers's debonair image to Bryan Ferry - the genuine genteel article as opposed to the faux. Some even se...
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Nothingelseon has just come to the end of a heroic run of archival activity - scanning and making freely available the almost-entire print... -
Mark Fisher would say that glam is intrinsically aristocratic. But it's supposed to be a Tom Ripley type interloper - someone from t...
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THE glam bassist. "Oddity" might be the first time I registered the existence of the bass as an instrument - for those strange d...
To my knowledge, he hasn't descended into quite the living hell that his old friends/peers Borrell (now appearing at landfill indie nostalgia bookings for the rest of his life) and especially Brand (now the off-label, scragglier, English Joe Rogan) have, but you could sense the bathetic tragedy of his career coming a mile away. Everything from the alternayouth-centric persona despite his already being in his mid-30s when success hit, to his clear overestimation of how much he contributed to the Boosh double act could only have ended one way - in fact, becoming a baking show judge seems like the healthiest outcome he could've gotten.
ReplyDeleteHuge fan of the Boosh, particularly the third series. So gutted that this solo series was so unfunny.
DeleteBut he's great on the Baking show (especially compared with the sidekick ex of Little Britain) (don't get me started on Harry Hill in the kids version), that kind of light entertainment role seems like a perfect career outcome for him. It's funny how he flirts with anyone remotely Goth-tinged or All About Eve-like among the contestants.
Love the Boosh, particularly the radio version, which we used to listen to endlessly in the car. "When Bowie became the Thin White Duke, that was the birth of music," is something my kids still say regularly.
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