Bad News

for about a year NEWS has been a very intense topic. FACTS has been an intense topic too. Fake News has been battled with alternative facts mainly from the White House in Washington. But I will rather write about and commemorate something more serious than fake news. I will write about Bad News. (I think @dickturpin will side with me here?)

In 1983 the comedian Adrian Edmondson made a television episode in the show called The Comic Strip Presents... with Nigel Planer, Rik Mayall, and Peter Richardson. It featured a spoof rock band of the new wave of British Heavy Metal type that goes to a to play a concert in in a small provincial music hall. The whole thing is just as much a parody on music documentaries as it is on Heavy Metal bands.

If you know the US film called "This Is Spinal Tap", you will know what the whole thing is about, and the two productions were actually made more or less at the same time without the two teams knowing of the other.

Here by the benevolent librarians of the venerable YOUTUBE you can actually see the whole thing.

In 1987 the group went together with Queen guitarist Brian May to make a record I still enjoy listening to today. The record seems to be a demo-recording made by a the band and most of the time, until the tape runs out, is used on arguing.

There is a couple of songs though... I like this one very much.

(Here is the whole thing... again thanks to model citizens on YouTube)

And then the final part from 1988, another comic strip episode where the band gets to play on Castle Donington, with a sad and fatal ending... here it is.

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