Here’s a new show, written by myself, John Osborne, Joe Dunthorne, Chris Hicks and Tim Clare. This was recorded August 09 at Homework, our monthly night of literary miscellany at Bethnal Green Workingmen’s Club. This video has a bit of a strange development: we did a tour, filmed the tour, then I turned that footage into a documentary, then we cut the documentary into pieces and turned it back into an hour-long live show. Here’s the blurb:
Early last year, five members of poetry collective Aisle16 were in a pub when someone posed the question: wheres the worst place you can imagine doing a gig? For each of them, the answer was the same: the town they grew up in. Shocked at the fear and loathing they had developed for their hometowns, they decided to confront their prejudices and head back to the stomping grounds of their childhoods, performing poetry for the first time in the places they grew up.
LOCAL BOYS DONE GOOD is a tongue-in-cheek rockumentary following five members of Aisle16 as they set off on a poetry tour of the hometowns they once fled. Using a mixture of film footage, specially-written poems, music, and live DVD commentary, they recreate their odyssey across the UK, as they hunt down wild horses on a rough Swansea council estate, unearth the gruesome truth behind the Coggeshall Curse, and stage the most exciting event in Quarley (pop. 150) since tinkers stole the church bells.
You’re only ever five bad gigs away from quitting.
Sorry, the last two sections (Tim Clare in Portishead) are still being cut together. We need to shoot some follow-up stuff, so the last 15 minutes wont be around till February 2010.
First Kill Bill, now this. You guys must be narked. X