The exit of Waxy Maxy

[johncorrigan]

ANNOUNCEMENT!

(Curious fact # 537 - I've only ever known two people called Max - one worked for the other)

....and one of them was a dog!

[Paul Sherratt]

Once had a German Shepherd named Max. In addition to his irritating mind-reading ability he could
also peel bananas. I once borrowed Colonel Konrad Most's dog training book from the library. Max selected
it from the bookcase holding around 150 other books and destroyed it.

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And that well-trained Max in the night kitchen provided some sweet entertainment last night, I thought.
Recommended to all music lovers.

[johncorrigan]

Once had a German Shepherd named Max. In addition to his irritating mind-reading ability he could
also peel bananas. I once borrowed Colonel Konrad Most's dog training book from the library. Max selected
it from the bookcase holding around 150 other books and destroyed it.

http://eb.tncdn.net/dyn/200/978/192/9242009.jpg

And that well-trained Max in the night kitchen provided some sweet entertainment last night, I thought.
Recommended to all music lovers.

Yeah, Paul - but can Max carry a revolver in his mouth?

Strangely the dog I knew called Max was also a GS - though Max (catchphrase, any more brains you'd be dangerous) had as his party piece, the ability to fall down the stairs at the drop of a hat - loved him (and me a cat guy too!)

[Lateralthinking1]

Yes, it was a very good programme. I like Max's style. The highlight for me was Alexi Murdoch - was previously unaware of him - but there was a lot of other good stuff including Madeleine Peyroux's "Damn The Circumstances", the Lightning Hopkins track and the Nekrasov Cossacks.

I have just received an e-mail from a friend who is still a Civil Servant (yes I do still have a couple but not, as will readily become apparent, senior ones). Will spare you all of it but this is the main part. And they wonder what has gone wrong with the country.

"On a different note I have appeared in the Roy Hudd documentary on funfairs. A bit bizarre, in one scene I had to ride a horse on a Carousel while Roy sat on the horse next to me talking to camera. I felt a bit too old to be sitting by myself on a horse on a carousel but anyway. In another scene I sit in "the only funfair steamboat left in the country" while Roy again talks to camera........The best bit was I played Frankenstein's Monster in one scene - the scene took hours and was filmed at a prop mans flat in Hackney - I gave up my whole Saturday for art".

[Paul Sherratt]

Roy Hudd once kissed my wife.
Mind you, she was only six at the time.
I'm not sure if that makes it better or worse


Certainly looking forward to this documentary !


RH once made a film on Jaques Tati I seem to remember.
I'd love to hear some Tati film music on the radio ...

[Lateralthinking1]

Roy is a Croydonite by birth. Ronnie Corbett, Richard Stilgoe, Captain Sensible - we have had all of the comedians here.

This documentary has been mentioned before. He tried to get me to leave my room of doom and gloom and join him there. Have to say that I had serious doubts about the reality of it - wondered if it was a case of too much Exmoor Gold or something - but Google does appear to confirm it happened.

He likes that kind of thing generally anyway. Tends to go on those "holiday with six people for a fiver" deals in The Sun. Has done all of the holiday camps in Britain that share a boundary with a nuclear power station.

[Paul Sherratt]

I never knew that Richard Stilgoe was a comedian ?

[Lateralthinking1]

Oh yes, you just have to look at him and it's all there in the face. My 80 year old father saw him in a paint shop and said "oh, it's you". He ignored him, then when he said "you look older now - are you still on the telly?", he replied amusingly "no, not anymore".

We roared about it later. He is so big in this area that we don't bother with Neighbourhood Watch. We just have this poster on every lamp post. Haven't seen a burglary for years. Come to think of it, there's never anyone here at all but the residents.

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[Globaltruth]

Crazy

Sometimes I truly believe I have wandered into an alternative universe populated by the outermost fringes of light entertainment bumping into each in an exemplar of Brownian motion.

Let's try and get this back on track.

Roy Hudd (apart from probably playing an undertaker in Coronation Street) is a genuinely huge fan of music hall.
the Crazy Gang especially.
Max Reinhardt meanwhile has never played any Crazy Gang tracks.

and he certainly wouldn't play this

BUT
Verity did once play 'Apache' by 17 Hippies

Close enough?

[Paul Sherratt]

Is two bugs and a roach man, Earl Hooker any closer with his ' Apache War Dance ' ?
Not too Radio 3 at Night, mind you


I did bump in to that Roy Hudd Tati film by accident, by the way.
In Bexhill on Sea.
Very odd.



This might be more R3 but it would probably send me to sleep

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[johncorrigan]

Before we escape from Tati - I loved this film by the Belleville Rendezvous folk - a bit of Western Isles and Edinburgh so beautifully portrayed and our hero looking like Tati. Well worth a watch if you do that kind of thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPdLrxxo4mg

[Lateralthinking1]

I will - and my goodness, Max's opener tonight owed huge amounts to the Temps' "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone".

[Lateralthinking1]

......I thought last night's programme was very good indeed. He certainly gets it right for the late night in my book. The pace is always interesting - the slowing it all down, the use of gaps - and the form - content often minimalist yet filled from time to time to keep the interest.

I enjoyed almost all of it - Mor Karbasi, Devon Sproule, Mamadou Diabate, Corey Harris, Florindo Alvis, another good track from the Nekrasov Cossacks, even to my surprise the Albinoni.

My highlights though, from memory, were The Watersons, obviously, and Bill Landford, and particularly the extraordinary atmospheric track by DJ Sniff, the excellent electronica from Roll The Dice , and the Porzellan Musik from Tobias Stürmer. All three were new to me and well worth it.

[Martin Reynolds]

Love Devon Sproule. Might give that show a listen. Sorry for the disturbance. Back to normal now.

[Lateralthinking1]

Martin - The Devon Sproule track was at the end of the programme. I thought that the second hour was better than the first. He's quite experimental and very laid back. I like it a lot but think it is best heard at the time of day it is broadcast - ie a winding down tempo rather than "lively daytime" music. Think it is available for about six days on the I-Player - Lat.