The Bonzos - What's New Dec-95 to Sep-96

Friday 13th September

• Rutles discussion list

Saturday 24th August

• The Rutles film will be on the cable/satellite channel UK Gold tomorrow, Sunday 25th, at 22:25-23:45.

Sunday 28th July

• A sample of recent Web page statistics

Tuesday 22nd July

• "Christmas at Rawlinson End" recordings?

Saturday 20th July

• Updated U.S. Availability thanks to the recent exchanges on the mailing list.
• Updated the Links page.

Monday 1st July

• A memorial for Vivian Stanshall?

Saturday 15th June

• Robert Calvert link
• According to Beatlefan, there will be a tribute album called It was a Great Party 'Till Somebody Found a Hammer. George Harrison has written a song called Doin' the Bonzo Dog. Paul and Ringo may contribute songs (probably separately).

Sunday 28th April

• We have a decent, colour scanner at last so I'll be improving various images over the next few days.

Saturday 6th April

• Reformatted the Discography pages - in Netscape the text now runs alongside images.

Saturday 9th March

• Thanks to Bob Kruse and I.N.N.E.S. for details of the new release Four Bonzo Dog Originals and for details of Tribute to Viv Stanshall: Another Night with the Bonzos on Wednesday 13 March at the National Film Theatre, 1 South Bank, London, at 6:20pm.
  • Showtime (ATV 1967?)
    the Bonzo Dog Band perform A Room With A View.
  • Do Not Adjust Your Set
    various extracts form 1968 with the Bonzos performing Monster Mash, Sound Of Music, High School Hermit and Love Is A Cylindrical Piano.
  • All Those Rock Years (BBC engineers tape)
    the Bonzos perform Canyons Of Your Mind.
  • Marty Amok (BBC 1970)
    appearance by Vivian
  • One Mans Week - Vivian Stanshall (BBC 1975).
  • The Adventures of the Son of the Exploding Sausage
  • ...and much more
• Also from I.N.N.E.S.: The Mark Thomas Comedy Product (10:30pm Fridays, Channel Four) apparently has used No Matter Who You Vote For, The Government Always Gets In.

Sunday 3rd March

• Thanks to Ki Longfellow-Stanshall for pointing me towards Mark Millmore's Stinkfoot Comic Opera page and for explaining about the house boats.

Saturday 2nd March

• Thanks to Bob Kruse for contributing the words from Teddy Boys Don't Knit.

Sunday 25th February

• Contributed by Martin Payne:
  The new issue of Record Collector (March, No. 199) has some important Bonzos news. I'll quote from it:
  "Bonzos, re-viewed, remastered.

  1996 is already shaping up to be a good year for the Bonzos. Due any day now are the band's first four albums - Gorilla, The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse, Tadpoles and Keynsham - newly remastered and housed together in one competitively-priced box, with a booklet.

  On Wednesday 13 March, the National Film Theatre hosts another Bonzos evening as a tribute to Vivian Stanshall who died in March last year. Material largely unseen since the Sixties is promised, some offering work that's never been released on disc.

  The event kicks off at 6.30pm. Contact the NFT box office on 0171 928 3232.

  Another Bonzo-related release is EMI's forthcoming trad jazz collection, By Jingo, It's British Rubbish. Alongside the Bonzo's own memorable tributes to the genre are selections from The Alberts, Temperence Seven plus guest appearances from Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers." [This is probably a revamped form of The Alberts/The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band/The Temperance Seven.]

Sunday 18th February

• Contributed by Thom Blanton: what might have been - Sir Henry on multimedia CD-ROM?
• A Rutle Remembers: Talking with Neil Innes

Thursday 1st February

• Spotted by Bob Kruse:
  The current Goldmine (#406, Feb. 16) announces
  Rhino Home Video ... is reissuing The Rutles - All You Need Is Cash, the legendary 1978 Beatles documentary parody with 15 additional minutes of unseen footage. Watch for it in late February.

Wednesday 31st January

• Thanks to Annie Sattler for spotting a new bootleg Urban Spacemen Do Exist!, and providing the text of its interview with Roger Ruskin Spear.
• Thanks to David Evers for transcribing the album Sir Henry At Rawlinson End.

Monday 15th January 1996

• Spotted by Bob Kruse:
  The February edition of Q magazine contains a two-page handsomely illustrated interview with all the folks involved with the making of The Rutles. It also mentions Neil Innes' songs on a new video The Adventures of Mole.

Saturday 30th December 1995

• Discography split into more manageable chunks
• Overhauled scanned images in the Discography and Gallery (mainly fixed the thumbnails)

Thursday, 28th December

• 1996 - The Year Of The Dog - Bonzo Dog!
  News just in from a correspondent (MrPither):

  A fab new tribute to the beastly Bonzo Boys, featuring contributions from an internationally diverse and perverse grouping of musicians, artists, actors and writers, is currently `in the hopper'! Several major labels are currently vying to release Bonzo from the leash, and the word in the kennel is that this CD will be the biggest thing to hit the shops since "Bowie Did I Get A Wrong Number: A Tribute to Bob Hope!" The CD is tentatively entitled "We Are Normal: A Tribute To The Bonzo Dog Band" ... or something like that.

• The Alberts page started.
• A Pete Frame-style family tree for Neil is now available.
• Thanks to Bob Kruse for info about US availability of Bonzos.
• Thanks to Bert van der Leije for finding some Bonzo picture links.

Sunday, 17th December

• Spotted in British Comedy Digest Vol. II No. 5:

  In response to The Beatles Free As A Bird, Neil Innes has put out a new Rutles tune called I Don't Know Why, which was premiered on the final episode of the TV show Rory Bremner Who Else? in December 1995.

August-November 1995