Simon Day
Following his sell-out Christmas show, Tommy Cockles is returning to London’s 100 Club on February 20th. The star of Music Hall and Variety, whose opinions on his contemporaries formed a key part of The Fast Show, was recently coaxed out of retirement by his old friend Simon Day
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January 29, 2018 // 0 Comments
Legendary performance poet Dr John Cooper Clarke is undertaking a UK tour next Autumn, and he’s taking fellow Northern wordsmith Geoffrey Allerton – aka Simon Day – on the road with him. The seminal punk writer has shared bills with just about every major punk band since the
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December 4, 2017 // 0 Comments
Christmas is just around the corner, and with it comes a very special gift: as former The Fast Show regular Tommy Cockles is returning for one night only for the festive season with a unique live event: Tommy Cockle’s Xmas Cracker Extravaganza. The star of Music Hall and Variety, whose
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November 19, 2017 // 0 Comments
We here at The Velvet Onion were very excited to find out earlier this year that the legendary alternative character comedian Simon Day was going out on tour across the UK. Now the tour is underway, and runs through October and early November, it has transpired that Simon is merely directing the
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October 4, 2017 // 1 Comment
The lineup for this year’s Birmingham Comedy Festival includes Matt Lucas and Simon Day. As part of the annual festival, Matt Lucas will be at Birmingham Town Hall on Saturday 14th October to talk about his new memoir Little Me: My Life from A-Z. Get tickets here. On Sunday 15th October,
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August 15, 2017 // 0 Comments
We enjoy Dan Clark‘s Screen Talk podcasts for Fubar Radio – and we’re rather sad that he’s been away for a while. Thankfully, he’s back! After a 7 month hiatus, Dan returns with another great Screen Talk, this time with Simon Day as his guest. In the interview Simon
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August 5, 2017 // 0 Comments
Next week sees the launch of Channel 4’s new sitcom Loaded starring Samuel Anderson, Nick Helm, Jonny Sweet and TVO regular Jim Howick, and the good folk at Channel 4 have provided us with an exclusive preview clip while we wait! The eight part series focuses on four friends who have just
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May 5, 2017 // 0 Comments
This week sees BBC Four air a special tribute to fallen prog-rock singer Brian Pern, who died last month aged 66 following an unexpected segway mistake. This exclusive documentary for BBC Four also features Brian’s final prophetic interview, which has never been transmitted before as well as the
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March 28, 2017 // 1 Comment
Brian Pern and The Fast Show star Simon Day has announced an autumn tour. Simon will perform his new show In Character across 13 different UK venues in October this year. He will be ‘sharing the stage’ with some of his alter-egos, including: BRIAN PERN – Prog rocker and
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March 22, 2017 // 2 Comments
The Velvet Onion is saddened to report the death of prog-rock legend Brian Pern, following an unexpected segway mistake. The singer was the frontman of 70s legends Thotch, whose hits included Onion Divorce, Worm Equinox, Rock the Nation and enormous festive hit In Dulci Yuletide, before
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February 17, 2017 // 0 Comments
This week sees the BBC continue to celebrate classic comedy with a host of one-off specials, including a recreation of a long lost episode of 60s smash Till Death Us Do Part with Simon Day appearing as Alf Garnett. TVO took a sneaky look at the special to see how it measures up. Here’s what
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August 31, 2016 // 0 Comments
Simon Day stars in the new London stage adaptation of Waiting for Waiting for Godot which premieres this week. The play is written by actor, comedian and playwright Dave Hanson (perhaps best known for his work on Inside Amy Schumer), and originally premiered at the 2013 New York International
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August 28, 2016 // 0 Comments
The Prop Gallery is offering bona fide production props from comedy spoof rockumentary Brian Pern: A Life in Rock, which starred Simon Day. Fans of the show can get their hands on three items: (1) a Triffid drum skin, which was used in the second episode of series two, in which Pern presents his
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August 16, 2016 // 0 Comments
Justin Edwards will appear in the one-off remake of Are You Being Served? set to air later this month. The Ealing Live veteran is perhaps best known for his role as Ben Swain in legendary political satire The Thick of It, but of course his TVO credentials include such classics as Time Trumpet,
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August 8, 2016 // 0 Comments
The Velvet Onion is extremely saddened to report the death of Caroline Aherne who has lost her battle with cancer, aged 52. Born in Ealing but raised in the Manchester district of Wythenshawe, Caroline Aherne’s breakthrough role was as the elderly chat-show host and agony aunt Mrs Merton
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July 2, 2016 // 0 Comments
A third series of The Missing Hancocks has been confirmed, and Kevin Eldon will again be part of the cast. The Radio 4 show recreates lost episodes of the classic radio show, which originally featured Tony Hancock, but with a modern cast mimicking how they would have originally sounded.
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May 22, 2016 // 0 Comments
All three series featuring Simon Day as Brian Pern have been released on dvd and blu-ray. We take a closer look at the physical release of Rhys Thomas' masterpiece.
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April 10, 2016 // 0 Comments
The Lost Sitcoms is a series of recreated episodes of sitcom classics - and we're delighted to report that a few TVO faces will featured!
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April 10, 2016 // 0 Comments
Here’s what you can catch on the picturebox this week. Brian Pern: 45 Years of Prog and Roll Thursday, 10:00pm, BBC Four Simon Day returns as the legendary Thotch frontman Brian Pern in the third series of his mockumentary saga created with Rhys Thomas. Along for the ride once more are
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January 18, 2016 // 0 Comments
Here’s what you can catch on the picturebox this week. Brian Pern: 45 Years of Prog and Roll Thursday, 10:00pm, BBC Four Simon Day returns as the legendary Thotch frontman Brian Pern in the third series of his mockumentary saga created with Rhys Thomas. Along for the ride once more are
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January 11, 2016 // 0 Comments
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