morris dancing on tv

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: treewind
Date: 14 May 08 - 05:13 PM

Kitty's certainly right about Hammersmith on the gen game - I was playing for them the second time (along with Ian Dedic) and none more surprised than me when the show went out (weeks later) and some of my colleagues said they'd seen it.

Anahata

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: glueman
Date: 14 May 08 - 04:02 PM

Not sure of your point Northumbrian but Morris dancing is amusing. That's not to say it's ridiculous or facile but grown men and women skiping with sticks makes me smile. The best teams show physical stamina and coordination while being in on the 'joke', the worst look so earnest one might believe the summer's crop relies entirely on their routine.
Perhaps a northern soul Morris should show them how it's done?

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: GUEST,JohnB
Date: 14 May 08 - 03:39 PM

Toronto Morris Men appear in the film "Rock my World".
JohnB

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: GUEST,Dave Field
Date: 14 May 08 - 08:59 AM

Wrong! It was channel Five not ITV
PS None of us ate the donuts that Ron Jeremy made!

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: GUEST,Dave Field
Date: 14 May 08 - 08:45 AM

Chippenham Morris appeared as part of a "fete" on ITV's "The Farm" a couple of years ago. We taught Lional Blair to dance! As well as having Ron Jeremy, Emma Noble and Flava Flav dancing with us!!

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 13 May 08 - 02:31 PM

Micca - I expect you're right about Hammersmith, but it was the clip of Herga that got shown in the tributes to Larry Grayson (and Myke Bowers who hit LG with his bladder during Queen's Delight).

Kitty

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: Mark Dowding
Date: 13 May 08 - 02:01 PM

The actor who played the concertina for the Morris dance on "Dad's Army" was Peter Honri who made only the one appearance in the series - "The Godiva Affair" He was credited as Private Day. He played the concertina in his first London Appearance in 1948 at a music hall and went on to establish a career in Variety, Revues, Pantos and Musicals.
(from "The A-Z of Dad's Army" by Richard Webber, David Croft and Jimmy Perry)

Looking at the episode I think he made a ten second appearance in vision in the background whilst his playing was heard behind Jones and Fraser knocking seven bells out of each other!

Cheers
Mark

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: Diva
Date: 13 May 08 - 02:44 AM

Border Tv filmed Solway Morris dancing on St Georges Day......and my so who plays for them has been dining out on it ever since.....**BG**

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: GUEST,Northumbrian.
Date: 12 May 08 - 06:51 PM

Morris dancing, by way of being totally English, and laughable, naturally attracts the media in joking fasion, Monthy Python is not dead, but lives on in this rediculous form.

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: GUEST,Sue Allan
Date: 12 May 08 - 06:38 PM

And many years ago - somewhere around 1980 methinks - Throstles Nest Morris (women's side from Cumbria, now sadly defunct) and Carlisle Morris not only danced on a Noel Edmonds quiz show called 'Lucky Numbers' on BBC 1, but they also participated in the quiz (general knowledge and special subject 'folk music') and won the whole series, being the highest scorers! We won a few hundred quids' worth of fabric for making new kit I think, and a 'brick' ... some sort of weird trophy!

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: Lester
Date: 12 May 08 - 01:56 PM

If we are flaunting appearances Aldbury Morris appeared on the last two seasons of the Generation Game and in Goodness Gracious Me opposing Bangra Man

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: Rasener
Date: 12 May 08 - 01:29 PM

Extreme Morris Dancing

Dogrose on Jools Holland

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: Silas
Date: 12 May 08 - 01:26 PM

The 'Boycy' spin off from only fools and horses has Stafford morris in the first episode.

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 12 May 08 - 12:55 PM

The Man Who Knew Too Little also included some members of Pilgrim Morris from Guildford.

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: GUEST,Tim
Date: 12 May 08 - 12:06 PM

The comedian Stewart Lee tried to get a Morris side to appear in the pilot for a new sketch show he's doing and they refused, despite the sketch not actually ridiculing them, because they said they'd been pilloried too often on British comedy TV shows. This led Stewart (who had Morris dancers at his wedding) to ponder if the whole idea of finding them 'funny' maybe derives from an appearance on a 70s comedy show.
I couldn't think of any specific examples but the Dad's Army they showed this weekend could be a major culprit. Anyone have any specific memories from before then? Maybe a Dick Emery or a Benny Hill?

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: GUEST
Date: 12 May 08 - 11:31 AM

Two of our storemen in steel toe capped boots with washers on long pieces of thread. Hilarious! Hadn't got a clue what they were doing but really funny. All in good fun.

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: Wyrd Sister
Date: 12 May 08 - 08:55 AM

Winster on Blue Peter a few years back...

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: GUEST
Date: 12 May 08 - 08:33 AM

kent korkers have been in a show on children's tv (bbc) bu i can't remember which one...

royal liberty morris were in Calendar Girls the film

Oast Ouse Oppers were on Big Breakfast (so a fair old while ago!!)

Dillie xx

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 12 May 08 - 08:27 AM

Black Swan Rapper were on the Paul O'Grady show before Christmas.

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: The Barden of England
Date: 12 May 08 - 07:56 AM

Kits Coty Morris were in 'Ridgeriders' back in the mid nineties, up at the 'Kits Coty Stones' on the North Downs Way near Maidstone. They said at the end of the ride that the morris dancing was what they enjoyed the most
John Barden

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 12 May 08 - 07:42 AM

The biker morris team would probably have been Royal Liberty. They had already been on the Six O'Clock Show (regional magazine), Surprise, Surprise (with Cilla Black), the Tube and several others.

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: Graveyard
Date: 12 May 08 - 07:08 AM

Addison Rapper on Songs of Praise this Sunday, apparently

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: mouldy
Date: 12 May 08 - 07:07 AM

Who was the side which danced on Hale and Pace in the "Heavy Metal Morris Dancer" sketch? I think they are/were London based. Dressed in biker gear.

Along with all the Sheffield sides, our lot danced and took part at the opening ceremony of the World Student Games in 1991. It was televised. (We went in to make up the numbers as they were a side short). There's a wonderful shot of our drummer charging past the ground level camera, across the sports field to get to the first position, with the drum tucked under his arm!

I think Dad's Army had brought in a "proper" musician, as he played Constant Billy.

Andrea

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: Micca
Date: 12 May 08 - 06:57 AM

Kitty, The Famous Hammersmith Morris men danced on the Generation Game a couple of times AFAICR

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 12 May 08 - 06:32 AM

I do not think that the cast of Cpl Jones' section
were in real life a Morris side.
Someone had advised them I bet.

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: Rasener
Date: 12 May 08 - 05:39 AM

I didn't know a TV was strong enough to have a load of Morris Dancers on top of it. Modern Technology Eh! Must be a bit difficult dancing on top of a flat panel TV.

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: Lester
Date: 12 May 08 - 02:57 AM

The Man Who Knew To Little starred the Grand Union Morris plus some members of Aldbury Morris. The music was played by me (on melodeon) and a fiddle player who's name now escapes me. Part of my 15 minutes of fame.

The other part can be found HERE

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 11 May 08 - 07:16 PM

Real morris sides as seen on TV (or films shown on TV)... Herga morris in the Generation Game, Headington morris in Dr Who, Westminster morris in the Belles of St Trinians.... Skipy, what would you know about morris dancers flashing?

Kitty

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: Ref
Date: 11 May 08 - 07:10 PM

Is there a punch line to this?

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: skipy
Date: 11 May 08 - 06:14 PM

Morris dancing, HuH! it will never catch on, just a flash in the pan!
Skipy

Subject: RE: morris dancing on tv
From: Folknacious
Date: 11 May 08 - 05:58 PM

And in today's Independent On Sunday magazine - on the cover! Here.

Subject: morris dancing on tv
From: RobbieWilson
Date: 11 May 08 - 04:25 PM

#I have seen Morris Dancing on tv twice this weekend. Is this a record

Once was in Dad's Army and the other in the Bill Murray spy spoof " The Man Who Knew too little" Does anyone know if these were real morris sides and if so from where?