BS: Bill Bailey, won't you please go home!

Subject: BS: Bill Bailey, won't you please go home!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 14 Sep 08 - 11:28 PM

Bill Bailey in Australia...

Subject: RE: BS: Bill Bailey, won't you please go home!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 03:49 AM

He's our revenge on Australia, for Rolf Harris.

XG

Subject: RE: BS: Bill Bailey, won't you please go home!
From: Stu
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 03:55 AM

I like him, but am not sure why he thinks Jean-Michel Jarre is a fake.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill Bailey, won't you please go home!
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 04:07 AM

Funny, original, great musician, love him.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill Bailey, won't you please go home!
From: fat B****rd
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 06:20 AM

Usually I really enjoy his stuff. Kraftwerk doing Das Hoki Koki is my favourtie. But then frivolity always did take preference over 'issues' for me.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill Bailey, won't you please go home!
From: Anne Lister
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 07:44 AM

Big fans here, too ... one of his albums had us laughing too much to drive safely, and we've watched and re-watched "Part Troll". So yes, please let him come home from Australia, especially if he's not being fully appreciated!

Anne

Subject: RE: BS: Bill Bailey, won't you please go home!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 08:28 AM

Oh - he's appreciated - he was on an ABC TV show called "Enough Rope" here. He did a bit of his music act... He was also asked "why are you a 'nutter magnet?" :-)

I first discovered him on "Black Books".

I've never been quite the same since....

Subject: RE: BS: Bill Bailey, won't you please go home!
From: Emma B
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 08:37 AM

Lots of videos on you tube both from the wonderful 'Black Books' and from the stage show of this zany talented muscian.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill Bailey, won't you please go home!
From: Acorn4
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 11:46 AM

Love the Billy Bragg take off -the one about being in love with the girl from the chipshop.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill Bailey, won't you please go home!
From: Morticia
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 11:48 AM

Part Troll had me ROFLMAO

Subject: RE: BS: Bill Bailey, won't you please go home!
From: open mike
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 12:13 PM

interesting bloke from the west country...

Subject: RE: BS: Bill Bailey, won't you please go home!
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 05:23 PM

What/where/how/why is/are daleks?

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Bill Bailey, won't you please go home!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 06:33 PM

The Dalek is from the BBC TV series Doctor Who which is listed in Guinness World Records as the longest-running science fiction television show in the world and is also a significant part of British (and Australian) popular culture.

Subject: RE: BS: Bill Bailey, won't you please go home!
From: goatfell
Date: 16 Sep 08 - 11:29 AM

he's bloody weird

Tom the Dalek

Subject: RE: BS: Bill Bailey, won't you please go home!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 17 Sep 08 - 01:29 AM

Huey Cannon wrote this song. Sarah Segris was the woman who stood outside the saloon and yelled in for her man, Willard Bailey, to come home. It seems that the women, or this woman, anyhow, weren't supposed to go inside and make a ruckus for some reason. Cannon got sick of hearing here yelling for her Bill to come home----i.e. this song.

This was all told to me by Howard Armstrong (from the black band Martin, Bogan and Armstrong) who knew all the folks involved.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: Bill Bailey, won't you please go home!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 17 Sep 08 - 01:31 AM

...and the "fine-toothed comb" was used to get lice and nits out of your hair.

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Bill Bailey, won't you please go home!
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 17 Sep 08 - 05:57 AM

I love watching Bill Bailey. He is totally off the wall bonkers but that's the appeal! Particularly enjoy him as a team captain on 'Never mind the Buzzcocks'