Entertainment For Lively Minds
Basil Brush and Mr Roy in a public information film
The message about the dangers of airbeds at sea is lost in a host of boom-booms, ha-ha-has and silly voices.
This is about the only YouTube clip of 'old skool' Basil. Sadly there is no video of his duet with Demis Roussos where Basil, in a cape, shrugs his foxy shoulders in time with the big fella.
And no clips of Basil laughing so much his head is stuck up in the air. 'Ha-ha-ha....ha...ha....ha!'
Old skool Basil, with his laughs, his snooty looks up and down and his 'yes', 'yes' interruptions of Mr Roy and Mr Derek's stories, is one of the few things I still find funny from my childhood.
I wonder what happened to Mr Roy? He's looking very groovy in this clip, but I bet when he went out in the 70s to Chico's nightclub, or some such bell-bottomed establishment, he must have got fed up with just being known as 'Mr Roy'.
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Was that the era of
Basil de Farmer, the knight in shining armour?
Or possibly Blast-off Basil, an astronaut was he?
or maybe
bulldog basil the secret service man.
Funnily enough I was just looking at this clip:
taken from Basil's show. Seems he had pretty foxy taste.
"OK Ronnie, I've got you a great TV slot..."
"Great news, boss. Is it the OGWT? Late Night Line Up?"
"Naah Ron, better than that. It's a guest slot on a puppet show..."
Christ
I love that song and I love Ronnie Lane.
Through the prism of hindsight thank f*ck he ws happy to play second mandolin to a fox puppet
Great to see
Gallagher and Lyle in the band there and also Bruce Rowland on drums. Not only did Bruce join Fairport Convention circa 1976, but in 1969 he also played Woodstock as a member of Joe Cocker's Grease Band.
Let him eat Bogshed!
(Bogshed - Necktie Murders/The Amazing Roy North Penis Band)
Mr Roy getting it together
That show
was so lame, me and my mate sat open mouthed.
Turned, looked at each other and decided it was time (1976) we sniffed some glue.
Even at the time, Roy and that show was unbelievable! Ach weel...
At least I didn't get arrested by the coppers sniffin' glue in a park 6 months later, but he runs a successful pool cleaning firm in Las Vegas. I live with my Mum in Glasgow just round the road from where I used to live.
still...
I'm really not bitter, I'm rather happy. :D
Oops, don't post drunk! :I
I think it was Danny Baker
who spoke about a film he once saw, which he watched in slack-jawed incredulity as it featured love scenes between Roy North and Gabrielle 'UFO' Drake.
Edit: Thanks to imdb.com's advanced search facility, it would appear to be this one.
Absolutely!!
And, of course, it provides the answer to the question to 'What links Basil Brush and Nick Drake?' (Gabby being his sister)
I saw "Red" at the cinema...
... as a support to God-knows-what. My main rememberance is of persistent shouts of "Boom! Boom!" from the back rows at the most (in)appropriate moments. Always a pleasure to see my schoolboy crush Ms. Drake as nature intended however...
TV scheduling
Someone remind me — in which time slot did Basil Brush appear? Saturday tea-time?
The great thing about Basil Brush was that there was enough general silliness to appeal to kids, along with a few sly gags thrown in for the dads. Said dads had probably just come back from the football, had been watching Final Score on Grandstand or were just watching TV with the kids.
I wonder if the likes of Ronnie Lane were brought in to appeal to this demographic?
I think so
Saturday tea-time sounds about right - in the slot that would later be filled by Jim'll Fix It, if memory serves (which it probably doesn't).
I seem to remember it was 5 or 5:30pm on Saturday
Saturday tea times on BBC
After Grandstand and the news you'd get Basil or Rolf, Doctow Who then into the hard stuff like the Duchess of Duke Street and the Two Ronnies.
Mr Roy
is a Shakespearean actor - I've seen him several times in the last few years in productions from the wonderful Northern Broadsides company (www.northern-broadsides.co.uk)
Basil and Mr. Roy...
...eventually came to blows over money.
Mr. Roy died from rabies and Basil did an 8-year stretch for manslaughter.