an Evening with the Rutles at Farnham Maltings

BRAND ON THE RUN

It all began 35 years ago when Eric Idle of Monty Python persuaded Neil Innes, of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, to join him in a comedy series for BBC 2 called Rutland Weekend Television  all about a spoof TV station, the smallest in Britain, churning out really cheap programmes on a shoestring. Low budget More like No Budget

Innes suggested to Idle that they could do a send-up of A Hard Day’s Night, the Beatles first movie. “It’s in Black and White, it’s speeded up, and we could wear wigs and tight trousers and run around a field somewhere…” “Great” Exclaimed Idle. “I’ve got a sketch about a man making a documentary who’s so boring, the camera runs away from him…”...

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BRAND ON THE RUN

It all began 35 years ago when Eric Idle of Monty Python persuaded Neil Innes, of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, to join him in a comedy series for BBC 2 called Rutland Weekend Television  all about a spoof TV station, the smallest in Britain, churning out really cheap programmes on a shoestring. Low budget More like No Budget

Innes suggested to Idle that they could do a send-up of A Hard Day’s Night, the Beatles first movie. “It’s in Black and White, it’s speeded up, and we could wear wigs and tight trousers and run around a field somewhere…” “Great” Exclaimed Idle. “I’ve got a sketch about a man making a documentary who’s so boring, the camera runs away from him…”

And so the name “Rutles” was born. But no one could have expected what happened next. A year later, such was the enormous pressure on the Beatles to get back together again, the one-off clip was shown in the USA on NBC’s flagship satire programme: “Saturday Night Live”.

Time:20:00 - 23:00

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