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an Evening with the Rutles at Abc2
Courtesy of Evvnt | Posted on March 28, 2014
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Fri, May 30, 2014
18:00
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THE RUTLES WILL BE APPEARING On UK LEG OF
(AS YET, Un-BOOKED) 2014 WORLD TOUR
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…...