Hello Tony,
I have just downloaded the programme and would have printed that too but
25 pages...
I will just have to see all the bus conversions etc. on computer!
P
------ Original Message ------
From: "Chris Shepheard" <chris.shepheard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: heraldnegindex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, 23 Mar, 2021 At 7:19 PM
Subject: [heraldnegindex] Re: Link to Pillock premier programme
Tony,
For some reason Carl and Patsy’s ISPs bounced that message too!
Can you try again with the pCloud link.
Perhaps it’s the word “Pillock” it objects to as spam!
Chris
Chris Shepheard
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From: heraldnegindex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<heraldnegindex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Tony Deadman
Sent: 23 March 2021 18:29
To: heraldnegindex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [heraldnegindex] Link to Pillock premier programme
Hopefully this works fo those who wish to see it:
https://1drv.ms/b/s!AkaWpRlVO2MBgc8T9YijS6dU6JMKfQ
<https://1drv.ms/b/s!AkaWpRlVO2MBgc8T9YijS6dU6JMKfQ>
The whole thing was kicked off when some young drinkers at the Dear
Hut,* including young Richard King, were discussing, adventure traveling
by double-decker bus (possibly, although the young men might not have
admitted to Cliff Richard as inspiration, being Folkies, the film Summer
Holiday was in the mix). Anyway, a challenge arose from the landlord: he
bet them a pint they couldn’t travel round Europe, in a Red London
Double Dekker Bus, which they accepted with beery fortitude. An old bus
was precured and fitted out for the journey, including the addition of a
of beer and sponsorship for a brewery (what else!) was obtained. The bus
was christened The Hairy Pillock. They toured Europe, drunk the beer and
played a bit of Folk music on the way - eventually naming themselves as
The Philanderers.
Returning to the Dears Hut they claimed their pint and were soon being
challenged to circumnavigate the globe – Europe was obviously a doddle.
So preparations got underway to fit out a London bus again, this time
nicknamed The Global Pillock. It took a lot more organising and a lot
more time but they eventually worked their way to Australia, and
appearing on local radio to advertise the band and do some money-raising
gigs. It was in the Antipodes that they realised, despite the Aussie
reputation for potty mouths, that realised the true meaning the band’s
name, The Philanderers, offended the Victorian senses of the Australian
public.
Once home again, Richard King, now working for Channel 4, and having
links with Le Court, decided to put together the film shot of the trips
and, hopefully get it aired on TV. The project lacked backing but he did
piecing the film together, and with the involvement of Tad Polkowski’s
(Le Court Resident and Engineer of the Cheshire Voice, Cheshire Homes
Talking Magazine), dubbed sound on. I was involved, as said in making
eastern-sounding Bazar noises and banging sluice bottles and bedpans to
make drum sounds. The film premiered in July 1982 at Haslemere Cinema,
the money raised gong to Le Court. I have kept my programme ever since.
Richard lost his programme so I sent him a digitised version of mine
(copy attached).
Tony
* BBC Radio announcer, Andrew Timothy was also a regular at the
Dears Hut. I attended his Wake there. (He left enough money behind the
bar for everyone to get absolutely soused!). His son Christopher (All
Creature Great and Small) as also nearby and was a patron of Hyson Hill
Cheshire Home.
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