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Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to Happiness

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Dead funny … Bill Bailey prepares for his gig at the crematorium, possibly. Photograph: Andy Hollingworth It’s called a theremin and has been most famously used in 1950s science-fiction films such as The Day the Earth Stood Still. Bill is one of the few modern representatives of the instrument, and has presented a Radio 4 show called “Good Vibrations: The Story of the Theremin”, and written an article on the subject for the Guardian. Bailey lives in the Hammersmith area of London with his wife Kristin, whom he married in 1998, on a whim, in Indonesia. In 2009 he said: "We were travelling around Asia and sailed into a place called Banda, with a beautiful lagoon, and a smoking volcano on one side and a Dutch colonial fort, an old church and remains of a little town on the other. We decided to get married there and then." [45] Their son Dax was born in 2003. [45] He supports Queens Park Rangers [46] and describes himself as an avid fan of Star Trek. [47]

In October 2008, he performed Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall with the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Anne Dudley. [42] shead23 (14 October 2011). "Chalet Girl (2011)". IMDb . Retrieved 2 December 2015. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link) Ballroom hits … Bailey and his Strictly dance partner Oti Mabuse continue to impress on the BBC show. Photograph: Guy Levy/BBC/PA Bailey appeared at the Beautiful Days festival in August 2007. The UK leg of the Tinselworm tour enjoyed three sell-out nights at the MEN Arena in Manchester, Europe's largest indoor arena, and culminated with a sell-out performance at Wembley Arena. Anyway, the book itself was quite sweet, with Bill Bailey's charming writing style helping you to reflect on nice things and share his outlook on life.He went solo the next year with the one man show Bill Bailey's Cosmic Jam. The show led to a recording at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London which was broadcast in 1997 on Channel 4 as a one-hour special called Bill Bailey Live. It was not until 2005 that this was released on DVD uncut and under its original title. It marked the first time that Bailey had been able to tie together his music and post-modern gags with the whimsical rambling style he is now known for. Ellis, David (10 December 2015). "Bill Bailey on happiness, Jeremy Corbyn and how turning 50 changed him". London Evening Standard . Retrieved 1 May 2018. Bailey’s childhood in Keynsham, near Bath, had its quirks. His dad was a doctor with a surgery in the front room of their house. “Sometimes the patients would get lost and wander off into the house, only to encounter this slightly bemused young boy on the stairs,” he says. “At other times, people would phone up for my dad when he was on call and before I could say that he was out they would start spooling out their symptoms, which was a bit embarrassing when it involved some grotesque bowel movement.”

I remain a big fan of The Clash, Elvis Costello, Talking Heads David Byrne of course..I was a hopeless devotee of Chrissie Hynde for many years – I do like a bit of twiddly but followed by something loud, like the Queens of the Stone Age, or Sugar..then quiet again with Yo La Tengo and a smidgen of Javanese Gamelan…then wistful with Beth Orton…then off again with the Chilli Peppers… In the car CD at the moment is PJ Harvey, Snow Patrol and The Streets…Top Geeza! My most recent gig I attended was Kraftwerk which was magnificent.” In 2009, Bailey presented a project about the explorer and naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, in the form of an Indonesian travelogue. [30] Bailey said in an interview that Wallace had been "airbrushed out of history", and that he feels a "real affinity" with him. In 2013, to coincide with the centenary of Wallace's death, Bailey presented a two-part documentary, Bill Bailey's Jungle Hero, first broadcast on BBC Two on 21 and 28 April 2013. [31] He travelled around producing and filming the series in Indonesia and Borneo. [32] It’s easy to see much of Moran’s brand of grouchy-yet-silly standup comedy in this show, and on a line-by-line basis, it’s almost endlessly quotable. It relies on absurd imagery and witticism, rather than American sitcom setup-and-punchline kind of humour. I don’t know what was in the water in Britain in the early 2000s (probably something like “the shadow of Thatcherism” or “biscuit austerity”), but it’s similar to the absurd humour we see in The Mighty Boosh or The IT Crowd – often based on hilarious descriptive comedy. Harvey, Chris (19 December 2020). "Bill Bailey on his Strictly success: 'People thought I'd be a joke' ". The Telegraph. He doesn’t, however, need ancient monuments, or Australian facsimiles of ancient monuments that were only built in 2008, to create an air of wistful strangeness. One scene is just him going to an ordinary coffee shop, but the cosiness of the wood burner they have prompts Bailey to daydream about giving it all up and moving to WA for good. On the way there, his breath misting against the dawn, he observes that the local crows’ extended caws make them sound “sarcastic”.To continue his foray into natural history, Bailey presented ITV1's half-hour wildlife mini-series Baboons With Bill Bailey. [28] The series was filmed in Cape Town and spanned eight episodes, with exclusive content available on itvWILD. [29] The 100 Greatest Stand-Ups– Announcements– Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time!". Channel 4. 11 April 2010. Archived from the original on 23 June 2013 . Retrieved 26 August 2011. I got a bit gebaited by this book. Scrolling idly on my relatively new Kindle, wondering what to read next, seeing a book by one of my favourite comedians and thinking "Why not!". One tap later and it was bought. Dangerous stuff, this... Politics is so difficult, particularly now, and really you want someone who is competent and disinterested, a dedicated public servant who’s acting for the good of the people of Britain,” he adds. “ I don’t recognise the Tories now. At least you used to know who stood for what. They were a bit more frugal and you could trust them. That seems to have gone out of the window. Even Thatcher liked Europe. They’re a very strange lot.” As the son of a doctor and a nurse, he is amazed by the nurse strikes. “It’s extraordinary the nurses have been put in this position,” he says. “The fact they’re there is proof of how intransigent the government is. My mum was an NHS nurse. It’s a tough job. They should be paid a fair wage.”

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