Mock Tudor - CD
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Album Notes: Personnel: Richard Thompson (vocals, guitar, dulcimer, mandolin, hurdy gurdy, harmonium); Teddy Thompson (guitar, background vocals); David McKelsy (harmonica); Jeff Turmis (baritone saxophone); Larry Hall, Charles Davis (cornet); Leslie Benedict, Randall Aldcroft (trombone); Mitchell Froom (keyboards); Danny Thompson (acoustic bass); Atom Ellis (electric bass); Dave Mattacks (drums, percussion); Joey Waronker (drums); Judith Owen (background vocals). Recorded at Capitol Recording Studios, Hollywood, California. MOCK TUDOR is one of Richard Thompson's finest releases in a career that has spanned 30 years. The album was produced by Tom Rothrock and Rob Schnapf, who've worked with Beck and the Foo Fighters. There's a scrappy immediacy to these dozen songs and an earthy quality that's evident as soon as a harmonica joins in the mix on the opening track. Many of the songs chronicle Thompson's time spent growing up in and around London in the '60s. These offerings are fraught with soured romances, lost dreams and scheming hucksters, but always retain a glimmer of hopeful prayer. Though they've never attracted as much attention as his casually innovative guitar playing, Thompson's vocals have always been masterful, and again they dazzle on MOCK TUDOR. Thompson is a genre unto himself, crafting stellar albums one after another. This one is near the top of the list.
Album Reviews: Rolling Stone (9/2/99, p.114) - 3 1/2 stars (out of 5) - "...Thompson mines the veins that have always replenished him. His melodies recall timeless ballads, while his playing...moves among jazz inventiveness, folk resonance and rock & roll power. He's so deft that his extraordinary originality seems utterly natural..." Spin (9/99, p.193) - 7 out of 10 - "...[Thompson] takes time out to school the neo-roots country crowd...while dipping into his catalog of dysfunctional narratives..." Q (11/99, p.136) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...vintage bile-spilling Thompson....displays his knack for evocative but non-squirmy songs about adolescence....shows he isn't ready to surrender to market forces just yet." Mojo (9/99, p.100) - "...With records as good as this, Richard Thompson cements his reputation as a national treasure."
Entertainment Weekly (8/20-27/99, p.128) - "...with a mastery of the [electric guitar] and its vernacular...so complete he pretty much transcends competition..." - Rating: B Dirty Linen (10-11/99, p.57) - "...the guitarist's best release in a decade....displays a keen pop sensibility full of distinctive details....a welcome return to form for one of contempoarary music's brightest lights."
...Put together six stand up comedians. Hold them all together by a relatively competent host who also is a pretty accomplished comedian. Get them to discuss the current affairs of the week, and you?ve got yourself Mock The Week.
Shown on BBC Two, and religiously on Dave (would you expect anything else?!), it?s hosted by Dara Ó Briain ? an irish comedian who has done several appearances on several other comedy panel shows such as Have I Got News For You and Never Mind The Buzzcocks. Regular panelists include Hugh Dennis, Andy Parsons, Russell Howard and Frankie Boyle?or that was until last week when Boyle declared he wished to leave the show to ?persue? other ideas. Dare I suggest his own comedy programme? I think so.
They sieve through various topics of the week in a variety of ways ? one round is ?If this is the answer, what is...
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Advantages: great comical quiz show Disadvantages: none for me
...what make the show as comically popular as it has become.
Personally, I can?t help but laugh at the way the panellist perform through the show, managing to bounce off each other with some fine one liners, comically slating each other, sometimes involving members of the audience? and even O?Briain gets some pasting as well, giving just as much as he gets?
In all, a brilliant comical look at some of the news from the week and if you enjoy watching the likes of shows such as ?have I got news for you? or even ?whose line is it anyway? then this is defiantly for you as the humour is the same for of quick witted dryness that makes such shows as popular as they are.
If you like the show then you may be interested in the DVD, entitled Mock the Week: Too hot for TV, released in November 2007, consisting of three hours of entertainment...
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Advantages: humour for everyone; has me in stitches; great end to the week; fab rounds Disadvantages: some humour unappropriate for younger viewers or may offend
...you don't actually see. Te rounds becomes familiar and always deliver humour though they differ slightly each time. For example, one show might substitute one particular themed round for another.
1. Headliners
-Obviously, the show is called 'Mock the week' so all the rounds and topics are to do with things that have happened during that week. In this round, there is a picture of someone famous taken from a newspaper with the first letters of the newspapers headlines. The comedians have to shout out in turns what the headline is. Of course, they come up with obscure funny suggestions and each comment reflects their humour and personality so we get a good variation of comments and laughs. For example, there are a picture of David Cameron with a slick hairdo pointing his figure in front of a background of traffic. The beginning letters...
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