Spike is Back! Pick up a Pen!

Comic legend Spike Milligan always broke conventions and made up his own rules, and he's doing it again. In a bold and unprecedented venture, the makers of a new documentary about Spike are taking their show on the road down the east coast of Australia in August and September. Led by a life-size doll of Spike, the tour includes radio broadcasts, a live show featuring Spike's eldest daughter Laura and musician Glenn Cardier who toured with Spike, and a new documentary film.

Friday, August 26, 2005

Yamba Bowling Club - 25 August 2005

Fired by the previous night we headed off to the beautiful fishing town of Yamba. Goon fans of all ages settled in for yet another hilarious night of Goonery and memories. There was diverse talk with the audience after the show, from how to relieve aching feet with custard filled socks to one member of the audience not realising that Spike had passed away yet. I signed a lot of the T-shirts with the phrase "keep taking the tables". That's all for now.


Laura Milligan

posted by I TOLD YOU I WAS ILL @ 4:40 PM    

2 Comments:

  • At 12:35 AM, Anonymous said…

    I've voted (5/5 of course!!!!)

    Many, many thanks for a wonderful evening at Yamba last Thursday.

    Spike was a brilliant man who brought lots of joy & laughter to so many people.

    I got home & read some of Puckoon... the bit where fire did not fall from heaven because of a feline call of nature. I think that is my favourite piece of literature of all time!!! Who needs Hamlet????

    Best wishes for the rest of the tour & special thanks to Laura, Glenn & Cathy for their efforts on stage and in being so free & easy to talk to.

    Best wishes, Keith Newby (Note to Cathy: the tall dark & handsome liar!!!)

     

  • At 6:35 PM, Lou Larder said…

    Hello - it's Lou from Yamba,

    I just wanted to give you my opinion about your movie, I TOLD YOU I WAS ILL. I thought it was a well put together documentary giving me lots of information that I didn't know about Spike and his family - BUT each time you mentioned Spike's Bi-Polar Disorder you used very dark demonic type of music which I know you use to try to capture the disturbing nature of mental illness - but hey when will we stop portraying this type of illness in a way that makes anyone whose life or those close to them hasn't been touched by it, frightened by it with such disturbing music?

    I speak as someone who has lived with a partner with depression for nearly 12 years now and when he is in a "Black Hole" there is no demonic music emanating from him just a vacant "silence" that is unreachable.

    Anyway m'dears I just thought I would put my two pennies worth in.

    Keep up the good work it was so refreshing to have something "cultural" come to a small coastal town. You where the talk of the town next day with everyone trying to outdo each other with their Spike-isms!

    Bye for now,
    Lou Larder
    Yamba

     

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