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Bad News made their television debut during 1983, in the first series of The Comic Strip Presents... (written by Edmondson, and produced by Michael White/Comic Strip Productions). The episode, Bad News Tour , took the form of a satirical fly-on-the-wall rockumentary, in which the incompetent band is followed travelling to a gig in Grantham by an almost equally inept documentary film crew. Coincidentally, it was in production at the same time as This Is Spinal Tap , which was released the following year to a much wider audience and subsequently greater acclaim.

Perhaps their most memorable appearance was when they were invited to play at the Monsters of Rock festival at Castle Donington. This performance was the centre piece of a second follow up Comic Strip episode, More Bad News broadcast again by Channel 4 in 1988.

A feature of the band's onstage antics that day, omitted from the final cut, was an interesting method of coping with the crowd's plastic (and often urine-filled) bottle barrage, which was then a traditional (if somewhat awkward) welcome for bands playing at the Donington festival in those days. Before the performance began proper, the band spent time just running around on stage dodging missiles, with Mayall using his guitar as a bat in an attempt to return some.

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Bad News Tour

Fifth-rate heavy metal band Bad News is the subject of a rock documentary. Band members Vim Fuego, Den Dennis, Colin Grigson, and Spider Webb take to the road in search of lager, gigs, and schoolgirls.

• Originally Aired January 24, 1983
• Runtime 30 minutes
• Network Channel 4
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1983 Directed by Sandy Johnson

A documentary crew films heavy metal band Bad News as they have trouble starting their van, pick up a schoolgirl groupie, and meet up with rock journalist Sally at a motorway service station where they argue about the cost of sausage and chips.

Adrian Edmondson Rik Mayall Nigel Planer Peter Richardson Jennifer Saunders Dawn French Serena Evans Bert Parnaby Neville Smith Judy Hawkins Charu Bala Chokshi Mark Cooper Sandy Johnson Oliver Stapleton

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Sandy Johnson

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Adrian Edmondson

Cinematography Cinematography

Oliver Stapleton

Composers Composers

Simon Brint Adrian Edmondson

Comic Strip Production

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The Comic Strip Presents... Bad News Tour

Music Comedy

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Review by 📀 Cammmalot 📀 ★★★½

Cinematic Time Capsule 1983 Marathon - Film #13

”It’s a statement on …🤔…. …I’ll tell ya later.”

This mocumentary follows an incompetent heavy-ish metal band as they embark on their "tour" (apparently only one gig)… and are documented by an almost equally inept documentary film crew.

Thankfully, the gig is considered to be a thing that actually happened, and was even witnessed by four folks and an adorable terrier.

”Ya, didn’t let the dog in free, did ya?”

This wonderful bit of idiocy was created by the lads who’d later achieve infamy as The Young Ones.

Oh, and by pure coincidence, this chaotic heavy metal mockumentary just happened to be in production at the exact same time as Spinal Tap……

Review by Mark Cunliffe 🇵🇸 ★★★★

I'm sorry but this pisses all over Spinal Tap, and it came before it.

Review by Michael501 📺 ★★★½ 1

1983 In Review - May #8

A documentary crew films heavy metal band Bad News as they have trouble starting their van, pick up a schoolgirl groupie, and meet up with rock journalist Sally at a motorway service station.

Hilarious antics as The Comic Strip do their version of Spinal Tap. I believe they were both in production at the same time, although this was released a year earlier.  Ade Edmonson writes and stars as Vim Fuego the leader of a terribly bad heavy metal band which sees member Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer and Peter Richardson argue and bicker about everything. Essential viewing for fans of Rik and Ade.

Review by Eltopo68 ★★★½

Don't get me wrong, this is funny stuff, but contrary to some of the reviews on here, this is no "Spinal Tap". The one thing it does better is portray the band as more of a real metal band. The guys in "Spinal Tap" are a little too clever in playing dumb. These guys are just straight up stupid and as a metal fan and having hung around the scene for going on four decades, these is a lot of stupid in metal. I am not excluding myself from this equation. I've had too many nights of falling down drunk after some awesome German thrash, but I've outgrown that now. Until the next show.

Review by Zulu_Shaun ★★★★

A while ago I rewatched Mr Jolly Lives Next Door and found it not as funny as I remembered. This however is definitely as funny as I remember it. As British as This Is Spinal Tap is American. Even down to it's lack of needing a feel good ending. Love Rik and Ade of course but I really do think Nigel Planer is the star of this one.

Review by Richard Auty ★★★★★ 2

Not a movie but a 30 minute episode of the 80s comedy series Comic Strip Presents, but as it's on here I thought I'd log it.

I think this and its even better sequel More Bad News taken together makes a superior film to This is Spinal Tap (and I give Spinal Tap 5 stars). I cannot begin to express my love for Bad News. It's so quotable and despite it being probably more than two decades since I last watched it, I could recall almost every line of dialogue.

PS I stand with Den Dennis re the sausage fiasco.

Review by Will Kruk ★★★★

"I mean, I could play stairway to heaven when I was 12 Jimmy Page didn't write it till he was 22. I think that says a lot". This movie is so much better than Spinal Tap.

Review by gibson8 ★★★★ 1

Has more musical integrity than Tap because it eschews the punning lyrics.

Review by Hope_Slattery ★★★★

“Oh I get it he’s ‘Vim’ and your ‘Mum’s dead.’”

Review by loureviews ★★★½

I L<3ve Musicals!

It seems apt to give this a spin on the sixth anniversary of Rik Mayall's death: here's the first in the mockumentary duo of films about the greatest metal band of them all, Bad News.

With Vim (Adrian Edmondson), Den (Nigel Planer), Colin (Mayall) and Spider (Peter Richardson) rocking the long hair and the terraced house vibes, this is Spinal Tap before that was even thought of. It's a testosterone heavy depiction of life on the road, and the Comic Strip's first really good film.

The songs were co-written with the late Simon Brint, who later teamed up with Rowland Rivron as Raw Sex .

Review by MargotDeLarge ★★★½

Rik Mayall AND Dawn French. That’s really all that needs to be said.

Review by robyn ★★★

am i in love with jennifer saunders? maybe

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Spinal Who?! How Bad News became the original spoof metal band

Stand aside Spinal Tap and tell Steel Panther to put a sock in it – ‘Vampire Spunk Merchants From Hell’ Bad News were the original spoof metal band

By 1983, metal was taking itself a bit too seriously. The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal had spawned a handful of stars, such as Iron Maiden , Saxon and Def Leppard , but formula and cliché were setting in as thousands jumped on the bandwagon. Meanwhile, trad Brit-metal was looking shabby beside the US rock giants of MTV. The NWOBHM had boomed in 1980/81 just as a new wave of British alternative comedy was flourishing in parallel, often in the same venues. Two anarchic double acts stood out as leading lights: Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, and Nigel Planer and Peter Richardson, regulars at London’s Comic Strip night. Approached by Channel 4 in 1982 to spearhead the new network’s comedy output, the foursome pitched a series of short films under the umbrella title The Comic Strip Presents… , and one of the first ideas was a spoof documentary following a terrible metal band on the road.

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Written and directed by Ade Edmondson, Bad News Tour was broadcast in January 1983. It introduced audiences to narcissistic, control-freak frontman Vim Fuego (Ade); posh poser bassist Colin Grigson (Rik); aggressive halfwit guitarist Den Dennis (Nigel); and chirpy, drug-addled drummer Spider Webb (Peter). The script was inspired by Ade’s teenage band experiences, but Peter and Nigel also had firm grounding in the rock circuit.

“Nigel and I toured the country as a band in 1976, doing Zappa and Beefheart-style rock with comedy,” Peter explains. “It was an uneasy mix, but everybody in the 70s wanted to be in a rock band. Weirdly, everyone wants to be comedians now!”

Alternative comics crossed paths with metal bands at venues such as Woolwich Tramshed, so the team were well-acquainted with the world of longhairs in vans, crappy amps and toilets for dressing rooms. With the creation of Bad News, they perfectly nailed a quartet of metalhead archetypes that still feel authentic 36 years later.

“I met many drummers when we were working in the early days at venues like the Roundhouse [in London], and they were always very jolly, simple folk,” Peter recalls fondly. “Not angst-ridden big-egos like the guitarists. When Nige and I did our first show we had a band exactly like that. The bassist was just like Den, and there was always the person who owns the PA who has to be in the band! So there was a lot of truth in those things. Chrissie Hynde said, ‘All my drummers have been just like Spider – that’s why I love them!’”

With Bad News Tour , Ade effectively created the ‘mock-rockumentary’ a year before This Is Spinal Tap . “It was an absolute coincidence,” notes Peter of the better-known American phenomenon. “It was a very different film; Spinal Tap was big bands on tour, we were a grubby little band trying to get going. People like Ozzy , who’ve seen both films, have said, ‘Your film is the real deal, that’s exactly what it’s like!’”

The ‘rockumentary’ format had been spearheaded in Britain by Mark Kidel’s 1976 film, So You Wanna Be A Rock ’n’ Roll Star? It followed pub rock hopefuls the Kursaal Flyers around the UK, and Bad News Tour owes much of its detail and atmosphere to that pioneering broadcast.

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“I think all the characters struck a chord because they were all based in reality,” Peter affirms. “We’d all been close to it, so it was an observed thing; we knew the vibe. People like Ozzy and Lemmy really got it, because there were so many things they recognised. People like what they know, and they love seeing things they know ridiculed.”

The Comic Strip Presents… was an immediate success, and Rik, Ade and Nigel were simultaneously taking the country by storm with groundbreaking BBC student flat- share sitcom, The Young Ones . Ade was determined to use their newfound clout to take Bad News to its (il)logical extreme, and conceived a feature-length sequel, More Bad News , to culminate in an ambitious finale: taking the stage at the 1986 Monsters Of Rock, Castle Donington. Peter remains blown away by the experience of entertaining the crowds with songs such as Vampire Spunk Merchants From Hell . “Get this – the first gig we ever did as Bad News was Monsters Of Rock . The first time! Can you imagine?” he enthuses. “It was quite daring really. Stupid, but daring!”

Donington’s booker in the 80s, Tim Parsons, remembers how these bewigged comedians came to gatecrash metal’s most prestigious festival: “ The Young Ones was incredibly successful – everyone was mimicking them,” he recalls. “It was cutting-edge comedy, so to my mind they were pushing an open door. None of the agents came up with other artists that suited that slot, so it seemed the strongest option. We were twisted about whether it was or wasn’t taking the piss, but Ade came to us and explained exactly what they were trying to do, what they meant by it, and nothing seemed disrespectful or likely to be an issue. They did OK, it wasn’t a big deal, they didn’t disrupt the day – they added to it. You’ll find that people looking back on it will think a lot more favourably about it than they did at the time!”

For Nigel, the reality of walking out to 70,000 ravenous headbangers proved literally petrifying. “I was so scared,” he says. “You can see it in the film; before we went on, I scratched my head, and when I saw all those people I couldn’t actually get my hand down again to carry the guitar! It was so scary. And then we got those bottles of piss thrown at us. What’s it called, the Donington Kiss?”

“It used to happen for lots of other groups,” adds Tim. “The Battle Of The Piss Bottles was almost a rite of passage at Donington!”

Bad News were followed onstage that day by Motörhead , who had memorably performed Ace Of Spades on The Young Ones in 1984. The team renewed their friendship with Lemmy, who shared his wisdom with the nervous comedians. “Lemmy was a gentleman,” remembers Nigel. “He told us that if people are throwing hard objects at you, it’s best to avoid them. Unfortunately, I didn’t take his advice when we played the Marquee [in London]. We got stuff chucked at us, but it was a smaller venue, and I got a beer glass in my face. There are shots of me from that night with blood all down me!”

Peter picks up the story: “Nigel went down, crunch, beside me – it was like being in a warzone. There was a guy who kept spitting at Adrian, and Ade got it in the mouth. He was so angry, he kicked this guy in the face. Next day there’s a letter from his mum, saying, ‘My son is a BBC war reporter and Vim kicked him in the face!’ We couldn’t believe it!”

Observing this madness were the evening’s surprise guest musicians, guitar legends Jeff Beck and Brian May (Jimmy Page guested at an earlier date). “They were watching from a VIP booth, thinking, ‘Shit we’ve got to go down and join that mob!’” laughs Peter.

After Donington, with such high-profile musicians lending their approval, a buzz was growing around Bad News. “That brought us in a record deal, stupidly, and Brian May said, ‘I’ll produce the album’!” laughs Peter. “Recording the music was serious, because it had to be good-funny and bad-serious; enjoyably bad, as opposed to ear-splittingly horrible. There was a very thin line between the two! Brian loved everything, he laughed too much. He’s a lovely man, but very easily pleased! We were like, ‘It’s not that funny…’ But it’s all subjective, comedy.”

Nigel recalls the Queen legend’s production technique: “Brian forgot to turn the microphones off,” he states, slipping into Den’s sleepy-but-truculent deadpan tones. “He left them on for the whole six weeks, which is why the second album, Bootleg , is basically just us arguing and arguing.”

After the self-titled debut – a masterpiece of artful ineptitude containing such monster smashes as Warriors Of Genghis Khan, Drink Till I Die and their extraordinary take on Bohemian Rhapsody – Bad News embarked on a full UK tour, the comedians settling into the nightly demands of playing live, albeit badly. “I quite enjoyed it, although it was really weird,” ponders Peter. “We would have arguments – we were like a proper band suddenly! And because there was always so much noise and travel, we would just sit in silence after the gig just staring at the wall for an hour. It was quite an amazing experience. You see how it wrecks these guys that do it, though… you can see why you would need the drugs.”

Bad News were last seen in public on Comic Relief in 1991 (although Colin refused to turn up as he was sick of working for free), and the tragic sudden death of Rik Mayall in 2014 dashed all hopes for a reunion of the Four Horsemen of the Rock Apocalypse. There is currently a crowdfunding campaign for a special ‘32nd anniversary’ box set, celebrating the band’s career.

Asked if there was ever any impulse to get Bad News back together again, Peter provides the band with a perfect epitaph. “We did the tour and that was it, we’d done the joke and we moved on to other things, but it was a great project and a great time. I think people really got into it, I think they did actually love Bad News. It was Rik, Ade, me and Nige being really stupid, and you don’t get to see bands being really stupid very often. Not deliberately, anyway!”

Chris has been writing about heavy metal since 2000, specialising in true/cult/epic/power/trad/NWOBHM and doom metal at now-defunct extreme music magazine Terrorizer. Since joining the Metal Hammer famileh in 2010 he developed a parallel career in kids' TV, winning a Writer's Guild of Great Britain Award for BBC1 series Little Howard's Big Question as well as writing episodes of Danger Mouse, Horrible Histories, Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed and The Furchester Hotel. His hobbies include drumming (slowly), exploring ancient woodland and watching ancient sitcoms.

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Bad News: “Rik Mayall couldn’t play bass, but that just made it funnier…”

As legendary British spoof-metal heroes Bad News release their first track in three decades, Axogram (as Almost Bad News), comedy legend Nigel Planer tells us about this sort-of return, creating one of British TV’s funniest icons, and getting bottled at Donington.

In 1983, Bad News made their first appearance on British TV. Following the budding NWOBHM quartet as they travelled to a gig in Grantham, singer/guitarist Alan 'Vim Fuego' Metcalfe, guitarist Den Dennis, bassist Colin Grigson and drummer Spyder Webb became sensations overnight.

Sort of. A full year before the release of This Is Spinal Tap, Bad News Tour perfected the art of the rockumentary, as an episode of Channel 4 comedy caravan Comic Strip Presents. Starring British comedy legends Nigel Planer (as dopey but lovable guitarist Den), Adrian Edmondson (egotistical frontman-cum-painter-and-decorator Vim), Rik Mayall (secret-posh-lad bassist Colin) and Peter Richardson (Spyder, the only drummer his bandmates knew who could vomit the perfect amount into a pint glass), as well as Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, it was somewhere between Iron Maiden and The Young Ones.

The episode fully captured the realities of life on the road for a struggling British metal band – broken vans, bad service station food, arguments over nothing, and quickly became a cult hit for its realism that celebrated the unslick crapness of reality. In 1986, they were invited to play Monsters Of Rock at Donington, alongside Ozzy , Motörhead , Scorpions and Def Leppard . The latter's guitarist Phil Collen would, in their second documentary, 1988's More Bad News, talk to a camera backstage to deadpan: "I'm Phil Collen from Def Leppard, and I think they're shit."

But this was all part of it. Even more than Spinal Tap, Bad news were – and remain – relatable to anyone who's ever attempted the apparently impossible task of moving four musicians somewhere in a van at the same time, or get your guitarist to play the right chord in the studio. Queen guitarist Brian May loved them so much he produced their self-titled 1986 debut album. AFI named their Answer That And Stay Fashionable debut album in tribute.

Now, Den Dennis returns under the banner Almost Bad News, with a new song, Axogram. As Nigel Planer explains, it was an idea seeded by the enduring love for the show and the band. And an old track that didn't make it onto the first album it may be, but it's still heavy metal, heavy metal, heavy metal – have we said it enough?!?!

Where did Axogram come from? “Well the song was actually written at the time, 1985/6, something like that, but it never made it onto the album. It was a bit more complicated than most Bad News songs. I wrote the song, and it’s the only one that wasn't collectively written. We learned it and played it to the producer, who went, ‘I don't think so,’ because it's quite a difficult one to play. And the producer was Brian May, so we had to do what we were told!

“It's a bit more elaborate than the Bad News style, the way it's been put together by the producer, Luke Smith, with Ben Hill [who also runs Bad News fan page Warriors Of Genghis Khan]. I think they've even used some bootleg stuff on it from previous Bad News. So there's quite a lot of history in it. But because of the singing style, the fact that it's tight and keeps changing, it wasn't quite a Bad News song at the time. And I've always had it in my mind to do it, because it was never recorded before.”

When did you get the idea to pick it up again? “Well, I bumped into a Ben, who runs a Bad News fan page. We got to know each other, and then I saw that he does quite a lot of music himself. He's very good at copying styles, he's done some very funny ones, like a hippy band, a kind of Donna Summer band. We were at the Slapstick Festival Of Comedy doing a Bad News event, myself and Peter Richardson [AKA Bad News drummer Spyder Webb], and Ben came along to see it. Somebody asked, ‘What do you think was the best Bad News song?’ and Peter said, ‘It's the one we never recorded.’ So I challenged them. I said, ‘Well go on, go and work on that.’ I did a stupid little acoustic guitar thing into my phone, wrote it down with the chords and just sent it to them, and they came back with all of that. Really excellent. They've even made it sound crap in the right places. So it's proper Bad News.”

“In lockdown, I had a bit of space, and I remembered all the songs I've ever written and started to record them. They're on my Bandcamp channel. I got my guitar out, and found I could remember the lyrics and chords. Which was amazing. And I wrote them down this time.”

Where did you do it? “A mad studio they've got in the middle of nowhere. Literally, like, a concrete hut somewhere in the middle of a field. Proper old-school studio. That was really good fun, to let rip. I did a load of music during lockdown on Bandcamp , all little psychedelic folk songs and stuff. You can't get loud in your bedroom, though, but out in the middle of nowhere you can let rip and do some screaming.”

How was it getting back into the mind of Den Dennis after so long? “It was good. I really enjoyed it. It sort of comes naturally. I suppose I spent, not long, a day or two, maybe, in the back of my mind thinking Den thoughts before the recording. It doesn’t just turn up out of the blue after 40 years, but it's not a big bit of work. You just have to be like, ‘What would Den think about this? What would Den do here?’”

Bad News have become beloved among musicians and metal fans, like Spinal Tap, because it’s all still really relatable to anyone involved in music – the arguments, the problems, the stupid decisions… “There's a difference between us and Spinal Tap, though. They're playing an English band, but they're playing that very rare thing, which is some very successful people – Spinal Tap are a big, successful international band. And Americans, I don't think they could handle Bad News – people who are just crap . All the stuff in there, backstabbing each other, and being up against everything that the UK will throw at you, like the van, the motorway, the sausages, or lack of sausages, all that frustration, it's a different humour. And I think English audiences can see themselves in that more. Spinal Tap might be a fantasy about what it would be like if you were a rock star. But Bad News is more like what it's really like down here as a hopeless band. I'm sure Americans can be crap too, but they wouldn't want to make a film about it because they don't like losers, whereas we love them.”

Going back, how did Bad News come about in the first place? “I was in a double act with Peter. He lived in a van and he had this drum kit, and I play guitar, and we had a rock theatre show, from which Neil and lots of other characters came, before The Young Ones. We were trying to be like Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels – half entertainment theatre, half rock band. We actually did some tours – we supported AC/DC at one gig, and we supported Motörhead! We played lots of characters and we had the experiences of being crap and on tour, so that was Den and Spyder accounted for.

“Adrian [Edmondson, Vim Fuego] had been trying to make it in bands all his life, and can actually play pretty well. I can actually sing – or, I could then – but the way I sing wasn't appropriate. It's better having Adrian's voice, so that’s how he became singer. As for Rik Mayall [Colin Grigson], he wasn’t a musician, he was a comedian. So we told him how to move his finger up and down one string on the bass, but that was just perfect for the character. It made him funnier.

“I can't remember whose idea it was to do it as Bad News. We were making the Comic Strip films, so we put in ideas. And the idea was, ‘Let's do a band’. One thing we found funny was, there was a recording called The Troggs Tape, you know the band who did Wild Thing? It’s them in the studio with the tape running while they argue, and it’s brilliant. It's very Bad News. Like, the drummer can’t play the song – ‘But you already did it once this evening!’ Their complete inability to make the studio work for them is hilarious.”

What I always liked about Den was that he had a certain innocence to him. Vim was the ego-frontman, Colin was a poser who was at odds with Vim, Spyder was cool but crazy… “…And then poor old Den’s just trying to play the guitar! But musically, that's kind of how it worked live. We needed Rik being funny. Peter's drum fills are not very heavy metal, he's all over the place. And so, rhythm guitar is basically trying to keep the whole machine going. There's no fancy guitar work from me, because Peter and Rik, who should have been the rhythm section, they were just all over the place. But that's so good for the character as well. It's down to Den to actually keep the structure. He's like a workhorse.”

You played at Donington in 1986 with Ozzy, Motörhead, Def Leppard and Scorpions. The bit where you’re walking up the ramp to the stage, you all look petrified, like, ‘Oh shit, we’re actually doing this…’ “Yeah, that bit where the camera follows us, then goes to the crowd. That still puts my bollocks up into my stomach. It was very, very scary, actually. You can see on our faces just realising, ‘This is suicide’. And they were throwing things. The guy who introduced us, Tommy Vance, he went onstage wearing an American football helmet. Lemmy was telling us, ‘You're insane, letting them throw things at you. You have to stop them cos you could get a coin in your head!’ It was seriously frightening, and then the equipment didn't work for the first 20 minutes. Some comedian thought they would add to the fun. But I'm glad we did it. It was good fun. What a treat.”

The montage with the other bands is amazing as well, where they’re all saying how terrible you were… “Yeah that was fun. The guitarist from Scorpions [Rudi Schenker] just there with his German accent: ‘Bad News? Scheisse! ’ And Lemmy’s long bit about it, where he’s being really articulate and cutting us down, is just amazing.”

Brian May produced the first Bad News album. What was that like? “He was brilliant. He and I spent time together years later working on the original production of We Will Rock You. The reason we've got the second album was out of the contractual obligation, but the reason we had the material was because he just left the mics on throughout the recording period, and we stayed in character. So all of the stuff on the album between the songs when we're arguing with each other, that's just us fucking about. And the second album is entirely us fucking about. It must have cost a fortune, but Brian was so generous with his time and with the whole thing, because he just loved the whole concept of it. We're really grateful for that because, what an insane thing for him to do! It was six weeks in one of the most expensive studios in London where there was, like, Tears For Fears next door, Pet Shop Boys in another room…”

How do you feel about the legacy of Bad News, that all these years later people still really like it and they’re held quite dear by people? “I'm delighted that people are enjoying it again. I suppose there's people like Ben, who've kept the flag flying and keep it going. But I couldn't think of a reason why [people like it so much]. I see it sort of like Dad's Army. I just love the characters, the jokes, that whole setup. And you just want to return to that world because it makes you laugh and you somehow warm to the hopelessness of those people. Bad News is a funny analogy to make, being a heavy metal band and all that, but it's kind of like Dad's Army, you just like being in that world with those people because they resonate with you. And it's very English, I think, as well.”

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Captivating cast brings Hamilton to life in Singapore

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Broadway hit Hamilton made its debut in Singapore on April 19 as part of the production’s inaugural international tour.

Sure, it’s a different cast from the one that most people have already watched on Disney+ – sorry, Lin-Mannuel Miranda fans – but that doesn’t make it a lesser experience by any means.

In fact, the international production’s cast’s fresh take on their characters offers a unique and compelling experience for long-time Hamilton fans and first-time viewers alike.

With a musical score that blends hip-hop, jazz, R&B and Broadway, Hamilton tells the story of American founding father Alexander Hamilton, from his arrival to the American colonies to his pivotal role in shaping the nation, culminating in his unfortunate demise at the hands of a bitter rival.

TNP attended the gala night on April 24 at the Sands Theatre where local celebrities were present alongside die-hard fans of the play, some even dressed in colonial era attire.

The cast delivered stellar performances across the board. Rachelle Ann Go’s portrayal as Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton was particularly captivating. You could feel her falling helplessly in love with Alexander Hamilton at first sight.

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Later on in the story, her heart-wrenching performance during the back-to-back tragedies that befall the Hamilton family left audiences gut-punched.

DeAundre’ Woods also does an impressive job playing Aaron Burr, the de facto antagonist of the story. His performance elicits empathy from the audience during the moments that his character makes difficult decisions as he attempts to establish a name for himself without running afoul of the powers that be or finding himself on the wrong side of public opinion.

While a couple of jokes failed to land with the audience – notably the quip about former First Lady Martha Washington naming her feral tomcat after Hamilton because he was a notorious flirt – other humorous moments left audiences roaring with laughter.

Viewers were in stitches every time Brent Hill’s King George took the stage, with his hilarious portrayal of a pompous monarch who’s downright furious at the prospect of setting one of his colonies free.

It was a little difficult to understand what David Park was saying/rapping as Marquis de Lafayette with his thick french accent, but he became an instant crowd favourite when he returned to the stage as the flamboyant and rambunctious Thomas Jefferson.

Overall, Hamilton was an incredibly enjoyable experience, which earned the production a standing ovation at curtain call, with audience members still buzzing with excitement long after leaving the theatre.

How much do people really know about the real Hamilton?

Hamilton premiered on Broadway in August 2015. When the show was released on Disney+ in 2020, it became the most-watched straight-to-streaming title of the year.

At the pre-show red carpet event, TNP quizzed some of the celebrities in attendance about the eponymous founding father to find out how much people really know about Alexander Hamilton.

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Singapore is the third city on Hamilton’s first ever international tour, where the strictly limited season will run until June 9, 2024.

Seats are selling fast, but a limited number of tickets will continue to be available for purchase throughout the season at a special price via ticket lottery on hamiltonmusical.sg

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Review: Zendaya shines like the true movie star she is in 'Challengers'

You won't be able to take your eyes off Zendaya.

Who doesn't like a swoony, sexy romantic triangle of a sports movie? We haven't had a classic one in ages, I'm thinking 1988's "Bull Durham." So step up for the tantalizing, time-tripping, curveball-throwing "Challengers," now in theaters starring the talented trio of Zendaya , Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist as tennis pros in a tangle of erotic mischief off the court and on.

In tennis, love starts with zero and rockets up from there. The same goes for "Challengers," directed by master sensualist Luca Guadagnino ("Call Me By Your Name") with a knack for finding the hilarious and hardcore in any game -- tennis and sex included.

Zendaya , a double Emmy winner for "Euphoria," glitters like gold dust as Tashi Duncan, a former tennis prodigy sidelined by injury into giving it up as a player.

Instead, she's coaching her husband Art Donaldson, remarkably played by Faist, who scored onstage in "Dear Evan Hansen" and on screen as Riff in Steven Spielberg's "West Side Story."

Art is on a losing streak, which prompts Tashi to set up a Challengers match with Patrick (a standout O'Connor, an Emmy winner as Prince Charles in "The Crown"), who was once Art's best friend and Tashi's lover.

Complications ensue, but not in the straight ahead way you think.

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For instance, the film begins and ends with a tennis match that pits Art and Patrick against each other while Tashi watches and the camera (kudos to the stunningly kinetic artistry of cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom and editor Marco Costa) practically does somersaults to catch every point of view, including that of a tennis ball with a life all its own.

Guadagnino and gifted newbie screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes, driven by a dazzling score from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, prefer mad jumble as their default mode.

The whiplash is worth it, especially for a flashback to Tashi invading a hotel room shared by the boys and sparking a puppyish threeway that ends with Art and Patrick making out and Tashi smiling wickedly.

As Tashi teasingly says, "I'm taking such good care of my little white boys."

The scene is pure Guadagnino, R-rated carnality that is less graphic than bursting with teasing sexual tension done for frisky laughs and drama-fueled insights into the trio's dynamics 13 years into the present. The action carries over onto the courts where relationships are delineated through every smash and volley.

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In no way does "Challengers" take the conventional route. There are things to like and loathe about all three of the manipulative main characters. And yet, Guadagnino draws us to them, letting us see how they only feel in the game when they're gaming each other.

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The actors nail every nuance in their roles. Faist finds glints of genuine vulnerability in Art's futile attempts to pin down the quicksilver diva that is Tashi. And O'Connor, juggling Patrick's attraction to both Tashi and Art, makes his struggle the life of the film.

You won't be able to take your eyes off Zendaya. After supporting roles in epic special-effects franchises from "Spider-Man" to "Dune," Zendaya -- now 27 -- seizes her leading role and rides it to glory like the true movie star she is.

It's this director and these actors who make this routine romantic fluff feel thrillingly fresh and exuberantly young and alive, like something out the French New Wave that breezed in last century. The odds are that "Challengers" is going to leave you breathless. Game on.

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For the duration of his criminal trial, Donald J. Trump has moved back into the penthouse of Trump Tower at the corner of 5th Avenue and 56th Street. With the owner and former president back in residence, you might think they’d spruce up the abutting commercial and retail space. You’d be wrong. The Daily Beast dropped in earlier this week for a tour of the “ crown jewel of The Trump Organization.”

FIFTH AVENUE ENTRANCE

Metal barriers take up half the sidewalk and serve two purposes: (1) to hold back crowds; and (2) to force people to cross the avenue if they want a selfie of themselves giving the finger to Trump Tower.

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At least four police officers patrol the residential entrance on 56th street, but security to enter the public space is lax. During Trump’s presidency, the building required a thorough bag check by armed officers. Now a small sign near the entrance reads, “All bags are subject to search by security personnel.”

The Trump Organization website brags, “One of the most notable features of Trump Tower is the breath-taking 60-foot waterfall embellishing the eastern wall of the building.”

Today, it’s notable that there’s no water in the waterfall. And a waterfall without water is just a wall. Here’s a shot from the second story looking down:

So much has changed in the past eight years since Trump called the tower “home.” Ivanka’s eponymous fine jewelry store is gone. And remember the Currency Exchange that served as the backdrop to the iconic moment that Melania and Trump stepped on the escalator?

That’s gone, too.

But let’s not pine for what is lost. Let’s see what’s there…

GROUND LEVEL

A quick glance from the escalator reveals a familiar figure sitting in the café area.

A closer examination clarifies that it’s just a Trump cosplayer taking a break.

Currently under construction, the Trump Café will “most likely open the second week of May,” said an elderly security guard. Then he wiggled his hand in a “give or take” gesture, suggesting not even he believes that will happen.

Trying to help, the guard pointed me to Trump Sweets which offers the full café menu.

At the counter stood a woman in a glittery silver ensemble. She seemed out of place in New York, where people tend to dress more like the woman to her left. Perhaps the Silver Lady slipped through a portal that connects Mar-a-Lago and Trump Tower… along with this guy in the purple jacket and sunglasses.

Around the corner from Trump Sweets is the Trump Tower gift shop, whose signage could use some updating. (Note: 2020 was not a great year for Trump.)

Inside the store is a jumble of Trump-related products.

I asked the clerk to name the store’s most popular gift item. He grabbed a deck of $15 Trump Presidential Playing cards. “We sold 7,000 decks,” he said.

Then he fanned a worn deck and recited his worn pitch: “Trump is the king. Melania and Ivanka are the queens. And most importantly, look who is the joker…”

In the more upscale golf shop, there were $5 Trump-embossed gold chocolate bars and a single copy of Don Jr’s book Triggered for sale. There’s no way to know if Don Jr. slipped the book in there himself.

SECOND FLOOR

Starbucks departed in spring 2022 and was recently replaced by “Nerolab Italian Food Zone.” The Rome-based chain’s tagline is “Nerolab, WHY NOT!” But a better tagline would be: “It’s better to be food-zoned than friend-zoned.” It’s right there. Why not!

OUTDOOR TERRACES

Both public terraces appear to be permanently closed to the public. The lack of public outdoor spaces may be in violation of a deal with the city which traded additional square footage for these gardens. In the smaller exterior space, what’s visible through the window looks sparse and untended. Maybe the RNC could pay for a few Trump gardeners along with all those lawyers.

The large glass doors which once opened up to a second, grander terrace are now mirrored over and locked. This is not the first time that shiny has replaced transparency in Trumpworld.

A FINAL NOTE

On Tuesday, Trump posted “It was my great honor to welcome former Japanese Prime Minister Tarō Asō —at Trump Tower this evening!” and attached this photo :

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The backdrop of the marble and brass confers class to the image. Meanwhile, that same day, in another part of Trump Tower, even marble and brass couldn’t hide the trash.

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Review: Bad Bunny the bandido lights up the Wells Fargo Center on his ‘Most Wanted Tour’

Bad Bunny came to South Philly on Friday night for a sold-out show at the Wells Fargo Center.

It was the first time in Philadelphia for the Puerto Rican rapper, singer and influential cultural force — who was born Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio — since he headlined the Made in America festival in 2022.

The stop on his Most Wanted Tour was in support of his 2023 album Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana — which translates from Spanish to English as Nobody Knows What Is Going to Happen Tomorrow — and a thumping, infectious celebration of Latino pride.

The Inquirer’s Rosa Cartagena and Dan DeLuca went to the show. Here’s their review.

Dan DeLuca: Good morning after Bad Bunny, Rosa. We saw Bad Bunny take the stage following an overture by the Philharmonic Orchestra Project (led by Grammy-winning conductor Carlitos Lopez), ride a horse, and entertain fans while looking down on them from a floating skybridge. How’d you like it? What were the highlights for you?

Rosa Cartagena: I am still so pumped. Sore, but energized. Bad Bunny is one of the artists who has defined my 20s. He’s delivered so much incredible music that has catapulted reggaeton, Latin trap, and Spanish-language music overall to a completely new level — all while simultaneously shining a spotlight on Puerto Rico’s political problems and resilience. My family and I love Bad Bunny and we have so much fun listening to him together, so what I was really excited to see was how the crowd reflected that, too: There were so many intergenerational families (including at least one abuela!) and it warmed my heart.

Inside the arena, the biggest highlight for me was his Latin trap section. Nadie Sabe was a great album, but I desperately wanted to hear such tracks as “Tú No Metes Cabra,” “Chambea,” and “Soy Peor.” I wish he performed more than snippets but I’ll take what I can get. He was his flirty, funny self — blowing kisses, waving, and winking at the crowd. The floating stage brought him closer to the fans at all seating levels and he had me tearing up at one moment when the lights went on and showed so many Puerto Rican flags, and he simply, quietly, soaked it all in from his perch.

Despite being a fan since the mix-tape days, I hadn’t seen him live before, but you’ve seen him a few times in Philly, right? How did this show compare?

D.D.: I’ve only seen him once before, actually. When he headlined Made in America in 2022, in the closing night show that, if the festival, which is canceled again this year, never comes back will go down as the last-ever MIA performance.

I enjoyed this more. What was cool about that MIA show was how he transformed the grounds into a Latinx dance party, making Jay-Z’s festival over in his own image and language. This was a really smartly staged arena show with top-shelf production — though the relationship between Bad Bunny and the audience is still what makes it special.

He did a lot of standing there and soaking in the adulation — it was a bit Evita -ish when he was on the floating stage, looking down on his people from the balcony. But who can blame him? The passion and appreciation for the ways he’s represented Latino culture and refused to compromise or cross over by rapping or singing in English is real. His audience loves him for it, as well they should.

Yeah, the Latin trap section was impressive. I could feel the bass coming up through the soles of my shoes.

Let’s talk about the staging. The orchestral introduction was classy, and created an Ennio Morricone Spaghetti Western vibe, fitting with the outlaw imagery of Nadie Sabe . A friend of mine on Facebook who’s also a non-Spanish speaker compared it to watching an Italian opera. You can be swept up by the emotion of the music, and the contours of the story reveal themselves.

R.C.: The orchestra definitely brought a level of class to the crowd ready for perreo — and that kind of genre-mashing surprise is part of why people love his sound. I see the bandido theme here almost in between Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter (which came out five months after Nadie Sabe ) and Taylor Swift’s brand-new The Tortured Poets Department , because it’s both bad boy and sad boy. (And unlike Beyoncé's country, he leans hard into Tex-Mex vaquero culture with a bolo tie and his mariachi-inspired outfit.)

But the resonance isn’t just contemporary. He also spotlights Puerto Rican folkloric music, like bringing plena performers to last year’s Grammys. Before he arrived onstage, the orchestra played an instrumental rendition of the iconic bolero by La Lupe, “Qué Te Pedi,” a beloved song that cuts across generations, proving what I heard from so many fans last night: He hasn’t forgotten his roots. It was also refreshing to hear his intimate, pared-down acoustic section, when he sat on the piano and crooned while holding a horse plushie.

D.D.: The piano section was sweet. Sitting on it, sort of like Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys . It was impressive that he could pull off a cocktail lounge vibe in a massive arena. And before “Qué Te Pedi,” the intro music was Billie Holiday’s “I’ll Look Around.” Mood music of the highest order.

The filmed interlude of a masked man riding across the desert was like Clint Eastwood in a Sergeo Leone movie crossed with Max von Sydow in The Seventh Seal . But when Bad Bunny actually rode in on a horse it was anticlimactic, a brief video screen talking point. And I was glad it was short, though: I was worried the poor horse was going to freak out in a room with 20,000 people!

The setup with two stages, plus the floating sky bridge — that worked really well. And the lights were spectacular. It seemed almost everybody was wearing the light-up Bad Bunny boot necklaces synced to turn the room green or red, in rhythm with the music. The only show I’ve seen that used that trick so well was the Weeknd at the Linc a couple of summers ago.

R.C.: Breathtaking, for sure. The orb lights were versatile and dynamic, at one point making a bridge (like our own Benjamin Franklin). He threw down. The only thing Philly fans might have missed was “Acho PR,” the track where he shouts out Bryce Harper and the Phillies .

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UPDATED with more reactions : So Help Me Todd creator, cast and crew members have responded to the news of the CBS ‘ dramedy’s cancellation after two seasons.

In a message Friday on Instagram, series creator creator Scott Prendergast gave a heartfelt thank you to CBS for what “has been the best professional experience of my life.”

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You can read his entire message below.

Series co-star Inga Schlingmann reposted the image of Prendergast’s post on her IG story, adding a heart hands emoji.

Star Marcia Gay Harden thanked the series’ “fantastic crew” over a behind-the-scenes group photo on her IG stories.

Fellow co-lead Skylar Astin picked up So Help Me Todd Season 2 makeup artist Jennifer Powell’s IG post in which she thanked the show’s cast, adding a heart-themed sticker.

“It was such an honor to work with this hardworking and loving crew, our incredibly talented writers, visionary directors, dedicated background performers, and my wonderful co-stars,” cast member Tristen J. Winger wrote on his IG story, reminding fans that there are four more episodes of the series left. Its finale is set for May 16.

Starring Harden and Astin, in So Help Me Todd , despite their opposing personalities, a talented but directionless P.I. who is the black sheep of his family begrudgingly agrees to work as the in-house investigator for his overbearing mother, a successful attorney reeling from the recent dissolution of her marriage.

Madeline Wise, Winger, Schlingmann and Rosa Arredondo also starred.

Prendergast, Elizabeth Klaviter, who also served as showrunner, Dr. Phil McGraw, Stuart Gillard, Jay McGraw and Julia Eisenman served as executive producers. The series was produced by CBS Studios.

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