Post by Stan Butler on Oct 8, 2006 13:07:12 GMT
I'd not heard about the live stage show until it came out on video. I bought it anyway just to see if it was any good. I enjoyed it, although I thought some of it was milked a bit.
The big no.2 was better, seeing as they changed location for the 2nd act, it worked a lot better. There's only so much you can actually do in Eddie & Richie's manky house. It needed to move away from there.
One thing I did enjoy about the live stuff was the f*ck ups they did. They were really funny. It was good to see them actually fluff their lines and make a joke of it, and getting more laughs from the audience!
Well, that's what I thought until I went watching the third one 'Hooligans Island' at Blackpool. Not a bad show. There I was, joining in with the laughter when the fluffs came along, but when I got it on video shortly after, the same fluffs were on that too, at the exact same point. (even though it was recorded elsewhere) I didn't like that, I felt I had been conned, and it put me off the live shows for a bit.
I didn't enjoy the next one '2001- an Arse Oddity' because they were still doing the 'staged' fluffs. I never laughed once at them, the conning b*stards!
And by the time they got to the last one 'Weapons Grade Y Fronts', they'd run out of gags and ideas, and just p*ssed about for a couple of hours on stage. The best bit being when they broke into their old characters of Rik & Vyvyan.
