Reeves and Mortimer - the Early Years Posted Sun May 14 17:46:09 BST 2000 by Jon

Years ago I heard a Radio 4 documentary about Malcolm Hardee reminiscing about his time running the Tunnel Club in Greenwich. He mentioned that they had Vic Reeves playing there when he was a young unknown, but that a petition was got up by the regular audience to never have him booked again. 'I dunno if he was too avant-garde or something...' wondered Hardee, clearly not impressed either way.
Can anyone confirm this story? If so, perhaps The Corpses should mention it amongst their R&M tribute at the start of the anti-Boosh article, out of fairness to The Boosh.


Subject: Re: Reeves and Mortimer - the Early Years [ Previous Message ]
Posted By Glenn Mitchell on Mon May 15 17:33:28 BST 2000:

it's true - though it happened in somewhere like Bracknell, not in London. Read bruce Dessau's biography - they talk about it in there.


Subject: Re: Reeves and Mortimer - the Early Years [ Previous Message ]
Posted By Glenn Mitchell on Mon May 15 17:33:37 BST 2000:

it's true - though it happened in somewhere like Bracknell, not in London. Read bruce Dessau's biography - they talk about it in there.


Subject: Re: Reeves and Mortimer - the Early Years [ Previous Message ]
Posted By Jon on Tue May 16 08:07:27 BST 2000:

No, Hardee was definitely talking about the Tunnel Club. Probably Dessau is wrong.


Subject: Re: Reeves and Mortimer - the Early Years [ Previous Message ]
Posted By Glenn Mitchell on Tue May 16 20:30:40 BST 2000:

>No, Hardee was definitely talking about the Tunnel Club. Probably Dessau is wrong.

no, you are wrong.


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