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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 (written by Edmondson, and produced by Michael White/Comic Strip Productions).

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.

Bad News (1983)

• Release Date: 1983-01-24
• User Rating: 8.7 / 10 from 6 ratings
• Runtime: 0h 35min
• Language: English
• Production Company: Comic Strip Production
• Production Country: United Kingdom
• Director: 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.

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Bad News (1983)

• Release Date: 1983-01-24
• User Rating: 8.7 / 10 from 6 ratings
• Runtime: 0h 35min
• Language: English
• Production Company: Comic Strip Production
• Production Country: United Kingdom
• Director: 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.

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Adrian Edmondson

Nigel Planer

Peter Richardson

Jennifer Saunders

Dawn French

Serena Evans

Bert parnaby.

Neville Smith

Judy hawkins.

Charu Bala Chokshi

Mark Cooper

Sandy Johnson

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A heavy metal band, Bad News, is filmed by a TV crew for a documentary.

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Bad news tour (1983), nigel planer: den dennis, photos .

Quotes 

Den Dennis : You're lucky I don't knock your fuckin' head in.

Sandy Johnson : There's no need to get violent, is there? And try not to swear so much, please, for the sake of this film...

Den Dennis : You can always put in a fucking bleep, can't you?

Cashier : Two pounds and five pence, please, love.

Den Dennis : Two quid? Two quid for one bloody sausage?

Cashier : That's right, love. Two pounds and five pence.

Den Dennis : Right, where's the camera?

[Holds sausage up to camera] 

Den Dennis : Look.

[to cashier] 

Den Dennis : What's the name of this place?

[Cashier backs away] 

Den Dennis : Well, anyway, it's a rip-off. Look, they're charging two quid for one bloody sausage! So don't come here!

Cashier : It was clearly marked, love. Sausage, beans and chips, two pounds and five pence.

Den Dennis : Well, I haven't got two quid, have I? Can I have half a sausage for a quid?

Cashier : No you can't.

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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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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

Director Director

Sandy Johnson

Writer Writer

Adrian Edmondson

Cinematography Cinematography

Oliver Stapleton

Composers Composers

Adrian Edmondson Simon Brint

Comic Strip Production

Alternative Titles

The Comic Strip Presents... Bad News Tour, Bad News Tour

Music Comedy

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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

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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 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 Hope_Slattery ★★★★

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

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 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 gibson8 ★★★★ 1

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

Review by Catherine 🥑 ★★★

“You’re lucky I don’t knock your fucking head in.” “There’s no need to get violent, is there? And try not to swear so much, please.” “You can always put in a fucking bleep, can’t ya?” “Yes. That’s not the point though.” “ ‘That’s not the point!’ The point is how come you think you can interfere with the way we talk and not interfere when the van’s broken down?” 

Continuing my one-woman AFI-related watch party with this weird gem, from which the band sampled the quote above on their debut album, “Answer That And Stay Fashionable.” 

I have found an interview where Davey Havok mentioned that the band was inspired to sample a bunch of their favorite movies at the time…

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 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 Chingy ★★★★

"ANSWER THAT AND STAY FASHIONABLE"

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2024 Genesis Scottish Open odds: Winless pro is our long-shot pick in Scotland

Denny McCarthy is still looking for his first PGA Tour win.

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The PGA Tour is in Scotland this week for 2024 Genesis Scottish Open , and we’re eyeing a winless pro as our long shot to win. Here’s our long-shot pick, the Genesis Scottish Open odds, betting favorites and everything else you need to know.

Genesis Scottish Open odds: Long-shot bet

Our long-shot pick for this week’s Scottish Open is Denny McCarthy , who comes into the tournament with +6600 odds-to-win.

McCarthy has been featured in this space before, and though he still hasn’t come through and won his first PGA Tour event, it seems like he always gets close.

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So far this season, he has six top-25 finishes, three top-10s and a runner-up at the Valero Texas Open. Just last week, McCarthy earned a T7 at the John Deere Classic. He’s bound to win a PGA Tour event sometime soon, and he’s in form right now. Why not this week?

If you entrust $10 on McCarthy to win and he pulls it off, you’ll earn $660. For insurance, consider placing additional small bets on McCarthy to finish top 10 and top 20.

Looking for more long-shot bets for the Genesis Scottish Open? This week’s honorable mentions are Adam Scott (+6600) and Jordan Spieth (+5500).

Genesis Scottish Open odds: The favorites

Rory McIlroy makes his first start since the 2024 U.S. Open this week, and he’s the pre-tournament betting favorite with +700 odds-to-win,

Xander Schauffele , the reigning PGA champion, comes in second at +800, with Collin Morikawa in third at +1400,

You can see the top 15 in Genesis Scottish Open betting odds as of Monday afternoon below or head over to BetMGM to see the full list of odds and bets for this week.

2024 Genesis Scottish Open betting odds (Top 15 and ties)

Rory McIlroy (+700) Xander Schauffele (+800) Collin Morikawa (+1400) Ludvig Aberg (+1800) Tommy Fleetwood (+1800) Viktor Hovland (+2200) Tom Kim (+2500) Hideki Matsuyama (+2800) Min Woo Lee (+2800) Matt Fitzpatrick (+3300) Justin Thomas (+3500) Brian Harman (+4000) Corey Conners (+4000) Sungjae Im (+4500) Wyndham Clark (+4500)

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Madonna's World Tour Is 2024's Highest-Grossing On Record (But Taylor Swift Will Probably Win Out)

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A Madonna tour that has faced criticism for late starts and a missing spark of " razzle-dazzle " is still the highest-grossing of the year so far, according to data from Pollstar, though Taylor Swift’s Era’s Tour, making its way across Europe, is likely to eclipse it once box office data become available.

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Madonna’s Celebration Tour, which started last year, grossed $178.1 million so far with a $208.85 average ticket price and average attendance of 13,378 people per show, the live music trade publication said in its mid-year report.

Bad Bunny, who held the record for most-streamed artist in a single day in Spotify history before Taylor Swift broke it this April, is in a close second place with his 48-stop Most Wanted Tour, which grossed $174.5 million.

Mexican singer Luis Miguel is in third place with a $169.4 million gross over the course of his self-named tour, which has wrapped up its Latin American, United States and Canadian legs so far this year and started its European shows on June 28.

U2’s residency in Las Vegas, the first at the now-iconic Sphere venue, grossed $134.7 million over just 15 tour dates in 2024 (plus 25 in 2023) to become the fourth highest-grossing tour of the year and the one with the highest average ticket price at $352.86 each.

Karol G’s came in at No. 5 with her Mañana Será Bonito Tour, which has grossed more than $110 million so far this year and will continue across Europe and end in Brazil in September.

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour didn’t make this year’s list because she has not allowed her official box office totals for The Eras Tour to be reported by trade publications, according to Pollstar, though the group used stadium capacities and potential gross estimates to name The Eras Tour as the first tour to cross the billion-dollar mark in its 2023 year-end charts.

Pollstar did not do a mid-year estimate for The Era’s Tour in 2024, but has projected it will gross another $1 billion on the tour as it continues this year, meaning it is likely to have grossed over $2 billion by the time it ends in December.

Top 10 Tours Of 2024 According To Pollstar

• Madonna — $178,816,424
• Bad Bunny — $174,574,606
• Luis Miguel — $169,452,777
• U2 — $134,727,198
• Karol G — $111,296,660
• Bruno Mars — $102,177,957
• Coldplay — $100,459,853
• SEVENTEEN — $74,590,596
• Eagles — $69,407,908
• Nicki Minaj — $66,215,800

Key Background

Three separate lawsuits were filed against the pop star for false advertising, unfair and deceptive trade practices and other claims after she allegedly started her concerts in Los Angeles, Brooklyn and Washington D.C. hours after they were scheduled to begin.

1.6 million. That's how many people attended a free Madonna concert in Rio de Janeiro in May to conclude the Celebration Tour. Promoter Live Nation called it the “largest ever standalone concert for any artist."

Chief Critic

“ A pop concert is a theater of personality and craft, not one of plot or character development. But a narrative this messy needed more razzle-dazzle,” pop music critic Mikael Wood wrote for the Los Angeles Times .

Further Reading

Madonna Sued Again For Late Concert Start—And ‘Pornography’ (Forbes)

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Is First In History To Gross Over $1 Billion, Report Says (Forbes)

One Of Madonna’s Biggest Hits Is Surging–And There Are Several Reasons Why (Forbes)

Madonna Reaches A Special Landmark With Her Latest Album (Forbes)

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