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Hello, I've now got most of the old site content back online, and there's even more than there was before.  Must single out weirdbeard for the absolutely excellent job he's done researching and adding new material to the site, see for instance the lovely new Radio Cambridgeshire page.  A wonderful level of dedication to improving CaB for the benefit of others, there, thank you so much for that, and thanks to everyone else who's worked on the wikified CaB (particularly All Surrogate for his level of dedication to the CaB Radio side of things.  I'm still adding new content, radically improving the design, and programming custom bits and pieces - it's a long, hard slog, as the site is very large now, and quite irritatingly complicated.  There's ten years of content to be categorised and re-added, plus I want to add more new sections to the site, and go right through all the old stuff to make sure I find material I never quite got round to adding before.  You'll notice that the Image Archive and Article Database are finally back online, and I'll be plugging the gaps in those as time and interest permits.

I'm now fully moved over to www.cookdandbombd.co.uk so please do update your bookmarks and links.  The old chilled.cream.org site will be changed to point over here.  Many thanks once again to all the forum posters who quickly and kindly got the money together for me to buy some hosting, I'm extremely grateful, and it affords me the opportunity to keep improving this old place.

The Image Archive now houses a Four Lions section, ditto for the Article Database.  I will store the Funding Mentalism emails that are sent out, along with any press coverage, photos etc. about the forthcoming Morris film.  In fact, a new email was sent out from Warp this afternoon, you can read and discuss it here.  After asking for people's money, before turning it down, then provoking people to get physically fit, but then later saying that was for nowt too, Morris and Warp Films are now redeeming themselves by offering to send out free film cells and stuff...hooray.  Not on the list, and want to keep availed of info and freebies?  Happy to continue chomping at the dangled carrot of inclusive, chummy, Web 2.0, Popbitch-endorsed 'you're a real part of something here' viral marketing bullshit?

Me too!  Fire off an email to fundingmentalism@warpfilms.com to feel involved, and ultimately be more adroitly marketed at.  I'm back working on CaB more frequently, so if you want updates about that then the old mailing lists are still going on yahoogroups.  If you aren't on there already, simply fire off an email to thecabal-subscribe@yahoogroups.com (for very occasional chat) or therealcabal-subscribe@yahoogroups.com (for a message from me any time I update CaB, and nothing else.)  I suppose I should be using Twitter, or something, but I'd really rather not. 

Think that's about it, so I'll leave you with a rather lovely bootleg of a recent Armando Iannucci Q&A session, in which he promoted his new book "The Audacity Of Hype".  This is a very nice quality boot, and Iannucci is as amusingly avuncular and charming as you would expect - many thanks to Little Hoover for recording and supplying this rarity.  Please do get in touch with me if you have similar goodness to share through the site, I'm ALWAYS on the look out for rare Morris and Iannucci...particularly Chris Morris GLR shows (and the pesky Radio 1 1990 material).  Some new encodes coming very soon, by the way, just need some more hard drive space first.  Get in touch at waynecarr@gmail.com or use the contact page, thanks.

Armando Iannucci - Audacity Of Hype Q&A at the Roundhouse - 12th October 2009 - 18mb (Encoded by Little Hoover)

If you'd like to discuss the new series of The Thick Of It or read about the recent Scottish Bafta awards that In The Loop won, then keep an eye on Comedy Chat.

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Just a quick note that today is the tenth birthday of Cook'd and Bomb'd...I'd like to thank everyone who has contributed to it over the years, and all those who have visited, and kept the forums buzzing for all this time.  I'm genuinely thrilled at how the site and community have developed over the years, and so grateful for the amount of rare Morris material you lot have helped me surface and make available over the last decade.  I'd hoped to have the total redesign of the site finally completed by now, but am still waiting for some new software releases.  So please bear with me, I've a lot of new Morris encodes and the like to put up in the not too distant future.

There is going to be a birthday bash today in the Penderel's Oak, in High Holborn...feel free to come along if you're in or around That London, I've travelled over from Norn Iron myself.  It kicks off around 2, and Louis Barfe is planning to do a CaB Radio show from the venue today, so listen in if you can't make it down. 

It will be the second birthday of CaB Radio in another week or two, and I'm thrilled with how it's developing.  I have some really great nights listening to the shows and talking crap in the chatroom, and you're more than welcome to join in.  Don't forget that you can have a bash at it yourself, too, it's open to anyone, and you can submit mixes, call in on Skype, send voicemails (to 02895 811976), or do some live hosting if you feel up to it. 

There are now four regular shows, and they are as follows:

Mondays, 9pm - TotalNightmares impressive mix of comedy and music.
Wednesdas, 9pm - Louis Barfe, the jazz Danny Baker.  Fantastic pair of ears on him.
Thursdays, 9pm - SirHenry, a differently themed show each week, always interesting and entertaining.
Sundays, 6pmish - The Neil Bomb'd Pretend Radio Show, me living out my life-long desire to be a talk radio host.

You can send bits and pieces to me at waynecarr@gmail.com as well, if you wish.  Get involved, we have an absolute blast...feel free to drop into the chatroom as well, even if you're not interested in our pretend radio shows.

Incidentally, I'd like to draw your attention to the second episode of RadioFace, which has been put together by some very talented members of the community.  I think it's remarkably good, and am very keen to watch them continuing to develop their comedy.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgU1CFNH__E" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgU1CFNH__E</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4iPWcGzP90" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4iPWcGzP90</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEVSP3qNF5o" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEVSP3qNF5o</a>

See also the new videos by Doug Sklenki, perhaps my favourite purveyor of home-made comedy...wonderful, life-affirming stuff.

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Well, I'm really behind here, very sorry about that.  Since the last update, in case you aren't aware, there's been some news on the forthcoming 'Chris Morris suicide bomber thing' - which now has a working title of Four Lions.  You can find a full archive of the emails that have been sent out from Warp Films in this thread.  The long and short of it is that Morris has now seemingly recieved enough funding support that he won't need to rely on the fanbase to send in their 25 quids.  Here's the very latest email, which was sent out yesterday:

Subject: FUNDED
Date: Wednesday, 8 April, 2009 11:18 AM
From: "Funding Mentalist"

Hello

Due to this week’s final confirmation on our funding, your chance to be in the film has just become more real...  no specifics yet but it might be worth getting yourself physically fit over the summer.  We may need you to do some running on camera this autumn (to cut into our shots from the london marathon last year).

This last word on our financing means we can move from faith to reality and actually start putting together a full team over the next few months. Rewrites continue. There have been meetings about posters(this seems to be far more important than actually getting the film cast, written and shot).  Location planning reports are good - we are currently focused on the Alps for Pakistan.

More news when the work kicks in. Meanwhile go and see In The Loop.  Chris has been banging on about it since xmas & says it is "very funny" and had him laughing "in three different registers".

 
DS

In The Loop, incidentally, is Armando Iannucci's new film - Comedy Chat has a thread you may want to read which follows it right from the initial press release.  I can't wait to see it, meself.  As someone with zero interest in politics and ISSUES, I still find it heartening to see Morris and Iannucci giving such a shit these days.  It's particularly refreshing to see Morris getting his teeth into something he seems genuinely angry about, again, and this new film sounds like it may also have enough extreme silliness to be comedically worthwhile.  Let's hope so.

While we're on the subject of irritation and extreme silliness, the 1994 Music Shows undoubtedly remain as one of the very highest points of Morris' entire career.  When I set up CaB Radio a couple of years ago now, one of the things I eventually wanted to do with it was to rebroadcast the old Morris shows as if they were going out live.  When the 1993 GLR shows turned up, I quickly realised they were probably my favourite Morris thing EVER, and that people's heads would spin if they heard them going out 'in context.'  In other words, they went out at 10am on a Saturday morning, and it's amazing what he got away with at that point - he was already doing bits like The Sock Quiz, and even performed the Chollis Ketteridge bit that would go out a year later on Radio 1! 

On top of that, I really love the communal listening experience.  So, anyway, now we've finally got round to putting this interesting little listening project into action, starting with those Radio 1 1994 shows.  Louis Barfe hosts an excellent regular show on CaB Radio - every Wednesday night from 9pm - and for the last few weeks he's been kicking off with a different Morris show.  These are then repeated by whoever is hosting on Sunday night at 9pm.  We're following the schedule to the letter, even down to the two-week suspension that was given to Morris after the Heseltine show.  So, the return show - show 7 - went out last night, and Louis is continuing from there.  Louis has also very kindly went to his own archives, and supplied upgraded copies of some of the shows, so look out for new versions of some of the shows coming soon - he's done a really great job of 'remastering' some of them.

To be honest, I find this whole venture really exciting, it's the first public airing these amazing shows have had in just shy of 15 years, and it's an absolute joy to be able to look forward to them Wednesday night now, particularly as I missed them when they actually went out on Radio 1.  Do please join us in the chatroom (java box - or use channel #cookdandbombd and server thor.portalx.org if you have a proper IRC client).  And keep an eye on CaB Radio, anyway, as I honestly believe there's some genuinely great stuff on there.  Remember also that I want everyone to get involved with it - get into the thread if you want to submit a mix, do some live hosting, send in home-made comedy etc etc.  (I'd really appreciate if people used the thread rather than getting in touch with me directly, as I'm totally snowed under with PM's and emails at the minute, so please bear with me, and do send a follow-up if you've been waiting for a reply on this or some other issue for a while now.)

Anyway, yes, Chris Morris on Wednesdays at 9pm with Louis, and then there's a repeat on Sunday at 9pm. 

I'll try and keep this update briefish, for a change, and perhaps add a seperate one later if more stuff occurs to me.  I must let you know that I've now moved the messageboard side of the site to a new server - this has been VERY kindly donated by lynxwolf, and I'm eternally grateful to him, just as I am to Nick Mailer from Positive Internet for continuing to put up with me.  Nick has been extraordinary with his generosity for many, many years now.  I must also thank Magnum for continuing to host CaB Radio and the chatroom server.  I'm so very thankful that CaB will hit ten in August, and I've managed to keep it ad-free thanks to the staggering loveliness of you lot out there.  Thank you so much for all your support over the years, and keep sending in those old Morris tapes and stuff - waynecarr@gmail.com

So, the site is still in disarray, really, and I have yet to finish the complete rewrite I started a few summers ago...but I am on the case.  I must also thank weirdbeard for the assistance he's given me over the last year - I started wikifying the site a while ago so that it could be kept updated by the userbase, rather than relying on my lazy arse to do it, and weirdbeard seized upon this idea, and has done an absolutely admirable amount of work behind the scenes.  Thanks to him, you will find a lot of the old downloads online again - hey, he even travelled around to get hold of TV and radio listings and all sorts!  So have a sniff round, and please remember that you can always, ALWAYS, improve this place if you think it's lacking in some department.

Finally, it's great to be able to say that On The Hour has finally been released on CD - you can find a thread on this in Comedy Chat.  Seemingly Morris himself was behind this, and a commendable amount of effort has been put in with regards extras.  I mean, the set even contains rushes!  Sadly, though, it's the edited repeats of series 2 that have been used - a few years ago, a nice chap made me a couple of dubs from the archives, and these seemed to suggest that the cut segments were tacked onto the end of the tapes, so I'm not sure what's happened there.  Regardless, it's fantastic to see this release, and I can't wait to get a copy myself.  Warp have even set up an OTH website where you can hear clips and the like.