John Fleming (I)
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Janey Godley. The most creative person I ever met. A lovely human being. RIP.
Janey Godley, who died this morning, was without any doubt at all the most all-round creative person I ever met in my life.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 2nd November 2024Becky Fury's show on British-ish-ness
Becky Fury and I met for a chat in a coffee shop in a London church called Sacred Grounds. The coffee shop not the church...
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 30th October 2024John Dowie on Victoria Wood, the Mona Lisa, a banana and his new book
This is the second and final part of a chat I had with the unique British performer John Dowie. We were supposed to be plugging his latest book Before I Go. But I just like chatting randomly with creative people. Mea culpa.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 4th October 2024Before I Go: John Dowie has thoughts on both Kens Dodd and Campbell...
John Dowie has a new book out entitled Before I Go...
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 3rd October 2024The final performance by The Iceman shows the impermanence of existence
Last night, I witnessed what was allegedly the last ever performance by legendary act The Iceman. It had not been billed in advance as his final performance, but there was a sense of anticipation before the show started.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 23rd September 2024For a second year, The Iceman / AIM's to make an exhibition of himself...
So unexpectedly popular was last year's extravaganza in rural Dorset that he has returned this year for another month-long exhibition, this time titled "Hiceggledy Piceggledy".
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 17th July 2024The AIM of The Iceman's artifICE...
Performance art act The Iceman aka Anthony Irvine has cropped up in this blog over the years, including his pure art incarnation as AIM. Last year, I blogged about AIM's month-long art exhibition residency at the Guggleton Farm Arts centre in Dorset. Now, blow me down, AIM - or it might be The Iceman or it might be Anthony or it might be all three - is/are back there for another month-long exhibition/residency, 12th July-10th August.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 18th June 2024'President of Africa' cleared by Reuters of US invasion threat to support Trump
Last week, I blogged here about the fact that the Reuters news agency was investigating - for a second time - whether 'President Obonjo' (aka comedian Benjamin Bello) really is the president of an African country. In fact, this time, the worrying suspicion was that he is actually the President of the whole of Africa and that he had threatened to invade the US in support of Donald Trump. Reuters have today - presumably after a week of detailed research and fact-checking - come up with their conclusion...
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 14th March 2024Robert Wringham returns to live comedy. Plus a chicken sexing fall-back.
Robert Wringham is what Americans would call a hyphenate. He does all sorts of things. Basically he is a writer of humorous books; plus he has written two histories of alternative comedy; and he is editor of the New Escapologist magazine which "takes the stance that work has too central a position in Western life". He has appeared in previous blogs here and is currently co-producing Melt It! a documentary film about The Iceman. We were supposed to be having a chat about Robert's live performance at the Glasgow Comedy Festival this week. But I am not one to keep to the subject...
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 11th March 2024Reuters suspects that a comedian may secretly be a real-life African dictator...
In August last year, Reuters fact-checked President Obonjo, a British stand-up comedy act that has been performing for over ten years. The shtick is that President Obonjo is the leader/dictator of the Lafta Republic in Africa. So convincing did many people (largely Americans) find this act that they believed President Obonjo was real.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 6th March 2024