Australia - it's a dangerous place!
Continuing my trip back through the 1986 album charts
18/05/86 : Utterly Utterly Live - Comic Relief
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A peculiar one this one - I couldn't track it down anywhere, so was going to skip over it, but then I looked at the "track" list and remembered quite a few of them, so I thought I'd watch a video on YouTube to remind myself of the rest of them - unfortunately it's not quite the same as the album, but it was enough for a humorous trip down memory lane.
And I say "track" because it's a curious mix - most of them are comedy sketches but there are also some weird music interludes in there as well. On the comedy front, Lenny Henry is still funny as Theophilus P Wildebeest ("the most fertlie man in the universe!") and the man's timing is impeccable - it's a shame we can't say the same for Frank Bruno, but the man was certainly up for a laugh, appearing dressed as Juliet on the balcony scene. The sketches by Rowan Atkinson, Billy Connolly and Ben Elton have stood the test of time well - Rik Mayall's feels pretty juvenile, but I suspect it did back then as well.
And on the music front, Howard Jones and Afrodiziak do a great version of "Life In One Day" but its relevance is somewhat uncertain, The Young Ones murder "Living Doll" but somewhat amusingly ("we're on the last freedom moped out of Nowhere City, and we haven't even told our parents what time we'll be back!"), Kate Bush does a straightforward version of "Breathing" and an odd but amusing comedy duet with Rowan Atkinson while Bob Geldof and Midge Ure close out the show by ABSOLUTELY massacring "Feed The World". All in all, it's a slice of the time but still surprisingly funny - although I'm not convinced the youth of today would agree with me.
We're at #10 in the charts this week on it's third week of an eight week run, with this being as high as it got - not bad for a comedy album I guess (and it's all for char-i-dee, mate!). The top five this week were a Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music best-of, Billy Ocean, Dire Straits, Whitney Houston and an Earth, Wind & Fire best-of (which feels very un-1986) and the highest new entry was an equally out-of-time best-of from The Shadows (#18).
There's no Wikipedia entry for the album, but there's one for Comic Relief as a whole - it'll be 40 years old next year and it's raised over a billion pounds. The entry lists the presenters for each year and 2003 sounds like it must have been an interesting one, being presented by Adam & Joe, Vic & Bob and Graham Norton!
"Customers also listen to" - well, we'll never know, will we? I'd completely forgotten about this and it was nice to revisit and have something a bit different, even if I'd struggle to describe it as great.
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