Morrissey reference on 'Catterick'
posted by davidt on Wednesday May 18 2005, @10:00AM

naomi writes:
I just caught Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer's new show 'Catterick' on BBC2. Not the best-spent 40 minutes of my life, but ones partially redeemed by a sequence right near the end where some very familiar guitar chords kicked in and one of the characters started miming to Satan Rejected My Soul. If my memory serves me rightly, that's the first Moz reference in a Reeves and Mortimer product since the halcyon days of Morrissey the Consumer Monkey...

 
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vic and bob (Score:2, Interesting)
I saw that too, not the greatest episode of not the greatest ever series, but possibly the greatest ever mimed sequence to Satan Rejected My Soul. It just got wierder, particularly when he started doing the 'actions'.

BTW, when I saw Morrissey at the Capitol in Aberdeen in 1990/1991 (the first UK date of the Kill Uncle tour - absolute pandemonium), Vic and Bob were in the upstairs bar beforehand. Being a young pup at the time, I didn't talk to them, but I've always wondered what they were doing there, given that they themselves weren't performing in Aberdeen that night (or any other night around then). It's not like Aberdeen's on the way to anywhere else, apart from Inverness, or the Piper Bravo oil platform, so I doubt they were just passing through.
finethen -- Wednesday May 18 2005, @12:41PM (#162163)
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    Vic Reeves (Score:2, Interesting)
    Vic Reeves is an enormous Smiths and Morrissey fan.

    During the 90s he tried to line up a duet with Moz but was sent away with a flea in his ear. (Morrissey found the whole 'consumer monkey' thing deeply unamusing, or so the story goes.)

    I also seem to remember Vic interviewing Moz for a music magazine around the same time too.

    Vic hero worshipped him..

    However, other people also worshipped by Vic Reeves are:

    Eric Morecambe, Rod Stewart, Shaking Stevens, the french situationists...

    a mixed bag then.
    carnal artist -- Thursday May 19 2005, @12:29AM (#162209)
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    Morrissey the Consumer Monkey! (Score:1)
    ...I'd forgotten about him!
    binny -- Thursday May 19 2005, @02:54AM (#162227)
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    There's a right way, there's a wrong way, and there's even a Victorian legal system...
      Interview link (Score:1)
      This is a link to an old interview with Vic and Bob; they talk jokingly about working with Morrissey:

      http://www.vicandbob.net/text/select_int.htm
      KenBarlow * -- Thursday May 19 2005, @07:53AM (#162258)
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      In the Future When All is Swelled
        Did u know... (Score:1)
        i think it was deleted from the show but one of the scenes showed Matt Lucas singing "Please, Please Please..." Quite well actually!
        xxMrs_Morrisseyxx -- Thursday May 19 2005, @07:57AM (#162260)
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          Catterick (Score:1)
          this was actually a repeat, I saw it the first time around and nearly wet my pants laughing at it! When it was first shown, you could press the red button for BBCi and view various clips and interviews etc. They had the whole Satan Rejected My Soul scene on and I watched it over and over! Top quality and not V poor at all I thought. Aaah, Morrissey the Consumer Monkey...I loved his funny little balloon mouth! Novelty Island always cracked me up too,...Graham Lister and Wavey Davey...cutting edge comedy at the time! (and still dead funny!)
          wideopentoreceive -- Friday May 20 2005, @04:03PM (#162489)
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          I know it's gonna happen someday.....X


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