Typically, the hottest day of the four day weekend is the day I have to spend in my office hard at work. At least I finally finished writing up the Georgie Rose interview and emailed it to the newspaper ahead of deadline which was my priority. The to-do list that I made for the Easter weekend was a waste of time as I always underestimate how long certain things are going to take. As the world returns to normal tomorrow I will have hardly any time to catch up as I am in court all day before going to a gig, so Wednesday will be my only evening which means that very little will be achieved this week. I'm looking forward to getting back into the swing of live music now that I seem to be fully fit following my chest infection, hopefully the other music champions have caught up with me although this won't take long as my diary tells me the shameful truth that I have only been to ten gigs this year. Part of this is down to being busy with various writing commitments and part of it is down to not wanting to see the same local bands time and time again as the circuit is starting to bore me.
It took most of the day to get the Georgie interview just right and I had intended to enjoy the fading embers of Easter weekend in front of the television with a couple of beers and an Easter egg in the company of Mandi and Jack. Last night we finished the complete Bottom box set, maybe it is looking at it retrospectively now that Rik Mayall is dead that made me realise what a work of genius the show was. Saddest of all is the knowledge that there was a fourth series that wasn't picked up by the BBC and this was in the days before Kickstarter and online DIY programming. A couple of years ago Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson did start writing together but nothing came of it. If there actually is a collection of scripts then someone should get in touch with Edmondson and negotiate. There was enough love for Rik displayed around the world when he died that a crowd funding campaign would surely make enough money to make the series in front of an audience for an online screening and DVD release. Paul Merton starred in a series of old scripts written by Galton and Simpson that included some remakes of Hancock's Half Hour so such a project can be done. People record cover versions of songs all the time and remake films and plays so why not a sitcom script? As long as it was done with respect for the original and of course Rik Mayall's memory then it would be doing a valuable service on putting the scripts out there for the fans.
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