Suddenly everyone around us was becoming famous. Chris would be Frank for such long periods the clip had deformed him slightly, flattened his nose out of shape. Product details Package Dimensions : 7.48 x 5.35 x 0.55 inches; 2.12 Ounces Subtitles: : English Studio : Spirit Entertainment ASIN : B07PJ6TGQJ Frank, usually dressed in a 1950s-style sharp suit, was portrayed as an aspiring pop star from the small village of Timperley, near Altrincham. Then he hung up. Regular routines would see him with cardboard puppet Little Frank or dressed in a Manchester City kit calling out, Guess whos been on Match Of The Day?, with the audience shouting back, You have, in your big shorts. [18], At the same time as touring, Frank would become a semi-regular cast member on the two final seasons of the ITV children's programme No. He became one of the world's most successful tour managers, looking after Woody Allen and the Spice Girls. Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings. "From the Desert Wolves.". His character was cheerfully optimistic, enthusiastic, and seemingly oblivious to his own failings. I picked it up. In 1983, with the band on hiatus, Sievey went solo. Creator of Frank Sidebottom. Directed by Steve Sullivan. It would have suited his sense of absurdity, like Right, now I am gone you appreciate me?., His brother Martin, 66, who gigged with Chris, said: Hed be giggling now at all the fun and games after he has gone., Strictly star bags life-changing EastEnders role as part of new family, Baby's body found after huge search as cops quiz Constance Marten & lover, Bianca Gascoigne reveals very unusual name for her newborn daughter, I took pic of son, 18, before his first night out then the worst thing happened, News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. She somehow got her own TV show, The Mrs Merton Show. Never the committed romantic, their wedding reception had been a bag of fish and chips in a shop doorway during his lunch hour. Two old ladies they got in from the street were the witnesses. In early 1985 he recorded a hopelessly upbeat, Casio-driven version of the Sex Pistols' Anarchy in the UK and posted it to all the major record labels. Harrison Sievey's loved ones now say they will try and 'piece their lives. The exhibition covered both Frank Sidebottom as well as Sievey's other creative endeavours. We were just friends. In 1987 I was 20 and the student union entertainments officer for the Polytechnic of Central London. My next-door neighbour Mani had a band. I didnt have any choice we were being threatened with eviction, andthe gas and electricity were about to be cut off. [56], Sievey's funeral was held on 2 July 2010 at Altrincham Crematorium. Chris had been asking friends to perform cameos between the songs on his records. The man on the phone said I should meet them at the soundcheck at 5pm. 2018, Documentary/Music, 1h 40m. Frank Sidebottom was a peculiar stage character defined by his enormous papier-mache mask, immortalized in countless UK TV appearances and a fictionalized biopic produced after the 2010 death of cr "Frank," I said. The person that emerges from behind the mask via the documentary however is a wonderfully positive optimistic and . One track from this, "Lazy Rising More Slowly, Where R.U, Oh 'Chele'", was released on the 2019 outtakes and rarities compilation Being Frank.[33]. Former girlfriend Michelle, 56, told The Sun: I think he would just laugh about him being more famous now. Instantly recognisable, his keyboard ditties and larger-than-life personality were a hit on the . The archive is now preserved forever in the Archives+ vault in Manchester, held under temperature-controlled conditions. And, just six months later, Chris was dead. His popularity peaked in the early 1990s, with the TV series Frank Sidebottom's Fantastic Shed Show and guest slots on the children's Saturday morning ITV show No 73. Sievey died of cancer in 2010, but for years it seemed he might do himself in. He also appeared alongside the Factory Records boss Anthony Wilson on Channel 4's Remote Control. As the 1990s reached their midpoint, the Frank character began to make fewer public appearances before seemingly being retired. . Afterwards he was signed to Marc Riley's In Tape label, on which he would release two albums and four EPs.[17]. I'd walk on stage, alone, into a spotlight, and play a powerful C with my left forefinger. A Timperley village councillor, Neil Taylor, started his own fund-raising campaign for a memorial statue Frank cast in bronze. Nigel Carr reviews the release for Louder Than War. After that night the greatest of my life a year passed. [22][23], Jon Ronson first played with Frank's Oh Blimey Band in 1987, when their original keyboardist (Mark Radcliffe) was unable to make it to a gig at The Cricketers pub at Kennington Oval, London SE11. The only complaint he ever had was that he had so many ideas that hed talk to people about,and a couple of months down the line somebody else would have done it, and hed go: That was myidea.. It wasnt. In the 1990s after Mrs Merton became famous, Chris was after some kind of payout, but it never happened. Sievey's life was a fantastical, subversive piece of performance art. Contrasting with the alternative comedians of the time, Frank Sidebottom's comedy was family-friendly, if a little bizarre for some. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." . He also appeared at "Late" at Tate Britain on 3 August 2007. Which of these men might be Frank? This family friendly nature lead to Frank getting his own comic strip in the children's weekly comic Oink!, which launched 1986. We had to stop them. We hear from older brother Martin; ex-wife Paula; children Stirling, Asher and Harry; and many more. Frank Sidebottom Talk To Frank Drug Parody Comedian Chris Sievey Unofficial Unisex 3/4 Sleeve Baseball Tee Available In 7 Colour Choices ad vertisement by CustardGB. Their van driver was Chris Evans. We hired a people-carrier instead of a Transit van and set off to our first venue. But he did leave a league of fans, whoclubbed together to crowdfund a send-off, with enough money left for a memorial concert. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.David Levene. [8] The Freshies biggest UK hit was "I'm in Love with the Girl on the Manchester Virgin Megastore Checkout Desk", released initially on his own Razz label (RAZZ 10), it was reissued by the US giant MCA Records with a slightly different title ("I'm in Love with the Girl on a Certain Manchester Megastore Checkout Desk") as there were objections about using the Virgin brand name. ?". His mind fizzed with non-stop creativityand, inspired by The Beatles, he wanted to be a pop star. FilmFour wanted to fund its development. I am writing this 26 years later. He is known for What's Up Doc? The old band members had a certain avant-garde loucheness. Now divorced from Paula, he was an animator on the children's claymation series Pingu. It was very poorly attended. [1] Family Harry's parents are Chris Sievey (musician who created comic persona Frank Sidebottom) and Paula Dean. It became difficult when hestarted to drink and disappear for days on end. I had to be the sensible one. Mr Sievey, known to his friends as Harry, had been cycling along Mauldeth Road West, Withington . 2018year 105min 7.6IMDB. Two huge eyes were staring at me, painted onto a great, imposing fake head, lips slightly parted as if mildly surprised. In 1989, Sievey re-arranged the Oh Blimey Band, introducing Richard Jones from the recently broken up local band the Desert Wolves on bass guitar, along with a new guitarist and saxophonist. [54] After it was reported that Sievey had died virtually penniless and was facing a pauper's funeral provided by state grants,[55] a grassroots movement on various social networking websites raised 6,500 in a matter of hours. I said. (1992), No 73 (1982) and TX (1985). And in the space of that first song our classic Born in Timperley (to the tune of Springsteen's Born in the USA) the audience veered from fevered anticipation into hoping we were playing a weird joke on them into realising with regret that we were not. So I clicked another link: Stars lead tributes as Frank Sidebottom comic dies at 54Chris Sievey, famous as his alter ego Frank Sidebottom, was found collapsed at his home in Hale early yesterday. Manchester punk group The Freshies, 7th January 1979. This new lineup was a source of tension between the members, with Richard Jones and Jon Ronson taking a near instant disliking for each other. English musician and comedian Chris Sievey in character as his comic alter-ego, Frank Sidebottom, and holding his puppet sidekick, Little Frank, 1988. After this, Frank began to make semi-regular guest appearances on the final season of ITV programme and No. The band's guitarist Patrick Gallagher told Middles: "It wasn't Caroline's fault. 66. A man has been cleared of causing the death of the son of Frank Sidebottom creator Chris Sievey by careless driving. [14] In order to promote the EP, he made an appearance on the TV programme 'TX'[15] the first of many appearances on the ITV network. How are you?" His children were playing outside. Undeterred, he predated the DIY punk ethic by starting his own label, Razz, in 1974 and releasing singles and EPs with the Freshies from 1978 onwards. Chris Sievey, who played Frank Sidebottom, is to feature in a biopic in 2014. The Biz also introduced the character that Sievey would become famous for, initially devised as a one-off promotional gimmick. By this point he had split from Paula and had moved in with girlfriend Michelle Pouncey, who he dated for six years. I thought he was crazy, not my type at all. His innovative ideas extended far beyond indie labels and bizarre song titles. SYNOPSIS: The story of musician and entertainer. Chris Sievey was a musician from the north west, who was the frontman for a band called The . It is directed by Steve Sullivan, and was funded through a successful Kickstarter campaign. When he'd remove the peg after a long stint I'd see him wince in pain. [2], In 1969, when he was 14, Sievey began writing and recording his own music,[5] and by the age of 15 was playing in local bands. Fictionalising his years in Sidebottom's Oh Blimey Big Band for 2014's beguiling non-biopic Frank, Jon Ronson chose to make his hero an outsider musician in the vein of Daniel Johnson and the Shaggs.Those artists are, in many ways, more abrasive than Frank Sidebottom, whose chintzy Casio keyboard beats would never have passed muster on a Captain . 9: A Tribute to The Beatles in Aid of Cambodia", "What's up doc? "You're Jon," he said. The music journalist Mick Middles recently sent me his not-yet-published biography Frank Sidebottom: Out of His Head. Fromthinking shed never fancy him, she literally fell for him when he inexplicably pushed her into a canal; after he pulled her out, they ended up kissing on the canal bank. Polyethylene Film / PE Sheet Mick Middles, who wrote Chriss authorised biography, said: Famously, Frank and Chris had two separate phones. Christopher Mark Sievey ( 25 de agosto de 1955 - 21 de junho 2010) foi um msico e comediante ingls conhecido por estar a frente da banda The Freshies entre o final de 1970 e incio de 1980 e por seu persona cmica, Frank Sidebottom, a partir de 1984. Chris Sievey was a 'live in the moment' man, his friends said More than 200 people gathered to pay their respects to Chris Sievey - the creator of comedian Frank Sidebottom - at his. Not long after that, Frank was playing at a pub near my flat. Throughout 2007, Frank made several television appearances, before releasing his final project, Magical Timperley Tour, a short film featuring Frank touring 100 of his friends around the characters' home town of Timperley. Frontman of new wave band The Freshies, he restlessly experimented with new ideas, including self-produced videos. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. Side One Camouflage (4:24) Off Key Siren (2:45) Warning To Women (3:56) I Am The Walrus (3:53) Side Two Amoco Cadiz (2:03) Hey (2:15) Return To Thunder City (2:02) On A Bender (3:43) Under Water (3:57) [39], Following Sievey's death in June 2010, a social networking campaign was launched to gain Frank his first UK hit. This is an edited extract from Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. And if Chris was secretly more obsessive about Frank than he let on, how would he feel if the film reflected that? He had a nice, ordinary face. Chris hung up Frank'shead in the late 1990s, by which time he was drinking too much, dealing witha large unpaid tax bill and struggling to find direction. [20], In 1987, Frank released his first album, a spoken word cassette called 'Fantastic Tales', released through his own 11:37 label. The 54-year-old was pronounced dead at Wythenshawe Hospital, a spokeswoman. Chris also cheated on his wife with groupies who would ask to have sex with him while he wore Franks head and left his children without money during week-long benders. In 2006, Sievey revived the character of Frank Sidebottom with the short lived television series, Frank Sidebottom's Proper Telly Show. She became involved in Chriss artily insane schemes, which involved painting their faces blue ordressing as tramps to go into Manchester city centre. The men turned. Her Off "Neighbours"), Split 7-inch FlexiDisc with the Hitchcocks, This page was last edited on 18 February 2023, at 11:00. Putting on the guise of Frank Sidebottom, he transformed into a real-life cartoon character whotook his bizarre, anarchic world on the comedy circuit, on radio and television. And now our Frank film directed by Lenny Abrahamson and starring Michael Fassbender, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Domhnall Gleeson, is going to be premiered at the Sundance film festival. Paula met Chris when they were both working in a factory. Why was he wearing the head when there was nobody there to see it except for his own band? Chris Sievey, who has died at the age of 54, was the man behind comedy cult icon Frank Sidebottom. Also a chronicle of the demise of the record store. At this Frank raised his hands to his head and began to prise it off, turning slightly away, like he was shyly undressing. [2] Sievey's earliest television appearance was on the children's television show TX, with an in-character interview as Frank Sidebottom, shortly after the release of his first Zonophone EP. A single decision that starts everything lumbering down the wrong path, speeding up, careering wildly, before lurching to a terrible stop in a place where nobody is interested in hearing your songs any more. "The moment the head is placed the change occurs. but, apparently, they were up to everything.. Franks Fantastic Shed Show introduced Caroline Aherne to the world, with her playing the nosey, grey-haired Mrs Merton a character Chris claimed he had invented. Despite the minimal chart success from these EPs, Frank had developed a cult following that allowed him to attract audiences upwards of 500 in Northern England and London. Pepper Knew My Father, which featured other acts like Michelle Shocked, the Christians, Sonic Youth, Billy Bragg, Hue and Cry, the Fall and Wet Wet Wet. [32] After the first two seasons, Sievey left the show. He'd already given us his approval on the film and I told him the latest news. [ 1] Former wife Paula Sievey pegs his decline to Frank Sidebottom's Fantastic Shed Show, a TV series that started in . In February of 1982, Sievey abandoned the quartet lineup of the Freshies, and reformed it as a duo with Barbara O'Donovan. Even though the pop-tinged punk rockers never became household names, they had their fair share of female fans. Afterwards he migrated to What's Up Doc?,[30] where Sievey would not only portray Sidebottom, but also create the recurring segment Life with the Amoebas. In 1982, he released the mini-album Denigration Now, his first work outside of the Freshies since 1976's All Sleeps Secrets. He hit the depths just when his act got his own ITV series Frank Sidebottoms Fantastic Shed Show in 1992. I think he was a bit gutted that he didnt get the credit forcreating that character someone else had played Mrs Merton before on one of the shows, saysStirling. After retiring the character of Frank Sidebottom, Sievey became prop designer and set dresser on the fourth season of stop-motion animated series, Bob the Builder. Her followup series, The Royle Family, won about seven. Frank had faded into obscurity in the late 1990s, rarely appearing either on TV or making live appearances, but, a one-off performance at Manchester's Club Indigo Vs Manic Street Mania in December 2005 seemed to be the catalyst for a comeback. [9], The character was instantly recognizable by his large spheroidal head, styled like an early Max Fleischer cartoon. His single Camouflage saw. Sidebottom was fully inhabited by Sievey. [40] In December 2010, Frank Sidebottom's 1986 song "Christmas Is Really Fantastic" was re-released in an attempt to become the Christmas number one.[41]. They also have their own children, who appear to be very much chips off their grandfathers comedyblock. In memory of Chris Sievey, 1955-2010. He brought him back in 2006 on Manchester regional TV station Channel M. However the onset of cancer just before Christmas 2009 ripped apart what had been a warmly received comeback. Chris Sievey, who has died aged 54 after suffering from cancer, achieved the kind of success as Frank Sidebottom that often eluded him under his own name. I heard muffled voices. Our driver, Chris Evans, left us to try and make it in radio. Like all of his demos, the songs failed to land a record deal so Chris set up his own label called Razz in 1974. [2], Sievey, under the guise of Sidebottom, made regular appearances on North West television throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, even becoming a reporter for Granada Reports. The acts included Badly Drawn Boy and surviving members of Frank's Oh Blimey Big Band who played in tribute. At home there was a loving family atmosphere with Paula and their three children Stirling, now 40, Asher, 39, and Harry, who died in a crash in 2017 at the age of 24 until Chris really went off the rails. By the end of the tour we were playing to almost-empty houses. He just started doing loads of drugs, cocaine, drink. The re-recorded single was released in 1983 initially on Sievey's own Random Records label, before . He loved the work but missed Frank and wanted to bring him back from retirement. Obsessed with The Beatles, aged 15 he hitched to the headquarters of the bands Apple record label, where he held a sit-in protest in a bid to see his heroes. [36], Frank performed at Bloom Festival in 2007 and Kendal Calling in 2008. It was not love at first sight. Certainly his wife and children weren't as important. His second Zonophone EP, 'Oh Blimey, It's Christmas' charted slightly higher than the first, at number 87, before dropping off again. And towards the end of the crowd-funded film, which was a hit at last years South By Southwest Festival in Texas, we see Frank singing: I hope when Im dead Ill be fantastically famous.. A poignant reminder of one of Chris Sievey's (AKA Frank Sidebottom) finest moments. In the van, Chris smiled wistfully. Chris Sievey, better known as his paper-mache, later fiberglass headed character Frank Sidebottom (born as Christopher Mark Sievey in Ashton-on-Mersey, Cheshire, England, UK, August 25th, 1955) was an English musician and comedian known for fronting the band The Freshies in the late 1970s and early 1980s and for his comic persona Frank Sidebottom (C) Piece of Cardboard Productions. He wasnt the kind of man whocould do a proper nine-to-five job. He was probably spending it on prostitutes.. The following year, Sievey guest starred on the sixth season of British television series No 73, after which he, portraying Frank, would become a regular cast member for its final two seasons. 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