[Music]
[Music]
roll up roll up roll up so what our
lifetime is about to begin
I’ve been an entertainer for getting on
for 45 years it’s a whole lifetime I’m
beginning to feel that at least now I
know something about the business
occasionally take time out even during
the show just to catch the looking
children’s on his other than a smile on
adults faces and think a while lucky guy
I am
[Music]
of course is a great tradition of living
in the road and I’ve always admired and
envied in a way circus performance who
live full-time in the road so a few
years ago three four years ago now I
decided I was going to do it myself
again because I lived on the road when I
was young but now I’m doing it full-time
and I won’t go back to bricks and mortar
I love living on the road I like living
on tires and the big lorry in which is
what I got and I don’t want to work in
the trailer behind in my home in the
lorry with the dogs and that’s us it is
a very romantic life in the real sense
of that word there’s a sense of risk and
danger but also a great adventure going
on in my life all the time of course
it’s romantic to arrive in the middle of
the night set up and leave in the middle
of the night meaning something special
in their lives for those few days and
then moving on it is romantic I think
that’s part and parcel of the whole
thing
[Music]
music is essential in my performance
it’s like the heartbeat of the show one
of the things that people notice about
the show is how it’s sort of fits to the
music
in fact the music I’ve fitted myself to
the music I think all the music’s fitted
itself to me and all started a
particular classic show of course
started with a an old cassette you
remember old cassettes I was walking
along the street in or a little country
road really in Scotland and saw a bit
and on Rajasthan the top of the bay and
it wasn’t actually in the bin it was
just on the top of the bin was a
cassette of the music from the sting not
film I’d seen at the time I’ve seen it
since of course but so I took it and
thought Louis somebody giving me a
present and ever since then I’ve used
that music in that order and the order
of play as it is on the cassette and
it’s fantastically evocative those
ragtime tunes
[Music]
for the last year I’ve been writing a
blog which is an intimate view of my
backstage life in a way and it’s about
not just how the shows go but it’s about
the the way of life of a traveling
entertainer in in Britain today and it’s
got a little quite a lot of following
I’m I won’t say I’m viral but I am quite
popular and I’m a lot of response a lot
of emails from people about it and
that’s lovely
it really isn’t I believe that one of
the great things about living in a lorry
is you can live very cheaply and I do
live very cheaply I’m certainly not a
rich man it’s I don’t do it for the
money I’ve never done anything for the
money I do for the love and the joy of
it all but having a bit of money in your
pocket is course very useful and it’s
been you know winters are hard because
there’s not a lot coming in and so I was
writing about it in my blog last winter
and was mentioning how much I was living
on I can’t believe it now when I think
about it but I was I was living on 20
grid a week which isn’t a lot of money
including the dogs thing and I was
writing about how I did it and a couple
of days later in the post came this
envelope and I opened it and there was a
card anonymous all the words on the car
began with the letter a audacious
acrobatic activities and amazing aerial
antics always avoiding ambulances and
inside the envelope was fifty quid in
cash and it was a real mystery
and ever since virtually every month
right the way through the winter my
mystery benefactor is sent fifty quid in
cash to me and so thank you he’s been
listening to this
[Music]
I’m gonna carry on balancing on chairs
for all my life in fact I think in some
basement the last moments will be
falling off the Jets and of course I
really admire those wonderful old
performers who carry on right to the end
Tommy Cooper’s obviously I was actually
watching his live performance when he
died and there was something about dying
with the ring of laughter in your ears
that I really loved and I wouldn’t want
to protracted death on a bed somewhere
in the hospital I’d want to fall off or
you know fall over halfway through a
show and the audience think think that
it’s part the show and the grounded
laughter ringing in your ears as you
depart from this mortal coil and no I
shall retire I shall never retire not
the retiring kind
you
[Music]
you
[Music]
[Music]
roll up roll up roll up so what our
lifetime is about to begin
I’ve been an entertainer for getting on
for 45 years it’s a whole lifetime I’m
beginning to feel that at least now I
know something about the business
occasionally take time out even during
the show just to catch the looking
children’s on his other than a smile on
adults faces and think a while lucky guy
I am
[Music]
of course is a great tradition of living
in the road and I’ve always admired and
envied in a way circus performance who
live full-time in the road so a few
years ago three four years ago now I
decided I was going to do it myself
again because I lived on the road when I
was young but now I’m doing it full-time
and I won’t go back to bricks and mortar
I love living on the road I like living
on tires and the big lorry in which is
what I got and I don’t want to work in
the trailer behind in my home in the
lorry with the dogs and that’s us it is
a very romantic life in the real sense
of that word there’s a sense of risk and
danger but also a great adventure going
on in my life all the time of course
it’s romantic to arrive in the middle of
the night set up and leave in the middle
of the night meaning something special
in their lives for those few days and
then moving on it is romantic I think
that’s part and parcel of the whole
thing
[Music]
music is essential in my performance
it’s like the heartbeat of the show one
of the things that people notice about
the show is how it’s sort of fits to the
music
in fact the music I’ve fitted myself to
the music I think all the music’s fitted
itself to me and all started a
particular classic show of course
started with a an old cassette you
remember old cassettes I was walking
along the street in or a little country
road really in Scotland and saw a bit
and on Rajasthan the top of the bay and
it wasn’t actually in the bin it was
just on the top of the bin was a
cassette of the music from the sting not
film I’d seen at the time I’ve seen it
since of course but so I took it and
thought Louis somebody giving me a
present and ever since then I’ve used
that music in that order and the order
of play as it is on the cassette and
it’s fantastically evocative those
ragtime tunes
[Music]
for the last year I’ve been writing a
blog which is an intimate view of my
backstage life in a way and it’s about
not just how the shows go but it’s about
the the way of life of a traveling
entertainer in in Britain today and it’s
got a little quite a lot of following
I’m I won’t say I’m viral but I am quite
popular and I’m a lot of response a lot
of emails from people about it and
that’s lovely
it really isn’t I believe that one of
the great things about living in a lorry
is you can live very cheaply and I do
live very cheaply I’m certainly not a
rich man it’s I don’t do it for the
money I’ve never done anything for the
money I do for the love and the joy of
it all but having a bit of money in your
pocket is course very useful and it’s
been you know winters are hard because
there’s not a lot coming in and so I was
writing about it in my blog last winter
and was mentioning how much I was living
on I can’t believe it now when I think
about it but I was I was living on 20
grid a week which isn’t a lot of money
including the dogs thing and I was
writing about how I did it and a couple
of days later in the post came this
envelope and I opened it and there was a
card anonymous all the words on the car
began with the letter a audacious
acrobatic activities and amazing aerial
antics always avoiding ambulances and
inside the envelope was fifty quid in
cash and it was a real mystery
and ever since virtually every month
right the way through the winter my
mystery benefactor is sent fifty quid in
cash to me and so thank you he’s been
listening to this
[Music]
I’m gonna carry on balancing on chairs
for all my life in fact I think in some
basement the last moments will be
falling off the Jets and of course I
really admire those wonderful old
performers who carry on right to the end
Tommy Cooper’s obviously I was actually
watching his live performance when he
died and there was something about dying
with the ring of laughter in your ears
that I really loved and I wouldn’t want
to protracted death on a bed somewhere
in the hospital I’d want to fall off or
you know fall over halfway through a
show and the audience think think that
it’s part the show and the grounded
laughter ringing in your ears as you
depart from this mortal coil and no I
shall retire I shall never retire not
the retiring kind
you
[Music]
you
[Music]
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