Delivered Another Easter Tirade On
Sunday 15th, Monday 16th & Tuesday 17th April 2001
Laughing Matters Warned You That
Resistance Would Be Fertile
When
Robert Newman
Delivered Another Easter
Tirade On
Sunday 15th, Monday 16th & Tuesday 17th April 2001
A spot of surfing the web may reveal the
reason why Rob upgraded his name to Robert for the confusion out there is plenty.
There is a footballer called Rob Newman who has more sites than he's scored
goals (61 goals). The soccer Rob has played with squads as prestigious as Southend,
Bristol City, Ashton Gate, Motherwell, Wigan and Norwich. Then there is another
Rob in Tasmania who has a wife and kids but little else other than a computer.
Lurking in the depths of the web seems to be some troublesome young Hollywood
movie-star, but he's a little hard to pin down. There are Rob Newmans galore
in fact but now there is only one Robert Newman who will be making a most welcome
return to Paris after last Easter's shows when he floored us with his Proustian
grasp of all things French and his remarkably slurred delivery. Truly monumental
shows and we all rued that he was only available for a couple of nights. This
year he will be here for the 3 day long-haul and will no doubt bring us up to
date with the state of globalization, José Bové's collection of
criminal records and Jarvis' current penchant for things of a charmingly sordid
nature. Since his last visit he has been in both New and old Mexico to research
his third novel and shortly embark upon a major UK tour.