OK I have a question: Imagine that you have a job working in a morgue. Maybe it is a weekend job pushing dead people around. You are left alone with the bodies but of course you are not supposed to touch them. Then one day a celebrity chick comes in. Imagine if it was 1997 and Princess Diana’s lifeless body is wheeled in. Or maybe it is longer ago than that and you are alone with a dead Marilyn Monroe. Or perhaps it is this weekend and it is Katie Price who comes in – OK she’s not dead yet but fuck it, we could get lucky – Anyway the point is, whoever it is they are dead sexy in the most literal possible sense. Read more »
A nice review from Bath:
“Bob Slayer, manager of Japanese Rock band Electric Eel Shock, commenced to tear it apart with his chaotic, improvised style and crazily rude and in your face way a kin to maybe Frankie Boyle but definitely Henry Rollins, although far more drunk and disorderly.” http://www.listomaniabath.com/reviews/bob-slayer,-jimbo-and-dynamite-p/
Bob Slayer’s Punk Rock Chat Show @ Brighton Fringe
An act clearly more drunk than the audience… and there were some very odd looks when he took his socks off. Once he got going, though, Bob Slayer worked through his paying guests with amazing skill, making humour out of our responses and expressions, and getting us to laugh at ourselves as well as him. The format means that every show will be different, but that’s the charm of it, so expect to become involved. His incredibly rude comedy and outrageous stories may shock some, and that’s nothing compared to other scenes, which left us emotionally scarred, yet in fits of laughter. This is what happens when real rock, comedy and a lot of drink mix together, and it should never be any other way. www.threeweeks.co.uk
The scene he describes as emotionally scaring yet had him in fits of laughter was me receiving a Prostate examination from an audience lady on stage… I am not sure if she found it but boy did she search!
In another gig I only had three people in and couldn’t get going at all…
And Fringeguru said: “Bob Slayer seems like a pleasant and friendly guy, but as to his ability as a stand-up, who can say?” It is a shame he completely failed to report that I managed to get a man who had never been on stage to dress as Freddie Mercury and tell us stories for 15 mins. He needed to kept up there that long because I knew there was comedy gold deep down and we just needed to keep working the seem. Finally it came, and oh what a belter: He used to live next door to a male brothel (I forget where) and Freddie Mercury was a sometime visitor – it may have even been where he caught The Aids!
Sometime in 2007 I was given the autobiography of the late great Malcolm Hardee, the godfather of Alternative comedy, I was fascinated by his wayward background prior to comedy. It inspired me to have a go myself and now I often stand on stages and do things which some people find funny and others just find odd. On October 1st 2009 at the 20th Birthday of Up The Creek, I was asked by Martin Soan to get naked and join him in the Balloon Dance playing the part of his old mate Malcolm Hardee who had started the club. It was indeed an honour and the comedy equivalent of Dee Dee Ramone ringing me up to come and sing like Joey down at CBGB’s… Knob Out!
The Greatest Show on Legs and the Balloon Dance (as seen on OTT) at the 20th Birthday Party of infamous Grenwich venue Up The Creek. Opened by Malcolm Hardee 20 years ago. Martin Soan (original Ballooner!), Bob Slayer (channelling Malcolm) and Dr Brown… Introduced by Terry Alderton (Doing a much better job as Malcolm!)
On April 29th I was Compère at the premier of Killer Bitch at The Curzon Cinema:
“Before we begin Liam the director of the film has asked me to do a few notices:
Please keep an eye on your possessions as Thieves and Pickpockets have been known to operate in this area.” I hear a few titters and groans from people who have anticipated where I am going and I continue:
Most notably:-
• Dave Courtney
• Roy Shaw
• Lenny Hamilton
• And Freddie Foreman
I get some cheers of approval as I read out each name and Dave Courtney calls me a Cheeky C**t.
Sunday Sport Review:
“It was a brave man to stand up in front of an A-list of the UK’s celebrity gangsters, assorted fighters, convicted football hooligans and the notorious Outlaw Motorcycle club at the premier of schlock Gangster film Killer Bitch.. To then proceed to ’slag’ off this scary audience was surely suicidal? … Compère Bob Slayer’s introduction scored top marks for sheer audacity. He picked his targets well and delivered cutting lines with such innocent cheeky charm that he had the likes of Dave Courtney (Gangster turned author) and Stormin’ Norman Buckland (the new Guv’nor of unlicensed British boxing) declaring afterwards that he was indeed a ‘right funny c**t’…” Read more »
A lot of debate has centred around the three leaders, however I am more interested in who is my local candidate. I have had all the leaflets through the door but the only candidate I was in to meet was the Conservative fella – He asked me if I was going to vote for him, I said probably not and he immediately left, hardly leaving me with the impression that he had a lot of fight in him. So I opened my door again and shouted “piss of baldy”. He ignored me. And therefore I will ignore him. Read more »
THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL BRITISH MOVIE OF THE 21st CENTURY
Released by Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment – Bank Holiday Monday 3rd MAY 2010
World Premiere on April 29th at the Curzon Cinema Mayfair (With Bob Slayer as MC!)
Followed by a Launch Party @ The Vendome club in Mayfair from 7.00pm.
“The film everyone’s talking about! Iron Man 2? Don’t be daft! It’s Killer Bitch, with Alex Reid! Will Alex turn up at the Premiere? Will Jordan let him?”News of The World
“A woman is forced into a deadly game in which she has to kill five people or all her friends and family will be butchered. With extreme violence and red hot sex, it’s a hard-edged lads’ movie that takes no prisoners.” Read more »
I have performed funnies in UK, Edinburgh & Brighton Fringes, Ireland, Netherlands, The French Alps and Hong Kong. Here is what some people have said:
“Bob Slayer marched all over the line that should not be crossed like a drunken Henry Rollins with tourettes…” Brighton Argus
“The Wild Man of Comedy, like Keith Moon” The Malcolm Hardee Awards
“Spontaneous, shocking and purile” Racing Post
“If you are clinically insane, and by that I mean that you wake up one morning and think that you are actually an onion, then go and see Bob Slayer live…” Jeremy Clarkson
““Bob Slayer doesn’t use a safety net. A man too large to have ever been a jockey, walked on stage with seemingly little idea of what he was going to do, fortunately for us a quick chat with the audience inspired a hilarious if somewhat shocking opening rant. The relentless pace of banter, games and off the cuff stories did not let up throughout the 50 minutes and unfettered by a rigid set he could have perhaps gone on for hours? But he suddenly announced that happy hour was about to start in Whistle Binkies up the road and we needed an ending. He asked a man in the front row to punch him in the face, but when the man stood up and towered 6 foot 6 inches he wisely changed his mind and instead attempted to pick up all 22 stone of him in a fireman’s lift. When that turned into a heap on the floor Bob Slayer pulled them both up and rode his new Giant friend around the room to much cheers and happiness. Seeing Bob Slayer is like watching the Sex Pistols only without the guitars. Drinking with him afterwards is a full on after party that confirms there is no off switch for his wonderful madness.” The Student
Quotes for Comedy @ Dirty Dicks / Doggetts:
“A proper comedy night hosted by an improper comic…” The Metro
“Unique atmosphere where there is a sense of permission for anything, excellent.” Dan Antopolski
“Mayhem and nonsense in a city basement” Time Out
“When credit gets crunchy Bob Slayer gets punchy” Financial Times
“The show ended with contortionist Chris Cross leading a Conga of audience members to the gents toilet where we queued up to get our fingers zapped by a broken light socket, Bob Slayer had to go too far and put his cock in it…” Bizarre Magazine
“I did not pay my entrance fee to be insulted by a bargain basement Johnny Vegas” A Punter
Awards:
The Soan & Fleming Award for the Best Ever Cancelled Gig…
“A one man powerhouse of heavy entertainment” Martin Soan – Pull The Other One
“The Wild Man of Comedy, like Keith Moon” The Malcolm Hardee Award
In 1968 some Brummy kids were bored of listening to the Beatles, or whatever their parents listened to, and so they dressed in Black on a Saturday, went down to their local church hall and played Blues based Rock their own way: slower, harder and louder than ever before. They bit the head off a bat and called this Heavy Metal. They were pronounced to be the devil and were not allowed to play in church halls any more…
In the 70′s a new wave of British kids were bored of listening to Black Sabbath, they wanted to differentiate themselves against what those old people from Birmingham were playing and they said no, slower is not scary, you must ditch the blues and play it fast. So they took that music and played it harder and louder and faster. This was the scariest music could get. Wasn’t it? Read more »
Last year I was asked by John Fleming if he could use Electric Eel Shock tracks in the film he was producing: Killer Bitch. In the end a total of 7 EES tracks are on the soundtrack. Liam, the director and writer also decided to include EES in the film itself. We set up a small gig in North London which was filmed and then the next day I drove Aki and Kazuto down to Chatham to film a few scenes in an old Napoleonic Fort. When we got down there Liam decided that he really liked the EES tour van, complete with flashing light, and soon both the Van and I as driver were also drafted into the film….
For the next few hours they pointed cameras at us while we dragging ex world champion boxer Robin Reid out of the back of the van and into the bowels of the Fort where EES, as Ninja assassins, were due to dispatch him… Of course we had been cast as the bad guys and Robin over powered us and then murdered us one by one… He was a very nice murderer and more than one take had to be re-shot as he apologised before Liam had called cut. Read more »
