TV Burp Art Exhibition Gets Bigger For Summer Showing

Courtesy of Anna FC Smith

Anna FC Smith’s TV Burp exhibition, BURPology: Harry Hill’s TV Burp as Carnival, is back on display later this month, with the largest collection to date.

The exhibition will be on at Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, from 8th to 22nd June, marking the third showing for the unique art, having previously been on at Coningsby Gallery in London and Mesnes Street in Wigan, which was attended by over 500 visitors.

The exhibition features a range of pieces from varying media based on the show and as a configuration of European Carnival (1300-1700). All 17 papier mache sculptures, many unseen by the public, will join the drawings, watercolours, knitted items and more. Alongside Harry, Mr Blobby, Wagbo and Heather are amongst those featured in the exhibition

Entry is free for the exhibition and will be on between 11am and 5pm on Tuesday to Friday and 11am to 3.30pm on Saturday.

For more, visit the Burpology website.

Harry Hill Gromit Location Announced

Harry Hill, his Gromit and Nick Park

The location for Harry Hill’s own Gromit, the bald Gromit, has been announced.

Created for Gromit Unleashed as part of the 70 Gromits that will appear around the UK this summer, it will be at the Bristol Tourist Information Centre. It will be there for 10 weeks from 1st July.

The project is raising funds for Bristol Children’s Hospital Charity and is backed by Destination Bristol and VisitEngland and run with Wild In Art.

Alongside Harry, others getting involved include Nick, Aardman co-founder Peter Lord, The Snowman creator Raymond Briggs, The Gruffalo artist Axel Scheffler and wind-up radio creator Trevor Bayliss.

For more, visit gromitunleashed.org.uk.

Web Burp – Ad of the Week, TV Burp, Art + More

Yellow Stone Studios

With Harry busy on new projects (more on these on Harry Hill Fansite soon!), we’re a bit thin on news, but we’ve still got the latest bits and bobs below:

• Mark Dishman for The Grocer has made Harry’s Danio advert Ad of the Week, commending on Harry’s voiceover being great value.
• Chris Long for BBC News has spoken to Anna FC Smith about BURPology, which is on display in Wigan until 12th May, including what TV Burp writers David Quantick and Dan Maier thought on her work.
• Micky Flanagan has mentioned his love for Harry in an interview with Nottingham Post.
• Danny Dyer, talking to Gerard Gilbert for The Independent, has talked about being featured on TV Burp and his view on this.
• Iris Sharples, one of the prankster pensioners on Off Their Rockers, has talked to Sue Crawford for Express about being one of Audrey’s clients on Coronation Street and then getting asked to appear on TV Burp.
• Simon Cowell has been talking to the London Evening Standard about The X Factor Musical.
• Harry recently read ‘Comet in Moominland’ by Tove Jansson on The 4 O’Clock Show on BBC Radio 4 Extra.
• Harry has been featured in Zoo with some new gags.
• Harry Hill lookalike Craig Wilcock has made an appearance at a charity match, which you can watch below (skip to 2m57s):

And finally, the picture illustrating today’s post is from Steve Stone of Yellow Stone Studio. Exhibited back in 2008, prints are available on society6.com.

Web Burp – Sausages, Photos + Ukuleles!

ukuleles (Photo credit: IAN RANSLEY DESIGN + ILLUSTRATION)

In another rounds of the bits and bobs from the world of Harry Hill, here are the latest snippets.

First up, in Sausage Time news:

• Bruce Dessau for London Evening Standard has given Sausage Time 4 stars, describing it as a dream of a comeback. He has added more over on Beyond The Joke too. London Evening Standard has also recommended the show as 1 of 50 things to do this Spring.
• Danielle Goldstein for Time Out has also given it 5 stars, describing the show as comedy at its best.
• Unfortunately, Alice Audley, reviewing the show for The Upcoming, didn’t enjoy it, commenting on the lack of laugh out loud material and the amount of content. However, Laura Ord for The Public Reviews gave it 4 stars.

Next up, Harry is currently being featured in an exhibition at Wyvern Theatre. Max Tonkin from University of Gloustershire has photographed Harry when at the venue earlier this year and others such as pantomime dame Ian Mowat and Soul Sister leading lady Emi Wokoma. Talking to This Is Wiltshire, Max said of Harry’s session:

Shooting Harry Hill was fun – I only had 10 minutes at the end of the show with him but it was good.

The exhibition is on until 14th April and for more, including a preview of the picture, visit This is Wiltshire.

In other news:

• Music Education UK has put up a photo of Harry from his ukulele class for National Learn To Play Day.
• Tom Courtney has shown off his house to Yvonne Swann for the Daily Mail, discussing Harry and their common passion, ukuleles.
• A spoof version of Celebrity Juice with a lineup of lookalikes, including “Harry Hill” Craig Wilcock, has raised over £1000 for Comic Relief, as reported in Southport Visitor.

And finally, Craig has also been out on the football pitch, as per the tweets below:

Tagged: @harryhillfans @HarryHillLive @HarryHillMusic – twitpic.com/cgidhw—
harryhilllookalike (@harryhill09) April 02, 2013

Tagged: @harryhillfans @HarryHillLive @HarryHillMusic – twitpic.com/cgif2n—
harryhilllookalike (@harryhill09) April 02, 2013

Enjoy!

TV Burp Art Exhibition Returns For New Showing

Courtesy of Anna FC Smith

Anna FC Smith’s TV Burp exhibition, BURPology: Harry Hill’s TV Burp as Carnival, is returning for a new showing.

The exhibition will be opening in Wigan on 20th April and running through to 12th May. The new location for the exhibition is a homecoming for the artist and the end of a year long project, which was funded by the Arts Council. The exhibition was previously shown at Coningsby Gallery in London.

The exhibition features a range of pieces from varying media based on the show and as a configuration of European Carnival (1300-1700). The pieces include drawings and watercolours alongside papier-mache, knitted items and more. Alongside Harry, Mr Blobby, Wagbo and Heather are amongst those featured in the exhibition

An accompanying book for the exhibition will also be available to purchase.

As per the London exhibition, Harry’s Nuts will be sponsoring the exhibition with free nuts and also entry is free.

The full address is:

32 Mesnes Street
Wigan
WN1 1QP

For more, visit the Burpology website.

Picture Special: Another Eggy Delight

Thanks to Harry Hill fan Brendan Casey on Twitter (@scarface_9toes), here is another Harry Hill egg for Easter:

@harryhillfans Here's our homage to Harry in Shark Infested Custard, inspired by your pages! twitpic.com/cfac1i—
Brendan Casey (@scarface_9toes) March 29, 2013

(click through to TwitPic to rotate)

If you are creating a Harry inspired Easter Egg or anything else Harry, TV Burp, Heather or Knitted Character related, such as a Knitted Character Easter bonnet, get in touch with us via email, contact form, Twitter or Facebook.

Web Burp: Odds and Ends

Just a few extra bits that haven’t quite fitted in our recent coverage…

• Ian Hyland for The Mirror has commented that the Coronation Street fire seemed like a “long plea” to bring back TV Burp.
• Tania Wade has talked to This Week London about Harry’s exhibition, which is on until the end of the month.
• Mi Pro has reported that Harry took part in a ukulele lesson for Learn To Play Day at the Metrocentre.
• The Spoof have suggested Prince Harry as the new face for TV Burp!
• If you missed it, you can see some of Harry’s The Beano issue on Comedy.co.uk.
• Liz McClaron took mini Harry on What’s Cooking on Channel 4 during Fairtrade Fortnight:

About to go on set @whatscookingtv with a mini Harry Hill for #FairtradeFortnight Getting ready 4 some lovely food! http://t.co/vD394I3uLj—
Liz McClarnon (@LizMcClarnon) March 07, 2013

• Harry is the new voice of Innocent. You can watch the latest advert below:

Enjoy!

Harry Hill Launches Gromit Unleashed

Harry Hill, his Gromit and Nick Park

Harry Hill has launched Gromit Unleashed with his own version of the plasticine dog.

He has unveiled his own giant Gromit at Aardman in Bristol as part of the project, creating a bald Gromit. It is the first of 70 Gromits, which will pop up across the UK for 10 weeks from 1st July.

Talking about his Gromit, Harry has commented:

Wallace and Gromit have world fame and are iconic British characters – it’s like being given Mickey Mouse, you feel a certain responsibility before you start to splash the paint on. I decided my Gromit should raise awareness of male baldness. I’m not quite bald but I’m balding, so I’ve shaved Gromit back to his pink skin and put a bit of stubble on him. I’ll be sure to make every effort to come back for the trail. Bristol’s a great city and you can’t get a much better cause than raising money for a children’s hospital.

The project is backed by Destination Bristol and VisitEngland and run with Wild In Art. It will raise funds through auctioning for Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Appeal in aid of Bristol Children’s Hospital Charity.

Aardman’s Nick Park has said:

I’ve always loved Harry’s work. When I found out he was an artist I thought who better to approach. He was so generous and immediately said yes. I’m incredibly precious about Gromit so it’s been quite nerve wracking for me waiting to see what designs come back, but I think Harry’s is quite stunning and funny. It’s such an honour and a privilege that my creation is the focus of all this attention. I can’t quite come to terms with it. I think Wallace might be feeling a bit left out!

Alongside Harry, others getting involved include Nick, Aardman co-founder Peter Lord, The Snowman creator Raymond Briggs, The Gruffalo artist Axel Scheffler and wind-up radio creator Trevor Bayliss.

You can watch the launch, courtesy of Heart, below:

A selection of videos and interviews from the launch are available at:

• Heart
• ITV News
• This Is Bristol
• BBC News

For more, visit gromitunleashed.org.uk.

Web Burp – Sausage Time, Visits, Art + More

Harry Hill: Sausage Time

With the tour now a good few weeks in, here in the latest round up of reviews, interviews and a few extra bits for luck!

Firstly, Tanya Raybould for Nottingham Live has reviewed Sausage Time at the Royal Concert Hall, with praise of the show and suggesting that it may be a “cross between insanity and comedy genius.” Sean Hewitt for Nottingham Post also reviewed the show at the venue, commenting that the show was hilarious and hoping his review would explain why! Overall, he commented that “Sausage Time was a real sizzle.”

Over in Southend on Sea, Veronica Lee for The Arts Desk reviewed the show at Cliffs Pavilion  commenting that due to Harry’s charm, he can get away with some content that other comics would struggle with. Overall, Veronica summarised the show simply as “pure joy.” Canterbury City Crier also reviewed the show at Marlow Theatre.

Also on the tour, James Kettle for The Guardian has featured the tour in his line up of the week’s new live comedy and London Evening Standard have also featured the tour for their spotlight on London comedy for March. Andy Hollingworth’s portrait of Harry, as shown on the site previously, has alos been on shown through the last two weeks at Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival, as shown on Comedy.co.uk.

Harry has also been out and about whilst on touring, visit The Beatles Shop, City of Caves and Galleries of Justice to name just three, as shown below:

By popular request here's a photo of Harry Hill in the shop at the weekend. twitpic.com/c2s1vc—
The Beatles Shop (@TheBeatlesShop) February 11, 2013

Thanks to Harry Hill for visiting us today! —
City of Caves (@cityofcaves) February 20, 2013

Thanks to Harry Hill for visiting us today! Hope you enjoyed the Pirate led Tour! —
Galleries of Justice (@GOJ_Museum) February 20, 2013

Moving away from the tour, Time Out have looked at Harry’s art exhibition, currently on in London, alongside that of Vic Reeves. in TV Burp news, Comedy.co.uk has reported that Fool Britannia, ITV’s replacement for TV Burp, has been recommissioned despite a lacklustre performance late last year and the Daily Mail also reported that Simon Cowell  is pitching an idea for TV Burp slot.

Finally, the Daily Mail has reported that Alexandra Burke turned down the lead role in The X Factor Musical.

Enjoy!

Web Burp – Tour, Art + Reviews

Harry Hill’s TV Burp

Here are another few bits and bobs from the world of Harry:

• TV Burp came is as one of the runners up in the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2012, just being pipped by The Graham Norton Show.
• Ahead of the launch this week, Emma McAlpine for Spoonfed picked the tour as an editor’s choice.
• Harry has been nominated for Leicester Mercury’s Legend of Comedy award, with voting here until the end of Leicester Comedy Festival later this month.
• The Mirror’s Martin Newman has written about Harry’s art exhibition, My Hobby, currently showing at Maison Bertaux.
• If you missed Harry’s interview in the Observer, you can view it here. The Observer have also featured the photo from Richard Saker in their January photo review, with Richard talking about Harry getting into character for the inventive photo.
• Michelin Microwave has reviewed Harry’s Nuts Crunchy Peanut Butter and A-N has reviewed the TV Burp art exhibition.
• It appears that Matt Lucas has seen one of the workshops for The X Factor musical, commenting as follows on Twitter:

I've just watched an amazing workshop performance of a new musical written by Harry Hill & Steve Brown about The X Factor. Truly hilarious.—
Matt Lucas (@RealMattLucas) January 25, 2013

Enjoy!