Bill Bailey: Dandelion Mind
Show type: Tour
Featuring Bill’s trademark musical interludes, observations and stories of the road, Dandelion Mind will be based loosely on the theme of doubt (or will it?), as we follow Bill from his real-life saga of being trapped by the ash cloud, to his barely contained rants about celebrity, TV, creationism and Michael Winner
He demonstrates new instruments, both ancient and modern, he sings an internet love song, a lament about punk heroes, Iranian hip-hop, and plays a mean folk-bouzouki.
Thomas the Doubter gets a new look, and Darwin’s curious obsessions and the myth of intelligent design are all worked over in Bailey’s own surreal style.
He revisits the music of his youth, with a brand-new French Disco re-working of Gary Numan’s hit, Cars, played in his own inimitable way, and maybe some Wurzels-based remixes of classic German techno. Just your normal kind of Bill Bailey gig, then.
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Annie Freeman - 09/01/2011
Bill Bailey has become tired and sour- nearly every comment was slagging off somebody else and he milked weak jokes (Is it a lute?) far beyond what was funny. He isn't a political commentator and shouldn't try to be- the stuff about the coalition was unoriginal, as were his remarks about the Pope. These are easy and predictable targets and Bill Bailey's strength was always to be unpredictable. As for the wearisome sequence about Doubting Thomas, this was embarrassingly weak, with a young audience sniggering nervously like schoolchildren. It was unfortunate that he invoked the idea of rationality in his introduction to this section, because there was nothing rational about making fun of people in paintings who look a bit warty or like a hobbit.One has to be about five years old to find that funny. I also found myself, oddly, feeling sorry for Wayne Rooney. Bill Bailey really isn't in any position to be insulting about slightly odd-looking people who earn a lot of money, and Wayne Rooney is still, presumably, an efficient footballer, whereas Bill Bailey has gone off seriously as a comedian. This show was nowhere near the standard of his "Part Troll" show, which was brilliant.
Mike - 21/09/2010
Saw him at his last tour of Oz, and he was obviously bored of hotel rooms as he kept coming back onto the stage at the end. I think he ended up doing four encores, at about 30 minutes total. Absolutely awesome night, he did do some old material but there was a lot of new good stuff too! Well worth it!