The crazy launch to BBC2 starring The Alberts alongside Ivor Cutler, commissioned in the wake of their rule-changing love comedy theatre show, An Evening of British Rubbish.’ It’s Rubbish, but by Jingo – it’s British Rubbish! Park Drive: MartiansĪliens invade in pursuit of Park Drive cigarettes – ‘we like them!’ Outside Inġ973. The Albert and Bruce Lacey, all dressed in their stiff Edwardian refinery, dance and play strange unusual instruments in this manic, animated short music film. Monitor: The Preservation ManĪ rarely seen profile of Lacey, a ‘collector of the past’, produced for the celebrated arts magazine and photographed with Russell’s typically, beautifully astute eye. 20min.ĭarkly satirical demonstration film for the Mobile Absurd Non-entity, aka MAN, an energised, pressurised, moisturised moron. Lonnie Donnegan’s smash-hit skiffle tune gets the images it never knew it deserved.
The Battle of New OrleansĪ three-minute nugget of subversive joy made for ITV pop show Cool For Cats. The music videos, TV shows and underground films here, made with Bob Godfrey, Ivor Cutler and others, unleash him at his most outrageous, funny and weirdly, wildly creative. Dressed in stiff Edwardian fashion and a huge influence on the Bonzos, Bruce Lacey was a magus, showman, robot maker and artist. Bruce Lacey and the Alberts cut a provocative, often bewildering path through the satire and counter-cultural scenes of the 1960s. By Jingo, Its British Rubbish: Bruce Lacey and Friends.
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