Very young: Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Caroli.
Also: Woodstock and Snoopy from the Peanuts cartoons and the Pink Panther. I reckon that’s where my love of Jazz music came from.
Early on: Nola Rae, Avner the Eccentric, Bob Berky, Phillipe Genty, Theatre De Complicite, The Right Size, Le Quatuor…
Outdoors: from Convent Garden. Pepe Mime, Arlo Barlow, Chris and Alex on tall unicycles, The Florists, Butterflyman…
Later years: Heap and Wall, Spymonkey, Slava Polunin, Jacques Tati, Max Wall, Lano and Woodley, Palfi, The Marx Brothers, The Strangelings (Bramble FM), The Pitts, Alex and Barti, Peter Sellers, Lee Evans, Freddie Starr, Mooky, WC Fields, Joel Salom, George Carl…
The Hoons Rap
Well it’s an H double O an N and an S
We’re the Hoons and we’re the best,
We know how to rhyme and we know how to rock
And we get cold feet because we don’t wear socks
Well the person who I’m going to introduce to you
Is Scoty Crane and he’s 6 foot 2
I’m Scoty C and my message is clear
I don’t have to scratch I just squeak my ears (makes his ear squeak)
Well I’m Fraser H and I like 5 Star
They’re a good group and they might go far.
We are here to entertain you
We’ve been rehearsing all week through
So sit back, relax, enjoy the show
Press that button (while revealing belly buttons)
And here we go.