When Harvey met Bob - RTE1 now

amdublin · 13-10-2010 10:35pm #1

Accurate representation but by god the acting is pretty "shoite"

JonathanAnon · 13-10-2010 10:38pm

Hi amdub, Thought the Paul McCartney was hilarious... Cant wait to see how they do Bowie and Mercury..

That's Brendan Gleeson's son Domhnaill playing Bob.. Says he only spent two weeks learning the accent.. he's not too bad..

amdublin · 13-10-2010 10:42pm

Hi Jonathan

I've just switched it on!

Yes I am still laughing at Paul Mc - he couldn't decide if he from Liverpoo-wel or Oirish. Or something else that I am not sure.

I was wondering who was playing Bob!

Not mad on the Paula character thus far...

Great docu-drama tho - I have it sky plussed so will prob watch it again at the weekend.

amdublin · 13-10-2010 10:44pm

Why does Paula have insipid blonde hair instead of the bleach blonde??? I am sure that even back then she had the mad hair.....?

JonathanAnon · 13-10-2010 10:45pm

amdublin wrote: »

I was wondering who was playing Bob!

The Blonde is NOT Paula Yates... She has only been shown twice in the whole thing and has not had one word in the script .... Certainly not giving her ANY credit for it, not even as a supporting partner to Geldof...

The skinny blonde is "Marsha", possibly a fictitious "aide" to help the dialogue..

amdublin · 13-10-2010 10:50pm

JonathanAnon wrote: »

The Blonde is NOT Paula Yates... She has only been shown twice in the whole thing and has not had one word in the script .... Certainly not giving her ANY credit for it, not even as a supporting partner to Geldof...

The skinny blonde is "Marsha", possibly a fictitious "aide" to help the dialogue..

Ah jaysis!!!!!!

But she played a HUGE part in it????? They both watched the BBC docu about the famine in Ethiopia. He woke up the next morning having thought about doing a song/single. She had left for work already and before going to work she had pinned a note to the fridge saying that everyone who came in to their house had to donate £5 to Africa. What I am trying to say is that it affected her as much as him and she wanted to do something about it but he just thought on a bigger scale.....

I think!

Tomohawk · 13-10-2010 10:51pm

Has Midge Ure being airbrushed out of it? Geldolf's accent aint bad. Can't wait to see Bongo.

Eire-Dearg · 13-10-2010 10:53pm

Who's the blonde assistant?

amdublin · 13-10-2010 10:53pm

Tomohawk wrote: »

Has Midge Ure being airbrushed out of it? Geldolf's accent aint bad. Can't wait to see Bongo.

Yeah although was Midge more involved with Band Aid than Live Aid?

JonathanAnon · 13-10-2010 10:55pm

amdublin wrote: »

She had left for work already and before going to work she had pinned a note to the fridge saying that everyone who came in to their house had to donate £5 to Africa.

aaahhhhh.. that bit was covered .. He asked "aide" to give 5 euros when she collected him from the house and mentioned it was Paula's idea... But shur what would a woman have been capable of in 1985, did they even have the vote..

Has Midge Ure being airbrushed out of it? Geldolf's accent aint bad.

Yeah, he's been completely written out of it, even more so than Paula.. He helped organise a lot of the bands from what I read..

JonathanAnon · 13-10-2010 10:56pm

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

Who's the blonde assistant?

Supposedly Marsha, Bob Geldof's aide, like I said above I reckon that it was just a character written in to help with the dialogue..

amdublin · 13-10-2010 10:57pm

Apparently Midge co-organised it with Bob and Harvey :eek:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midge_Ure

That's desperate!

JonathanAnon · 13-10-2010 11:00pm

When Harvey met Bob - RTE1 nowWhen Harvey Met Bob (and Midge Ure went on a holiday apparently) - RTE1 now

FYP

oh hang on that was him with the sunglasses.. I hope they dont redo the electric violin solo from Vienna, jaysus that was rough..

amdublin · 13-10-2010 11:02pm

They should just slot in some real footage here

amdublin · 13-10-2010 11:03pm

Okay so Midge is on holidays or else he's there with sunglasses on.

Where is Paula now???!!!!! Why aren't they showing her up in the royal box with Charles, Diana and Fifi Trixibelle?

JonathanAnon · 13-10-2010 11:04pm

amdublin wrote: »

Where is Paula now???!!!!! Why aren't they showing her up in the royal box with Charles, Diana and Fifi Trixibelle?

Well I remember INXS playing on the Australian leg :rolleyes:

amacachi · 13-10-2010 11:06pm

Get up Rocky Bob ya bum!

amdublin · 13-10-2010 11:07pm

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Well I remember INXS playing on the Australian leg :rolleyes:

Ha ha ha ha!

Oh jaysis Billy C is a bit fat! Was he fat back then???

Tomohawk · 13-10-2010 11:07pm

The state of Billy Connolly or is it Roger Whitaker?:D

amdublin · 13-10-2010 11:08pm

This is the bit where Bono forgot about the Ethiopians and thought it was all The Bono Show.

amdublin · 13-10-2010 11:10pm

Poor aul Macca, things don't go well for him here

JonathanAnon · 13-10-2010 11:11pm

amdublin wrote: »

Oh jaysis Billy C is a bit fat! Was he fat back then???

Lol he looked like Salman Rushdie.. and with similar paranoid eyes..

I've just updated Midge Ure's wiki page, here are the changes for your approval...

James "Midge" Ure, OBE (born 10 October 1953) is a Scottish guitarist, singer, keyboard player, and songwriter. Ure co-wrote and produced the charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and co-organised Band Aid, Live Aid and Live 8 with Bob Geldof. He twice received an Ivor Novello Award with Geldof for co-writing "Do They Know It's Christmas?" Ure acts as trustee for the charity, and serves as ambassador for Save The Children had fuk all to do with Live-Aid, bar standing at the side of the stage wearing a pair of (albeit cool) sunglasses

amdublin · 13-10-2010 11:12pm

JonathanAnon wrote: »

I've just updated Midge Ure's wiki page, here are the changes for your approval...

100% accurate

*looks for Approved stamp*

Ah there it is.

APPROVED

Eire-Dearg · 13-10-2010 11:12pm

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Supposedly Marsha, Bob Geldof's aide, like I said above I reckon that it was just a character written in to help with the dialogue..

No I meant the actress!

amacachi · 13-10-2010 11:13pm

...and poverty and starvation disappeared never to bother people again.

JonathanAnon · 13-10-2010 11:14pm

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

No I meant the actress!

Google her earlier thinking I knew her from something else, but I didnt..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonia_Campbell-Hughes

amdublin · 13-10-2010 11:15pm

Okay night all! Prob see you for the LLS on Friday!

Tomohawk · 13-10-2010 11:17pm

That wasn't the worst, must dig out the Boxset DVD of the actual gig.

Flukey · 13-10-2010 11:19pm

Interesting, but I thought he overdid the sulky, moaning Bob. Nice, but a bit overcooked.

JerryHandbag · 13-10-2010 11:23pm

Love all the modern cars in the background even though its supposed to be 1985!:p I know they cant help it, small budget

Beverley Macca · 13-10-2010 11:36pm

Enjoyed the show. I was involved in their lives back in the 90's. Paula was sound but uncontrollable, she loved her girls but got terrible press. Hadn't a good opinion of Bob when I hit London but changed that opinion when I got to know him.

I learned the old story about the papers- Never believe what you read. Used to read about them in the papers, and it was rubbish. Made up.

irishh_bob · 14-10-2010 11:33am

was harvey goldsmith , alan sugars twin

Shane10 · 14-10-2010 11:51am

it wasnt bad have to say, enjoyed it. pity they had to substiute the old wembley for croke park!!!:D not sure about the paul mccartney guy, looked slightly random???? i wonder did geldof have any input into this or just think it was a load of shoittteeeeeee....??????

fryup · 14-10-2010 5:32pm

I taught it was crap, but not surprised having watched the trailers.

It looked like it was done on a budget i.e. rushed & hurried.

The film was hardly 10 mins old when already Band Aid was covered and they're already planning Live Aid, I mean steady on.

The acting was dreadful, the script was dreadful, replacing Dublin for 80s London didn't fool me.

I also taught it was shameful that Paula Yates & Midge Ure were over looked as they played a major part in it, and BTW what was Paula doing with a tash at the beginning when they were watching TV.

And i would have taught they would have featured the iconic moment when Geldof himself sang at Live Aid, singing i don't like mondays.

You got no sense of the whole atmosphere and occasion of the time it was just completely flat:cool:

and as for the ending, with a very false wembley backdrop like something out of a school play:rolleyes: good god!

philstar · 14-10-2010 5:48pm

JerryHandbag wrote: »

Love all the modern cars in the background even though its supposed to be 1985!:p I know they cant help it, small budget

and did you see Harvey Goldsmith with a plasma TV:rolleyes:

i mean ffs could they not get there hands on an old style TV for that scene:cool:

> did you see the guy playing Billy Connolly:pac: didn't know Billy was so small back then

jos28 · 14-10-2010 6:58pm

philstar wrote: »

> did you see the guy playing Billy Connolly:pac:

I think he was an Irish 'comedian'. I cannot think of his name, he is BRUTAL. He was on the LLS once. JonathonAnon might remember him because we slagged the bejaysis out of him at the time. Its REALLY bugging me that I can't think of his name. I've checked IMDB but the full cast is not listed.
I thought the drama was fairly shoight, Gleeson's performance was impressive if a bit OTT. The rest of it was quite amateurish with some seriously bad casting.

jos28 · 14-10-2010 7:11pm

Just remembered who he is
http://www.daveyounglive.com/
It was him playing Billy Connolly alright, its mentioned on his twitter page

JonathanAnon · 14-10-2010 9:03pm

jos28 wrote: »

Just remembered who he is http://www.daveyounglive.com/ It was him playing Billy Connolly alright, its mentioned on his twitter page

It was him alright jos, good spot. Some pictures of the shooting at http://www.facebook.com/young1productions?v=wall&viewas=0 his facebook page..

And this is the appearance on the Saturday Night Show, that I thought was awful because he made absolute FOOLS of the poor audience members.. Really over the top and unfunny..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ0rii2eqMQ

George White · 05-10-2014 7:34am

Tomohawk wrote: »

The state of Billy Connolly or is it Roger Whitaker?:D

Indeed, Dave Young, oh gor blimey, it looked as if wig and beard would fall off him any minute...

Watching this now. Yes, pity there's no Ure, but Gleeson is spot-on as Geldof, Makes me chuckle seeing the anachronisms and Dublin as London..
And Brian May seen only from the back...

When Harvey met Bob - RTE1 now

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