Camouflage first appeared on Sievey's 1982 'Denigration Now' VHS and cassette. After retiring the character of Frank Sidebottom, Sievey became prop designer and set dresser on the fourth season of stop-motion animated series, Bob the Builder. The papier-mch headed Frank hit the heights of fame during the 'Madchester' music period. Biography Stirling was born in Manchester in 1980 as Stirling John Sievey. As I prepare to go to it, I remember something Chris once said to me. We soundchecked. "Frank Sidebottom was possibly the strangest pop star in history. [58][59], From 1 March to 30 April 2019, Manchester Central Library held an exhibition Bobbins: Frank Sidebottom and Chris Sievey, which featured never-before-seen items from Sieveys archives, from puppets to home videos to personal artefacts. Our driver, Chris Evans, left us to try and make it in radio. Among his bandmates were Martin Jackson, later of Magazine, and the future Cult guitarist Billy Duffy. Original Title: Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story. It's a glorious achievement which celebrates Sievey's life with elan, and not just the bits he spent wearing a papier-mache head. He had a nice, ordinary face. The appeal closed on Monday 28 June with a final balance of 21,631.55 from 1,632 donations. A journey back in time 200 years? As the title suggests, Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story is no straightforward bio-doc. He died on June 21, 2010 in Wythenshawe, Manchester, England. The Biz also introduced the character that Sievey would become famous for, initially devised as a one-off promotional gimmick. We began to sound like an excellent 1980s wedding band. Zonophone released his third EP 'Frank's Sidebottom's Firm Favorites' in August of 1985. Sievey fell into an alcoholic spiral, losing his wife and family and piling up tax debt, and he gave up on Frank, too. My next-door neighbour Mani had a band. Suddenly everyone around us was becoming famous. [2] What if we fictionalised the whole thing? 73,[19] eventually being grandfathered into its spin off, 7T3. Asher describes she and Stirling as having the responsibilities that Dad didnt have; steady jobs andmortgages that he didnt have to worry about, but I think were still easy-going and fun. She runsher own child-care business where she works with Paula, and Stirling and his wife are child-carers. This family friendly nature lead to Frank getting his own comic strip in the children's weekly comic Oink!, which launched 1986. [25], This same year Frank was included on the charity album Sgt. He inspired the 2014 film Frank, which starred Oscar-nominee Michael Fassbender, a bronze statue of the character has been erected in Chriss home town of Timperley in Greater Manchester and there is even a painting of him in the National Portrait Gallery in London. I'd watch him furtively as the lights made his cartoon face glow yellow and then black and then yellow again. [34][35], He appeared in the Series 3 Christmas special of BBC Scotland's VideoGaiden, performing "Christmas is Really Fantastic", and later appeared on the Series 3 Awards show, and the final web-exclusive episode ("Closedown"). On the Led Zeppelin bootleg "Bonzo's Last Stand", the back of the album has text which states, "Produced by Frank Sidebottom." Her brother, Patrick Aherne, 56, said: Chris was a larger than life character even without the papier-mch head. Product details Package Dimensions : 7.48 x 5.35 x 0.55 inches; 2.12 Ounces Subtitles: : English Studio : Spirit Entertainment ASIN : B07PJ6TGQJ It was not love at first sight. Young Sievey, born in 1955, grew up in the Greater Manchester area of England, loved the Beatles (nothing surprising there), was . [60][61], It was announced in April 2019 that GCHQ had cracked the hidden codes and messages that Sievey had left around the borders of his Frank Sidebottom books and recordings.[62]. Frank was perhaps most popular in the North West of England, where his success was caught up in that of the Madchester scene, and for a time was a regular on regional ITV station Granada, even featuring as a reporter on its regional news programme, Granada Reports. For other inquiries, Contact Us. Singer Chris Sievey went on to a career in comedy as Frank Sidebottom. Chris Sievey, who played Frank Sidebottom, is to feature in a biopic in 2014. "From the Desert Wolves.". [7] Sievey subsequently recorded several demos, which he sent to record companies, receiving many rejection letters which he later compiled into a book. He just started doing loads of drugs, cocaine, drink. Nothing makes a young man feel more alive and on an adventure than speeding down a motorway at 2am next to a man wearing a big fake head. His popularity peaked in the early 1990s, with the TV series Frank Sidebottom's Fantastic Shed Show and guest slots on the children's Saturday morning ITV show No 73. Based on the life of Chris Sievey, who donned a similar disguise to become his alter ego, Frank Sidebottom . Middles likens Chris to transgender people, trapped in the wrong body. Also a chronicle of the demise of the record store. Military historian to sell home-made Second World War plane after his wife told him to get rid of it. Fame beckoned instead for former member Billy Duffy, who became lead guitarist in The Cult, and Lisa Stansfield, who had performed backing vocals on one of Chriss songs. During this time, Sievey began working on a solo album entitled Life in 74 Minutes, which he later abandoned. The mood was pumped. Chris Sievey was a musician, songwriter, artist, comedian, filmmaker, performance artist and wayward genius who created an alter ego that he grew to resent. He'd previously self released two EPs as Frank in 1985, titled 'Frank's Summer Special' as well as an early version of 'Firm Favorites'. "I play keyboards," I said. Chris Sievey as Frank Sidebottom in 1992. There can't have been more than 15 people in the audience. Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story. In 1982, he released the mini-album Denigration Now, his first work outside of the Freshies since 1976's All Sleeps Secrets. A pauper's funeral? 5 out of 5 stars (151) His second Zonophone EP, 'Oh Blimey, It's Christmas' charted slightly higher than the first, at number 87, before dropping off again. It wasnt. Sidebottom's Radio Timperley show, recorded in his shed, became a cult fixture on Manchester's Piccadilly Radio, helping launch the career of Caroline Aherne's Mrs Merton. Richard was not the only proper musician Chris brought in. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. My story was published in the Guardian. His first musical album, entitled '5:9:88', was released on vinyl by In Tape a year later. Frank Sidebottom creator Chris Sievey was "a genius". SYNOPSIS: The story of musician and entertainer. But I was crazy about him and wanted to have babies with him straight away., Paula and Chrisloved being parents, but she had to be the grown-up in the relationship. . Chris also cheated on his wife with groupies who would ask to have sex with him while he wore Franks head and left his children without money during week-long benders. But as a talented artist, he got work on kids programme Bob The Builder at the start of the millennium. The Frank Sidebottom character first appeared on an untitled 1984 EP by Chris Sievey & the Freshies, in a spoken-word track wherein Frank talks to Chris. I think heleft a very clear message that its not about the money; moneys not important and you dont need itto make you happy. We hired a people-carrier instead of a Transit van and set off to our first venue. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. Christopher Mark Sievey ( 25 de agosto de 1955 - 21 de junho 2010) foi um msico e comediante ingls conhecido por estar a frente da banda The Freshies entre o final de 1970 e incio de 1980 e por seu persona cmica, Frank Sidebottom, a partir de 1984. Frank, usually dressed in a 1950s-style sharp suit, was portrayed as an aspiring pop star from the small village of Timperley, near Altrincham. In 2006, Frank reappeared in Greater Manchester on local television channel Channel M. His new show, Frank Sidebottom's Proper Telly Show in B/W, featured celebrity guests and animation. Some thought he might be the alter ego of a celebrity, possibly Midge Ure, the lead singer of Ultravox, who was known to be a big Frank Sidebottom fan. Throughout 2007, Frank made several television appearances, before releasing his final project, Magical Timperley Tour, a short film featuring Frank touring 100 of his friends around the characters' home town of Timperley. He had previously been a writer for the satirical comic Oink!, a milder 80s rival to Viz. [2] Unable to get a deal, he set up his own Razz label in 1974. Now documentary Being Frank talks to those who knew Chris best to shed light on his troubled life. 9.[28]. Frank Sidebottom was a peculiar stage character defined by his enormous papier-mache mask, immortalized in countless UK TV appearances and a fictionalized biopic produced after the 2010 death of cr he asked. The single is unique in that its B-Side is audio code which, when input into a ZX-81 computer, will play a music video and game titled Flying Plane. In the van I'd listen to Chris's stories, trying to understand him. At home there was a loving family atmosphere with Paula and their three children Stirling, now 40, Asher, 39, and Harry, who died in a crash in 2017 at the age of 24 until Chris really went off the rails. He resurrected Frank in 2006, with a five-yearplan which was supposed to culminate with Chris publically removing Franks head and revealinghimself as the power behind Sidebottom. Sieveys loving family is a great legacy, but does Paula think he left anything else behind? I opened the bedroom door. [38] His last personal appearance was at the Salutation pub, Higher Chatham Street, Manchester on 11 June 2010 when he launched his World Cup single, "Three Shirts on the Line". It was consequently baffling for me to become aware of a growing sense of discontent in the van. "The moment the head is placed the change occurs. The longest-serving line-up, however, comprised Barry Spencer (guitar), Rick Sarko (bass, ex-Ed Banger & The Nosebleeds) and Mike Doherty (drums, ex-Smirks) and lasted from 1980 until 1982. By the end of the tour we were playing to almost-empty houses. He added that his name was Mike, and Frank Sidebottom's real name was Chris. [10] In the documentary Being Frank, Martin Sievey (Chris's brother) states this was made using plaster of Paris.[11]. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. Sometimes, on the way back from some gig, I'd become aware that we were taking a detour to some house somewhere with some women we somehow met along the way. [citation needed] Frank appeared briefly as a Manchester United fan in an advert for the FIFA 10 video game in 2009. I clicked on the link and it said "Frank Sidebottom dead". As the careers of his former bandmates and co-stars grew, his began to decline. The show's promoter, Harvey Goldsmith, was glaring at him from the wings. Sometimes the show also included lectures. Chris had written his first LP by this stage, "The Johnny Radar Story", which, for various legal and contractual complications, was never released on vinyl. Chris Sievey passed away in 2010 and left behind not just memories of some brilliant, silly, smart, daft, wonderful performances as Frank, but an attic full of notebooks, records, tapes, art and home movies. "I'm Mike Doherty. "Can you play C, F and G?" He came back to the phone. But it wasnt until he made himself a huge papier mache head for a fancy dress party that Sieveyscareer really took off. Photograph: Linda Nylind, Frank Sidebottom: the true story of the man behind the mask, Frank Sidebottom creator Chris Sievey dies aged 54, Frank Sidebottom's gone. Manchester punk group The Freshies, 7th January 1979. I think he was a bit gutted that he didnt get the credit forcreating that character someone else had played Mrs Merton before on one of the shows, saysStirling. Frank's Oh Blimey Big Band, which included the DJ Mark Radcliffe, the journalist Jon Ronson and a then-unknown Chris Evans, toured the halls of Britain, playing ramshackle covers of Bohemian Rhapsody and the Benefit of Mr Kite, to an increasingly fervent fan base. Talking to his ex-wife Paula and children Stirling, 40, and Asher, 39 (their younger brother Harry - also a talented musician, like his father - was killed in a road accident in 2017 aged 24),. Like when Frank was asked to support the boy band Bros at Wembley. . He was a paean to ordinariness. Obsessed with The Beatles, aged 15 he hitched to the headquarters of the bands Apple record label, where he held a sit-in protest in a bid to see his heroes. . The band's guitarist Patrick Gallagher told Middles: "It wasn't Caroline's fault. Frank Sidebottom made Sievey a star, but did that weighty head stifle the talents of the real Chrisunderneath? Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story tells the twisted tale of a split personality, exploring the extraordinary secret life of a songwriter, artist, comedian and wayward genius. In the 1990s after Mrs Merton became famous, Chris was after some kind of payout, but it never happened. It was his chance to break through to the mainstream. It was very much like having a fourth child, and he wasprobably the naughtiest child out of all of them.. 2018, Documentary/Music, 1h 40m. What the hell was Frank Sidebottom, anyway? Tomatometer 26 Reviews. Three years following the end of 7T3, Frank became a regular cast member on the fourth, and final, season of the children's TV series Motormouth. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud. CustardGB From shop CustardGB. As I walked in he started playing a tight soul-funk riff with seeming nonchalance, but I understood it to be an act of aggression. [22][23], Jon Ronson first played with Frank's Oh Blimey Band in 1987, when their original keyboardist (Mark Radcliffe) was unable to make it to a gig at The Cricketers pub at Kennington Oval, London SE11. One of them produced a ball, the audience split into teams and, ignoring us, played a game. However, the TV was repossessed, and the family ended up cooking burgers over aBunsen burner after the electricity was turned off when the bill wasnt paid. [6] In 1971, he hitch-hiked to London with his brother, staging a sit-in at the Apple Records HQ, demanding to see one of The Beatles. Chris Sievey, better known as his paper-mache, later fiberglass headed character Frank Sidebottom (born as Christopher Mark Sievey in Ashton-on-Mersey, Cheshire, England, UK, August 25th, 1955) was an English musician and comedian known for fronting the band The Freshies in the late 1970s and early 1980s and for his comic persona Frank Sidebottom The roadie for Franks Oh Blimey BigBand was a young man called Chris Evans, who Paula remembers inviting them to a barbecue in agraveyard next to his house, where the catering was one big steak and some tomatoes between theentire party. I had similar concerns. It could be a fable instead of a biopic a tribute to people like Frank who were just too fantastically strange to make it in the mainstream. I didnt have any choice we were being threatened with eviction, andthe gas and electricity were about to be cut off. Chris Sievey Paula Sievey, nee Dean Stirling John Sievey (born 1980) is the second child of Chris Sievey, creator of Frank Sidebottom, and his wife, Paula. 100 0 _ a Chris Sievey c English musician and comedian (1955-2010) 100 1 _ a Sievey, Chris 100 1 _ a Sievey, Chris And in the space of that first song our classic Born in Timperley (to the tune of Springsteen's Born in the USA) the audience veered from fevered anticipation into hoping we were playing a weird joke on them into realising with regret that we were not. The film was written by Jon Ronson and Peter Straughan, and was based on Ronson's experiences playing in Sievey's Oh Blimey Big Band. "Will you put Chris on?". Despite the minimal chart success from these EPs, Frank had developed a cult following that allowed him to attract audiences upwards of 500 in Northern England and London. His greatest creation, the mysterious Frank Sidebottom, became a star - a manic, insane . "Frank," I said. Action, Documentary, Music. Another of the men came bounding over to me. They released 2 further cassettes, "Manchester Plays the Freshies" and "London Plays the Freshies", these were both essentially radio interviews with local and national DJs and concert recordings from each city. I said. It was late one night, and we were in the van, reminiscing about a show we'd played a few weeks earlier at JB's nightclub in Dudley. I can barely believe it, Frank: watch Michael Fassbender in the world exclusive trailer for the comedy inspired by Frank Sidebottom - video, SXSW 2014 review: Frank into the head of a pop comedy maverick, Panic on the streets of Timperley! Frank Sidebottom comic faces pauper's funeralThe comic genius behind Mancunian legend Frank Sidebottom is facing a pauper's funeral after dying virtually penniless. When I got to the bar it was empty except for a few men fiddling with equipment. It is understood entertainer Chris Sievey collapsed at his home in Hale, Greater Manchester, in the early hours. Chris Sievey was a musician, songwriter, artist, comedian, filmmaker, performance artist and wayward genius who created an alter ego that he grew to resent. Frank took one look at his watch: "Ten seconds.". He was really proud of all the rejection letters he had from all the record companies hed sent his demo to.. Within an hour 554 people had donated 6,950.03. [31] The popularity of these appearances lead to him getting his own show on the network, Frank Sidebottom's Fantastic Shed Show, which lasted one season in 1992. (1992), No 73 (1982) and TX (1985). Jon Ronson, who worked with Sievey, published Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie in 2014, a memoir of his time in the Frank Sidebottom Oh Blimey Big Band. And then I walked out into the spotlight. This new lineup was a source of tension between the members, with Richard Jones and Jon Ronson taking a near instant disliking for each other. Although supposedly 35 years old (the age always attributed to Frank irrespective of the passage of time), he still lived at home with his mother, to whom he made frequent references. I wondered why Chris had decided to kill off Frank. He choreographed it so I would begin the show. but, apparently, they were up to everything.. Chris Sievey girlfriend, wife 1955 - 2010 Chris Sievey British Comedian 0 0 edit Age 54 at death Zodiac Virgo Chris Sievey dating history Relationships We have no records of past relationships for Chris Sievey. Christopher Mark Sievey (25 August 1955 - 21 June 2010) was an English musician and comedian known for fronting the band The Freshies in the late 1970s and early 1980s and for his comic persona Frank Sidebottom from 1984 onwards. Her Off "Neighbours"), Split 7-inch FlexiDisc with the Hitchcocks, This page was last edited on 18 February 2023, at 11:00. [8] A string of singles and several cassettes were released between 1978 and 1983. Later, he presented Frank Sidebottom's Proper Telly Show in B/W for the Manchester-based television station Channel M. Throughout his career, Sidebottom made appearances on radio stations such as Manchester's Piccadilly Radio and on BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 5, alongside Mark and Lard. Now divorced from Paula, he was an animator on the children's claymation series Pingu. Paula met Chris when they were both working in a factory. In this spirit he had asked his brother-in-law's friend Caroline Aherne to voice the part of Frank's neighbour, Mrs Merton. Instantly recognisable, his keyboard ditties and larger-than-life personality were a hit on the . But I began to notice in the listings magazines that he was doing solo shows just him and a keyboard. At first the character was a mascot for The Freshies but, soon, he became more popular than the group. Paula revealed: He made me a pair of papier-mch boobs and head for a party. Harrison Sievey's loved ones now say they will try and 'piece their lives. Side One Camouflage (4:24) Off Key Siren (2:45) Warning To Women (3:56) I Am The Walrus (3:53) Side Two Amoco Cadiz (2:03) Hey (2:15) Return To Thunder City (2:02) On A Bender (3:43) Under Water (3:57) Frank starred in his own exhibition of drawings, animation and cardboard at London's Chelsea Space Gallery next to Tate Britain between 4 July and 4 August 2007. We were just friends. He sent me photographs of its journey from the foundry in the Czech Republic to its final resting place outside Johnson's the dry cleaners in Timperley. He was wondering if I'd write something about my time in the band to help him with the comeback. But after the man behind the mask died penniless eight years ago, Chris Sieveys strange alter-ego has become more famous than ever something the tragic star predicted would happen. 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