I am profoundly grateful to Jon Stewart for introducing me to Jon Ronson. He’s funny and smart and honest. I’ve inhaled just about every book of his.

Jon Ronson is a fantastic storyteller. Just extraordinary

I'm the bloke who uploaded the TX footage (shame no-one ever gets around, including Being Frank, to the magical point where Unwinese is synthesised into Sidebottom-isms)... and funnily enough I also once spent an hour in the company of one Edward Barton! He came in to Moonraker Studios in Stockport (whilst my band were taking a dinner break) to copy over a DAT tape... we stayed and listened to the whole thing and by the end we were laughing so hard. 'Everybody thinks we're weird because we have a beard' became a band fave from then on. The even weirder thing was that at that moment he was in the charts with 'It's Gonna Be a Fine Day'. Lovely people.

Frank is by far one of my favourite films ever made

Brilliant story and brilliant film.

The revelation about being marginal really resonates, I had never thought of it in those terms, especially artistically, but actually that sense of clarity it offers is very helpful. Thanks to Make for hosting and publishing this talk.

Frank will still make people laugh even though he's gone You know he will He really will

I regularly watch liveleak videos, and nothings brought me to my knees like this. An amazing story!!

this story- what a nice way to start a Sunday afternoon

Fuck, that image of Frank after chemotherapy is one of the most haunting images I've ever seen and I never want to see it again.

@zaphodbeeblebrox9109

Жыл бұрын

I personally think its amazing. He was still doing what he loved and had a sense of humour to the end. It is tragic though aswell, so a bit of a metaphor.

I have just waiting for the Being Frank me book to be delivered. Look forward to it 😊

So sweet x

After seeing the Chris Sievey documentary . It makes the Ronson fictional film FRANK a lot clearer

R.I.P. Frank Sidebottom. Oh Yes.

Jon’s Ronson’s style is very much like Hunter S Thomas style. but very polite. A true Gonzo-Welshman.

@JavierBonillaC

9 ай бұрын

Who is Gonzo Welshman?

I liked the film Frank but feel a real Frank documentary needs to be made .. being an original Frank SIDEBOTTOM fan and all that 😍😗

@RileyELFuk

6 жыл бұрын

www.beingfrankmovie.com/

@jackcarterful

6 жыл бұрын

Me too mate.

@misschristie8416

5 жыл бұрын

Thankfully there has been now! Go see it it is brilliant!

@steveritt

5 жыл бұрын

On release in UK NOW!

@p0tatob0ys

3 жыл бұрын

@@misschristie8416 You know it is, it really is.

The artistic choice to go with an avant-garde audio guy, not constrained by the mainstream need to get rid of feedback was a bold one. The marginalization of video guys brave enough to not bring up the presenter's first slide is something I will never understand.

In the photo of Frank and Jon, Jon looks like Tim Roth.

we need more frank sidebottoms.

This is really fckn sad

czech republic :D yay

Typical audience of unresponsive university types who don't know what Jon's talking about, living in the margins? All or nothing adventures on the M6? I bet they wouldn't even know what a hitch hiker was. Some kind of tech start up? .

Wow so this is the guy who took off his mask

@bluebird28tl

5 жыл бұрын

Not quite. This guy played keys for him and went on to co-write the film 'Frank'.

Interesting anecdotes and all, but I do feel that Jon Ronson is kind of exploiting and profiting off Frank's/Chris' death.

@mossga

3 жыл бұрын

Ronson is absolutely minted. His books are outstanding. He loved Chris, this is his tribute.

Frank Sidebottom: spectacularly unfunny - I always thought you had to be northern to really understand his childish comedy act.

@telsutton

4 жыл бұрын

Two thumbs down.

@CA-ee1et

4 жыл бұрын

Oh dear; being from the south you were waiting instead for the umpteenth repeat of 80s Only Fools episodes, full of Del Boy making 'hilarious' jokes about "nooftahs" and "pooftahs" and "plonkers"

@revol148

4 жыл бұрын

@@CA-ee1et I think you've confused the south with London which as we all know is a separate entity altogether.I wasn't aware Only fools and horses was "hilarious" either - a mystery for both of us.

@WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS

3 жыл бұрын

@@revol148 I'm from the south and always found Frank hilarious, tbh mate it might just be better off admitting that you're a sour faced git looking to spoil others fun (I mean why else would you be here rubbishing something that people loved and enjoyed?). No bugger asked for you opinion that's for certain.

@revol148

3 жыл бұрын

@@WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS "No bugger asked for your opinion that's for certain" - I think you may have completely missed the whole point of social media or else you may be one of those people only happy when in the company of people who agree with you !