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May 10, 2024 · Directors Patrick Higson and Murray Grigor, alongside cameraman David Peat, documented this historic trip in a film, shot on grimy 16mm, fittingly titled Billy Connolly: Big Banana Feet. Shot in the fly-on-the-wall style of Direct Cinema documentary pioneers D.A. Pennebaker and Richard Leacock, it intimately captures Connolly on stage and off ...
May 16, 2024 · To digress slightly, I only discovered days ago that his old folk-rock band The Humblebums once shared a string of dates on tour with Sandy Denny’s band Fotheringay and Nick Drake. In Big Banana Feet, Billy is young, hairy, loud, gallus and very funny too. His fans are in for a real treat.
- Jamie Havlin
May 12, 2024 · The Humblebums were a Scottish folk rock band, based in Glasgow. Its members included Billy Connolly, who later became a renowned stand-up comedian and actor; guitarist Tam Harvey; and singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty. The band was active from 1965 to 1971
May 21, 2024 · The comic caught on the cusp of his fame as he tours Ireland in 1975. by Veronica Lee Tuesday, 21 May 2024. Documentary cameras followed the Big Yin on his first live dates in Ireland. The most striking thing about the 1976 documentary (restored and re-released by the BFI) is just how polite Billy Connolly comes across as.
May 28, 2024 · 26th June 2024. 7:00 pm. Main Screen. Tickets. The End We Start From (2024) Billy Connolly: Big Banana Feet (1976) The long-lost film of Billy Connolly's 1975 tour of Ireland is newly restored and re-discovered in this fly-on-the-wall documentary.
May 7, 2024 · Rarely seen in its entirety since the late 1970s, Murray Grigor’s newly restored Billy Connolly tour film Big Banana Feet is one of those incredible lightning-in-a-bottle cultural artefacts that ...
May 22, 2024 · In 2022, he received the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement. Initially a welder in the Glasgow shipyards, Connolly pursued a career as a folk singer before transitioning to comedy in the early 1970s. He was a member of the folk rock band The Humblebums before embarking on a successful solo career.
