The Fantastic Shed Show heads for the silver screen

Jon Ronson talks about his life with Frank Sidebottom in The Guardian.

He reminded me of George Bernard Shaw’s unreasonable man: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” Chris was the unreasonable man, except the world never did adapt to him and he never made any progress.

Like when Frank was asked to support the boy band Bros at Wembley. There were 50,000 people in the crowd. This was a huge stage for Frank – his biggest ever, by about 49,500 people. It was his chance to break through to the mainstream. But instead he chose to perform a series of terrible Bros cover versions for five minutes and was bottled off. The show’s promoter, Harvey Goldsmith, was glaring at him from the wings.

Frank sauntered over to him and said, “I’m thinking of putting on a gig at the Timperley Labour Club. Do you have any tips?”

Please on the life of LIttle Frank don;t let the Hollywood film ‘Frank’ get everything wrong….