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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

Kickstarting ‘Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story’

Documentary film maker Steve Sullivan: Whatever happens with the Kickstarter campaign, however much we raise, if we can reach at least the minimum target then there will ultimately be a feature length documentary about Chris Sievey and Frank Sidebottom. Whatever budget the film is ultimately made for I believe Chris and Frank’s fans, as well as his family and friends, will be happy with the documentary and it will be a fitting tribute to Chris himself. Kick in a quid, you get a picture, and it’ll be far funnier and true to life than ‘Frank‘.