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Having seen Bill Bailey's hilarious outing on Room 101 - particularly his musical humour - this was an instant 'must have' as soon as I spotted it. His 'spoof' performances (Richard Clayderman plays 'Three Blind Mice' etc.) are spot on, and I'm so pleased to know that I'm not the only person in the universe who would get to that particular point in the Grieg Piano Concerto and mentally insert "'ave a banana!!" :D Be aware, though, that some of the excerpts are very, very short (Scooby Doo, for example), and the material does suffer a little for being studio-bound - hence only four stars rather than five. Niggle aside, this is a fun CD, with some really excellent tracks. Many will be familiar from Bill's tour shows ('Medieval Porn'/'Jean Michel Jarre'/'Drum and Bush' etc), but others were new ones to me (not having been fortunate to have encountered the mildly apocalyptic 'Insect Nation' before) and I thoroughly enjoyed them.
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