Rumpel here wishing things well!
Crikey! Sorry for sounding persistent
in trying to source for video footage!
I must sound half barking mad or something,
perhaps as mad as a march hare or a little
old lady going round in circles like a broken record!
What the heck!
It’s just a funny observation, when i come
to think…that it took me til April this year
to come up with just 12 minutes of video footage
from my entire performing career as far marathon shows go.
Crikes! If i added up all the hours of all the marathon stints
i’ve done over the years…on my web-site:
www.rumpel.com.au
e-mail: pixiejester@yahoo.com
it’s just crazy to think that it took me
til April this year just to get 12 minutes of footage
from it all!
There are quite a few stints i haven’t yet included on the
site, like the 11 & a half hr show over the New Year,
a 5 hr show, three 3 hr shows & a 4 hr show
& the 25 hr stint in Slovenia.
It’s great that i just recently received some video
of my show in Slovenia. I’m happy about that!
I’m still keen to get the last hour of
the show & have a feeling that someone
or a few people must have it.
Also i have the same feeling about my 24 hour show
at the EJC in the Netherlands in 2001.
The last hour of that show, i’d most appreciate to get aswell.
Would certainly help make the footage for a future ‘Rumpel’ doco dvd i have i mind.
Also would be great to show my friends, as i can’t show them the show from my memory.
Good for promo stuff & other stuff aswell.
I’ve had quite an extraordinary history as far as video footage goes.
I’ll certainly tell the tales in full, if i ever get around to doing that 48 hr show
i promised i’ll do someday.
Maybe i might never do a marathon show again,
but then again i may do an action replay of all the ones
i’ve done in the past.
I’m trying to be a bit on the ball with getting footage
from my recent show in Slovenia, as it’s better earlier than later!
Seriously, if you ever happen to hear of anyone who has
video footage of any of my marathon shows from these EJC
conventions…
Italy/Torino (6hrs), Holland/Rotterdam (Schiedam) 24 hrs,
Germany/Karlesruhe (8 hrs), Bremen (7 & a half hrs) & Slovenia/Ptuj (25 hrs)
please let them know i’m keen to get a hold of it.
I will send some ‘Rumpel’ books in return for it (i have 3 different books…full of my illustrations & funny writing), or if you’d prefer that i send money…i’ll do that!
It would really make the ‘Rumpel’ dvd i have in mind, more interesting to have work from over the years on it…as they’ve all been one off shows.
Some guy in Australia said many years ago that he had 3 hrs of footage which he recorded from my 16 hr show in Byron Bay in 96, but he never ever found it.
I have his e-mail still & know who he is, but i think he’s lost it…even though he won’t admit it. He said he’ll try & go through all his tapes oneday (more like at the end of the century)!
Also some girl from France said she has quite a few extracts of my 24 hr stint & said she’d send them a couple of years ago, but still she never e-mails when i ask for them.
Quite strange really…as she e-mailed me saying she had some footage & when i asked for it, she never replied back…even though i keep reminding her. Completely weird! Twilight Zoney infact!
Also another girl from Hawaii…said she had 30 mins of the end of my 24 hr show in Holland & other stuff throughout the show, but i never got the footage as she said the videos must have got lost in the post!
Also a girl from Italy sent me some footage of my show at the Bremen EJC. Took along to get…& when i did finally get it…i was happy…only to be soon disappointed as i accidently taped over it, while thinking i was dubbing it down to my friend’s mini dvd camera…preparing it for a showreel. She sent another tape…which she had to get from a friend, but when i got it…they forgot to include the sound.
Also a few people have accidently taped over footage & then told me later.
I have umpteen video stories like this…
that it’s too ridiculous to tell them all!
Unfortunately i won’t be able to do another EJC until perhaps 2008,
as i’m currently working with Cirque Du Soleil for a new show which
starts in May next year in Las Vegas.
Next time i do the EJC, i’ll definately bring my own video camera (whenever i buy one) with me & pay someone to film it, as it takes too much time & energy trying to do everything back-to-front!
The next one might just be 48 hours by crikey?
I’ll be looking forward to it by crikey!
Here is a postal address you can send video/dvd/vcd or mini-dv tapes to:
Also please e-mail me any photo attachments you may have of my EJC shows
over the years & any photo links i may be on…
would be much appreciated!
E-mail: pixiejester@yahoo.com
Jolly Goodfellow (Rumpel)
8333, 2nd Avenue
Montreal, Quebec
H1Z4N9 Canada
All the best with everything!
Best regards Rumpel!