Paul McDermott Articles/Reviews

[Sam]

I'm not up on young people's vocab so the manky thing sort of alludes me but come on 12 months of boys close dancing with boys - now some of these youngsters may not have enjoyed this section of the day. Whilst others .... I reckon the parents should have said fuck off and paid for a couple of private dance lessons, maybe with some older knowledgeable woman. I'm kidding ok? I ain't no homophobe, but any school who enforces dancing as part of the curriculum should be killed. McDermott continues to cross over to middle age - the title of the article belongs in one of those sensationalist british newspaper he loves. As an interest and purely rhetorical - how come in the last couple of interviews does he mention this incident and mention previous GF, smacks more of regret to me.

[lily]

Originally Posted by Sam

come on 12 months of boys close dancing with boys - now some of these youngsters may not have enjoyed this section of the day. Whilst others ....

You should hear his story of the "field trip" to a gay bar at the age of 16 with several schoolfriends and their geography teacher. :lookarou:

[Munchkin]

Originally Posted by Sam

As an interest and purely rhetorical - how come in the last couple of interviews does he mention this incident and mention previous GF, smacks more of regret to me.

I know you said rhetorical but I'm going to answer anyway. Probably cause they keep asking about it, cause they can stick a sensational headline on it and maybe sell more copies. And in response to Jess, it was supposed to be an interview promoting Strictly Dancing.

[Spoofy]

Originally Posted by unfrufru

see you've jsut fucked up, cause most people wouldn't know what we're talking about cause they weren't here then let alone that it wasn't you.

but I am fucked up

[unfrufru]

really crappy picture, not sure if its worth scanning in anyway. he looks old and fugly.

a couple of things- May it not have been MOSH that he was referring to? DAASFIC was way more fucked up than MOSH could ever be

Seeing as it sounds very similar to another story a couple of weeks ago. Do you think Women's Day actually interviewed him? It just sounds like they just grabbed quotes from various other interviews and slapped them together. It is their way (I'm surprised that they didn't mention his "dramatic" weight loss and showed some chunky photos and mention his love child (not that he has one).)

It seems more like a Access thing to put in, rather than a Paul thing, you know. Why is he suddenly so keen to talk about such a private thing? And i don't think he has ever openly gone out of his way to point out that his fans are wackjobs. More a pull towards his new demographic- The elderly "Oh that poor boy, he has such a lovely singing voice . . . kids today blah blah blah"

and lily, just out of curiosity- What gay bar excursion?????????????????

[Mythor]

Originally Posted by unfrufru

a couple of things- May it not have been MOSH that he was referring to? DAASFIC was way more fucked up than MOSH could ever be

There's that past tense again!

More a pull towards his new demographic- The elderly "Oh that poor boy, he has such a lovely singing voice . . . kids today blah blah blah"

Hadn't considered that. That's a very good point.
The "rejigged" interview idea sounds right too... Seeing as it's a trashy women's mag it wouldn't surprise me if the whole thing is completely bogus.

[unfrufru]

its just tabloid trash by the looks of it. only mentions stalkers in the 1st paragraph to suck u in, then crap on about SD for a while. and there was no real need to mention the whole catholic boy upbringing unless it was to attract nanna's

[unfrufru]

next time someone sees paul, ask him if he knew about the article. if yes, bitchslap him, if no, go "no, what article?"

[Munchkin]

Originally Posted by unfrufru

next time someone sees paul, ask him if he knew about the article. if yes, bitchslap him, if no, go "no, what article?"

Can we just bitchslap him anyway?

[unfrufru]

yeah and go OI we're paying for your whiskas in retirement pal! respect my authoritay

[Spoofy]

Originally Posted by unfrufru

Seeing as it sounds very similar to another story a couple of weeks ago. Do you think Women's Day actually interviewed him? It just sounds like they just grabbed quotes from various other interviews and slapped them together.

And as I said to your earlier, its almost word for word an article that was published 4 years ago when it happened.

[Alisso]

Sunday Life Magazine, The Sun-Herald, 14th August 2005

Life Goes On
Rewind 1988
Paul McDermott - Interview Katrina O'Brien

Busking and performing live took guts, plus the ability to dodge the odd ashtray, says the former Doug Anthony Allstars entertainer and Strictly Dancing host.

I love this photograph. It was taking the second time we went to the Edinburgh festival, when I was about 26, and we spent a few days here in Paris, doing a bit of busking.
We picked up the Adelaide Fringe award with the Doug Anthony Allstars in 1986 and thought we'd take on the world next, so we went over to the Edinburgh Fringe a year later. Richard [Fidler, at bottom] booked the Pleasance theatre for the final week but we arrived a couple of weeks early and didn't have anything organised. We thought if we needed money, we'd bring out the guitar case.
We were just so gung-ho and brazen. When you're busking, you have to grab people and shake the apathy out of them to give you money. We went to where the buskers went and put out a sign saying: "Can you put us up?" We got three invitations and I vaguely knew of a Scottish fella so I gave him a call and he put us up.
The first two weeks we didn't have a venue but a group from France dropped out at the 12 o'clock spot in the Pleasance cabaret room so we went there and basically performed to the lighting crew. But by the end of that week, we had sold-out shows.
We went over there with no expectations so, consequently, everything was a bonus and it seemed to work out exceedingly well. At that stage in Australia, we hadn't done any TV - the stations were all a bit scared even though we were from Canberra and quite well-behaved. But the first year we were in Edinburgh, we got on Friday Night Live, hosted by Ben Elton, in front of 10 million plus people. I don't think I realised how special it was until after we left.
We became a fixture at the festival bar, which made theatre into a blood sport. It was primarily a Scots crowd and it had two levels and a Kafkaesque feel - you could see waves of heads above you. They were just packed in. If they didn't like you, they would tear you apart. You onl had a few seconds to prove yourself and, thankfully, they liked us. But one night, there was a group of Irish people sitting up on the second level. They were being horrible to the other acts and started talking through ours so I jumped up on the balcony, hung off the rail and grabbed a beer and threw it in someone's face.
People started throwng things and someone picked up a glass ashtray and flung it at Tim's [Ferguson, middle] head and missed by a couple of inches. After that, I thought maybe we should stop.
I still see Timmy and Rich but we haven't talked about the Allstars for a long time. People tended to cast us in various lights - fascists, idealistic, destructive. Those titles were lovely but I never felt we were any of those things. We were just expressing what we wanted to express. To go from art school to traipsing across Europe with a guitar case and a couple of mates - they were great times.

Fast Forward
After hosting Good News Week, I didn't do anything in the public eye for two or three years. I started [satirical pop group] GUD with Cameron Bruce and Mick Moriarty three-and-a-half years ago and in many ways it's like moving back to the Allstars. There is a wonderful camaraderie on stage when it works well. The Scree, the short film I wrote and directed during those two years off, got picked up for a couple of festivals and this year it won the Flickerfest International Short Film Festival in Sydney. We're doing a tour of Australia with GUD so there's more travel coming up and there's also Strictly Dancing. It's such a fun show but I've got to stay off dance floors now because people expect too much from me.

[Vaguely Imaginary]

That's an awesome little article - but it pisses me off no end that Australia rarely seems to appreciate it's talent until someone overseas has snatched them...

[SammySatine]

I like the article too.

It's a great photo.

It also goes to show they haven't changed much.

Go DAAS!

Amities,

SS

[susanjacobs]

Paul has 2 TV appearances coming up. One is in the The Great Debate, which airs this Sunday on Ten at 9pm. The other is the host of Project Greenlight, which is on Movie Extra on 14 Sept. at 8:30pm. More information in the articles below:

From 21 July 2006:
Paul McDermott signs on for Project Greenlight's $1million filmmaking contest

From 3 August 2006:
Still Dancing in the streets

I want to see Project Greenlight, but I don't have Pay TV. I wonder how I am going to see it. Anyone want to help me see this, please pm me. Thanks!