Ladma Steals the Accolades

You probably won’t be interested, but with every Ladma film made there is a sort of ‘unofficial’ soundtrack, which is as much responsible for the final product as we are. Favourite tracks in the past have been The Fat Boys ‘All You Can Eat’ and ‘We’re In Jail’ (that’s not the title but it is the chorus), Scatman John’s body of work (in particular ‘Scatman’ and ‘Scatman’s World’), and of course the Picard Song (if you haven’t heard it, go to YouTube and search for it now – fuck reading this).

I feel we must give credit where it is due, and so thank you, John Williams, for the complete Jurassic Park score from films 1-3. Okay, so you didn’t do the third one (that was some other dickhead) but you did the first two and produced two shit-hot albums that stand alone even without their respective films. You need only listen to stand-out tracks such as (our personal favourite) ‘Dennis Steals The Embryos’ to fully appreciate it’s depth and mastery. So what if the main theme repeats about every minute in each song? Why have burgers when you can have steak?

Since it’s my turn to write in the blog, I get to tell you about the load of stuff we’ve won recently. Well, two things. The prestigious Cotswold Festival’s ‘Best Comedy’ and ‘Runner Up’ in the ‘Emerging Film’ category at Stamford Film Festival, proving once again that we are brilliant at comedy and emerging. We’ve also got two films showing at Portobello Film Festival – but that’s not the good part of that. The good part is that they gave ‘Safe Blokes’ an ‘18’ rating and the message ‘Warning – Extremely Bad Taste’ after the description that we gave them. Unless Pete or Dan wrote that on there without me knowing, I’m pretty sure we didn’t write that. An 18! Not bad for a film that has no swearing, nudity, or other explicit content. Is the subject matter really that bad? We are quite lucky that it is being shown at all, though. At the moment the only award it seems likely to get is ‘Most Rejected Film’.

Most important of all recent events is that Look North! has been finally finished. Yes, we have finally relieved ourselves of its burdens, and now we bestow those very same burdens on to you. Please tell us what you think. We’re pretty sure its brilliant but we’d like a second opinion. It took ages, as well. If you're wondering what's next for Ladma, keep checking the news page. Although I can tell you now its podcast and writing live stuff mostly.

-Chris