July
9th - 11th First International Comedy Film Festival, Albufeira, Portugal, where they’ll be showing Terry’s non-Python movies. - I can’t find any information on this at the moment, so more details as we get them!
Terry has completed Adam, The Serpent and Eve for the UK Film Council, but has decided not to direct as he’s concentrating on setting up Evil Machines as an animated musical! Squee. (Sorry, I’m a girl, I like animation and musicals…)
A bit more information of the Listowel Writer’s Week talk is that it will be on The Barbarians.
March
15th - The first French publication of The Saga Of Erik The Viking in Paris.
25th - A talk on The Wind in the Willows at the British Library.
26th - A talk about Richard II at Nottingham University. I can’t find a link for informtion on this one but at the Chaucer one I went to in 2005 it was open to the public and £1 entry on the night.
27th - Introducing The Director’s Son’s Cut of Erik The Viking at the Bradford Film Festival.
28th - Introducing The Life of Brian which will be shown for the first time in Aberyswyth. (!)
May
6th - Kalamazoo, Michigan where Terry is speaking on a panel about the dating of John Gower’s Confessio amantis
30th - Speaking at the Listowel Writers Week in Ireland.
Yes, I’m the gift that keeps giving…
Terry has written a new collection of stories called Animal Tales which Steve Bell will illustrate, if a publisher can be found. The literary world suffers the credit crunch too apparently.
The Tyrant and The Squire - the third in the Squire series - is also awaiting a publisher.
The UK Film Council have put up the development money for an animated feature that Terry is writing called Adam The Serpent & Eve.
A snippet of Evil Machines found on You Tube
In January 2008, Terry was in Portugal at the Sao Luiz Theatre directing the opera he co-wrote called Evil Machines. Featuring a dozen Portugese opera singers, the run was a huge success but still awaiting being picked up outside of Portugal. Bookers! Have you no sense? However, Terry is currently working with Richard Raynis (a producer of The Simpsons) to make an animated feature film of Evil Machines.
Evil Machines
As it has been a good while since I updated the old website, I guess you should be filled in on what’s happened in the world of Terry Jones since that little annoyance of bowel cancer a while back.
Terry wrote an article for a periodical called Fourteenth Centruy England (Ed. by Nigel Saul) called “Was Richard II a Tyrant?”, along with various talks particularly at Kalamazoo in May, which I’m assured is the Glastonbury Festival of Medieval Conferences. In that it’s the main man, the big daddy, not muddy and stinking of wee.
Or at least, good afternoon and welcome..
This is the new re-jigged semi-official Terry Jones website. You may notice it looks suspiciously like a blog. That’s because it is. This is so much easier for me to update on the go, meaning you get your TJ news as it happens and when you need it - not after I’ve fired up Dreamweaver and spent about three days faffing around with HTML, because, let’s face it, I’m not the most techno-savvy person around.
I’m going to be playing around with this site for the next few weeks, setting up how I want it to look, getting the colours right etc, general housekeeping stuff, so please bear with me as it all comes together. I realise it looks slightly like a Mint Aero at the moment. If any HTML geniuses (genii?) want to knock me up a classy template, then feel free!
All the old site content can still be accessed for photos/previous reports etc, but for reasons I can’t be bothered to go into, I don’t have access to the actual behind the scenes workings for the old domain name so my hands are pretty much tied with regards to anything as in depth as redirecting IP addresses and that.
Anyway, I think that’s pretty much it at the moment. You can email me at holly@terryjonesonline.co.uk if needs be, and I’ll try and get back to you. You can also email me there if you have any hints at all about how to survive in the world of HTTP and IPSTAG. Scared.
