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Buy Love Here
Thursday, May 27th, 2010Buy Love Here
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
‘Buy Love Here’ is a pop up exchange shop, where for one day money will have no currency.
The shop is the brain child of British comic Russell Brand and will take place on Thursday 27th May 2010 at the Beverley Centre, Los Angeles.
The idea is to raise debate about the scale of consumer culture and to promote the re-use of products in a surplus society. A social experiment, it aims to examine shopping habits whilst providing an opportunity for Russell to speak directly with the public and gauge opinion.
The day will be filmed as part of an ongoing documentary Russell is currently filming about the pursuit of happiness.
Many of us are guilty of buying things we don’t necessarily need or updating products before the previous model is truly defunct. With this in mind the shop offers customers an opportunity to put those unwanted items to good use by offering them in exchange for something they actually need.
The shop will initially be stocked by donations from Russell, his friends (some celebrity) and companies prepared to contribute end of the line/ out of season items. We are also welcoming donations from the public.
On the day Russell will act as vendor greeting customers and managing exchanges. Ideally we’d like the day to serve a genuine purpose and therefore hope that customers will bring items of some value, not in terms of their financial worth but with regard to their function. However, don’t let this put you off bring your unwanted items and get prepared to swap.
You can offer donations by emailing info@buylovehere.com – we will arrange drop off and collection.
Infant Sorrow and friends
Thursday, May 13th, 2010Infant Sorrow and friends perform songs from Get Him to The Greek live – one night only
Featuring Special Appearances by: Infant Sorrow, Russell Brand, Jonah Hill, Carl Barat from The Libertines, and Special Guests
Infant Sorrow and Friends is a live one-night-only concert by performers from the upcoming comedy GET HIM TO THE GREEK at The Roxy on Monday, May 24. The evening features songs from the film and forthcoming album as performed by Infant Sorrow, Russell Brand, Carl Barat of the hugely popular U.K. band The Libertines, with special appearances by Jonah Hill and other surprise guests. The events begin at 8:00 PM, and the first 100 people to arrive at The Roxy will receive a limited edition Infant Sorrow T-shirt.
The album INFANT SORROW – GET HIM TO THE GREEK is available June 1 through Universal Republic.
MONDAY, MAY 24, THE ROXY 8:00 PM
9009 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA 90069
ON SALE FRIDAY, MAY 14 AT 10 AM
TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE AT WWW.LIVENATION.COM OR BY PHONE AT (877) 598-6671.
All dates, acts & prices subject to change.
Australia
Monday, May 10th, 2010Look out for details of Russell’s upcoming Australian gigs and links to ticket pre-sale – check back here or follow Russell on Twitter and Facebook
Update: new live date
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010Russell has confirmed another night of new material at the famous Acme Comedy Theatre in Hollywood on Monday 10th May, 9pm.
Book your tickets here
Acme Comedy Theatre, 135 N. La Brea Ave, Hollywood, CA 90036
Russell Brand New Material
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010Exclusive chance to see a work in progress live stand-up gig from the star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall
9pm Tuesday May 4th
ACME Comedy Theatre, Hollywood,
135 N La Brea Ave, Los Angeles
90036
Buy tickets here
The unstoppable rise of Russell Brand
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010When Russell Brand was 16, he inscribed a school-leaving card to his first girlfriend. “You might be as famous as me one day,” he wrote. “If so, see you at the top.” There was no “might”, not from the very beginning, about how famous Russell Brand expected to be.
But the rest of us might have been forgiven for thinking the game was up for Brand after the 2008 incident when, egged on by Jonathan Ross, he prank-called the elderly actor Andrew Sachs to boast he had slept with his granddaughter. The incident cost him his show on Radio 2 and turned much of the UK media against him. Yet, a year-and-a-half on from “Sachsgate”, while Ross’s star is falling, Brand has become a transatlantically famous name.
Having been eagerly photographed waltzing up the red carpet into Vanity Fair’s post-Oscars party with pop star fiancee Katy Perry, Brand now has six feature films either in development or post-production. A sequel to his bestselling autobiography, My Bookie Wook, is under contract with a new publisher, and Oliver Stone – who has said that Brand reminds him of Jim Morrison – is reported to be executive-producing a documentary about him. Less than two years after many were predicting the end of his career, this spindleshanked loon in women’s trousers looks set to take over the world. How, it’s fair to wonder, did this come about?
Read the full article HERE.
Live gigs in Boston and Seattle
Friday, March 26th, 2010
Russell will be doing live stand up shows in Boston and Seattle in April.
Boston Wilbur Theatre, Saturday 17th April 9.45pm
Seattle Moore Theatre, Friday 23rd April 8.00pm
Tickets onsale now through Live Nation here
Here it is
Friday, February 12th, 2010Think some of you might be keen to see this trailer for Get Him To The Greek (lovely to see Karl Theobald there)
Greek news
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Nicholas Stoller has just tweeted that Get Him To The Greek is being released on 4th June.
There’s more info about the film here