The song's music video features Neil dressed in a psychedelic suit and dancing in a room full of colourful lights. Cast of Charlie & The Chocolate Factory". whatsonstage.com. Whats on Stage. 11 January 2013. Archived from the original on 18 January 2013 . Retrieved 11 January 2013. In 2018, he voiced the character of Henry Davenant Hythe in the Big Finish Productions original production, Jeremiah Bourne in Time, which he also wrote. Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of the legendary “Neil’s Heavy Concept Album” by NEIL, alias Nigel Planer.

Stanley, Bob (13 September 2013). "The Golden Road: San Francisco and Psychedelia". Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop. Faber & Faber. p.231. ISBN 978-0-571-28198-5. In 2020 he took on the role of Grandpa in the arena tour of David Walliams' Grandpa's Great Escape. Film [ edit ] Chartverfolgung / Traffic / Single". Music Line (in German). Germany: Media Control Charts. Archived from the original on 23 October 2013 . Retrieved 26 October 2011. The Amoeba Song (From ' A Very Cellular Song')" ( Incredible String Band cover, from The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter [2]) Lionheart From La from Los AngelesBorn and raised in the UK I loved this song. It typified the era of 60’s and although Steve Winwood hated it, for me it was brilliant. I’m sorry Francine drifted into the wilderness, but it was Francine that made this record a hit for me. Great times! Great memories!Planer guest-starred in " The Pale Horse", [6] a 2010 episode of Agatha Christie's Marple. In 2011's The Hunt for Tony Blair, he played Peter Mandelson. Ged from Australia"The monologue in the middle of the song was by Francine Heimann. Little is known about her." The album was heavily promoted [ citation needed] by MTV, which had embraced The Young Ones and served as the sole outlet [ citation needed] for the original LP in the US. A television commercial for the album had Neil in character talking about his "really beautiful" album, displaying a hole in his shoe, and hitting his head on the table he was sitting under. His first break in the theatre was understudying David Essex as Che Guevara in the original West End run of Evita. In the 1990's, he also narrated an audiobook version of " Roger & The Rottentrolls", by Tim Firth and Gordon Firth, before the television series premiered.

Edinburgh Napier University News: Young Ones star among honorary graduates". Archived from the original on 29 September 2011 . Retrieved 15 June 2011. He also featured in Doctor Who: Live touring the UK, as Vorgenson The Inter-Galactic Showman, before appearing in Pantomime as Captain Hook at the Lyceum Theatre in Sheffield. Hole in My Shoe” was originally written and recorded by the British band Traffic in 1967. Neil's version was released in 1984 and became a hit. Niles from Belpre, OhI saw Dave Mason perform with the late Warren Zevon. best concert I've been to . I'm 62 and I've seen a few Neil's Heavy Concept Album is a 1984 recording of songs and spoken comedy routines by British actor Nigel Planer, in character as the long-suffering hippie Neil from the BBC comedy series The Young Ones. Production, arrangements and keyboards are by Canterbury scene keyboardist Dave Stewart, who also plays guitar, bass and drums. Other players on the album include ex-members of bands Gong, Spooky Tooth and Level 42.As the character "Neil" from British sit-com "The Young Ones", Nigel Planer gain… Read Full Bio ↴ As the character "Neil" from British sit-com "The Young Ones", Nigel Planer gained a number two hit single in 1984 in the form of "Hole in My Shoe", (originally a hit for sixties band Traffic). A cover of Tomorrow's "My White Bicycle" was a less successful follow up, only reaching number seventeen in the charts. After that, an album was produced, entitled "Neil's Heavy Concept Album." Nigel also took Neil's stage act on the road in that year as Neil in the "Bad Karma in The UK" tour. This culminated in a month long run at St. Mary's Hall at the Edinburgh Fringe. The Young Ones also appeared on Cliff Richard's 1986 charity rerecording of 'Living Doll', which spent three weeks at number one in the UK. The album followed the success of the Neil single " Hole in My Shoe" — a cover version of Traffic's 1967 hit – which reached number 2 in the United Kingdom. Neil, the long suffering Hippy character from the hit TV series “The Young Ones” enjoyed a huge hit with a comic cover version of Traffic’s ‘Hole in My Shoe’ and with this “heavy” album. “Neil’s Heavy Concept Album” was a splendid parody that saw him cover songs such as ‘My White Bicycle’, ‘The Gnome’ and ‘Golf Girl’ and featured contributions from such respected musicians as Dave Stewart (from Progressive band Egg, who also produced the album), Barbara Gaskin, Gavin Harrison, Pip Pyle, Jakko Jakszyk and Jimmy Hastings. Comedians Stephen Fry, Roland Rivron and Dawn French also made appearances.