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I’ve been watching and listening to a brilliant Maccann player and video artist on youtube who goes by the name of JONATHAN BADNESS. He presents a dark, surreal world, mostly in black and white, starring himself, his daughter Poppy and her stuffed animals. He’s a clown with a gentle sadness reminiscent of Charlie Chaplin and a childish absurdist wit that reminds me of Lewis Carroll. His great atmospheric playing is not distracted by any spoken words, but there is lots of text and dialogue to read. All 30 of his videos are here on his channel:



https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvRTuJRkhauWTmnXD2uDi-g/videos



If you like his brilliant work as much as I do, please comment on youtube. I think he needs encouragement... not very many views. Here are a few of my favorites.



CHIQUILIN DE BACHIN - JONATHAN BADNESS.



3 - BEARS OF BADNESS - MINIONS OF JONATHAN BADNESS



16 - Gyrating towards Badness - JONATHAN BADNESS


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Hi Jody - I'd already discovered this unique guy on the net. I'm surprised too that he is not better known . His combined use of clowning, concertina-playing, text and crude, but effective, animation is almost an original art form in itself. I am sure if he entered one of his " shorts" into a film festival somewhere he would get much wider recognition

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Cuckoo, my ears are burning (in a good way). Im Jonathan badness and would like thanks you for all your kind words and encouragment. It really means alot. I just uploaded an album to soundcloud. theres 18 solo concertina pieces (mostly from my films) all free to download. hope you like them and thanks again. xxx

https://soundcloud.com/jonathan-badness/sets/jonathanbadness-huntergatherer

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cheers jody, Im not sure how it works but i think i could send out a pm to all my youtube subscribers before each vid goes online. the last three vids have all been longer ones around 9 mins each. 'hearts of badness', the art of badness' and 'dying for badness'. not sure if the longer formats really working though

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I just spent a delightful 1/2 hour exploring your deranged world. Thanks for inviting me into your mind. I like the longer format but I wish you would play more concertina and less... whatever those electronic repetitive sounds were. Don't take it to heart. Do your thing and never say never.

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:) The electronic stuff is a bit of a mystry to me too! Blame it on me buying a samsung tablet and having long train journeys to work. Dont worry im sure ill get it out my system sooner or later ;) Im doing an electro pop album at the moment (definately a midlife crisis) and hopefully next month when its finished Ill get back to my maccann

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I did the same thing when I bought my MacBook in 2010, Jonathan - the first thing I recorded in GarageBand was an album of jingly-jangly indie guitar pop. Of course that should have got it out of my system but I'm sure I'll end up doing something similar again...

 

Your Maccann stuff is great though - you have such a clearly-defined style. I look forward to hearing more.

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cheers stuart i love your playing too. I hoping to get another concertina album together over the next few months (tango). Heres a link to the latest video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnij3hPfv1g the concertina tunes are 'deep purple' and ' si tu savais' the video is about drunkeness.

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