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Welcome to the Pleasuredome (song)

"Welcome to the Pleasuredome" is the title track to the 1984 debut album by English pop band Frankie Goes to Hollywood. The lyrics of the song were inspired by the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

In March 1985, the album track was abridged and remixed for release as the group's fourth UK single.

While criticised at the time of release and afterward for being a song that glorifies debauchery, the lyrics (and video), just as Coleridge's poem, were about the dangers of mindless indulgence. This song, along with "Relax", made Frankie Goes to Hollywood even more controversial than they already were.

Billboard compared it to "Relax", saying that "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" had "less hook, less controversy, more drama."

Original 1985 single
Despite the group's record label (ZTT) pre-emptively promoting the single as "their fourth number one", an achievement that would have set a new UK record for consecutive number one singles by a debuting artist, "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart, being kept off the top spot by the Phil Collins/Philip Bailey duet "Easy Lover". The single spent a total of eleven weeks on the UK chart.

It was the first release by the group not to reach number one and, despite representing a creditable success in its own right, it symbolically confirmed the end of the chart invincibility that the group had enjoyed during 1984. Frankie Goes to Hollywood would not release another record for seventeen months, and they would fail to emulate their past chart success upon their return.

The spoken-word introductions to both 12-inch mixes are adapted from Walter Kaufmann's 1967 translation of Friedrich Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy. The recitation on the first 12-inch ("Real Altered") is by Gary Taylor, whilst that on the second 12-inch ("Fruitness") and the cassette is by actor Geoffrey Palmer. It is unknown whether Palmer's concluding "Welcome to the Pleasuredrome" was a genuine mistake or a deliberately scripted one.

This is the only single from the group that was not released on a CD single at that time. "Relax", "Two Tribes", "The Power of Love" and "Rage Hard+" all saw a CD-maxi release in Germany at the end of the '80s. "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" was not given such a release. However, the 7-inch vinyl single was released in two different mixes, and it was purely random as to which one you ended up with, as both mixes were in identical sleeve designs and carried the same catalogue number. Not only that, but the subtitle used to identify different mixes was identical on both record labels, with only the matrix number on the run out groove giving the game away. The first 7-inch (matrix 7 A 1 U) carried the normal 7-inch single mix, which was guitar driven. However, the "secret" alternative mix (matrix 7 A 7 U or 7 A 8 U) was quite different, and featured on the apple-shaped picture disc. The subtitle for that disc was 'alternative reel' but on the 7-inch single the subtitle remained unchanged as 'altered real'.

B-sides
All releases featured an edited version of "Get It On", originally recorded for a BBC Radio 1 session in 1983 (a full-length version was included on the cassette release), plus a faded or full length version of "Happy Hi!", a non-album track.

Both "Relax (International)" and "Born to Run" are live recordings (with some minor overdubs), based on an actual live appearance on The Tube's "Europe A-Go-Go" in Newcastle during early January 1985.

Music video
The music video for "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" was directed by Bernard Rose. It features the group stealing a car whilst Holly is flying in a helicopter chasing them, going to a carnival and encountering all manner of deceptively "pleasureable" activities. The audio soundtrack of the video was included as part of the cassette single.

Three edits were made, the regular 4:55 version with the regular 7-inch mix, a 5:45 version matching what was included on the cassette single and a 7:52 version with a longer, different intro.

Promotional releases
In 1984, a few months prior to the album's release, an early instrumental version of the album track was issued as a promotional 12-inch single, entitled "Welcome to the Pleasuredome (Pleasure Fix)", along with a similar early instrumental of "The Only Star in Heaven" (subtitled "Star Fix"). These tracks were subsequently given wider release as part of the B-side to the second 12-inch of "The Power of Love" single.

"Welcome to the Pleasuredome" was also used on several promotional records in the USA during 1985, featuring the following tracks in various combinations:
 * The second UK 7-inch mix of the track ("Alternative Reel"), labelled "Trevor Horn Re-mix Edit".
 * An edited version of the album track created by the Sacramento radio station KZAP, and known as "Welcome to the Pleasuredome (KZAP Edit)" (6:22)
 * A version of the second UK 7-inch mix ("Alternative Reel") with a new introduction added, and known as "Welcome to the Pleasuredome (Urban Mix)" (8:08). This is on the Bang! Japanese album and CD, alongside the digital "Fruitness" single.
 * A slightly edited (spoken introduction removed) version of "Relax (International)" (4:26)

Track listings

 * All discographical information pertains to the original UK single release only.
 * All songs written by Peter Gill/Holly Johnson/Brian Nash/Mark O'Toole, unless otherwise noted.

7-inch: ZTT / ZTAS 7 (UK)
 * 1) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Altered Real) – 4:20
 * 2) "Get It On" (Marc Bolan) – 3:28
 * 3) "Happy Hi!" [fade]  (Gill/Johnson/O'Toole) – 3:47
 * Matrix numbers on A-side: 1U/2U
 * "Get It On" has the third verse edited out, going from the second chorus to the fourth verse.
 * The "Altered Real" mix is also known as "Alternative to Reality".

7-inch: ZTT / ZTAS 7 (UK)
 * 1) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Alternative Reel) [a.k.a. Escape Act Video Mix or A Remade World] – 5:05
 * 2) "Get It On" – 3:28
 * 3) "Happy Hi!" – 4:04
 * Matrix numbers on A-side: 7U/8U
 * Also issued in Ireland and Canada.

7-inch: ZTT / PZTAS 7 (UK)
 * 1) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Alternative Reel) – 5:05
 * 2) "Get It On" – 2:32
 * 3) "Happy Hi!" – 4:04
 * Apple-shaped picture disc single
 * "Get It On" has the third and fourth verses edited out, going from the second verse to the fourth chorus.

7-inch: Island / 7-99653 (US)
 * 1) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Trevor Horn Remix) – 4:20
 * 2) "Relax" (International Live) – 4:26
 * A-side is actually the "Altered Real" mix.

7-inch: Island / 107 199 EP (Germany)
 * 1) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Altered Real) - 4:22
 * 2) "Get It On" – 2:32
 * 3) "Happy Hi!" – 4:04
 * "Get It On" has the third and fourth verses edited out, going from the second verse to the fourth chorus. Also issued in Australia without "Get It On".

12-inch: ZTT / 12 ZTAS 7 (UK)
 * 1) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Real Altered) – 9:42
 * 2) "Get It On" – 3:28
 * 3) "Happy Hi!" – 4:04
 * 4) "Relax" (International) (Gill/Johnson/O'Toole) – 4:51
 * "Get It On" is the same as the UK 7-inch edit.
 * "Relax" (International) was re-released in 2012 on the Sexmix compilation in a very slightly edited (first words of spoken introduction removed) version.
 * "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Real Altered) also known as "Welcome to the Pleasuredome (How to Remake the World)".

12-inch: ZTT / 12 XZTAS 7 (UK)
 * A: 'Fruitness'
 * 1) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Fruitness) – 12:15
 * B: 'Fruitness and light'
 * 1) "Get It On" – 2:32
 * 2) "Happy Hi!" – 4:04
 * 3) "Born to Run" ("live") – 4:49
 * "Fruitness" (usually portrayed without the 1:25 outro) is commonly referred as "The Alternative" by fans.
 * "Born to Run" was recorded live in Newcastle in January 1985 during the "Europe A-Go-Go" tour. On other releases this version is labelled as "Born to Run (Live on the Tube)"

12-inch: Island / 0-96889 (US)
 * 1) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Trevor Horn Remix) – 9:47
 * 2) "Get It On" – 2:32
 * 3) "Happy Hi!" – 4:02
 * 4) "Relax" (International/Live) – 4:51
 * A-side is actually the "Real Altered" mix. Also issued in Germany, and in Australia without "Get It On".

Cassette: ZTT / CTIS 107 (UK)
 * 1) "Happy Hi!" (All in the Body) – 1:18
 * 2) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (The Soundtrack from Bernard Rose's Video)" – 5:37
 * 3) "Get It On" – 4:06
 * 4) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Real Altered) – 9:23
 * 5) "Happy Hi!" (All in the Mind) – 1:05
 * "Real Altered" plays at a slightly faster speed here. A 11:40 version of the regular "Real Altered" appears on the digital release and the Sexmix compilation.
 * The complete cassette was slightly edited and re-released in 2012 on Sexmix. By mistake, the re-release was originally pressed in mono and was corrected via a mail-in replacement campaign.

Reissues
The track has periodically been reissued as a single, including during 1993 and 2000. Although these releases have some admirers, and have usefully made available various original mixes on CD for the first time, the accompanying A-side remixes by contemporary DJs have tended on the whole to bear little or no comparison to the spirit of the originals.

Reissues in the group's name have also tended to shun any overt reference to the identity of the original artists, and the reissue artwork has notably featured no images of the group. It has been suggested that this situation may relate to Johnson's successful but acrimonious court case against ZTT in 1989, which freed him (and effectively the other group members) from their contract with the label.

1993 reissues

 * CD: ZTT / FGTH2CD United Kingdom
 * 1) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Original 7-inch) – 4:22
 * 2) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Brothers in Rhythm Rollercoaster Mix) – 14:36
 * 3) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Elevatorman's Non-stop Top Floor Club Mix) – 6:06
 * 4) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Pleasurefix Original 12-inch Mix) – 9:41

(Track 4 is mislabelled. It's the "Real Altered" version from 12 ZTAS 7.)

 * 12-inch: ZTT / FGTH2T United Kingdom
 * 1) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Brothers in Rhythm Rollercoaster Mix) – 14:36
 * 2) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Elevatorman's Non-stop Top Floor Club Mix) – 6:06
 * 3) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Elevatorman's Deep Down Bass-Ment Dub) – 6:02

2000 reissues

 * CD: ZTT / ZTT 166CD United Kingdom
 * 1) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Sleazesister Album Mix Edit) – 3:35
 * 2) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Nalin & Kane Remix Edit) – 8:00
 * 3) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Sleazesister Anthem Mix) – 7:32

 * CD: Avex / AVTCDS-296 Japan

 * 1) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Nalin & Kane Full Length Mix) – 11:23
 * 2) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Sander's Coming Home Mix) – 10:18
 * 3) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Paralyzer Remix) – 5:17
 * 4) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Nalin & Kane Dub) – 11:22
 * 5) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Sleazesister Edit) – 3:53
 * 6) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Sleazesister Full Length Club) – 7:32
 * 7) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Pleasurefix Mix) – 9:40

 * 12-inch: ZTT / ZTT 166 T United Kingdom
 * 1) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Nalin & Kane Remix) – 11:23
 * 2) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Sander's Coming Home Remix) – 10:18

2014 reissues

 * Digital download (regular)
 * 1) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Altered Real) – 4:23
 * 2) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Real Altered) – 9:40
 * 3) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Alternative Reel) [reel misspelt as real] – 5:08
 * 4) "Get It On" (short version) – 2:36
 * 5) "Happy Hi!" – 4:06
 * 6) "Relax" (International) – 4:43

 * Digital download (Fruitness)
 * 1) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Fruitness) – 12:15
 * 2) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Urban) – 8:05
 * 3) "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (Pleasurefix) – 9:44
 * 4) "The Only Star in Heaven" (Starfix) – 3:54
 * 5) "Get It On" (short version) – 2:36
 * 6) "Happy Hi!" – 4:06
 * 7) "Born to Run" (International) – 4:54

Other versions
The instrumental "Into Battle Mix" appears on the soundtrack to the film Toys, specifically utilised whenever the Tommy Tanks appeared.

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Rage Hard

"Rage Hard" is the fifth single by English pop band Frankie Goes to Hollywood. It was released on 25 August 1986 as the first single from their second album Liverpool. The song reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart and number 1 in Germany and it was also a massive success in other countries.

Background
Having topped the charts around the world with Welcome to the Pleasuredome and its accompanying singles, Frankie Goes to Hollywood took off to Amsterdam to record the follow-up album, Liverpool. Taking on a rockier edge, "Rage Hard" was the first single culled from the album.

In a 1986 interview, singer Holly Johnson was asked about the meaning of the song explaining, "Have you read the poem 'Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night' by Dylan Thomas? It was kind of inspired by that. It's an incantation against death and lethargy, and it's supposed to encourage lots of creative idealism in the listener."

Not only was it the first Frankie single to be featured on CD single, it was also the first single to not feature a cassette release—new rules limited the number of items that could count towards the official charts, following the earlier ZTT excesses. "Rage Hard" eventually hit number 4 in the UK Singles Chart and number 1 in Germany for two weeks, #5 in Switzerland, #7 in the Netherlands, #12 in Austria, #19 in Sweden and #32 in France.

Critical reception
In a contemporary review, Billboard praised the band's performance calling "the matured Frankie socks out weight art-rock best suited to AOR/ alternative radio." Ro Newton of Smash Hits compared the single unfavorably with their previous releases as, "watered-down and without the guts. The over all effect is a bit limp and very disappointing."

B-sides
The original B-side is an odd composition entitled "(Don't Lose What's Left) Of Your Little Mind". It was released in two versions—a 4-minute mix and a 6-minute mix—and featured Holly Johnson and Brian Nash imitating Count von Count ("Ha ha ha/I am the Count") from the children's TV show Sesame Street. This was complemented by sampled burps and belches over a backing track.

For the 12" single to "Rage Hard" were covers of David Bowie's "Suffragette City", stylized as "SuffRAGEtte City" to fit in with the "Rage Hard" promotion and the second cover song was the Doors' "Roadhouse Blues." A shorter version features on the CD single.

Track listing
All discographical information pertains to UK releases only.

7": ZTT / ZTAS 22 United Kingdom
"rage rage"

 * 1) "Rage Hard" (7" mix) – 5:05
 * 2) "(Don't Lose What's Left) Of Your Little Mind" – 4:03

 * The standard release features all five coloured fists on the cover.
 * 20,000 copies in a pop-up gatefold sleeve (with the "Rage Hard" fists being the pop-up), featuring the orange fist (ZTD22).

7": ZTT / ZTAX 22 United Kingdom

 * 1) "Rage Hard" (stamped) – 4:55
 * 2) "(Don't Lose What's Left) Of Your Little Mind" – 4:03

 * "Stamped" is an edit of the "Broad" mix from the second 12" (sleeve featuring the blue fist).
 * Released to celebrate the song entering #6 on the UK charts on 6 September 1986.

12": ZTT / 12 ZTAS 22 United Kingdom
"Slam Bam"

 * 1) "Rage Hard" (The Young Person's Guide to the 12" mix) – 12:08
 * 2) "[The B-side]" + "SuffRAGEtte City" (David Bowie) – 3:31
 * 3) "(Don't Lose What's Left) Of Your Little Mind" – 6:15
 * 4) "['always note the sequencer...']" – 0:22

 * An edit (10:05) of track 1 is also known as "Young Person's Guide into the 12-inch".
 * This 12" was also released with a 12"x24" poster (12 ZTAQ 22), limited to 20,000 copies.
 * Also released on German CD (Island / 658 434).

12": ZTT / 12 ZTAX 22 United Kingdom

 * 1) "Rage Hard" (broad mix) – 8:36
 * 2) "Roadhouse Blues" – 4:03
 * 3) "(Don't Lose What's Left) Of Your Little Mind" – 6:15
 * 4) "['always note the sequencer...']" – 0:22

 * Sleeve featuring the yellow fist.
 * This release also came in a limited edition cardboard box which was designed to contain the complete set of "Rage Hard" UK releases. The front of the box lists the relevant catalogue numbers of the intended contents, minus the "Stamped" mix 7" single which is not listed. The box, called "The Total" had a sticker which made it clear that only 12 ZTAX 22 was included. It is still not established whether any box sets with their intended contents were ever officially released or indeed sold by record stores, but it's highly likely that some stores sold a complete set on request, if not officially.
 * The "Broad" mix is also known as "Rage Hard ⊕⊕".
 * Track 2 is labelled as "Broadhouse Blues" on the sleeve.
 * Track 3 is labelled as "(Don't Loose What's Left) Of Your Little Mind" on the front sleeve.

CD: ZTT / CD ZCID 22 United Kingdom

 * 1) "Rage Hard (⊕⊕⊕✪)" – 17:12
 * 2) "SuffRAGEtte City" – 3:31
 * 3) "["Don't lose what's left.."]" + "Roadhouse Blues" (compacted) – 3:54

 * Sleeve featuring the purple fist.
 * "⊕⊕⊕✪" is a combined edit of "Stamped", "The Young Person's Guide to the 12"" and "Broad".

Tracks 1 and 3.1 were re-released on the Sexmix compilation in 2012.

12" promo: Island / DMD 987 United States

 * 1) "Rage Hard" (Freddie Bastone vocal remix) – 7:00
 * 2) "Rage Hard" (Freddie Bastone remix edit) – 4:03
 * 3) "Rage Hard" (Freddie Bastone remix dub) – 5:30

Digital download: ZTT

 * 1) "Rage Hard" (7" mix) – 5:09
 * 2) "Rage Hard" (stamped) – 5:00
 * 3) "Rage Hard" (7" mix, instrumental) [labelled as "Voiceless"] – 5:07
 * 4) "Rage Hard" (The Young Person's Guide to the 12" mix) [labelled as "⊕"] – 12:07
 * 5) "Rage Hard" (broad mix) [labelled as "⊕⊕"] – 8:42
 * 6) "Suffragette City" – 3:35
 * 7) "(Don't Lose What's Left) Of Your Little Mind" – 6:15
 * 8) "Roadhouse Blues" – 4:07
 * 9) "['always note the sequencer...']" [labelled as "Rage Hard" (⊕⊕ Coda)] – 0:24

 * Later versions replace "Voiceless" with the "Montreux" mix (5:34).
 * Track 1 is actually the album version with the spoken intro.

1993 version
A version of the song appeared as a B-side of "The Power of Love" reissue (FGTH 3), entitled the "original DJ mix". This version is the original 7" mix from 1986, but with the first chorus removed. Instead, the first verse and second verse are jointed together. This release can also be found on a large centre hole 7" disc with the label details stamped into the naked vinyl, as opposed to a paper or printed label.

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Liverpool (album)

Liverpool is the second and final studio album by British band Frankie Goes to Hollywood, released in October 1986. Produced by Stephen Lipson and mixed by Trevor Horn, the album showcases a heavy rock sound in contrast to the synth dance tone found in its predecessor, Welcome to the Pleasuredome. The recording sessions would be marred by the radical change in musical direction creating tension within the band.

The album received mixed reviews from critics and was a commercial disappointment compared to its predecessor, but it charted at number 5 in the United Kingdom and was a modest success in other countries. It would be supported by the lead single “Rage Hard”, a UK number 5 and number 1 in Germany. Liverpool would be the band's final album as lead singer Holly Johnson would leave the band followed by a flurry of lawsuits from ZTT.

Recording
Johnson was distant from the band during the sessions and was unhappy about the album's focus on rock over dance. Jill Sinclair, Horn's wife and one of the ZTT founders, later alleged that Johnson had been uncooperative and absent for most of the sessions. According to Nash, Johnson's was preoccupied with the serious illness of Wolfgang Kuhle, then Johnson's boyfriend, but he did not tell the band. Johnson's distancing and disinterest came to the point that the band members concluded he was "finished and were in the market for a new singer". They invited Duran Duran singer Simon Le Bon but he declined, Pete Wylie was also approached, but Johnson eventually remained with the band and completed Liverpool. The session studio recordings were made in Ibiza, Holland and London.

Production
The album's production was handled by Trevor Horn's engineer Stephen Lipson, who urged the band to play their own instruments on this album (Horn having replaced many of the band's performances and arrangements with his session musicians or his own performances on Welcome to the Pleasuredome). According to Nash, the band was given contradicting information, with Horn considered as a producer or executive producer. In the end Horn took over mixing it on which "spent a whopping £500,000 (making £840,000 in all) tidying it up". The band was so much in debt that they had to sell at least a million copies to start earning "a penny".

Music
Liverpool features a heavier rock sound than its predecessor. Frankie Goes to Hollywood have not released any more studio albums since Liverpool. The cover photo was different depending on what format was purchased (LP, cassette, or compact disc).

Release
The album was a commercial disappointment compared to the band's previous effort, though it charted generally high at No. 5 in the United Kingdom and Germany, No. 7 on the Austrian and Swiss music charts and No. 8 in Norway. It produced the top 5 single "Rage Hard" (No. 1 in Germany), top 20 single "Warriors of the Wasteland" and top 30 single "Watching the Wildlife". By March 1988, the album had sold around 800,000 copies. On 20 June 2011 was released a 2xCD reissue including session recordings, mixes and covers of David Bowie, the Doors and Rolling Stones.

Critical reception
In the 80s and 90s album received poor critical reception. The Rolling Stone Album Guide wrote: "Like most of the era's one-hit wonders, the group did make a second album, though God only knows why anyone would want to hear it."

Alex S. Garcia writing 2.5/5 review for AllMusic considered that "on many accounts, Liverpool can be considered as an improvement over its predecessor", that being shorter duration and almost the same quality of all songs, and "the production is impeccable ... worth a listen if you like the band or have an interest for 80s music—of which this is not such a bad sample".

Paul Lester in BBC review of 2011 reissue noted how "many of the [original] tracks are straight hard rock/metal, with the lavish sonics and orchestral pomp typical of the ZTT label dropped on top", and that the reissue is "a superb repackage of what remains one of the great anticlimaxes in pop".

Steve Howe, who played on the album, said in a 2023 interview, "I just was hoping so much that Liverpool [...] would [...] make a meaningful dent in the [...] success of the band because it was just great."

Personnel

 * Frankie Goes to Hollywood
 * Holly Johnson – lead vocals
 * Paul Rutherford – backing vocals
 * Brian Nash – guitar
 * Mark O'Toole – bass guitar
 * Peter Gill – drums

Additional personnel
 * Trevor Horn – executive producer
 * Betsy Cook – backing vocals
 * Barry Diament – mastering
 * Stephen Lipson – guitar, keyboards, producer
 * Steve Howe, Trevor Rabin – guitar
 * Heff Moraes – assistant engineer
 * Richard Niles – string arrangements, brass arrangement
 * Andy Richards, Peter-John Vettese – keyboards
 * Anton Corbijn – photography

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Faroese language

Faroese (føroyskt ) is a North Germanic language spoken as a first language by about 69,000 Faroe Islanders, of which 21,000 reside mainly in Denmark and elsewhere.

It is one of five languages descended from Old West Norse spoken in the Middle Ages; the others include Norwegian, Icelandic, and the extinct Norn and Greenlandic Norse. Faroese and Icelandic, its closest extant relative, are not easily mutually intelligible in speech, but the written languages resemble each other quite closely, largely owing to Faroese's etymological orthography.

History

Around 900 AD, the language spoken in the Faroes was Old Norse, which Norse settlers had brought with them during the time of the settlement of Faroe Islands (landnám) that began in 825. However, many of the settlers were not from Scandinavia, but descendants of Norse settlers in the Irish Sea region. In addition, women from Norse Ireland, Orkney, or Shetland often married native Scandinavian men before settling in the Faroe Islands and Iceland. As a result, the Irish language has had some influence on both Faroese and Icelandic.

There is speculation about Irish language place names in the Faroes: for example, the names of Mykines, Stóra Dímun, Lítla Dímun and Argir have been hypothesized to contain Celtic roots. Other examples of early-introduced words of Celtic origin are: /blaðak (buttermilk), cf. Middle Irish ; drunnur (tail-piece of an animal), cf. Middle Irish dronn; (head, headhair), cf. Middle Irish ; (hand, paw), cf. Middle Irish ; (bull), cf. Middle Irish ; and (pasture in the outfield), cf. Middle Irish áirge.

Between the 9th and the 15th centuries, a distinct Faroese language evolved, although it was probably still mutually intelligible with Old West Norse, and remained similar to the Norn language of Orkney and Shetland during Norn's earlier phase.

Faroese ceased to be a written language after the Danish–Norwegian Reformation of the early 16th century, with Danish replacing Faroese as the language of administration and education. The islanders continued to use the language in ballads, folktales, and everyday life. This maintained a rich spoken tradition, but for 300 years the language was not used in written form.

In 1823, the Danish Bible Society published a diglot of the Gospel of Matthew, with Faroese on the left and Danish on the right.

Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb and the Icelandic grammarian and politician Jón Sigurðsson published a written standard for Modern Faroese in 1854, which still exists. They set a standard for the orthography of the language, based on its Old Norse roots and similar to that of Icelandic. The main purpose of this was for the spelling to represent the diverse dialects of Faroese in equal measure. Additionally, it had the advantages of being etymologically clear and keeping the kinship with the Icelandic written language. The actual pronunciation, however, often differs considerably from the written rendering. The letter ð, for example, has no specific phoneme attached to it.

Jakob Jakobsen devised a rival system of orthography, based on his wish for a phonetic spelling, but this system was never taken up by the speakers.

In 1908, Scripture Gift Mission published the Gospel of John in Faroese.

In 1937, Faroese replaced Danish as the official school language, in 1938, as the church language, and in 1948, as the national language by the Home Rule Act of the Faroe Islands. Today, Danish is considered a foreign language, although around 5% of residents on the Faroes learn it as a first language, and it is taught in school from the first grade.

In 2017, the tourist board Visit Faroe Islands launched a website entitled Faroe Islands Translate. Text can be entered in thirteen languages, including English, Chinese, Russian, Japanese, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. Instead of an instant machine translation being given, the text goes to a volunteer who will provide a live video translation, or else a recorded one later. The aim of this project was to get Faroese featured on Google Translate.

Old Faroese
Old Faroese (miðaldarføroyskt, ca. mid-14th to mid-16th centuries) is a form of Old Norse spoken in medieval times in the Faroe Islands. The most crucial aspects of the development of Faroese are diphthongisation and palatalisation.

There is not enough data available to establish an accurate chronology of Faroese, but a rough one may be developed through comparison to the chronologies of Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian. In the 12th/13th centuries, á and ǫ́ merged as ; later on at the beginning of the 14th century, delabialization took place: y, øy, au > ; í and ý merged in addition to i and y, but in the case of í and ý, it appears that labialisation took place instead as is documented by later development to. Further, the language underwent a palatalisation of k, g and sk before Old Norse e, i, y, ø, au > >  >. Before the palatalisation é and ǽ merged as and approximately in the same period epenthetic u is inserted into word-final  and  clusters.

A massive quantity shift also operated in Middle Faroese. In the case of skerping, it took place after delabialization but before loss of post-vocalic ð and g. The shift of hv to, the deletion of  in (remaining) word-initial –sonorant clusters (hr, hl, hn > r, l, n), and the dissolution of þ (þ > t; þ > h in demonstrative pronouns and adverbs) appeared before the end of the 13th century. Another undated change is the merger of ǫ, ø and ǿ into ; pre-nasal ǫ, ǫ́ > o, ó. enk, eng probably became eing, eink in the 14th century; the development of a to before ng, nk appeared after the palatalisation of k, g, and sk had been completed, such a change is quite a recent development, as well as change Cve > Cvø.

Alphabet
The Faroese alphabet consists of 29 letters derived from the Latin script:

Phonology
As with most other Germanic languages, Faroese has a large number of vowels, with 26 in total. Vowel distribution is similar to other North Germanic languages in that short vowels appear in closed syllables (those ending in consonant clusters or long consonants) and long vowels appearing in open syllables.

Faroese shares with Icelandic and Danish the feature of maintaining a contrast between stops based exclusively on aspiration, not voicing. Geminated stops may be pre-aspirated in intervocalic and word-final position. Intervocalically the aspirated consonants become pre-aspirated unless followed by a closed vowel. In clusters, the preaspiration merges with a preceding nasal or apical approximant, rendering them voiceless.

There are several phonological processes involved in Faroese, including:
 * Nasals generally assume the place of articulation and laryngeal settings of following consonants.
 * Velar stops palatalize to postalveolar affricates before and
 * becomes before voiceless consonants
 * becomes after  and before
 * becomes retroflex before consonants in consonant clusters, yielding the allophones while  itself becomes, example:  is realized as.
 * Pre-occlusion of original to  and  to.
 * Pre-aspiration of original voiceless stops after non-high long vowels and diphthongs  or when a voiceless stop is followed by . All long voiceless stops are pre-aspirated when doubled or in clusters.

Grammar
Faroese grammar is related and very similar to that of modern Icelandic and Old Norse. Faroese is an inflected language with three grammatical genders and four cases: nominative, accusative, dative and genitive.

To learn Faroese as a language

 * Adams, Jonathan & Hjalmar P. Petersen. Faroese: A Language Course for beginners Grammar & Textbook. Tórshavn, 2009: Stiðin (704 p.) ISBN 978-99918-42-54-7
 * W. B. Lockwood: An Introduction to Modern Faroese. Tórshavn, 1977. (no ISBN, 244 pages, 4th printing 2002)
 * Michael Barnes: Faroese Language Studies Studia Nordica 5, Supplementum 30. Tórshavn, 2002. (239 pages) ISBN 99918-41-30-X
 * Höskuldur Thráinsson (Þráinsson), Hjalmar P. Petersen, Jógvan í Lon Jacobsen, Zakaris Svabo Hansen: Faroese. An Overview and Reference Grammar. Tórshavn, 2004. (500 pages) ISBN 99918-41-85-7
 * Richard Kölbl: Färöisch Wort für Wort. Bielefeld 2004 (in German)
 * Faroeseonline.com

Dictionaries

 * Johan Hendrik W. Poulsen: Føroysk orðabók. Tórshavn, 1998. (1483 pages) ISBN 99918-41-52-0 (in Faroese)
 * Annfinnur í Skála / Jonhard Mikkelsen: Føroyskt / enskt – enskt / føroyskt, Vestmanna: Sprotin 2008. (Faroese–English / English–Faroese dictionary, 2 volumes)
 * Annfinnur í Skála: Donsk-føroysk orðabók. Tórshavn 1998. (1369 pages) ISBN 99918-42-22-5 (Danish–Faroese dictionary)
 * M.A. Jacobsen, Chr. Matras: Føroysk–donsk orðabók. Tórshavn, 1961. (no ISBN, 521 pages, Faroese–Danish dictionary)
 * Hjalmar Petersen, Marius Staksberg: Donsk–Føroysk orðabók. Tórshavn, 1995. (879 p.) ISBN 99918-41-51-2 (Danish–Faroese dictionary)
 * Eigil Lehmann: Føroysk–norsk orðabók. Tórshavn, 1987 (no ISBN, 388 p.) (Faroese–Norwegian dictionary)
 * Jón Hilmar Magnússon: Íslensk-færeysk orðabók. Reykjavík, 2005. (877 p.) ISBN 9979-66-179-8 (Icelandic–Faroese dictionary)
 * Gianfranco Contri: Dizionario faroese-italiano = Føroysk-italsk orðabók. Tórshavn, 2004. (627 p.) ISBN 99918-41-58-X (Faroese–Italian dictionary)

Faroese literature and research

 * V.U. Hammershaimb: Færøsk Anthologi. Copenhagen 1891 (no ISBN, 2 volumes, 4th printing, Tórshavn 1991) (editorial comments in Danish)
 * Tórður Jóansson: English loanwords in Faroese. Tórshavn, 1997. (243 pages) ISBN 99918-49-14-9
 * Petersen, Hjalmar P. 2009. Gender Assignment in Modern Faroese. Hamborg. Kovac
 * Petersen, Hjalmar P. 2010. The Dynamics of Faroese-Danish Language Contact. Heidelberg. Winter
 * Faroese/German anthology "From Djurhuus to Poulsen – Faroese Poetry during 100 Years", academic advice: Turið Sigurðardóttir, linear translation: Inga Meincke (2007), ed. by Paul Alfred Kleinert

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Elementary particle

In particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a subatomic particle that is not composed of other particles. The Standard Model presently recognizes seventeen distinct particles—twelve fermions and five bosons. As a consequence of flavor and color combinations and antimatter, the fermions and bosons are known to have 48 and 13 variations, respectively. Among the 61 elementary particles embraced by the Standard Model number are electrons and other leptons, quarks, and the fundamental bosons. Subatomic particles such as protons or neutrons, which contain two or more elementary particles, are known as composite particles.

Ordinary matter is composed of atoms, themselves once thought to be indivisible elementary particles. The name atom comes from the Ancient Greek word ἄτομος (atomos) which means indivisible or uncuttable. Despite the theories about atoms that had existed for thousands of years the factual existence of atoms remained controversial until 1905. In that year, Albert Einstein published his paper on Brownian motion, putting to rest theories that had regarded molecules as mathematical illusions and asserting that matter was ultimately composed of various concentrations of energy.

Subatomic constituents of the atom were first identified toward the end of the 19th century, beginning with the electron, followed by the proton in 1919, the photon in the 1920s, and the neutron in 1932. By that time the advent of quantum mechanics had radically altered the definition of a "particle" by putting forward an understanding in which they carried out a simultaneous existence as matter waves.

Many theoretical elaborations upon, and beyond, the Standard Model have been made since its codification in the 1970s. These include notions of supersymmetry, which double the number of elementary particles by hypothesizing that each known particle associates with a "shadow" partner far more massive. However, like an additional elementary boson mediating gravitation, such superpartners remain undiscovered as of.

Overview
All elementary particles are either bosons or fermions. These classes are distinguished by their quantum statistics: fermions obey Fermi–Dirac statistics and bosons obey Bose–Einstein statistics. Their spin is differentiated via the spin–statistics theorem: it is half-integer for fermions, and integer for bosons.

In the Standard Model, elementary particles are represented for predictive utility as point particles. Though extremely successful, the Standard Model is limited by its omission of gravitation and has some parameters arbitrarily added but unexplained.

Cosmic abundance of elementary particles
According to the current models of Big Bang nucleosynthesis, the primordial composition of visible matter of the universe should be about 75% hydrogen and 25% helium-4 (in mass). Neutrons are made up of one up and two down quarks, while protons are made of two up and one down quark. Since the other common elementary particles (such as electrons, neutrinos, or weak bosons) are so light or so rare when compared to atomic nuclei, we can neglect their mass contribution to the observable universe's total mass. Therefore, one can conclude that most of the visible mass of the universe consists of protons and neutrons, which, like all baryons, in turn consist of up quarks and down quarks.

Some estimates imply that there are roughly baryons (almost entirely protons and neutrons) in the observable universe.

The number of protons in the observable universe is called the Eddington number.

In terms of number of particles, some estimates imply that nearly all the matter, excluding dark matter, occurs in neutrinos, which constitute the majority of the roughly elementary particles of matter that exist in the visible universe. Other estimates imply that roughly elementary particles exist in the visible universe (not including dark matter), mostly photons and other massless force carriers.

Standard Model
The Standard Model of particle physics contains 12 flavors of elementary fermions, plus their corresponding antiparticles, as well as elementary bosons that mediate the forces and the Higgs boson, which was reported on July 4, 2012, as having been likely detected by the two main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (ATLAS and CMS). The Standard Model is widely considered to be a provisional theory rather than a truly fundamental one, however, since it is not known if it is compatible with Einstein's general relativity. There may be hypothetical elementary particles not described by the Standard Model, such as the graviton, the particle that would carry the gravitational force, and sparticles, supersymmetric partners of the ordinary particles.

Fundamental fermions
The 12 fundamental fermions are divided into 3 generations of 4 particles each. Half of the fermions are leptons, three of which have an electric charge of −1 e, called the electron (electron-), the muon (muon-), and the tau (tau-); the other three leptons are neutrinos (electron neutrino, muon neutrino, tau neutrino), which are the only elementary fermions with neither electric nor color charge. The remaining six particles are quarks (discussed below).

Mass
The following table lists current measured masses and mass estimates for all the fermions, using the same scale of measure: millions of electron-volts relative to square of light speed (MeV/c2). For example, the most accurately known quark mass is of the top quark (top quark) at $172.7 GeV/c2$, estimated using the on-shell scheme.

Estimates of the values of quark masses depend on the version of quantum chromodynamics used to describe quark interactions. Quarks are always confined in an envelope of gluons that confer vastly greater mass to the mesons and baryons where quarks occur, so values for quark masses cannot be measured directly. Since their masses are so small compared to the effective mass of the surrounding gluons, slight differences in the calculation make large differences in the masses.

Antiparticles
There are also 12 fundamental fermionic antiparticles that correspond to these 12 particles. For example, the antielectron (positron) antielectron is the electron's antiparticle and has an electric charge of +1 e.

Quarks
Isolated quarks and antiquarks have never been detected, a fact explained by confinement. Every quark carries one of three color charges of the strong interaction; antiquarks similarly carry anticolor. Color-charged particles interact via gluon exchange in the same way that charged particles interact via photon exchange. Gluons are themselves color-charged, however, resulting in an amplification of the strong force as color-charged particles are separated. Unlike the electromagnetic force, which diminishes as charged particles separate, color-charged particles feel increasing force.

Nonetheless, color-charged particles may combine to form color neutral composite particles called hadrons. A quark may pair up with an antiquark: the quark has a color and the antiquark has the corresponding anticolor. The color and anticolor cancel out, forming a color neutral meson. Alternatively, three quarks can exist together, one quark being "red", another "blue", another "green". These three colored quarks together form a color-neutral baryon. Symmetrically, three antiquarks with the colors "antired", "antiblue" and "antigreen" can form a color-neutral antibaryon.

Quarks also carry fractional electric charges, but, since they are confined within hadrons whose charges are all integral, fractional charges have never been isolated. Note that quarks have electric charges of either $2 eV/c2$ e or $0.511 MeV/c2$ e, whereas antiquarks have corresponding electric charges of either $1.9 MeV/c2$ e or $μ$ e.

Evidence for the existence of quarks comes from deep inelastic scattering: firing electrons at nuclei to determine the distribution of charge within nucleons (which are baryons). If the charge is uniform, the electric field around the proton should be uniform and the electron should scatter elastically. Low-energy electrons do scatter in this way, but, above a particular energy, the protons deflect some electrons through large angles. The recoiling electron has much less energy and a jet of particles is emitted. This inelastic scattering suggests that the charge in the proton is not uniform but split among smaller charged particles: quarks.

Fundamental bosons
In the Standard Model, vector (spin-1) bosons (gluons, photons, and the W and Z bosons) mediate forces, whereas the Higgs boson (spin-0) is responsible for the intrinsic mass of particles. Bosons differ from fermions in the fact that multiple bosons can occupy the same quantum state (Pauli exclusion principle). Also, bosons can be either elementary, like photons, or a combination, like mesons. The spin of bosons are integers instead of half integers.

Gluons
Gluons mediate the strong interaction, which join quarks and thereby form hadrons, which are either baryons (three quarks) or mesons (one quark and one antiquark). Protons and neutrons are baryons, joined by gluons to form the atomic nucleus. Like quarks, gluons exhibit color and anticolor – unrelated to the concept of visual color and rather the particles' strong interactions – sometimes in combinations, altogether eight variations of gluons.

Electroweak bosons
There are three weak gauge bosons: W+, W−, and Z0; these mediate the weak interaction. The W bosons are known for their mediation in nuclear decay: The W− converts a neutron into a proton then decays into an electron and electron-antineutrino pair. The Z0 does not convert particle flavor or charges, but rather changes momentum; it is the only mechanism for elastically scattering neutrinos. The weak gauge bosons were discovered due to momentum change in electrons from neutrino-Z exchange. The massless photon mediates the electromagnetic interaction. These four gauge bosons form the electroweak interaction among elementary particles.

Higgs boson
Although the weak and electromagnetic forces appear quite different to us at everyday energies, the two forces are theorized to unify as a single electroweak force at high energies. This prediction was clearly confirmed by measurements of cross-sections for high-energy electron-proton scattering at the HERA collider at DESY. The differences at low energies is a consequence of the high masses of the W and Z bosons, which in turn are a consequence of the Higgs mechanism. Through the process of spontaneous symmetry breaking, the Higgs selects a special direction in electroweak space that causes three electroweak particles to become very heavy (the weak bosons) and one to remain with an undefined rest mass as it is always in motion (the photon). On 4 July 2012, after many years of experimentally searching for evidence of its existence, the Higgs boson was announced to have been observed at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Peter Higgs who first posited the existence of the Higgs boson was present at the announcement. The Higgs boson is believed to have a mass of approximately $\overline{MS}$. The statistical significance of this discovery was reported as 5 sigma, which implies a certainty of roughly 99.99994%. In particle physics, this is the level of significance required to officially label experimental observations as a discovery. Research into the properties of the newly discovered particle continues.

Graviton
The graviton is a hypothetical elementary spin-2 particle proposed to mediate gravitation. While it remains undiscovered due to the difficulty inherent in its detection, it is sometimes included in tables of elementary particles. The conventional graviton is massless, although some models containing massive Kaluza–Klein gravitons exist.

Beyond the Standard Model
Although experimental evidence overwhelmingly confirms the predictions derived from the Standard Model, some of its parameters were added arbitrarily, not determined by a particular explanation, which remain mysterious, for instance the hierarchy problem. Theories beyond the Standard Model attempt to resolve these shortcomings.

Grand unification
One extension of the Standard Model attempts to combine the electroweak interaction with the strong interaction into a single 'grand unified theory' (GUT). Such a force would be spontaneously broken into the three forces by a Higgs-like mechanism. This breakdown is theorized to occur at high energies, making it difficult to observe unification in a laboratory. The most dramatic prediction of grand unification is the existence of X and Y bosons, which cause proton decay. The non-observation of proton decay at the Super-Kamiokande neutrino observatory rules out the simplest GUTs, however, including SU(5) and SO(10).

Supersymmetry
Supersymmetry extends the Standard Model by adding another class of symmetries to the Lagrangian. These symmetries exchange fermionic particles with bosonic ones. Such a symmetry predicts the existence of supersymmetric particles, abbreviated as sparticles, which include the sleptons, squarks, neutralinos, and charginos. Each particle in the Standard Model would have a superpartner whose spin differs by 1⁄2 from the ordinary particle. Due to the breaking of supersymmetry, the sparticles are much heavier than their ordinary counterparts; they are so heavy that existing particle colliders would not be powerful enough to produce them. Some physicists believe that sparticles will be detected by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

String theory
String theory is a model of physics whereby all "particles" that make up matter are composed of strings (measuring at the Planck length) that exist in an 11-dimensional (according to M-theory, the leading version) or 12-dimensional (according to F-theory ) universe. These strings vibrate at different frequencies that determine mass, electric charge, color charge, and spin. A "string" can be open (a line) or closed in a loop (a one-dimensional sphere, that is, a circle). As a string moves through space it sweeps out something called a world sheet. String theory predicts 1- to 10-branes (a 1-brane being a string and a 10-brane being a 10-dimensional object) that prevent tears in the "fabric" of space using the uncertainty principle (e.g., the electron orbiting a hydrogen atom has the probability, albeit small, that it could be anywhere else in the universe at any given moment).

String theory proposes that our universe is merely a 4-brane, inside which exist the three space dimensions and the one time dimension that we observe. The remaining 7 theoretical dimensions either are very tiny and curled up (and too small to be macroscopically accessible) or simply do not/cannot exist in our universe (because they exist in a grander scheme called the "multiverse" outside our known universe).

Some predictions of the string theory include existence of extremely massive counterparts of ordinary particles due to vibrational excitations of the fundamental string and existence of a massless spin-2 particle behaving like the graviton.

Technicolor
Technicolor theories try to modify the Standard Model in a minimal way by introducing a new QCD-like interaction. This means one adds a new theory of so-called Techniquarks, interacting via so called Technigluons. The main idea is that the Higgs boson is not an elementary particle but a bound state of these objects.

Preon theory
According to preon theory there are one or more orders of particles more fundamental than those (or most of those) found in the Standard Model. The most fundamental of these are normally called preons, which is derived from "pre-quarks". In essence, preon theory tries to do for the Standard Model what the Standard Model did for the particle zoo that came before it. Most models assume that almost everything in the Standard Model can be explained in terms of three to six more fundamental particles and the rules that govern their interactions. Interest in preons has waned since the simplest models were experimentally ruled out in the 1980s.

Acceleron theory
Accelerons are the hypothetical subatomic particles that integrally link the newfound mass of the neutrino to the dark energy conjectured to be accelerating the expansion of the universe.

In this theory, neutrinos are influenced by a new force resulting from their interactions with accelerons, leading to dark energy. Dark energy results as the universe tries to pull neutrinos apart. Accelerons are thought to interact with matter more infrequently than they do with neutrinos.

General readers

 * Feynman, R.P. & Weinberg, S. (1987) Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics: The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures. Cambridge Univ. Press.
 * Ford, Kenneth W. (2005) The Quantum World. Harvard Univ. Press.
 * John Gribbin (2000) Q is for Quantum – An Encyclopedia of Particle Physics. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-85578-X.
 * Oerter, Robert (2006) The Theory of Almost Everything: The Standard Model, the Unsung Triumph of Modern Physics. Plume.
 * Schumm, Bruce A. (2004) Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-7971-X.
 * Schumm, Bruce A. (2004) Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-7971-X.

Textbooks

 * Bettini, Alessandro (2008) Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics. Cambridge Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-521-88021-3
 * Coughlan, G. D., J. E. Dodd, and B. M. Gripaios (2006) The Ideas of Particle Physics: An Introduction for Scientists, 3rd ed. Cambridge Univ. Press. An undergraduate text for those not majoring in physics.
 * Griffiths, David J. (1987) Introduction to Elementary Particles. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-60386-4.
 * Perkins, Donald H. (2000) Introduction to High Energy Physics, 4th ed. Cambridge Univ. Press.
 * Perkins, Donald H. (2000) Introduction to High Energy Physics, 4th ed. Cambridge Univ. Press.

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Talk:The Fast Show

Cast
I believe that it's about time this page was cleaned up, so I have decided to do what Father Ted and Little Britain pages have one and tidy the page up by creating a new page for smaller characters. I will keep all the major characters on the page (most are Paul Whitehouse's) of course FOxearth 23/3/2006 (UTC)

Channel 9
Is there any evidnce that Channel 9 is mostly Italian. Surely it is Spanish or Portugese. THe map Paula Fisch uses is of Iberia after all.

I'm editing the "mostly South American channel" part, since Chanel 9 is obviously Meditteranean-focused. The BBC website describes it as that as well. Jack the Stripper 14:24, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

L
Is this the wrong show or did this have "L is for Labour, L is for Lice"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by SimplySouth (talk • contribs)
 * I think that was Harry Enfield and Chums. Plenty of cast overlap there, but two different series entirely. ~Matticus TC 17:02, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Scorchio merge
I agree with the proposal that Scorchio should be merged with this page. NotMuchToSay 00:06, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Scorchio should be merged with the Chanel 9 page if anything.

Redirect ?
Why is this article redirected from "Arthur Atkins" when there is no Arthur Atkins in the article? There is a "Arthur Atkinson" mentioned in the article.

Number of series
The text says there were four series plus and Christmas special, plus The Last Fast Show Ever, in three parts. However, I've only been able to find DVDs of three series, plus only part one of the Last Fast Show Ever (as is also mentioned in the available DVDs list). Are the others available anywhere? Were they ever released? Or is it a mistake and there were only ever three series and only one part of the Last Show Ever? 81.129.128.99 19:31, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Characters
The characters section is missing the bloke in the pub, who, when engaged in a conversation, always agrees with the last person who spoke, even if he/she contradicts his last opinion. J I P | Talk 20:34, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

 * What's going on with the Fast_Show_characters page? If there's a whole page for it, is there any need for a list on this one? --90.218.205.227 (talk) 22:16, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Tippo-Magico
What about the series of Chanel 9 adverts 'Tippo-magico' in which the usefulness of an articulated orange plastic device is enthusiastically, if not very clearly, demonstrated in a latin and greek-based mock 'foreign language' - all rather reminiscent of the UK television advertising of some K-tel products.

Stuffed cat (talk) 14:02, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Errors, extra info
I took the liberty of correcting some small mistakes and adding some extra info on the characters "Competitive Dad", "Roy and Renee" and "Monster, Monster". The errors were as follows:
 * Johnny Depp did not appear as a customer of the "Suit you!" tailors in the Season 2 Christmas special. Instead, he appeared in part 1 of "The Last Fast Show Ever" after expressing the desire to appear in the show and revealing himself as a huge fan of the show in an interview broadcast during "The Fast Show Night", an all-night BBC special.
 * Rowley Birkin's unexpectedly touching delivery of his incoherent rambling monologue wasn't in the final episode of the show. Instead, it was in the final episode of season 2 (not including the Christmas special, which was broadcast after this episode, but is also officially a part of the second season). The character also appears to have died somewhere between the third season and the final episodes, like John Actor.

Dennoman (talk) 10:39, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Shooting Stars
"The show produced two national tours, the first in 1998 with the cast of the BBC spoof quiz show Shooting Stars"

Why should they tour using the cast of Shooting Stars rather than their own? Does this mean they did a joint tour, or what? Britmax (talk) 21:06, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

 * According to the Bruce Dessau book about Reeves & Mortimer, the joint tour is what happened--TimothyJacobson (talk) 23:25, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Foster's Reason for restarting Fast Show?
I notice the references to Foster's Funny, but there is no reason why they decided to take the Fast Show on. Should there not be a section for this? I would not do that as I am not professional :) but could someone take this on, maybe? 92.21.209.218 (talk) 18:26, 6 December 2011 (UTC) (c/o Daylon124 becuase of security in a public libary)

Fosters Funny Series 2
Since it's not possible to add in a YouTube reference due to Wikipedia's spam filter and I'm unable to find another source online then it's a fact that will have to go unreferenced for the time being. It's easily verifiable by watching the end of episode 6 where it is announced, so as such I'm going to add it back in Fraggle81 (talk) 05:00, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Jazz Club
The article currently claims that the Jazz Club sketches are a parody of The Old Grey Whistle Test. In fact, it's pretty obvious that they are parodying Jazz 625, even down to the black and white photography. There was little or no jazz featured on TOGWT. --Ef80 (talk) 18:23, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
 * You're right, the nearest TOGTW came to jazz was probably Chick Corea, Al Di Meola or National Health. But it's not very clear cut, is it? Other sources also sugget that Thomson's "Louis Balfour" may have been more of a parody of dear old "Whispering" Bob: . And I'm not sure that Jazz 625 was well known for featuring experimental or avant-garde jazz, it was pretty mainstream. There are similarities, certainly, but we really have to go with what reliable secondary sources say. Personally, I'd agree that a wholesale parody of OGTWT is really not accurate and that the sentence should be re-written. Martinevans123 (talk) 20:10, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
 * We really need WP:RS for any claim that a specific single programme is being parodied. I think it's parodying J625, but I don't have a ref for it, which is why I haven't modified the article. --Ef80 (talk) 21:18, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Cheesy Peas
Nothing to do with Jamie Oliver - it's just a traslation of matar paneer. Stub Mandrel (talk) 20:19, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Perhaps we can squeeze that tasty Indian dosh in? Perhaps not. But, quite frankly, Jamie's "Superfood" offering looks nothing like our Northern Lad's. In fact, I'd sooner dump the Naked Chef and get rid of that out-dated hopeless hard-sell commercial source altogether. Martinevans123 (talk) 21:07, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

Wymbourne -> Wyborne
Yes, the official site does spell it like that. But that seems to be at odds with Whitehouse's actually delivery: ? Martinevans123 (talk) 13:37, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Mark Williams
The article states that Mark Williams had no involvement in the series after 2000, but this isn't true, is it? He featured in the intro "You ain't seen me, right?" and as the leader of the archery club in the Jazz Club sketch.

Tommy Cockles
This character predates the Fast Show - he appears on Wogan here on 27/3/92, as a spoof pretending to be a real person.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHnqUhfgaaI

Paulturtle (talk) 00:16, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Original research
I've tagged three sections as possibly containing original research. I'm going to give it a month for someone to come up with some reliable sources for the section on filming locations: if it's still unsourced, I'll be deleting the lot. ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 11:19, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Adding citations
Trying to add a bit more detail to the various sketches but they keep getting deleted. It's a bit difficult to 'add sources' when watching the show itself is the 'source'. All the details I have tried to add ARE accurate, I have seen the series many times. 2A00:23C5:3508:8900:DD58:192B:6297:B133 (talk) 16:10, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Confidential
you ain’t seen me, right? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C7:E284:CF00:180B:A3E6:C73E:A621 (talk) 01:47, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

Why doesn’t this have page have anything on the 2020 special?
Nothing 185.231.138.106 (talk) 19:38, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

 * Well, I guess it was Just A Load Of Blooming Catchphrases. Martinevans123 (talk) 20:19, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

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