From out of the swinging 60's, there emitted a small but significantly audible prefabricated coal grunt that was the Bonzo Dog Band. An anarchic mix of music hall, trad jazz, surreal humour, dandyism, belching and the avant-garde, the Bonzos, blessed by two visionary geniuses - Vivian Stanshall and Neil Innes - were simultaneously the most savagely unforgiving and most humane of pop bands.

Never a commercial success (which serves to continue to secure them kudos), they occupy a unique and respected position in the canons of British humour and pop. Their light-hearted yet intense 'nothing is sacred' attitude influenced future Monty Python's members Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Eric Idle when they appeared side by side in the memorable ITV children's television show Do Not Adjust Your Set. Embracing everything and nothing, they blew ripe raspberries at their music biz contemporaries and cast an absurdist eye on wider culture, lampooning (yet often weirdly celebrating) such phenomena as English seaside holidays and persistently questioning the concept of normal everyday life.

In this special event join former Bonzo member Neil Innes for an onstage chat and reminisce with the BFI’s Dick Fiddy and witness Bonzo Dog’s holy grail of lost performances – a newly restored ‘lost’ episode of 60s British music programme Colour Me Pop - screened in its fully restored glory.

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