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Up the Bloody Tree

Limmy's Show!
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The setup

A single phrase in a Blancmange performance sends Limmy into an increasingly literal musical daydream.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Limmy watches an old television performance of Living on the Ceiling and fixates on the way its singer delivers one line. He starts joining in, then reimagines the refrain as a flat-capped singer perched in a tree. The musical obsession follows him back into the bath, where he shakes himself out of it.

The funny people

Meet the cast. 2

Say it with us

Highly quotable.

I'm up the bloody tree.

Behind the scenes

The people who made it.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

The sketch uses Blancmange’s Living on the Ceiling. In a 2020 interview with The Quietus, Neil Arthur responded warmly to Limmy’s version.

The rabbit hole continues

One more couldn’t hurt.

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