Hooray! It's Stag's Head: The Movie
Probably because it’s situated just down the canal from the office, The Stag’s Head has become the scene of our after-work craziness in the last twelve months, so it was only a matter of time that someone made a TV show about it.
The brainchild of a couple of music video directors called Ollie Evans and Danny Sangra, The Knocking Shop grew out of the pub’s much-missed date night Drunken Blind Date. For those who never made it, this involved Zack, the guy behind Shore Leave, dressing up as a haunted-looking transsexual version of Cilla Black and trying to set up bored looking East London types on fun dates like painting the pub toilets or shopping in Ikea on a £5 budget. As an attempt to keep the format as close to the original as possible, Ollie, Dan and a few others made adverts to go in the middle, like this frankly creepy infomercial and this even scarier Christmas message.
And that was that for a few months, until someone had the bright-idea of combining these adverts with the old late-night Channel 4 series the Word, getting some bands in and letting the natural wildness of the Stag's Head do the rest. Set above the pub, and featuring Good Shoes, Danimal Kingdom and CocknBull Kid, it’s 20 minutes of psychedelic wonderment that reminds us of how MTV2 was before it became a 24-hour forum for washed-up skaters to shoot each other with paint-ball guns. Here is the first episode below. We especially like the talking robot:
THE KNOCKING SHOP EPISODE 1 PART 1 from the knocking shop on Vimeo.
THE KNOCKING SHOP EPISODE 1 PART 2 from the knocking shop on Vimeo.
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