Channel Ruffhousing

Since the departure of Ruffhousing’s ‘Channel U Classics’ the 3barfire head office has been bombarded with letters of complaint, death threats and the odd suicide note – proving once and for all that a regular intake of ruffhousing is as an important part of your weekly routine as a trip to the supermarket or a aggressive, tearful wank.

With that in mind we bring you Ruffhousing TV – many of you will sneer and suggest that we merely have run out of videos to post up from channel U, many of you will be right.


Genius Cru – Course Bruv

This next video comes from before the conception of everyone’s favorite cultural experiment, but if there ever was a video that set the trend for 99% of the shit that is seen on channel U today then this is surely it. Just imagine! Without these videos you may never heard of the genius of Junior Spesh, the lyrical ferocity of Flirta D or the albino rodent ramblings of L.Man.


The video features social etiquette specialists Genius Cru – who, in a tumultuous period in the late 90s when people where bewildered and confused as to how to approach a colleague to request a small sip of their beverage, solved this conundrum with not only a musical hit – but a social phenomenon.



Not content with the simple club setting of their previous smash hit ‘Boom Selection’, the Cru uped the ante with a thrilling backdrop of international espionage and high stakes gambling - this video is everything Casino Royale wanted to be – I’m fairly sure there all working as IT consultants now.


Bob Marley

This week it’s been announced that production is beginning on a big Hollywood bio-pic of marijuana smoking, wife beating, gay hating, reggae legend Bob Marley. Its sure to be a feel good hit, missing out these inconvenient aspects of Bob’s life, and most likely ending up resembling a Lilt advert. Anyone who’s been on a gap year or is contemplating one should pre-order the DVD from their local independent retailer (not HMV, they rape Tibetan children and pay them in buttons).



Apparently Lauren Hill is in the running to play Bob Marley’s wife – there’s no real front runners as to who’ll play the man himself but my money is firmly on Martin Short. It’s been lengthy absence for the Father of The Bride (1+2!) star and this may just be the project to lure him out of the cinematic wilderness. Fingers crossed.


Devliman

One of the miracles of the modern age is our increasing level of social acceptance. In the 1500s, if a man from the midlands with a penchant for hunting hats and the voice of a Chinese robot began publicly spouting obscene jibberish about poisoned foodstuffs, he would have been roundly thrashed and flame-grilled as a demon-smuggling nutbox.

Here in the twenty-first century, however, the openly mad are actively celebrated and even - in some cases - given access to recording studios in which to vent their twisted brain-bile. Which brings us to 'Chinese Tale' by Birmingham's Devilman. A psychedelic urban gem, or the ramblings of someone who has something very wrong with their mind? You decide.

Chinese Tale


Words: Robin and Tom
from 3 Bar Fire