I Rogers And I Act
News posted Friday, April 30 2010 at 03:00 PM.
Related: Tim Rogers, I Rock.
Alright, he’s no Peter Fenton, but there’s every indication that Tim Rogers may well give this acting caper a red-hot go.
After starring in Jane Campion's Holy Smoke more than a decade ago, he’s played a hard drinkin’, philandering rabbi in student film Hunter Finkelstein; made his stage debut last year in the Malthouse Theatre’s adaptation of Woyzeck; and will play himself in the first episode of new eight-part series I Rock (2.0), which will make its ABC2 premiere on Monday.
In the show's first episode, Rogers – looking dapper in a baby blue jacket and jeans – compares driver’s licence photos with the show’s main characters, Nash (Josh Mapleston) and Comet (Ashley Fitzgerald). The episode also features footage from You Am I performing Temperance Union track ‘My Brother’s Room’ at The Annandale in November last year.
The show, which “charts the path of a struggling indie rock outfit” in Sydney (ala groundbreaking rock film Garage Days and ’80s sitcom Sweet and Sour), also features cameos by Laura Imbruglia and former triple j presenter Scott Dooley. It screens Mondays on ABC2, 9pm.
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Jane Campion cast him over a decade ago in Holy Smoke.
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M+N's headlines are gettin more and more cringeworthy.
crowd roars
glad he can act cos he can't sing anymore.
After starring in Jane Campion's Holy Smoke more than a decade ago WITH HARVEY FUCKING KEITEL.
Yeah, he got chops. Shit movie though.
Also fixed.
Kate Winslet pees and walks in that one doesn't she?
Is the ''struggling indie rock outfit'' the one Tim is wearing in the picture?
That girl is very attractive, though.
Is Ashley Fitzgerald (as Comet) playing an aspiring musician? Or an aspiring model?
She's in the band, I believe
Rigghhhhttt.
There are hot chicks in Indie bands. You should go see Loungey's band.
Is Loungey's band now in Melb? Not seen them in Sydney for aaaaages.
Yeah, they played on Wednesday night, but I missed them. Prior to that, they played six months ago...
I used to enjoy them here in Syd, back when they were an all-girl band.
MUST. NOT. WALK. INTO. MATHIESON. TRAP.
Nice to see my gag didn't go unnoticed in the other thread.
I only used to play in Loungey's band Modi.
hey rogers, write 'berlin chair' again, or get off my box
Yeah, when it was an all girl band, Zaphod?
Ashley Fitzgerald (Comet, the beautiful, enigmatic bass player) - INDEED!
P A N A M A
Title should be you am irock
If this show were a dart it would miss the dartboard, fly out a window, pop the tire of a passing garbage truck full of used tampons and dead rats causing the driver to wildly swerve into the pub, where all patrons would either die on impact or suffocate in used tampons and dead rats.
That girl has some teeth.
nice work andyd
Andyd must've seen it!
Rogers 'exit' is worth a watch, but overall this show is cancer, and worth a cursory look from the kitchen while it plays in the other room only if you like cringeworthy bad acting, terrible scripting, weak plotlines, douchey characters, unrealistic situations, SHIT music, ugly actors and did I mention, TV that gives your balls/ovaries cancer?
Eg: Seen in episode 2, the Battle Of The Bands episode:
''Win a spot on this summer's hottest festival, Splendour In The Grass!''
sounds better than i was expecting
the ads for this look terrible. looks like terrible execution of an idea that must have been bad on paper.