The Phoenix Night of Peter Kay is a British sitcom on The Phoenix Club, a men's club working in the town of Bolton, northern England, Greater Manchester. The show was written by Neil Fitzmaurice, Peter Kay and Dave Spikey, produced by Goodnight Vienna Productions and Ovation Entertainments, and aired on Channel 4 in the UK. All music written by Toni Baker and Peter Kay. Additional material is provided by Paddy McGuinness. Two series have been produced, which were first transmitted in 2001 and 2002.
The show is a spin-off of the spoof documentary series That's Peter Kay Thing, and in turn spun off Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere. It won the People's Choice Award at the 2002 British Comedy Awards, and was nominated for several others. Kay is also a star, in various roles, and directs the second series.
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The Phoenix Club owner is a wheelchair user Brian Potter (played by Peter Kay), who has led two clubs in the past: the first (The Aquarius) flooded, the second (The Neptune) burned down. His ambition (with Jerry St Clair's help) was to see The Phoenix Club being the most popular in Bolton and thus defeating his arch-rival, Den Perry (Ted Robbins). Perry is the owner of a rival club The Banana Grove.
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Club Phoenix
The Phoenix Club is a fictional worker men's club in Farnworth near Bolton. The Phoenix Club is home to entertainment of all kinds, including Bingo, singing, cabaret and various themed nights. The club is created and run by Brian Potter along with his staff.
Employee
The club has a number of workers, all with their own parts.
- Brian Potter: The club owner, who goes to the extreme to keep walking.
- Jerry St.Clair: Cabaret singers and men fall out of the show. He later became the club's license
- Ray Von: A former gypsy and electric fieldworker, who is a club DJ and a sound engineer.
- Max and Paddy: Two club doormen.
- Les and Alan: Two supporting players with drums and keyboards known as "Les Alanos".
- Kenny Senior: A worker at the club and a habitual liar. Claims have stayed in a tent next to Robert De Niro in Pwllheli and hit him on Swingball
- Young Kenny: A rather modest young man.
- Mary (Holy Mary): A devoted bar and Christian worker.
- Spencer: An easy but enthusiastic young waiter.
- Ant and Des: Two illegal Chinese immigrants who were accidentally brought into the country. Hired by Brian Potter sparing as a chef.
- Marion: Bar worker, cleanser, and chef. She is good friends with Mary and also works as an occasional PA of Brian.
Layout
The club follows a typical working man's club layout, with a large cabaret room along with a lounge area (called 'The Pennine Suite' in the opening series). In an effort to diversify and attract more customers, the lounge was converted into a successful Chinese restaurant called "The Golden Phoenix". There is also a game room at the club, named "Jocky Wilson Suite" in the first series, and "Tony Knowles Suite" in the second. In the first series the room was shown as home to the games provided by "Dodgy Eric" like a snooker table tilted, bucking bronco and a child's plane ride. In the second series, the game room is used more as a lounge and common social area with a dining table, although there is a dartboard and a new snooker table. The solarium is also just past the door of this room. The Pennine Suite serves as a large common lounge and social area in the first series but rarely seen in the second series; it contains a small stage used for Wednesday night "free and easy". Finally replaced by a new Chinese restaurant. The other room in the club is a larger cabaret style room that plays host to larger features like Talent Tracks and Stars in Their Eyes.
Movie location
In addition to being set in Bolton, Phoenix Nights is also filmed in the area. The location for the club itself is St Gregory's Social Club on Church Street a few miles from Bolton in the town of Farnworth.
When Max and Paddy returned from France in Series 2, the location used was Fleetwood Docks.
Plot
Throughout the two series of Phoenix Nights, the ongoing theme of the event is the competition between The Phoenix Club, and local rival club 'The Banana Grove', run by the flamboyant Den Perry. Brian Potter will draw up ideas for the club to attract more customers, usually for Jerry's "The Saint" St.Clair disagreement. However, as more and more people come to the club, the more popular the club becomes better than its competitors, but this is at the expense of the thrifty way Brian Potter, cutting corners in running the club wherever possible.
The second series follows from the first. After the staging of a highly respected local talent contest 'Talent Trek', Den Perry vigorously burns the club. With the authorities taking a bleak view of Potter's poor attitude towards fire safety and suspending his license, he then rebuilds the club cheaply with Jerry as the license holder. The club bounced back and regained its popularity, with schemes such as placing fake speed cameras outside the club to slow down riders, and re-enactment of club burning on Crimetime TV shows (parody of Crimewatch ) to get free advertising.
Finally, Den Perry unwittingly reveals to most of the local customers that he burned the Phoenix Club, and the club won.
Episode guides
Series 1
- Episode 1
This is the opening day of new club Brian Potter, Phoenix (which has two previous clubs on fire when one floods). With "Roy Walker TV alone" opening the nightclub, Brian wants everything to be perfect. But he has to face a power outage that keeps the club immobile, the theft of a bingo machine, German arcade "Das Boot" machine, Max doorman wounding himself and a racist fascist band called "Half A Shilling" (with vocalist played by Tim Healy). The band seems to be singing about Holy Communion Shoes, although journalist Deborah Quinn detects a racist metaphor in an incorrect song called "Send The Buggers Back". These factors immediately ruin everything. The act of auditioning at the end of the episode is a pair of spacemen, one on a rotating disc, imitating David Bowie's song.
- Episode 2
The new DJ Ray Von accidentally killed The Captain with his homemade smoke machine. Things went from bad to worse when two guys in Overalls walked off the street and stole a television set, with all the staff doing nothing, except Kenny Senior, who gladly gave them control of the distance. The arched snooker table is replaced with a bronco bucking, which leads to Wild West Night being held. This was a huge success, until Jerry's striking shot out between Lancashire and Yorkshire got violent and a drunken horse trying to have sex with a bronco bucking. The act of auditioning at the end of the episode is a breakout artist, who is stuck in a bag.
- Episode 3
Jerry St. Clair has ordered Clinton Baptiste (Alex Lowe) psychic midwife for the club, which has been recommended by Den Perry. Jerry seems unaware of the fact that Den Perry wants the Phoenix Club to fail. Brian and Jerry then had to attend a fire safety seminar at the Banana Grove Club presented by Keith Lard (from That Peter Kay Thing), who was arrested for "harassing" the dog, but was released for lack of evidence. After the meeting, Lard tells Brian that he will soon inspect the club to ensure it meets safety standards. Jerry and Brian hurried back to the club before Keith watched him, but a meeting with police delayed them and Keith closed the club for being unsafe. Never to give up, Brian blackmailed Lard with a fake photograph of Lard's head in a semi-naked man (with a dog) so he reopened the club, but the show they reopened, the psychic night, forced Brian to return all his guests after Clinton Baptiste told him a little more about the future than the guests want. The act of auditioning at the end of the episode is a bad magician, breaking his or her instrument.
- Episode 4
This 'Night Singles' at the Phoenix club and the band house Les Alanos and doormen Max and Paddy are all looking for. Brian was the most successful, though, when he accidentally ran on a woman's feet before buying her a drink and talking all night. Throughout the episode, their relationship continued, until Beverley (played by Jo Enright) revealed to Brian that he worked for the DSS and was sent to investigate him for a false disability claim. Despite Beverley's assertion that her feelings for her were genuine, Brian finished with him. Elsewhere, Paddy had a relationship with Mary, Mary's holy daughter. Audition at the end of the episode is a man who jumps up to the 'nellie the elephant' wearing little more than a Macintosh and a soft toy elephant trunk on his cock.
- Episode 5
Jerry in the hospital. Before Brian argued with Jerry's decision to host an alternative comedy night, the comedy night turned into a disaster, with no good entrants. As one act, Steve Davies plays a quiet metal teacher introduced as 'Darius' by Jerry. Darius is only wearing a pair of C & amp; A with 'Darius' written in ink on his body, and proceeded to a psychotic episode with an obscure language delivered by threatening to the audience and the house band onstage while attacking the cymbals of the drummer with his hand. She cries into the universe to solve her disturbance. Real moments in the midst of all the chaotic and other inconsistent actions before and after. In the end all, Jerry had a heated confrontation with a student who had scorned him, until he threatened to hit Jerry and all the staffs for him. Elsewhere, Ray Von hosts Robot Wars tournaments, won by Max and Paddy, who use robots built by Ray, who have a penchant for electronics. At the end of the episode, a man named Dougie Hayes offers Jerry a job on a cruise ship. The act of auditioning at the end of the episode is a pair of spellbound Spanish dancers.
- Episode 6
Jerry became very clear. However, Brian told him to continue to pretend to be sick because the club got the right to host Talent Trek because he told the organizers that Jerry was dying. Tension boils when Brian has to hire a tribute band The True Word of Fred is called 'Right Said Frank' for the grand final because Les Alanos performs Karate Kid music with a local youth club on the same night. Right Said Frank finally stole the stereo from all the cars parked outside. Ray Von tried to stop them but he was overpowered. Fortunately, they bumped into Max's car, lighting his personal alarm. Max and Paddy rushed out and tacked the two men to the ground. Brian then 'reveals' to the audience that Jerry has got clarity about his illness. In spite of everything, Jerry could not leave himself to leave the club and refused the offer of a yacht job. The series ends with Den Perry, furious at the Phoenix Club's success, setting him on fire.
Series 2
- Episode 1
Brian and the staff watched the club burn out, with Jerry arranging to save the small charity box that was handicapped. After the fire was extinguished, a firefighter revealed that the fire was caused by a cigarette or a discarded cigar, which led Brian to believe that Den Perry was responsible. Brian then had to appear in court for breach of fire and safety regulations and consequently his alcohol license was revoked and he was blacklisted by the factory. The devastated man, Brian dreamed of rebuilding the Phoenix Club. On his way to Asda, he finds Jerry and Alan singing to promote the product. Brian begs Jerry to help him rebuild the Phoenix but Jerry rejects it and tells him to forget Phoenix. Still unaffected, Brian travels to Blackpool to visit an old friend, Frank Cartwright (played by Jim Bowen), owner of Hotel "Le Ponderosa", who tells him to sell bottles and cans to get around the ban, get licensed whom he can manipulate and has many facilities under one roof. Brian then wandered around to find all the staff. He finds Les working as a butcher, Kenny Senior as a lollipop man (where he always lies to the children crossing the street), Ray Von in a field, and the Blessed Virgin Mary at the church. In what became an iconic moment for the series he called Max and Paddy because they ushered elderly Asian men to the mosque and sang at the top of their voices for "Is This the Way to Amarillo?" by Tony Christie, who plays at Chorley FM. Brian manages to bring them all together to discuss his plans, and convinces Jerry to become the new licensee.
- Episode 2
Reconstruction went well enough, and a great day was organized to raise awareness of rebuilding. However, the erect-like blow-up of an erection penis is almost denied by Brian so that he is tied to the ground and closed. Unfortunately, the penis escapes from its cover and explodes, surprising everyone who spends their money. Furthermore, the job of painting a face that failed to leave Young Kenny with a permanent tiger face. Elsewhere, Max and Paddy went to France to buy liquor while unwittingly taking two Chinese immigrants in the process.
- Episode 3
Brian decides to get the club in Crimetime for publicity and a chance to accuse Den Perry. Changes were made throughout the club to make it look good for the TV crew, but TV appearances were a disaster when Brian lost it after he believed he was accused of burning the club itself. Elsewhere, Spencer was hired for an empty bar job.
- Episode 4
Brian comes across two Japanese promoting their new beer, and offers them a chance to promote it at the club, the offer they receive. The pub quiz is set up, with the winner taking home a year's beer soup. Both Brian and Den Perry enter the team to try and win it. Brian's team won, but his victory was short-lived when it turned out that the beer was not alcoholic. In another suite, Jerry's drinking party was better than him and he lost it onstage, causing him to enter the next suite and urinate everywhere, shocking customers.
- Episode 5
The blackout at Brian's house kept him stuck in his elevator all night until Jerry broke down his door the next morning. At the club, Jerry has turned part of the club into a Chinese restaurant called "The Golden Phoenix", and the woman's night has been set up, which causes Paddy to go on stage wearing nothing but a fake mustache and thong leather, and carrying a trident. Outside, Max was approached by a woman who wanted her husband killed. Max informs him that he will kill her husband for £ 8,000. Lying to Rice that he'll pay them both Ã, £ 1,000, Max gets Paddy to agree to do the job with him. Max, Paddy's brother and Max, Terry, went to practice shooting using the Mauser Broomhandle that Max's grandfather won him. When Paddy starts shooting, he accidentally shoots Terry. Finally, Max and Paddy could not kill the man and gave him £ 3,000 to leave the country, Max gave Paddy £ 1,000, and spent Ã, Â £ 4,000 for a motor home.
- Episode 6
Max and Paddy find the man they must kill in town, and then confronted by his angry wife, who suggests that he has slapped them. He also revealed to Paddy that he paid Max Ã, £ 8,000, in which Paddy only received Ã, £ 1,000. At the club, Brian has set a star on the night of Your Eyes to impress an upcoming brewery representative. However, Den Perry has another idea and abort the action by imitating Jerry. However, in a series of impressive scenes, all staff from the club dress up to be action, including Mary Saints as Lulu, Ray Von and Les Alanos as Adam and Ants, Kenny Senior as Britney Spears, Young Kenny as Meat Loaf, Jerry as Eminem and George Michael, Brian as Elton John and Spencer as Gary Glitter. At the end of the episode, Den Perry threatens Brian and talks to him about burning the club before and making threats to do it again, unaware that Brian has turned on the radio microphone on his desk, meaning that the whole club has overheard a conversation. Den Perry was arrested and staff celebrated. Ray Von then reminds Brian that now the truth has come out, he can get his license back. However, Brian decides to let Jerry remain a licensee and staff toast to Jerry. At the end of the episode, Max, frightened that there was an attack on him, would soon escape to the country in his mobile home, when Paddy decided to go with him, set the scene for the spin-off series. i> Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere .
Broadcast
- Series 1: six episodes, aired January 14, 2001 to February 18, 2001
- Series 2: six episodes, aired August 8, 2002 to September 12, 2002
Phoenix Nights are rarely repeated on British television. During an interview with Danny Baker for Peter Kay In Conversation , Kay stated he hates allowing his show, including Phoenix Nights , to be repeated because it "melts the quality" of the program, > Just Fools and Horses as an example of a highly respected program "undermined" by excessive recurring performances.
Potential of the third series
In September 2006, Kay revealed on BBC Radio 1 that the third series of Phoenix Nights have been written, but it is unknown when the series will be filmed. On May 8, 2007, another announcement by Kay was made promising, another series will be made. But Dave Spikey, in an interview with The Sentinel and Croydon Guardian at the end of 2009, stated that neither he nor fellow co-author Neil Fitzmaurice was aware of a plan to bring back the series. In a recent interview with Peter Kay he stated that he has written the third series of the Phoenix Nights and has even written a screenplay for it. However, when asked if he would return there, he said that he would prefer to do something new next. Kay also claims she has been approached to film the Phoenix Nights after the success of The Inbetweeners Movie . In August 2014, it was reported that Kay was in talks to revive the Phoenix Nights in a series of live performances for Comic Relief in 2015. In November 2014, Kay announced during a charity fundraiser at the Opera House Theater, Blackpool that the official announcement will be made regarding the resurrection of the event. Kay reiterated in April 2017 that the third series has been written but "things continue to hinder" the filming.
See also
- Peter Kay's Britain's Got a Pop Factor... and Maybe the New Celebrity Christine Soapstar Superstar Strictly on Ice
References
External links
- Phoenix Nights on IMDb
- Phoenix Nights in the British Comedy Guide
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