Because we obviously haven’t embarrassed ourselves enough yet.

We’re really pleased to announce that work on Friday Night Fire Season Two is underway!  The first of four shows will hit the stage at Stanley Park Baptist Church on October 16, 2009, with the topic Secrets and Mysteries.

Advertising and such will be making its way around shortly, so keep your eyes peeled.  After all, peeled eyes are a delicacy in some countries.

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So What Happened?

We’re a little behind on show wrap-ups, so let’s dive in, shall we?

On February 20, our theme was Looking Forward; Looking Back.  Among other things, we saw:

• Kurt and Lanyard in a special Friday Night Fire backstage video
• A song by Julie Guthrie
• Kurt and Lanyard’s New Years resolutions
• An evil computer program
• A rerun of Grace Ducky’s Psychic Hotline
• A visit from Coach Jim Diamond
• A message from Gary Rush
• And an amazing (-ly loud) concert by none other than our friends Manic Drive!

And then everything went mad! We suffered a number of technical issues leading up to episode 4, which put us in a bit of a bind, which is why…

On May 22, we had a very special episode of Friday Night Fire called, The Hastily Thrown Together at the Last Minute Show.  This show consisted mainly of “best-of” material that we pulled out of the vault for you, like:

• Kent and Lanyard in The Friday Night Fire Public Service Announcements
• A very familiar-sounding sermon by Rev. Dent
• A special message from Lanyard about sponsorship programs
• A rerun of Luging Everything
• Something new to you… Videos from long before Kurt and Lanyard began hosting the Fire called The Office and The Big One
• A message from Gary Rush

But our next show will be all-new, and so fresh you can smell the ink on our fingers!

We’ve posted our videos below, along with a special, never-before-seen vintage clip.

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Backstage at Friday Night Fire

Kurt, Lanyard and Gary think about the future of Friday Night Fire.

see it on Vimeo | join Vimeo to download it (46.41MB)

And check this out: Backstage at Friday Night Fire is licensed under a Creative Commons License (by-nc 2.5 Canada), so you can do all kinds of stuff with it besides just watching!  Check the link for details.

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The Big One!

One of our vintage videos from about ten years ago.  Put together with the help of our good friend Tyson Ibele before he became all internet-famous.

A local ad that would probably run Sunday afternoon during a Golden Girls repeat.  Do you understand what this is about?  Because we don’t.

see it on Vimeo | join Vimeo to download it (3.05MB)

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The Office

Another oldie from the vaults.  A typical day at the office.  Thanks again to Tyson.

see it on Vimeo | join Vimeo to download it (20.15MB)

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Waiting Room

A little kid bothers Gary in the doctor’s office.  We didn’t even show this one at the Fire, so it’s a special web-only treat!

It’s not very good! Enjoy!

see it on Vimeo | join Vimeo to download it (18.7MB)

Can you hear the pixels chiming in the wind?

By popular demand… okay, by the demand of a handful of nerds*… we have expanded the Friday Night Fire online presence.  We now have our own Facebook group, and have cross-posted our videos to YouTube (and, again, Facebook).  Let’s talk about it.

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Facebook

Our Facebook group, here, is a place for you to do whatever you want.  Chat, message, ask questions, or just join and forget.  More importantly, for us, is the chance it gives us to send out announcements to group members about upcoming shows, etc.  As soon as we reach a critical mass, we’ll begin doing that.  Also expect pictures and other stuff to show up soon.  Otherwise, it’s your group.  Use it for whatever seems best to you.

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YouTube

Okay, we’re on YouTube now, so stop saying we should be.  You win!

The Downside

• YouTube videos are stinky quality (even the HD versions).
• YouTube commenters are rightly notorious for being vicious and immature (and we are sensitive flowers).
• You can’t download the videos without special extensions/scripts.

The Upside

• Over 140 random strangers watched Billy Stubbs within 12 hours.

So that settles it.  Our YouTube channel is here.

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All funny aside, we hope these additions to our burgeoning online empire will make it fun and easy for you to enjoy our content, and more importantly, share it with your friends.  Our live shows are the focus of our ministry, and we hope to see a wide, diverse, audience at Friday Night Fire.

* We’re total nerds too.

After eight years Friday Night Fire rises from the ashes…

What is The Fire? — Why not ask, “what is a rainbow?”  “What makes the flowers bloom?”  “Where do the passing years go?”* We cannot say, because the answers to these questions cannot be known.**

Suffice it to say that from AD 1994 to 2000, Friday Night Fire strode the earth like a colossus.  No, not a colossus.  What’s that other thing…?  A Yugo.  That’s it.  Friday Night Fire strode the earth like a boxy Yugoslavian car.

It was an eccentric variety-show style performance unlike anything professional actors and comedians would condescend to be associated with.  It was cheap; it was loud; it was weird…  but ultimately, it was ours, and we loved it.

Performed on a semi-irregular basis in such locations as the hay loft of a barn, a high school cafeteria and a church gymnatorium, The Fire was something beloved of a few, admired by many, and witnessed by maybe about 8-or-900 people in total, if we’re being generous.

What made Friday Night Fire unique among its peers was that it didn’t really have any peers.  It was like a cross between Late Night with Conan O’Brien… and a tomato.  (I leave you to visualize that on your own.) Enough about the past.  I have already spoiled the magic, and besides, those years are behind us.***

The new and improved(sic) Friday Night Fire is not the same as before.  It is older.  It is, perhaps, wiser.  And, having suffered a near-death experience, it is certainly more conscious of the sodium level in it’s diet.  (Really, you can’t be too careful about salt.)

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Friday Night Fire returns to the grand central stage of Stanley Park Baptist Church on October 17, 2008.

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*Answers: a) a cunningly disguised mongoose, b) insecurity, c) they are processed into an industrial-grade slurry

**Yes, they can; I just told you.

***They have already been processed into an industrial-grade slurry.