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What
begins with a hangover, a warm beer problem, and the small matter of a civil
war somehow ends with feral dogs, Elvis impersonators, Father Ted obsessives,
and the accidental invention of a festival that really shouldn't work - but
spectacularly does. TedFest: Nothing but the Truth is the wildly entertaining true story behind TedFest, the
much-loved festival celebrating Channel 4's iconic sitcom Father Ted.
Written by Peter
Philips, one of the festival's co-founders, the book charts how a Welsh
writer, an Irish filmmaker, and a succession of terrible ideas collided across Sri Lanka, Wales, Fargo, and the west coast of Ireland to create a
cultural phenomenon. Along the way, readers encounter real and faked
tsunamis, exploding generators, aggrieved Amtrak guards, political spats, pub
arguments, and a truly ridiculous plan to push a decrepit milk float around
Ireland for forty days and forty nights. Against all logic, it works.
Told
with razor-sharp humour, unexpected tenderness, and a deep affection for
glorious failure, TedFest: Nothing but the Truth is a celebration of friendship, chaos, civic stubbornness, and
the strange magic that happens when people commit wholeheartedly to something
utterly daft.
Part memoir, part travelogue, and part love letter to Father Ted, festivals, pubs, and
joyful resistance, this is a book for comedy fans, festival-goers, and anyone
who believes that sometimes the silliest ideas are the most important ones.
