Real name Chris Sievey, Frank Sidebottom was an intentionally shoddy light entertainer who hung around in the fringes of British popular culture over the last twenty-five years. He even wrote and drew ...

I have flashes of memories of Frank Sidebottom’s public wake, which took place in Manchester’s Castlefield Bowl for an audience of 5000 following Frank’s – or rather Chris Sievey and Frank’s – death, ...

The first picture from the upcoming movie Frank has been released online. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Domhnall Gleeson and Michael Fassbender, underneath a giant Frank Sidebottom mask, feature in the ...

"No one's ever seen him with his head off - that was the big thing." Altitude Films has revealed the official UK trailer for the documentary Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story, from director Steve ...

Man, I loved Frank Sidebottom. A stage character created, and lived, by computer games programmer, cartoonist and musician Chris Sievey in the eighties, and a popular media figure and music performer ...

A surreal film about a bandleader who wears a fake head on top of his own doesn't necessarily scream "true story," but for co-screenwriter Jon Ronson Frank has one major element of reality. Ronson ...

Walk down any British high street in the 1980s, and you’d be bombarded by an array of computers for sale. The Commodore 64, Dragon 32 and Acorn Electron formed a wave of microcomputers, so-called for ...

With enormous bright blue eyes and pouting cherry lips, Frank Sidebottom’s bizarre image was a fixture in Manchester for years. In fact, we became so accustomed to him, that it didn’t seem odd to see ...

Steve Sullivan's 'Being Frank' introduces the restlessly creative artist behind British cult favorite Frank Sidebottom. By THR Staff Familiar to film buffs as the inspiration for 2014’s Domhnall ...

Cult comic Frank Sidebottom is being treated for cancer, he has announced. The funnyman, whose real name is Chris Sievey, told fans about his illness through his blog, but put a brave face on by ...