New footage coming on CD and DVD

Rare early footage of Bill Hicks performing in the early Eighties is to be released later this year.

The major new package of two CDs and two DVDs also includes the little-seen short film Ninja Bachelor Party, which he made with fellow comic Kevin Booth, and a download card containing his original song Lo-Fi Troubadour.

The previously unreleased material includes an audio recording of a performance in San Ramon, California, and ‘bootleg’ video of him in Austin, Texas, both of which were found in Hicks’s archives.

Bill Hicks: The Essential Collection also includes interview footage with the self-proclaimed ‘Chomsky with dick jokes’ and a gallery of pictures from his personal archives. It will be released on October 4, priced £17.99 on the Ryko label. Click here to pre-order.

The release will come just a week after the acclaimed documentary American: The Bill Hicks Story is also released on DVD. Click here to order that.

Published: 17 Aug 2010