The rest
Fairnie's creative scope stretched far
beyond music and fine art. He starred in
The
Kid, a silent TV comedy series broadcast by the BBC in 1986. In
partnership with Willie Williams, he conceived and designed the rock'n'roll
board game
Hype, billed as "the only
board game with all the slime and grime of the music business". He was a
part-time
Charlie Chaplin lookalike,
assignments including some of the 1980s IBM newspaper ads. Fairnie was also an
accomplished
chicken hypnotist, to
the delight of mostly bewildered crowds. And there's
more...
