Simon Munnery - Other Works

Other Works

Munnery has several CDs available: Alan Parker - Blast From The Past (featuring Stewart Lee on guitar and Al Murray on drums), Simon Munnery's Experimental Half Hour (2 CD's from the Resonance FM radio show of the same name), AGM recorded live at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2003, and BucketHead: Phenomenon Anon And On.

Munnery had a short lived career as a video game programmer. His most famous title was a version of Asteroids for the Commodore International VIC 20 (a game that Jeff Minter once described as a "pile of wank"). He also authored several games for the ZX81. The ZX81 games he wrote : Road Race, Breakout and Space Invaders. The Vic 20 games he wrote : Asteroids, Cosmiads and Scramble.

In 2007, Simon appeared as Alan Parker on a music track by The Orb called Grey Clouds, a take off of their earlier track Little Fluffy Clouds. It features on the Annie Nightingale album called Y4K on Distinct'ive Records.

Two DVDs of his work were released in 2007 - the first IAMTV, covering his the Perrier Award Nominated show from the 1999 Edinburgh Fringe, was closely followed by Hello produced by gofasterstripe.com, a more recent stand-up performance.

In 2009, Munnery starred in an award-winning animated rotoscope short, titled 'Yellow Belly End', co-written and directed by Philip Bacon, a student of the National Film and Television School. In the 9 minute film, Munnery appears in a bird costume and contemplates a cliff. He is credited as 'Bird'.

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