BBC Radio Interview with The Dudely Lama and the Grand Old Dude of York, regarding the 2011 UK Census and the Dudestock Music Festival
Hey most of you die-hard (er, die-limber?) Dudeists probably know that there’s a lot of Dudeist happenings going on in merry olde England these days. Though the majority of our Dudeist Priests are from the US, many of our most enthusiastic and active acolytes and evangelists reside across the pond upon the British Isles. Our forum is full of cool and thoughtful British dudes, our Dude’s Prayer was recently arranged by British photographer Martyn Goodacre, and several of our fine Dudespaper contributors (most notably Rev Ed Churchman) are of the same ancient national affilation.
A tip of the hat here to our British bretheren and Irish monks. It’s jolly dude to have you with us, in the parlance of olde tymes.
We’ve already introduced you to The Grand Old Dude of York, Kristian Lewin. The good man and thurrah that he is, he’s not only working hard to get his countryfolk to put "Dudeism" as their religion on their census this year, but he’s also arranging Dudestock, a Dudeist music festival on June 18th in his hometown of York (hence, the name which he self-applies). Just the other day, both he and the Dudely Lama were interviewed for a BBC radio show where they endeavored to make the UK privy to the new shit. Now for the moment you’ve all been waiting for…
And there it goes. "Made up religion"? "It all sounds very Californian, doesn’t it?" "It’s not a religion or anything"? It seems that we Dudeists have our work cut out for us over there. Sounds exhausting! Glad we have some good dudes and thurrah to help convert the country to the one dude path. In all fairness, this was for a regular radio show about religion so the audience is probably a bit more 
conservative than the Wilde-hearted rabble rousers which make up a lot of the UK broadcast scene. Parts, anyway. Nevertheless, everyone was very nice and of course far more polite than their US counterparts tend to be.
We certainly invite more Brits (and Irish republicans) to jump on the rust-colorated bus. The new website of Dudestock looks far out. And the census movement needs help getting the word out. If anyone wants to help in 
any way, please contact Kristian via his sites. Recently we appointed an enthusiastic and talented young thespian Adam Brummitt as the First Dude of Exeter who will also be working to gather the faithful and set up some league games of some sort. Who knows what the future holds for Dudearchy in the UK?
God save the Queen in her damned undies.
You can listen to the entire BBC show here.
NEW! download Alex Strangwayes-Booth’s podcast version of the interview, featuring a bit more commentary at the end (Dudeism starts at 23:00)
This is the dawning of the age of abiding us.
Thanks for the mention brother!
Great work guys. So we’ve done BBC Radio 7, and now BBC Radio York, maybe this time next year we can make it to Radio 1,2,4 or 5! Moving onwards and upwards :)
Which reminds me…
The original Dudarchy in the UK thread on the forum can be found here: http://dudeism.com/smf/index.php?topic=1201.0
Anyone who wants to get involved and contribute to a future Dudespaper project about the UK, please drop by and join in the discussion. Would love to get more people involved to make this thing happen.
Maude up religion? What’s a Maude up religion Dudes? Or was it made up? Parla usted ingles?
Far out Dudes, that’s going to be a great story to unfold, a kind of light in the darkness. Great UK. I just hope something similar will happen in Italy with the 2011 census. Dudeism throws rocks everywhere. :)
…very Dude cool, oh his Dudeness Olly Lama, your editorial on the BBC was not only delivered Dude cool, but quite insightful….better take er easy….. of course I know ya will.. I know you don’t want to take the wrap for being that guy who turned Dudeism into one of the world’s fastest growing religions..your that good… but you got plenty of room for now –so keep doing your thing , Man! Nice Job!
May the Crimson Yak be with those of the Savage Island & with Us ALL.
This could be bigger than Braveheart or Rob Roy!
Never before has “it all sounds very Californian” been more sneering. Never mind – it all gets the word out there!
This new information that has come to light will really tie my year together, man. Count me in. I’ll be there!
Who do we contact about the music line up? We’ve got a great band and luckily, unlike Walter, we do roll on Shabbos!
You know our band could really tie the gig together, dude!!
@ Rev Jonty: Unfortunately brother the quota is now full. If you click on my name though it will link to my FB page. Please send me the bands’ details and I will add you to our waiting list in case any pull out.
Keep abiding duder!
“May the Crimson Yak be with those of the Savage Island & with Us ALL.”
What, in the name of Merry Fuck and her Seven Dancing Nymphs are you blathering about? “The Savage Island”? Do you mean the Portuguese Selvagens Islands (also known as The Salvage and Savage Islands)? The UK has had many names in the past (the Isle of Apples/The Misty Isles/Avalon/Albion/Land of Heroes – Chinese, nomenclature – / Those Bastards Over There – Mainland European nomenclature / Pommie-Land, etc, etc) but that’s the first time I have heard it referred to as ‘The Savage Island’. Mind you, if you find yourself in any High St of a Saturday Night then perhaps the name ain’t far from the truth.
@A.D.o York – Hope all goes well, Dude.
i googled it. it’s a play that takes place in tibet. there’s not a literal connection. there might not be any connection. lotta ins and outs. maybe the dudely/dalai lama thing?
That’s f’n interesting, man – a play you say: just had a peep and it looks as if it could be a limber way to spend some time. Perhaps there are some thespian Dudes already working on an adaptation.
I haven’t been to view a play in years, man; the last one was close to 18 years ago. It was about Aleister Crowley (ghost of, conjured up) a two man production – don’t remember what it was called but will always recall the first (coherent) line;
(Ghost of Crowley, after having just been conjured – walks to edge of stage and stares with contempt at the audience): “Oh for fuck sake, we’re in the cunting suburbs.”
Anyway, if anyone has seen the Crimson Yak thing, why not post a review?
Bush-league Psych-out shit.
Braveheart _was_ a Lebowski ancestor. And very thurrah.
Dont forget the Scots Dudes!!
I missed this, first time round: “Recently we appointed an enthusiastic and talented young thespian Adam Brummitt as the First Dude of Exeter”
Did you now – well, I’m first Dude of Pomona and so’s my wife. C’mon, this is basic dudeism: no bishops, no deacons, no ‘arches; or fuckin’ monsignors and no ‘firsts’. Just pick a name and slap a Dude at the front or back. That’s it.
Are you a member of the Dudean People’s Front?
SPLITTER!!!!!
Fuck off! I’m with the Popular Front!
I say ‘with’ but there’s just me, however I’m very keen and I wouldn’t hesitate to lay down someone elses life in the name of the cause. If there were anyone else . . look just fuck off you imperialist pomeranian!
Eh, well, I’ve said it before in my first of what I hope to be a series of articles on The Spiritual Bungalow, Levelling, that names don’t mean squat around here. You get to choose your handle and sometimes you’ll get a nice title based on deed (or somesuch) but it doesn’t mean jack in the great scheme of things. We’re all still equals, no high-erachy around here, Dudes (even outside of that tired old Catholic model ;)
That being said… where’s my damned title? :)
Tickets for Dudestock are now on sale Dudes.
http://www.dudestock.co.uk