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Today In Hornestory
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On this day in 2003, Alex Horne was up to something. Daily posts of newspaper clippings and wayback machine gleanings from the Horneverse.
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29 October 2011 - The Horne Section rides again! This time with Peter Serafinowicz, Charlie Baker et Marcel Lucont. Bof.

The Telegraph advertises the above with a shrugging Tim Key from a previous show.
28 October 2021 - Alex says "I love you" to Greg.

S12E6 of #TaskmasterUK airs.
27 October 2022 - A banter section airs which dies so completely, Alex offers Greg 50 euros. #Taskmaster S16E5 Chip Biffington airs.
26 October 2013 - AHPTHS re-run running on digital-only radio4 extra. Exciting stuff!
25 October 2006 - TKDay enters urban dictionary, planted there by Verbal Gardener, Horne.

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t...
24 October 2018 - Horne is televised poking out of a grotto.

taskmaster.info/episode.php?... #Taskmaster S7E8 airs.
23 October 2019 - Shaqinahat.
Sorry, Shaq in a hat? Yeah, Shaquille O'Neal wearing a hat, Shaq in a hat. Shaq in a hat? Why are you saying Shaq in a hat? Two metres 45 is equivalent to Shaq in a hat. Shiq in a hit. Shiq in a hit in a shid.

#taskmaster Series 9 Episode 8 airs.
22 October 2011 - "Playful, Jazz-hating" Alex Horne and a "really good band" (and Tim Minchin).

Once again, photos nabbed from the incredible diamondgeyser on flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/diamo...
21 October 2021 - Taskmaster's 100th Episode airs. Little Alex Horne looks like a big human shrew.
20 October 2014 - Ah yes, before he was "Little."
19 October 2011 - Review of the first 2011 Criterion show runs in The Independent.
18 October 2011 - This all tracks.
17 October 2005 - The Pavilion in Brighton again - only this time it's 2005, in Latin and "strangely entrancing."

Full article (ads included!): www.theargus.co.uk/news/6805791...
16 October 2007 - Nearing the end of the World In One City: Kiribati and Haiti

I'm sure the full story for each will show up any day now. It's not like he's busy.
15 October 2011 - The Horne Section gigs with the UK's most famous monkey, the Pub Landlord and an accomplished opera/burlesque/autoharp performer. I'd be realllll grateful to anyone with photo/video evidence 🙏
14 October 2020 - Final night of a triumphant return run to a socially distanced Ronnie Scott's.

(Article from the 15th. Photos from the 13th. Slow news day, okay?!)

Full article: londonjazznews.com/2020/10/15/a...
13 October 2014 - Alex hosts the BUG special.

Genuinely disturbing (but relatively free of actual bugs) promo video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nddo...
12 October 2003 - Same place, one year earlier.

Full review (published 14 Oct 2003): www.theargus.co.uk/news/5102882...
11 October 2004 - Five separate papers hocking Horne. Unfortunately Bluesky only allows four.
10 October 2007 - World In One City: Libya.

Still waiting on that full story...
9 October 2003 - Some incredibly charming reporting about up-and-coming Sussex comedy king and "thoroughly nice boy" Alex Horne.

www.theargus.co.uk/news/5103025...
Awww I’d never really thought of it as an honorific but it absolutely is 👏
8 October 2011 - The Horne Section begins their clearly difficult to describe run at The Criterion.

"Shambolic" wins the award for 2008-2014's-most-frequently-used-descriptor-of-thing-with-Tim-Key-in.