VICTOR
& BARRY
BIOGRAPHY:
Comedy duo of Alan Cumming and Falkirk born Forbes Masson, started performing
as a couple of Kelvinside dandies, Victor & Barry, in the 1980's. The duo
were nominated for a Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1988,
toured Australia in 1989, playing the Sydney Opera House, and were killed off
(as characters) onstage at the London Palladium in the early 1990's. After releasing
a single and an album in the late 1980's, and performing in a sitcom "The
High Life", the duo went their seperate ways, with Cumming making a living
as a Hollywood actor, and Masson taking a role in "Eastenders".
RELEASES:
"Glasgow" (7 inch single, Jammy Records, 1988)
"Hear Victor & Barry and Faint" (cassette album, Jammy Records,
1988)