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All the shows I saw at Brighton Fringe 2024
Over on my newsletter I’ve posted links to all the Fringe, Spiegeltent, and Festival shows I went to this year. I’ve probably forgotten a couple, but this is how posterity shall remember it. I had a lovely time, and enjoyed excellent company throughout. Next year, I think I’ll take a few more risks and see… Read more
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Ace Doctor Who Podcast Episode 24: Boom
I’m greatly enjoying the new series of Doctor Who, and I’m especially enjoying recording new episodes of the Ace Doctor Who Podcast to talk all about it with my co-hosts Kamal and Paul. This week’s episode (and podcast!) is especially strong. If you listen to the end, there’s a little surprise treat for fans of… Read more
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RIP Arthur, the best of all the good boys
“Animals are a lot like people, Mrs Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks” – An elephant expert on The Simpsons This week I have been processing the death of Arthur, dear beloved Vizsla of my friend… Read more
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Ace Doctor Who Podcast Episode 23: Space Babies and The Devil’s Chord
“You’re not having a vortex of eternal whatever without taxation” Good news: Who is back, which means the Ace Doctor Who podcast is back too. We recorded this remotely from various London locations, one of us with a cat. I love making this podcast and I think this is one of our best episodes. Do… Read more
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Re-Enactment: The Diggers, Mark Thomas, Victoria Melody and the Brighton Folk Choir
“Your freedom to uphold / seeing Cavaliers of old / to kill you if they could / and rights from you withhold /Stand up now Diggers all!” Was it all just a fever dream? A sunny Saturday lunchtime, and my folk choir is singing a 17th century folk ballad in Whitehawk, encouraging gardeners with pitchforks… Read more
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Jack In The Green, Catalyst Club, and Mark Thomas: 3 Brighton Folk Choir gigs in one week
Ours is a seasonal choir, in which we learn old songs with a sense of time and place. Sometimes this can be bittersweet, especially when sing of trees and birds that are now rare or under threat, but it helps reconnect one with the cyclical nature of existence, and the importance of community, ritual, and… Read more
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It’s Actually About Ethics In Comedy Journalism
Who the hell does Jeff Dreadnought think he is? – Half Man Half Biscuit, “Bad Review” Of the three Brighton Fringe shows I reviewed at the weekend, two have been taken down, for varying and mildly amusing reasons. The second of these was fair enough. The show was a Work in Progress, and either the… Read more
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Brighton Folk Choir: Apple Blossom Day, Stanmer Park
Last folk choir gig, we were still in wassail season: January, cold, mulled cider, and songs swathed in winter spirits and fear of darkness. Late April, and you would expect a different idiom. But it’s been a cold and damp spring, as befits our climate-uncertain times of underwater county cricket grounds and new-build estates on… Read more
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