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The Comedy Arcade – live at the Camden Fringe, Water Rats, Kings Cross, Sunday 8th August
Cor this is a late show! 9:30pm on a Sunday is when I’m usually cowering in existential terror of the week ahead. So it was nice, instead, to be at the Water Rats – historically, one of Kings Cross’ most “anything can happen” venues – to enjoy Vix Leyton and her Comedy Arcade. The Comedy… Read more
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Review: Weapons of Mass Hilarity, 2Northdown, Monday 16th August
“Where do you want to sit?” “The front”. Not the usual exchange when attending stand-up comedy, but this was a show with a difference. Weapons of Mass Hilarity showcases comics with links to the Middle East, and the friend I was with is British Iraqi. Of course she wanted to sit at the front and… Read more
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New York I Love You
It’s been a while since I did a cover. Apologies for the slightly ropey singing and playing. But the emotion is there. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XF2Uq-56lvzpVXhQzxZZOwVFQzW6mua-/view?usp=drivesdk Read more
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Review – Funny Femmes, 2Northdown, Sunday 15th August
The conveyor belt of straight white men never stops. I should know: I myself was made at the straight white man factory. Production is booming, and despite consumer feedback, many of my model think that a) we’re funny and b) people should listen to what we have to say. And so we are vacuum packed,… Read more
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North Downs Way and the Pilgrims Way, Farnham to Guildford
Frazzled after a gig, I took myself off for a walk. Many years ago, I attempted to walk the full North Downs way with a now ex-friend. But for reasons I no longer recall, we started at Guildford, rather than the actual start point of Farnham. And so, a decade later, but still feeling early… Read more
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Promotion
I am rubbish at promotion in both senses of the word. In this instance I am talking about telling people there is a thing happening, and it would be nice if they came to the thing, rather than climbing the greasy pole. But this feels pretty greasy too. Google and Facebook have eviscerated the very… Read more
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Review: Paperboy, The Lion & Unicorn, The Camden Fringe
Emerging in preposterously oversized suits and an explosion of physical banter, our two would-be journalists, Matt and Matthew, dominate the stage with their volume, their aggressive movements, and their self-entitlement. Meanwhile Phoebe, their assistant, sits quietly in the corner, staring at her empty inbox, trying desperately not to react… Life imitates art imitates life. This… Read more
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REVIEW: Janette Mason featuring David McAlmont – Pizza Express High Holborn, 25th June 2021
David McAlmont is a star regardless of whether he’s walking down Streatham Hill, or dropping off a mattress at the local tip, or on stage in front of thousands of adoring fans. And he’s also a star in front of a socially distanced audience in the basement of a Pizza Express in central London, muching… Read more
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Review: Hotel Michelle at Museum of Comedy, Holborn
Banana. Spatula. Improv exists via audience suggestions, and sometimes audiences aren’t very imaginative. Still, it was a surprise to see a Tuesday night audience at the Museum of Comedy in Holborn transmogrify into an Edinburgh Fringe midnight audience. In came the predictable shouts for strippers, nuns, and sex dungeons. But like all good improvisation groups,… Read more
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Film Review: Limbo, starring Amir El-Masry and Vikash Bhai
This film opens with two middle aged Scottish TEFL teachers doing a sexy dance to teach “consent 101” to a bunch of bemused asylum seekers. The scene is beautifully and starkly framed; these woolly liberals grabbing butt, not those seeking a better life, are the butt of the joke. But as the camera cut from… Read more
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