comedy
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A Small Interview With Myself
For This Machine Kills Wasps, my new music and comedy night, I have returned to Facebook for the first time since Nick Clegg was popular. This was solely in order to set up an event page, but I have realised that 95% of open mic bookings in this city are still on that dystopian corner… Read more
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This Machine Kills Wasps
In just under a month’s time, on 2nd February, This Machine Kills Wasps, a new, alternative music, comedy, and musical comedy night, will take place in Brighton, at the lovely Folklore Rooms. It‘s me. It’s my night. My first one in Brighton, a city where I own a bed, a bicycle, and between two and… Read more
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“2022 comedy highlights with James Walsh”
Note: this article originally appeared in the Morning Star newspaper, and online on their website here Yer generic Friday night upstairs at the Goat & Gangrene in Crapton-on-Brine might still be booking eight white blokes complaining about their divorces, but in the urban centres the alternative scene is as exciting, experimental and inclusive as it’s… Read more
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MJ Hibbett; James Walsh; Annabel Edmonds; Simon Topping: live at The Pipeline, Brighton, Wednesday 19th October 2022
It was my first gig, and MJ Hibbett’s 873rd*. I’ve been on stage plenty of times for comedy, but this was the first time I’d stood up to sing my songs at strangers. On a night where much of England was glued to its smartphones, trying to ascertain the latest in the Liz Truss melodrama,… Read more
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I’ve started writing regularly about comedy for the Morning Star. Back in the day I had a culture column for them, writing about everything from books to video games. I seem to remember having a very earnest byline photo and a pun-based column title – “Culture Matters”, I believe. I remember being super pleased when… Read more
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Christian Brighty: Playboy, Brighton Fringe
I first saw Brighty as 1/3 of clown collective Privates, which is an unusual number of balls. Here, he plays a very different kind of testicle in the shape of eighteenth century heartbreaker Lord Christian Brighty – an ancestor, perhaps – in this very enjoyable hour of caddery, invisible ballroom partners, and ships struggling with… Read more
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