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Feeling Hot Hot Hot
Jun. 27th, 2011 11:57 pm...but not looking particularly hot as I sit without my trousers on, trying to stay cool.
I haven't ironed my curtains, so the rest of me has to stay fully clothed for now, you - and my neighbours - will be glad to know. I'm all right trouserless, though, being shorter than the window.
What fab weather... hope some of you lot have managed to get out and enjoy it. I've been reading people's accounts of Alt-Fiction that I wasn't able to get to and weather that only other people can enjoy only compounds my misery. I have actually been busy working, managing to escape this month to go to these things: The Gemmel Awards (as per last post),The Good Food Show (as per a forthcoming guest blog), a competition and an Edinburgh preview. The rest of the time, I have been doing editorial stuff, despairing at the lack of gardening and housework getting done. I haven't even got time to write this thing,so brevity is the order of the day.
The Funny's Funny competition was brilliant fun. You do tend to go into these things with your head singing 'Eye of the Tiger', but really, when you've got the likes of Pam Ford and Annette Fagon in your heat alone, you might as well just relish it as a chance to just 'do your best', meet other comics, and have a fab and groovy time. Which I did.
Ed previews seen so far this year (on the same night) are Juliet Meyer's I'm Not Spartacus and Liam Mullone's Down to the Bone. These went well together as they are both shows with their thinking caps on and both made me giggle like a Bedlamite. Fantastic! I've now got to hate Liam Mullone for 1) never saying I'm too pretty to be a comedian 2)arguing convincingly that I'm not working class and 3) being a bit brilliant. No hating Juliet - she's been on a HSBC march!
Next Ed preview is Jo Neary... and I am going to be hosting this, along with music from Sara Spade and Nin Harries.. so do come along to The Fishmarket for 8pm on Thursday 30th for some fab free entertainment:
Another glorious night of FREE entertainment in The Nook Cafe. Brilliant character comedian Joanna Neary presents her new show (en route to the Edinburgh Fringe Fest) plus live music from Nin Harries, Ukulele Lady Sara Spade and poetry and comedy from host Donna Scott!
Doors at 8pm people - don't be late!
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ABOUT THE SHOW...
Where do you go when you’re 15, bored, living in a backwater and it’s 1987? Joanna’s delightful, hilarious story of teenage longing, crushed dreams, weak squash and table tennis.
Youth Club is a brand new one-person character comedy inspired by Camborne Youth Club and guaranteed to make you delighted and horrified in equal measure.
As seen in six series of BBC’s ‘Ideal’ as Judith
* Meet! Mr Eddy, the well meaning Youth Club Leader who serves the (warm) squash at the hatch
* Admire! Wayne Gayson’s outfit
* Gasp! as Diana Budd attempts to play a simple ball game and messes it up
* Frown! as you are hear tell of fashion crimes from the late 1980s
* Sing along! to the rude nursery rhymes that clearly rang out across our nations playgrounds
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'Skilled and subtle studies in a rich variety of characters borne from a fragile and recognisable childhood were both hilarious and moving and drenched in the minuteae of everyday life. Audience members were gasping with delight and painful recognition of some very big dreams and very small lives’ Latest
‘Character comedy of the highest order’ List
‘Superbly funny’ Guardian
There will also be two songs and they are very very good indeed.
I haven't ironed my curtains, so the rest of me has to stay fully clothed for now, you - and my neighbours - will be glad to know. I'm all right trouserless, though, being shorter than the window.
What fab weather... hope some of you lot have managed to get out and enjoy it. I've been reading people's accounts of Alt-Fiction that I wasn't able to get to and weather that only other people can enjoy only compounds my misery. I have actually been busy working, managing to escape this month to go to these things: The Gemmel Awards (as per last post),The Good Food Show (as per a forthcoming guest blog), a competition and an Edinburgh preview. The rest of the time, I have been doing editorial stuff, despairing at the lack of gardening and housework getting done. I haven't even got time to write this thing,so brevity is the order of the day.
The Funny's Funny competition was brilliant fun. You do tend to go into these things with your head singing 'Eye of the Tiger', but really, when you've got the likes of Pam Ford and Annette Fagon in your heat alone, you might as well just relish it as a chance to just 'do your best', meet other comics, and have a fab and groovy time. Which I did.
Ed previews seen so far this year (on the same night) are Juliet Meyer's I'm Not Spartacus and Liam Mullone's Down to the Bone. These went well together as they are both shows with their thinking caps on and both made me giggle like a Bedlamite. Fantastic! I've now got to hate Liam Mullone for 1) never saying I'm too pretty to be a comedian 2)arguing convincingly that I'm not working class and 3) being a bit brilliant. No hating Juliet - she's been on a HSBC march!
Next Ed preview is Jo Neary... and I am going to be hosting this, along with music from Sara Spade and Nin Harries.. so do come along to The Fishmarket for 8pm on Thursday 30th for some fab free entertainment:
Another glorious night of FREE entertainment in The Nook Cafe. Brilliant character comedian Joanna Neary presents her new show (en route to the Edinburgh Fringe Fest) plus live music from Nin Harries, Ukulele Lady Sara Spade and poetry and comedy from host Donna Scott!
Doors at 8pm people - don't be late!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ABOUT THE SHOW...
Where do you go when you’re 15, bored, living in a backwater and it’s 1987? Joanna’s delightful, hilarious story of teenage longing, crushed dreams, weak squash and table tennis.
Youth Club is a brand new one-person character comedy inspired by Camborne Youth Club and guaranteed to make you delighted and horrified in equal measure.
As seen in six series of BBC’s ‘Ideal’ as Judith
* Meet! Mr Eddy, the well meaning Youth Club Leader who serves the (warm) squash at the hatch
* Admire! Wayne Gayson’s outfit
* Gasp! as Diana Budd attempts to play a simple ball game and messes it up
* Frown! as you are hear tell of fashion crimes from the late 1980s
* Sing along! to the rude nursery rhymes that clearly rang out across our nations playgrounds
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'Skilled and subtle studies in a rich variety of characters borne from a fragile and recognisable childhood were both hilarious and moving and drenched in the minuteae of everyday life. Audience members were gasping with delight and painful recognition of some very big dreams and very small lives’ Latest
‘Character comedy of the highest order’ List
‘Superbly funny’ Guardian
There will also be two songs and they are very very good indeed.
