18 Days Now

By Hitch | Published: July 19, 2009

andrewbird

Andrew Bird
venue: Edge Festival @ HMV Picture House
group: Edge Festival
category: Music
related link: www.theedgefestival.com
duration: 150 mins

What is it?

A Chigaco based singer/songwriter who, sings viols and whistles through a plethora of beautiful music.

Why Should I Care?

Each year the Edge Festival goes through an overhaul and tries to make its place in the fringe calendar – but beside the big name acts like David Byrne and te Streets are some hidden gems. Andrew Bird is, I think, the perfect balance between obscurity and brilliance. Though I admit that I have only just discovered him through spotify, his career is four albums strong already and each one is superb. With a sound like his, live performances can be either dull or invigorating, and from what I hear,  Bird’s camp is the latter.

To hear him on spotify, click here.

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17 Days To Go

By Hitch | Published: July 19, 2009

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Morecambe
World premiere
Tim Whitnall’s play brilliantly celebrates Eric Morecambe, Comedian of the Century. Affectionate lad with funny bones, born entertainer, the man what brought us sunshine, ‘the tall one with glasses’. Hilarious, moving, sensational, Bob Golding is directed by Guy Masterson.
venue: Assembly @ Assembly Hall
group: Guy Masterson – Theatre Tours International & Feather Productions
category: Theatre
related link: www.theatretoursinternational.com
duration: 85 mins

What is it?

A biography/drama produced by Guy Masterson.

Why Should I Care?

I don’t think there is a single show produced by Guy Masterson that I have seen and not been affected by – his shows are always proffessional , well acted and funny.   But a play based on the life of Eric Morecambe, one of Britain’s most loved comic performers, has an added allure  that has been missing from other Mastersn shows I have seen – for once it is a theme to a Guy Masterson show that I know something about and know I will enjoy before hand.

To book tickets now click here.

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Countdown to the Fringe – 20 Days To Go – The Hotel

By Hitch | Published: July 16, 2009

Hello and welcome to the countdown to the Fringe! With only 20 days to go (because we all know it really starts on the 5th), I thought it might be fun to highlight a show a day worth waiting for.

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A comedy of sorts. Set in a building a short walk from Assembly Theatre, George Street. Directed by Mark Watson. ‘The highest achiever the Fringe has seen this decade’ (Times).
Not seated; not suitable for under-16s
venue: Assembly @ George Street
group: Invisible Dot
category: Theatre
related link: www.theinvisibledot.com
duration: 55 mins

What is it?

According to the website it is ‘Installation art meets promenade theatre meets comedy in the boldest show on the Fringe.” What that means is anyone’s guess, but

Why Should I Be Excited?

Though not made by the exact same company as a similar venture to perhaps the best show at last year’s festival ‘The Meeting’, the two I would argue will be closely linked. Both are made by talented individuals, both are somewhere between pretentious site specific theatre and sitcom, but both no doubt are very very funny. And that’s without mentioning it is being directed by former footlight and Mr. Fringe himself, Mark Watson.

To Book Tickets, click here.

Here’s a video of the same sort of guys doing their we need answers show from last years Fringe (and subsequently on commisioned for BBC4)

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A Poem

By Hitch | Published: July 10, 2009
1. Gordon Brown
Sat down
and started to talk.
His eyes spanned the room
pupils pierced the gloom,
but with his first vowel, began to balk.
2.
“Bloody Tories”
he muttered, stories
That gave away their cowardice
like one he spoke
crying Camerons toke
on jazz cigarette of cannabis.		 3.
“Why not heroin
or eyeball tonic and gin
not weed like a thug
if her were any sort of man
a jean claude van dam man
he’d do a real drug.”
4.
Relieving jacket,
PM reached for his pocket
removing a syringe from its pack
at first he couldn’t find it
tongue searching mind; “it’s
like looking for a needle in a hay stack”		 5.
Piercing the skin,
fresh smack rushed in
Gordon’s eyeballs started to roll;
relief spread through him,
lips lifted in grin
and from his chair his body did fall.
6.
The room fell silent,
and eyes fell violent,
upon this most outrageous crime;
what brown had forget
about the brown he had got
was that it was prime minister’s question time.
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Possibly The Greatest Piece of Design Ever

By Hitch | Published: May 7, 2009

That isn’t gimmicky, or just nice looking, or pretentious technology rubbish –

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Another Wonderful Animation

By Hitch | Published: May 7, 2009

This time using Radiohead’s “creep”, an acoustic cover (I think).

I couldn’t get it onto the page, but click on here, and check it out, it’s lovely.

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A Crab Riding a Jellyfish

By Hitch | Published: May 7, 2009

I’m really dissapointed by this video – what promises to be one of the greatest moments from the natural world turns out not to be a crab waving claws triumphantly from a top of a jelly fish, yelling “fuck you world”; instaed it amounts to little more than a next to dead crab accidently on a jellyfish. Damn you disney with your distorting child hood influence. damn you.

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Brilliantly Simple Video From Pete

By Hitch | Published: May 1, 2009

Just finished the schedules for Freshair semester 3 – and boy does it look good! Hitch and Doug will be making an appearance every Tuesday 5 til 6. 30 so be sure to c c c check us out. Might just play a bit of James, Gordon, Brown. I like how he starts to dance a bit as well.

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Day… well it doesn’t matter now does it. that obviously didn’t work.

By Hitch | Published: April 30, 2009

Daily updates haven’t been going to plan – now I can hear millions of young children weeping desperately up and down the land. That is not because I have some bizzare government endorsed access to small children, but sarcasm. For as long as it lasted, I had about one or two ideas. For those who were listening, or indeed reading, then you’ll be pleased to know dissertation is in and, suprisingly, finished. If I had been somewhat more prepared I would have taken a photo of my smug little pig face smiling broadly with death in my eyes. Or not.

But I’m blogging now to rebuff my feed, with this little gem – a wonderful little video made by a handful of people, hand animated (I imagine, though computers these days eh? who knows!) but it is beautifully sweet, sightly magical, but brilliantly apt, understanding the magic of summer love without spoiling it. Wonderful.

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Day 14. re Dj Medhi, Ed Recs and genitalia Disscount 5909.

By Hitch | Published: April 14, 2009

I might let Dj Mehdi and his ‘Pocket Piano’ crawl into my urethra and live there for the forseeable future.

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