Co-creator / writer of Outnumbered; What We Did On Our Holiday; Drop The Dead Donkey. Star of Old Harry's Game; radio & TV regular on The News Quiz; I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue; Have I Got News For You; Q.I.
In his 60 years on this planet, comedy writer and performer Andy Hamilton has experienced many changes. For instance, he was once a 6'4"-tall professional basketball player, until a tree fell on him. But, of course, change is an inescapable part of the human condition. Why? Is that fair? Some changes are good, some bad. Why can't...
That bloke. You know. The Irish guy. No, not the bald one. The other one. You know him. The one Carol from work really likes. Wait, that might be Jason Byrne. Anyway. Funny chap. Has a new show!
Legendary folk-rock troubadour Donovan came to prominence over 50 years ago. His eclectic and distinctive style which drew from jazz, pop, psychedelia and world music were displayed on hits like 'Catch The Wind' (for which he won an Ivor Novello Award), 'Colours', 'Sunshine Superman' and 'Mellow Yellow', among others. He famously taught John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison to finger pick the guitar on their famous trip to India to study Transcendental Meditation, while other artists who have cited him as an influence include Led Zepplin and Belle and Sebastian. Donovan was...
Eddi Reader was brought into the limelight with Fairground Attraction and their single 'Perfect' and parent album First of a Million Kisses which both topped the British charts.
However, it has been her subsequent solo albums which signalled her increasing ability to assimilate different musical styles and make them all very much her own.
From the traditional to the contemporary, Eddi brings to joyous life all forms of song and what sets Reader apart is the depth and quality of the emotional performance; her ability not only to move the listener but to connect her...
THE BLUES BAND - 35 Years and Back for More Paul Jones, Dave Kelly, Tom McGuinness, Rob Townsend and Gary Fletcher. Many of the Blues Band's 21st century fans weren't even born when these five virtuosos, already music industry veterans, decided to fly in the face of musical fashion in 1979 and form a band 'just to play the blues'. No one could have predicted that, 35 years on, they'd still be dazzling audiences with their showmanship and virtuosity. About 20 albums and thousands of gigs later, they've earned a reputation around the world as one of the finest exponents of the blues...
Disintegration of the ice caps? A rampaging herd of bulls in central Exeter? Collapse of the British Government (please!)?
Apart from Doctor Who, who knows what will be in the news on Tue 17 Nov?
Whatever the headlines that day, Daniel Bye and a team of specially-selected artists will digest and respond to them for your viewing pleasure, creating an evening of urgently topical contemporary performance about the big issues of today. Not yesterday, today.
Choose your own path through an imagined world... or perhaps your neighbour will choose for you. Without leaving your seat, you - or most of you, anyway - can go wherever you want. If not, don’t worry. Life is full of second chances. Explore a new interactive performance from the creator of The Unbuilt Room.
Commissioned by and developed at Battersea Arts Centre.
“[Kriebel’s] words are powerful, conjuring rooms without you even leaving your seat... This game is absorbing, enlightening and often funny.” - Londonist on The Unbuilt Room
The nervous excitement was palpable, like when cows go in fields for the summer. We discussed why everyone should paint daily, why the government were rubbish and how all homophobes and racists should be persecuted to the ends of this earth and sterilised. I was really doing it, I was finally a smug little bellend. I chain-smoked rollups and lit them with a match. One girl started screaming. This was the night I met Joe.
Ensuite is a coming of age story, following the macbook-toting avant garde of Shoreditch, and Hugh’s attempt to become one (he doesn’t quite manage). From the...
