bitboxing in the kitchen
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Duke Special stole the show and rode it off into the sunset.
Words fail me.
This man has taken on a messianic quality in my life. When people ask me if he's any good I want to shout at them and then sing them all the songs and maybe dance with them as the glee fills their face.
Again there were boos when he was told he had to make way from the stage.
Beth Rowley
An artist I have been waiting to see for ages.
She suported Duke Special at a gig at LSE university.
Apart from a beautiful voice, great songs and excellent accompaniment (more on this later) she had a lazy, self contented, star quality with eyes that appeared to be smiling at everyone in the room out of the corner of her eye.
At Greenbelt she was not best served by the set-up. We actually missed the start of her set as we thought it was on the main stage. When we finally arrived we walked in on a room of people sitting and lying down in the indoors carpeted venue.
We used to talk about setting up a room in central London for people just to come and sleep in their lunch hour and ever a place had that atmosphere it is the centaur venue at Cheltenham racecourse.
People were lounging around and resting their weary heads, glad to be indoor after a busy weekend. This did not help the performers and Beth looked less than supremely confident for the first time since I have seen her.
However the songs were great, if a little loud blocking out her vocals quite often, and the chemistry with the band was there.
Ben Castle (cough, spit - he appears to be going out with lovely Beth to the dismay of many males) had the saxophone refrains and appears to be making something of a name for himself as Duke Special's latest character in his stageplay style gig - alongside Chip Bailey and his egg whisk percussion.
When is the album coming out?
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Three practical things I could do to change the world.
Just heard Billy Bragg at Greenbelt where he broke away from singing at the finale and spoke about faith, faith in humanity, faith in his fellow man and woman and faith in the power of people to stand up and make a change.
He said increasingly he realised he believed in faith as the way to make a difference, and allied with people of 'faith' to change things.
Cynicism and apathy are the biggest things stopping us, he said.
THREE THINGS I AM NOT CYNICAL ABOUT
1. Sexual trafficking and people trafficking (i.e. people forced to work for less than minimum wage in dehumanising jobs)
These two things happen in Surrey, I am convinced, as we are very well off and want other people to come in and do our dirty work. From Sri Lankans working in our petrol stations, to afro-carribean cleaners bussed in to clean our schools, our society scorns these people but they keep us afloat.
2. Poverty and inequality.
I live in an estate where there are both of these. They need their voices to be heard and an advocate for their views in the face of increasing legislation and policies against them.
Young people having their DNA taken, families let down by the re-organisation of social services, increasing police action against vulnerable families in a bid to reduce crime.
3. ASBOS and Respect Agenda.
Surrey is a pioneering county for social experiments in many areas including NHS, police and councils.
Where are we at on ASBOs since I wrote two years ago. What has changed? Has it made a difference?
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Whilst we respect critical freedom....
...Sophie Howard, you are an idiot!!!!
Your review is vapid. To end a review of free comedy by saying at least it was free is inane. Some jokes are cheesy, you moron. 'Playing' on catchphrases. Yes. That's the point. Unfocused. That's a comedy persona. Is Eddie Izzard focusssed? Focussed is something forumla drivers and heavy machinery operators are. Two more jobs you are unqalified to perform.
I am glad you recognise William Stopha's talent. He did not have a thick cockney accent, barrowmen have acockney accents. In your mind Dick Van Dyke probably had a cockney accent, He had a London accent.
Why don't you just admit thast you came to the performance, quite liked it, lost your notepad chatting up some blazer-clad posh boy at Leeds University and shitted out this piece of turgidity annoyed that your editor asked you what you had done with it when they phoned up and asked after you?
Why am I so angry? You are nothing more than a glorified work experience girl.
You wrote these lines while reviewing another comedian.
It hits you like a wet fish round the face - ignorant, simple, perfectly timed and refreshing, if slightly uncomfortable.
Shame on you.
For a proper negative pasting of a comedian, click here.
Sophie's review everybody.
Gareth Richards and Will Stopha / Free Fringe
There's nothing like a pub lunch, especially with a side order of performance poetry and stand up. Unfortunately, however, the comedy was much too cheesy. The gags were clichéd, often playing upon catchphrases, and appearing very unfocused. Worry, I believed, was the backbone of the show, but the theme in the title seemed to have little to do with the material. The poetry was better: enthusiastic, satirical and funny. However, the speed and the thick cockney accent which accompanied the delivery adhered to a stereotypical rapping style, making the show hard to keep up with at times. At least it was free.
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6 - 25 Aug, 1:15pm (2:15pm), free non-ticketed, fpp 105.
tw rating: 2/5
published: Aug-2007
[Sophie Cameron]
Sunday, August 05, 2007
Monday, July 30, 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoN6XfyQsr4
Thou shalt not steal if there is direct victim.
Thou shalt not worship pop idols or follow lost prophets.
Thou shalt not take the names of Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer, Johnny Hartman, Desmond Decker, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix or Syd Barret in vain.
Thou shalt not think that any male over the age of 30 that plays with a child that is not their own is a paedophile… Some people are just nice.
Thou shalt not read NME.
Thou shalt not stop liking a band just because they’ve become popular.
Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry.
Thou shalt not judge a book by it’s cover. Thou shalt not judge Lethal Weapon by Danny Glover.
Thall shalt not buy Coca-Cola products. Thou shalt not buy Nestle products.
Thou shalt not go into the woods with your boyfriend’s best friend, take drugs and cheat on him.
Thou shalt not fall in love so easily.
Thou shalt not use poetry, art or music to get into girls’ pants. Use it to get into their heads.
Thou shalt not watch Hollyoakes.
Thou shalt not attend an open mic and leave as soon as you're done just because you’ve finished your shitty little poem or song you self-righteous prick.
Thou shalt not return to the same club or bar week in, week out just ’cause you once saw a girl there that you fancied but you’re never gonna fucking talk to.
Thou shalt not put musicians and recording artists on ridiculous pedestals no matter how great they are or were.
The Beatles - Were just a band.
Led Zepplin - Just a band.
The Beach Boys - Just a band.
The Sex Pistols - Just a band.
The Clash - Just a band.
Crass - Just a band.
Minor Threat - Just a band.
The Cure - Just a band.
The Smiths - Just a band.
Nirvana - Just a band.
The Pixies - Just a band.
Oasis - Just a band.
Radiohead - Just a band.
Bloc Party - Just a band.
The Arctic Monkeys - Just a band.
The next big thing - JUST A BAND.
Thou shalt give equal worth to tragedies that occur in non-English speaking countries as to those that occur in English speaking countries.
Thou shalt remember that guns, bitches and bling were never part of the four elements and never will be.
Thou shalt not make repetitive generic music
Thou shalt not make repetitive generic music
Thou shalt not make repetitive generic music
Thou shalt not make repetitive generic music
Thou shalt not pimp my ride.
Thou shalt not scream if you wanna go faster.
Thou shalt not move to the sound of the wickedness.
Thou shalt not make some noise for Detroit.
When I say “Hey” thou shalt not say “Ho”. When I say “Hip” thou shalt not say “Hop”.
When I say "he say, she say, we say, make some noise" - kill me.
Thou shalt not quote me happy.
Thou shalt not shake it like a polaroid picture.
Thou shalt not wish your girlfriend was a freak like me.
Thou shalt spell the word “Pheonix” P-H-E-O-N-I-X not P-H-O-E-N-I-X, regardless of what the Oxford English Dictionary tells you.
Thou shalt not express your shock at the fact that Sharon got off with Bradley at the club last night by saying “Is it”.
Thou shalt think for yourselves.
And thou shalt always kill.
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