Nice things have been said about us on:
BBC Essex Website
Our
Reviews Page
Lots of comedians have said nice things about us too:
"Well done. You've built a shed in a field" - Patrick Monahan
"A very sweet smart little comedy room" - Scott Capurro
"A very lovely gig and a very lovely audience" - Simon Dunn
Comedy, getting lost in films, getting lost in books, getting lost in paintings, getting lost in the countryside, getting lost in strange cities, trying to put the world to right with friends, food and drink, finding treasure in charity shops, magic
People who make me smile and/or skip. People with brilliant ideas (or with money or facilities or encouragement to help me realise my dreams. Nice kindly people with sparks and things who care about more than themselves. Funny bastards who aren't complete knobends.
I was a teenage goth. Now I listen to amongst other things The Smiths, Prince, Manu Chao, Frank Zappa (the silly stuff), Bob Marley, any skanky old punk stuff that smells, loud things with funny or doomed lyrics, Nirvana, Jimi Hendrix, Radiohead, PJ Harvey, any mental banshee type women, Nick Cave, Pulp, David Bowie, Echo and the bunnymen, Frank Sinatra with or without brutal mafioso mates cos it's all about his timing, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, Minnie Ripperton's 'loving you' as sung by drunken teary men, Nouvelle Vague, The Beatles (I have to say that after growing up in Liverpool and being ruthlessly exposed to their work (!)), Tom Waits, Hobo chang, Fat Cats, New Town Kings, The Skagills, erm... lots more things - and Dolly Parton (musical genius!)
A Bout de Souffle, Casablanca (I have a crush on Humphrey Bogart), ed wood, apocalypse now, Pale Rider, any David Lynch film, Goodbye Lenin, Annie Hall, Play it Again Sam, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Carmen (Rosi version 1984), Withnail and I, Lost in Translation, As Good as it gets, One Flew over the cuckoos nest, The Shining, Billy Liar, Carry on Up the Khyber, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Carry on Follow that Camel, Carry on screaming, The Lavender Hill mob and the ealing version of Ladykillers, Ghost World, Bedazzled (Pete and Dud version), The Magic Christian, Way Out West, Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Saturday night and Sunday morning, El Mariachi, The Red Squirrel, Sex and Lucia, The Empire Strikes Back, Bladerunner, Jubilee, The Man With Two Brains, Stir Crazy, Trading Places, Ghostbusters 1 and 2, Les amants du pont neuf, Betty Blue, The Great Dictator, A taste of honey, Magnolia, The Big Lebowski, Anchorman, Shawshank Redemption, Clerks, Aliens, Kes, trashy horror films and of course Escape to Victory.and many many more.
The Simpsons, Lost, Corrie, footy. Oh and Dr Who
Lots of random things - especially books in pubs and weirdo bookshops. Especially The Mills and Boon selection at the Eels Foot pub in Eastbride, Suffolk. I also like Westleton book shop.My confession - I buy books I would like to read for people as presents so I can test drive them before wrapping them. -- I like papers and comics way too much. My house is one big rustling fire risk.
Nelson Mandela (I've photographed the back of his head!), Tony Benn, Michael Foot, Martin Luther King, Humphrey Bogart, Felicia Brown (first British person to die in the Spanish civil war and a bit of a mad bint who lived in the woods in Witham), Bill Hicks, Dave Allen (the dead comedian not the local tai chi instructor although he is a jolly good chap too), Che Guevara, Maya Angelou, Morrissey (sort of), Steve Redgrave (actually I don't like him at all but "he rows" geddit? eh? come back!!!