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23 November 2008

Horse Wife and Sargeant Buzfuz - double bill

Outrageous slapstick originality worked up on a Bass Mirimba, Banjo and Accordian together with other musical oddments - Horsewife, (formerly Loon) formed 11 years ago and have worked tirelessly to create songs and instrumentals with a distinctive blend of influence and character. The originality of their compositions and performances has ensured their talents have been in much demand. They are currently on tour in England with Theatre Mimi in a show called 'Phileas P. Souper' which they have co-written. Then from February to April they will be touring the UK with Dodgy Clutch's 'Elephant' show, for which they also composed the music. This show will be performed in posh theatre venues, and has already run for two months in the world famous Market Theatre in Johannesburg. Work in the past has included a commission to work with Nitin Sawhney and produce an original score for Northern Sinfonia in a film music project involving talented young musicians from Northumberland. Last year also saw the band picked to play a very muddy Glastonbury from over 2000 entries in the unsigned competition. The band also regularly compose and record music for No Limits Theatre Company, Fox Films, and Metal Pig Films and were recently commissioned to write a piece for the award winning Wansbeck and Ashington Colliery band. Horsewife have performed in South Africa, Scandinavia, and extensively in the UK at venues and festivals such as the Edinburgh festival, Fuse festival Lichfield and the Wheaton Aston festival where audience reaction has been tremendous.

Sargeant Buzfuz or "Joe" is currently getting attention for his Here Come The Popes project, a series of songs cataloging the sordid 2000 year history of the papacy. He’s written 5 songs so far and reached the 15th century. He also has a collection of other songs which are usually performed with a 6 piece band also called Sergeant Buzfuz who mix ferocious rhythms and sleepy melodies with humorous and off-the-wall storytelling. Their line-up involving violins, dulcimer and mandolin is a mash-up of pop, psychedelia, Celtic folk, punk, improv and drone-rock. They are signed to the Blang label, home also to David Cronenberg’s Wife and Milk Kan.

£5 advance, £6 on the door.

From 7pm

30 November 2008

Green Man Festival Tour Featuring Pete Greenwood and Mary Hampton + guest dj's + a pair of festival tickets to be won!

Mary Hampton and Pete Greenwood. Not one but 2 rising Stars of the New Folk Uprising on the Green Man Festival Tour.

And get this...

There's a pair of Green Man Festival Tickets to be won on the night!! (They're worth £130 per ticket bread-heads).

Do the math! we can only get about 20 couples in our back room so that's good odds right there.

But primarily come for the outstanding artistes check the out at these spaces Mary Hampton & Pete Greenwood

And what's more is DJ Kello on the wood turning turntables, i.e. playing records in between the artist's slots.

Advance tickets are £5. Book online. £6 on the night if there's owt left.

a pair of tickets to the Green Man Festival 1 / 20 £130 pp normally.

07 December 2008

The Extraordinary Thomas Truax and Friends

Thomas Truax is the master blaster of invention, creating never before seen or heard contraptions and sounds and strangely structured songs of great humour and profundity. Travelling with his legendary mechanical companions. Thomas Truax is "a thing you must behold before you die".

£5 to book online now. £6 per ticket on the night (If any remain)

14 December 2008

Hilarity Bites Bites Second Sunday presents John Cooper and Alfie Joey

Coming to The Waiting Room on Sunday December 14th, 2008:

On December 14th John Cooper brings his hit Edinburgh show The 30 Year Itch to The Waiting Room. Not content with that though, we're also bringing you the fantastic Alfie Joey and TFM Breakfast Show host Graham Mack.

The 30 Year Itch is John's debut stand-up show about growing up, getting down, flaring up, moving on, flaking out, bad dress sense, the joy of geekdom and the last 30 years until now.
You don't need a skin condition to enjoy it.

"hilarious... just go and see John Cooper" - Three Weeks

"Has the audience smiling immedietly...has some cracking lines too. Original, genuinely unpredictable and very rewarding." - Chortle
"Great Material coupled with great delivery" - XS Malarkey, Manchester
"Had the audience in hysterics & me crying with laughter" - Ribbed Comedy

As for Alfie Joey, he has starred in the Johnny Vegas sitcom Ideal, presents a regular Saturday afternoon radio show in Newcastle and has been described by internet comedy bible Chortle as:

"a good old-fashioned entertainer: with his spot-on impersonations and enthusiastic banter, he'd be right at home at a Royal Variety Performance.
The only differences is that his effusive bonhomie is genuine and his material original and funny."

To buy tickets for this, or any of the shows coming up at Hilarity Bites, please click here to visit the Box Office. Tickets for John Cooper & Alfie Joey are £6. Doors open at 7pm and the show starts at 8pm.

21 December 2008

Carmen and Dick's Christmas Binge

They're at it again! Carmen Rola and Dick Van Dongen camp it up once more for the party of the season. We'll all be getting punchbowl drunk and singing around the Yule Brinner log - and things like that in a style not dissimilar to what dinner parties were like in the golden age of the disco dinner party, i.e. the seventies.

An Hilarious interactive cabaret for the people. £7 ticket price includes prizes but not food!

Food available as per.