Welcome to Waiting for Sunday world, where you will find information, and noodly features relating to Waiting for Sunday; our weekly arts entertainment night at The Waiting Room.
Waiting for Sunday presents all manner of one-off events, from the experimental to the over-rehearsed, from the sublime to the ridiculous. Often off-beat occasionally on-the-one, we bring you original jazz, pop, poetry, folk, film, cabaret and other irregular happenings.
Events
Coming up...
05 July 2009
The Lovesick Cowboys
An honoration of the late great Hank Williams with young incarnation of the late great Hank Williams Leeds' David Broad playing the part of Hank.Double Bass, Lap Steel, Fiddle, Geetar, Thigh Slappin and Stetsons.
06 July 2009
Monday Night Comedy Event. David Longley and Andrew Lawrence
Edinburgh Nights. Throughout July, Hilarity Bites brings the best of the Edinburgh Fringe to Eaglescliffe:
David Longley and Andrew Lawrence
David Longley - No Going Back
It's about decisions. What the f*ck else do you want?
"Could very well find himself becoming a festival must-see" - Chortle
“Intense & intelligent…great jokes” – The List
"Proves comedy can say something important and crucially, still be funny" - Metro
Andrew Lawrence
Andrew Lawrence - Soul-Crushing Vicissitudes Of Fortune!
The double if.comedy Award nominee returns with a show about luck and how it can shape our lives.
Boasting a fiery crown of red hair and a deep, demonic voice, Lawrence’s fiendish persona is in complete allegiance with his material; it will shock you both in terms of content, and in terms of how much you will laugh. With his flawless timing and delivery he can induce tears of laughter from audience members almost against their will. "Andrew Lawrence has to be seen to be believed…formidably funny" - Time Out
"The wonderfully articulate, breakneck prose through which he delivers his punch lines is as spellbinding as it is nasty…if you haven’t seen Andrew Lawrence yet, then make time to do so. If you’ve no heard of him, dont worry – you will. From the moment he graced the limelight, Andrew Lawrence owned the stage…absolutely billiant stuff" - BBC
"Lawrence packs more laughs into one of his ninety second rants than most comics manage in half an hour." - The Scotsman
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 this show are £8 each on the door, or £6 in advance, with doors opening at 7pm and shows starting at 8pm.
WEB EXCLUSIVE: buy advance tickets to all four Edinburgh preview shows for only £20 - saving £12 on the door prices.
12 July 2009
Rory Ellis
Rory Ellis is one of those quintessential Australian singer songwriters with buckets of talent, heaps of stories to tell, and impossible to pigeonhole. He's got blues man in him, and some "soul-belter, red-dirt country, and home-grown folkie", to quote Jeff Glorfeld of The Age.
13 July 2009
Monday Night Comed Event - Pete Firman and Tiernan Douieb
Throughout July, Hilarity Bites brings the best of the Edinburgh Fringe to Eaglescliffe:
The Pete Firman Magic Show
The UK's No.1 comedian / magician returns with his biggest show yet. Star of Channel 4’s ‘Dirty Tricks’ and Five’s ‘Monkey Magic’ Pete Firman brings his unique brand of anarchic magic and off-beat comedy to Hilarity Bites as he prepares to take his biggest show yet to the Edinburgh Festival. Big tricks and big laughs from "The MySpace generation's Tommy Cooper" (Scotsman)
"Gob-smackingly talented" - Metro
"The man from Middlesbrough sets the pace for comedy-meets-magic in the 21st Century" - The Times
"Putting the pimp back into magic" - List
"He is the funniest and by far the most accomplished performer on the New Magic scene...funnier than most comedians and more magical than Dumbledore on a good day. This guy is a complete star." - Time Out "The audience is caught between guffawing laughter and amazed gasps" - The Guardian
Tiernan Douieb - 28 Years Later
Tiernan's never grown up. In behaviour or height . Ever nearing 30, more and more responsibility looms and Tiernan doesn’t like weaving. But he does like bad puns. How can he start to act his age but still watch cartoons?
Acclaimed stand-up Douieb brings his debut hour about adulthood, childish imaginings & zombies.
"Genuinely funny" - Three Weeks
“Uplifting and light hearted…his humour was full of kitsch appeal” - BBC
"Bearded Twat" - Scotsman
To buy tickets for this, or any of the shows coming up at Hilarity Bites, please click here to visit the Ticket Office. Tickets for this show are £8 each on the door, or £6 in advance, with doors opening at 7pm and shows starting at 8pm.
WEB EXCLUSIVE: buy advance tickets to all four Edinburgh preview shows for only £20 - saving £12 on the door prices.
20 July 2009
Monday night Comedy. John Bishop and Patrick Monahan
Throughout July, Hilarity Bites brings the best of the Edinburgh Fringe to Eaglescliffe:
John Bishop - Elvis Has Left The Building
John Bishop has reached the same age that Elvis was when he died. If there was ever a reason for a crisis that has got to be it. Come and see the man The Independent called a 'comic revolutionary' and the most requested act to return to Hilarity Bites.
'If you fail to laugh like a lunatic check yourself into a mortuary - you're probably dead' - The Metro
"A born storyteller" - Independent on Sunday"Filled with joyous observations" - Sunday Times
Patrick Monahan - Cowboys & Iranians
Brand new stand-up show from the international award winning comedian (WAALM 2008 Best Stand Up) and regular warm up man (and guest) on the BAFTA award winning Paul O’Grady Show!
“the funniest show in Edinburgh 2008” - The Guardian
“twinkle-toed, mischievous, sharp break dancing moves… Monahan raised the roof” - The Sun
“You can’t choose your family but you can choose your friends!”
Then why do so many of us still hang around with people we hate? Why do so many of us have friends who have nothing in common with us and hate the things we like? And worse still, why do we marry these people?
Monahan has been married over 47 times in over 32 countries – join him as he shares his experience of the secrets to a successful relationship!
Some people can’t even look after themselves, and then as if to make things worse, they go and have kids! Biting off more than you can chew – this has led to broken Britain – a society of youths in search of a leader to take them out of this peril of darkness!
Join Monahan as he has all the answers to every one of today’s many social problems! He’s never had kids but he’s pretty sure he knows how to bring them up, ‘cos he was once a kid himself! The same way as he’s never flown a plane but he’s sat in a few so he’s pretty sure he knows how to make one take off and land!
Are you a cowboy or an Iranian? Monahan’s a bit of both!
To buy tickets for this, or any of the shows coming up at Hilarity Bites, please click here to visit the Ticket Office. Tickets for this show are £8 each on the door, or £6 in advance, with doors opening at 7pm and shows starting at 8pm.
WEB EXCLUSIVE: buy advance tickets to all four Edinburgh preview shows for only £20 - saving £12 on the door prices.
26 July 2009
Baby Gramps
According to an article in the special issue ‘City of Music’ in Seattle
Metropolitan Magazine, Baby Gramps is acknowledged as one of the top
50 most influential musicians in the last 100 years along with Ray Charles,
Jelly Roll Morton, Ernestine Anderson, John Cage, Bill Frisell, Jimi Hendrix,
Quincy Jones, The Wailers, The Ventures, Sound Garden, and Pearl Jam. He is
credited with making Seattle audiences aware of old blues and novelty songs that the
rest of the world has mostly forgotten.
Baby Gramps toured England and Ireland this past summer as part of the Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea
Songs, and Chanteys CD Concert Tour with Tim Robbins (actor), Martha and Rufus Wainright, Jenny Muldaur
(Maria and Geoff’s daughter), Lou Reed, The Watersons, Martin Carthy and Eliza, Suzanne Vega, Ralph Steadman,
and many other internationally known performers. The Rogues Gallery CD, produced by Johnny Depp and Hal Wilner
in connection with The Pirates of the Caribbean film, landed Baby Gramps on the David Letterman Show.
Baby Gramps is a high-energy, humorously entertaining performer with an endless repertoire. He plays an acoustic
antique National Steel guitar and sings his own unique arrangements of rags, jazz, & blues songs from the 20’s &
30’s and many originals with wordplay, humor, and throat singing. He appeals to a wide range of audiences from
folk to jamband to punk to old timey traditional and to kids of all ages. Venues he performs at vary from intimate
coffeehouses and pubs, to large concert halls, theaters, and festivals.
See him on David Letterman here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11-psw-CjV8
27 July 2009
Monday Night Comedy - John Robins and Jason Cook
Throughout July, Hilarity Bites brings the best of the Edinburgh Fringe to Eaglescliffe:
John Robins - Skinny Love
Winner – Best Debut Show – Leicester Comedy Festival 2009
Hooray! Following success in The Comedy Zone 2007 “the pinnacle of the show, Robins was worth the ticket price alone” (Three Weeks) and Carl Donnelly Vs John Robins Vs Predator “Like discovering buried treasure” (Fest), John is bringing his first solo hour of comedy to the Edinburgh Festival.
Come along for an hour of stories and bomb-dropping from “the new wave of storyteller” (Evening Post). In it John declares 2008 to be the year of the total jerk-face and 2009 to be the year of the dude.
This is a show about coping with things, about the struggle to replace gin with joy and how as a six-year old John tried to save his parents marriage with good admin. It’s also about his girlfriend leaving him, but don’t worry, no tears big guy, just lots of laughs.
WARNING: May contain scenes of mild heartbreak
Jason Cook
For his Edinburgh show this year, Jason looks at "Fear". It's all around us, it can dictate our lives, but it can also open up a door to a realm of hilarious admissions that most of us keep inside.
Following on the back of two sold out world tours and multiple five star reviews the stories in "Fear" take place all over the globe, making for an epic tale of one man’s journey through his own psychological minefield.
Since his astonishing debut show “Confessions” in 2007 and the even more critically acclaimed “Joy” in 2008, Jason has gained an army of fans who are attracted to the one thing Jason always guarantees in his shows: Total honesty.
