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The Cabaret nights at the Wedgewood Room firstly sponsored by Wild Turkey and then by Rolling Rock or was it the other way around were huge, extremely long but great nights of entertainment. The Raymond and Mr Timpkins Revue cut their comedy teeth there and appeared in one form or another on each of the nights. Memorable were Herbie Flowers and his band. Sam Brown. Tony Hadley still wet from the shower and the hard work involved in setting up two separate stages to ensure the night flowed and the great sets that Kath and her chums came up with and built from not a lot. Great nights. Great nights.
Fubbers :: 12 Apr :: 2006 :: Comment / reply
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The Lone Star Comedy Club returns at a new venue – The Tower Theatre on North Road at Shorncliffe in Cheriton, near Folkestone – on Saturday May 31st with MITCH BENN, MICHAEL FABBRI, compere MAFF BROWN and a newcomer’s act.
Now the home of FHODS, the Tower Theatre is currently the town’s best-kept secret and is the old Garrison Church at the Shorncliffe barracks. There are about 300 seats in the auditorium and a Full bar service. Drinks will be available before the show starts, in the interval and afterwards. Don’t be put off making the effort – there’s ample FREE parking and you’ll love it when you get there! Take a look at the website – www.towertheatrefolkestone.co.uk – for a map and further details.
MITCH BENN headlined the club’s opening night at the Lanterns in Folkestone back January 2004. He is not only one of the most sought-after acts on the comedy circuit but is widely acknowledged as one of the best writer/performers of comic songs in the country. Mitch began his comedy career at Edinburgh in 1994. He moved to London two years later and quickly established himself as a comedy club ‘headliner’ as well as a favourite on the university circuit.
In 1995, he was voted ‘Best New Comic’ at the Glastonbury Festival and he has appeared there every year since, including an hour-long extended set in 1999 which drew a standing ovation from an audience of 1,500.
Mitch is a regular writer and performer on ‘The Now Show’ for BBC Radio 4 and ‘It’s Been a Bad Week’ for BBC Radio 2. Three series of his successful Radio 4 show, ‘Mitch Benn’s Crimes Against Music’ have been broadcast so far. He also presents ‘The Mitch Benn Music Show’ on BBC Radio 7.
On tv, Mitch appears regularly on BBC1’s ‘The One Show’ as the writer and arranger of ‘the Complaints Choir’. He contributes occasional songs to Channel 4’s ‘Bremner Bird and Fortune’. He has also appeared on ‘The Last Word’ for More4, ‘Gas’ for Channel 4, ‘Live at Jongleurs’, ‘The warehouse’ and ‘Today With Des & Mel’ for ITV, ‘The Comedy Store’ for Channel 5, ‘The World Stands Up’ for Paramount and ‘Raymaan Is Laat’ for Dutch tv. He was the presenter of the paranormal discussion show ‘Out There’ for Carlton World.
Mitch’s second album “Radio Face” was released through Laughing Stock records in 2002. His earlier live album, “The Unnecessary Mitch Benn’ is still available.
In 1999 he had won the Mercury Comedian of the Year prize at the Leicester Comedy Festival. He has performed many times at the Edinburgh Festival and also appeared in the successful revue show “The Bootleg Bootleg Beatles’.
Mitch has toured extensively abroad, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, Ireland, Montreal, Holland and South Africa.
“Well crafted, well sung, his songs are just plain funny.” – The Guardian.
MICHAEL FABBRI is fast earning an enviable reputation as one of the best up-and-coming acts around – becoming sharper and smarter with each passing month. Inventive in his outlook, he has latterly acquired the gig-hardened discipline of hitting punchlines hard and often without allowing this reliable professionalism to compromise his relaxed, slacker persona.
His trick is to play the juvenile buffoon while delivering material with an increasing edge. The suppression of his own exuberance is a highly effective technique, as it makes the audience feel a little naughty in empathy, and so they laugh all the more.
MAFF BROWN is the resident host of the award-winning Outside the Box comedy club in Kingston-upon-Thames. Within three-and-a-half months of its launch, it won the Best Comedy Venue for small clubs in London by chortle.co.uk he has been described as a material machine by Frank Skinner as he is constantly writing a new 20 minutes for his club every Monday.
“Maff is one of those comics that doesn’t need to try. Jokes fallout of him like gold coins coming out of a pirates chest.” – Frank Skinner.
Tickets are £8 each and available by contacting Richard on 07810 864228 or the Tower Theatre direct at 01303 223925. Doors open at 7.30pm, with the show starting at 8.30pm.
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GREAT weekend, which I will come back to as it's time to do some work. Bit cold, but very nice to see Clare's bro who was visiting from the Americas. He and his wife and their little dog live and work in Miami, and don't get to visit that often so we had an extra long weekend to hang out with him.
Much nice eating and drinking over the weekend with family and friends, we had a curry last night in The New Delhi, not bad, not all that hot, but we were a table of 12. They want some plate warmers, that's what they want. We also squeezed in drinks in Gate 28 and Chambers. Picked up a new copy of The Quarter, which reminded me that I forgot to submit a bar revue this month... it seems to have got a bit worse without my involvement so I will have to get back there, give it more of the common touch and less of everything else. This month they have a page explaining how almost no-one entered their quiz, and then a two page review of the quiz from people who did bother to enter it. Someone, please, submit them some content before it disappears up it's own Old High Street... Straying a bit from the topic here, but VERY pleased to have not been in Chambers when someone DONE A POO IN THE URINAL. How grim is that? Got a phone call from Clare's other bro saying he was in there and we'll never guess what's happened. Normally it's nicer than that.
Apart from the eating and drinking we had a look around some hotels, and did some painting. The Hotel Relish was every bit as smart as I thought it'd be from what I've heard and I will recommend it to visiting wedding guests... I say we did some painting, but all we really managed to do was cover the floor with dust sheets and do one wall of white undercoat. It's going to be a bigger job than we thought, so I've managed to talk Clare out of starting the next room until this is all finished.
Unfortunately we weren't snowed in, and we didn't win the lottery, so we were back into work on the early train this morning. Bit too early technically, as the trains were delayed so while we got the train at the normal time, it was the earlier service, which our tickets weren't valid on. Are you still with me? We didn't get grabbed and made to buy new tickets, and we were in work normal time. Well, I was in work, Clare has another day off. I did have a slight issue with my ticket not going through the barrier, but no idea what that was. The inspector said I was just out of date, but it was a five day Network Awaybreak bought on Friday, so I think I was OK, pointed this out, and he let me through... when we have season tickets we'll have none of these worries. We'll each be 350 quid a month worse of, BUT we'll always have the right ticket.
650 emails waiting for me today, that's after 2000 have been filtered out as spam. Even my Gmail account has quite a few, so a morning of catching up is in order. I am The IT Department today though, as regular IT guy is on holiday. If this necessitates anything more than changing the backup tape, I'll be putting in for time and a half though...
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Baader Meinhof Revue Dingwalls 18 Sep 1996 The Auteurs, messing about
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Toyah The Wedgewood Rooms 22 Mar 1994 Caberet, hosted by Lee Hurst, with TV Smith, Dave Spikey, Pooka, Crisis Twins and almost certainly the Raymond and Mr Timpkins revue. Not sure this date is right, thought they were all on Fridays...
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Ed Tudor-Pole The Wedgewood Rooms 27 May 1994 Caberet, with Nan Vernon, Wasp Factory, Kevin Eldon, George Egg, Rahmond and Mr Timpkins Revue, The Really Band and compere Lee Hurst
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