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Rock ‘n’ Relativity Holiday Conspiracy
Part of this year's Birmingham Comedy Festival, Rock 'n' Relativity Holiday Conspiracy from Half-a-Dog Comedy is "an insight into the mind of a man whose life has become ruled by Internet conspiracies." If a typical comedy show can be described as a mixtape, then this - dare I say it - is a concept album, featuring a collection of dubious and demented characters united by a single theme. Its like Dark Side of the Moon, but with more dick jokes. One of these characters is called Sorted, a middle-aged man trapped in the 1990s. He's a BritPop refugee - the [...]
The Exorcism of Ghede
The following is an extract from Carl Jung's final book, Man and His Symbols (1964): "Among primitives, 'possession' implies that a god or demon has taken over a human body. Above [a Haitian] possessed by the god Ghede, who is invariably manifested in this position, legs crossed, cigarette in mouth" It's been exactly one week since my last cigarette...
The Dirty Bristow Summer Fête
Dirty Bristow- the magazine with no ads, no rules and no objections to publishing stuff by me - will be having a launch party at The Edge in Digbeth on Saturday August 28th. There's all sorts of strange, summer fête-themed shenanigans lined up for the night as well as live music and comedy (with yours truly helping out with the latter). Tickets are £5 (which includes a complimentary copy of Dirty Bristow's first issue) and you can book them here.
Markets of Britain
This short film by Lee Titt (AKA Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz) is one of the funniest 3 minutes and 32 seconds I've seen in ages:
