Tour starting now, see dates here
And buy the tshirt at cafepress.co.uk/falsettosocks
Friday, 29 January 2010
Annotations - new from the Socks
A new vid for Friday, from the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre. A look at the YouTube feature they call Annotations.
Tour starting now, see dates here
And buy the tshirt at cafepress.co.uk/falsettosocks
Tour starting now, see dates here
And buy the tshirt at cafepress.co.uk/falsettosocks
Socks news - tour selling well, extra gigs, t-shirts etc
Hi Sock fans,
The Scottish Falsetto Socks April 5 show at Leics Square Theatre London is already 32% sold, so get booking quick.
The tour starts tomorrow with our show in Omagh, Northern Ireland, then really kicks in in a couple of weeks in Preston, Bury & Aberystwyth. See the full list of dates here
The Socks have booked their slot at the Edinburgh Fringe in August. Our brand new show, ...On The Telly, will be at the Gilded Balloon every night at 9pm. So we'd better get writing that, oughtn't we?
There's an extra chance for South West fans to catch us in Minehead on Sunday 7th Feb playing support at Cafe Mambo (Google Mirth Control Minehead for details) and our latest video, iPad, is here:
And don't forget Socks t-shirts, bags, mugs, baseball caps, pants etc are now on sale at http://cafepress.co.uk/falsettosocks
Have a good weekend everyone.
Love
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
The Scottish Falsetto Socks April 5 show at Leics Square Theatre London is already 32% sold, so get booking quick.
The tour starts tomorrow with our show in Omagh, Northern Ireland, then really kicks in in a couple of weeks in Preston, Bury & Aberystwyth. See the full list of dates here
The Socks have booked their slot at the Edinburgh Fringe in August. Our brand new show, ...On The Telly, will be at the Gilded Balloon every night at 9pm. So we'd better get writing that, oughtn't we?
There's an extra chance for South West fans to catch us in Minehead on Sunday 7th Feb playing support at Cafe Mambo (Google Mirth Control Minehead for details) and our latest video, iPad, is here:
And don't forget Socks t-shirts, bags, mugs, baseball caps, pants etc are now on sale at http://cafepress.co.uk/falsettosocks
Have a good weekend everyone.
Love
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
Thursday, 28 January 2010
Thursday night jottings
A random Thursday night, we have Question Time on the telly, showing just how toothless TV debate can be. Everyone says how much they'd like Tony Blair to be punished for taking us to war illegally, knowing it'll never happen. And the same goes for every other subject. We all know what we'd like, we all like getting to say it on Question Time, we all know it's never made a ha'porth of difference. (Not all of us know what a ha'porth was. 'Snot important)
And equally my view on what's been on telly earlier tonight couldn't be less relevant. So here we go. Thursday is comedy night. Don't know why, but it is, and here is what we watched
The Daily Show from last night (on Virgin Catch Up, how does anyone live without it?)
The Persuasionists (not all of it)
A really bad Eastenders
Tonight's Daily Show
Mock The Week
Rab C Nesbitt for a few mins then gave up and listened to...
Count Arthur Strong on iPlayer
Bellamy's Britain
Big Bang Theory
The Daily Shows had their moments, which are always part of a show whose general standard is so high it's hard to criticise. Though I have to say we occasionally give up on the interview segment at the end. The day before yesterday's Bill Gates piece was a pretty poor bit of propaganda timed to distract from Apple's week. But the Daily Show is the best satirical TV in the world at the moment, so its lows are pretty damn high.
Eastenders, on the other hand. When it's good it's... well it's dated because of the whole video thing, but it does some touching and ambitious things sometimes. Not tonight it didn't. It was Archie's funeral and the writing was so On The Nose I'm just glad it wasn't Sam Mitchell's nose they chose to be on. It would have given.
Mock The Week is getting over the lack of Frankie Boyle, just, and Rab C Nesbitt is way better than The Persuasionists but not enough to keep me watching. I fancied a laugh, sorry, so Count Arthur won. It is a very old fashioned comedy, based largely on inconsequential malapropisms, but there has not been an episode that has had me in tears of laughter by the end. Tonight's Doncaster song was tremendous.
Bellamy's Britain got into its stride following last week's quiet start and, though I may well have been excessively warmed up by Count Arthur, had me laughing out loud, particularly at those moments where they have to cut away from someone clearly about to corpse.
But as always it's the Big Bang Theory that tops the lot. Tonight it was the episode where the 3 boys go meteor watching and get high while Sheldon has to take Penny to hospital. In a style that possibly hasn't advanced much since I Love Lucy (which Penny regularly evokes), this studio audience comedy shows that the form will long survive as long as it is done by smart writers and performers who know the game.
Which begs the question of where The Persuasionists went wrong. I actually chose to watch it on Catch Up, having not watched it live last night. And parts of it weren't bad. Some lines were inspired, if a little reliant on the Thesaurus. But the whole tenor is wrong, the air is juvenile, the style is old fashioned, the characterisations are cartoony, the acting is perfunctory, and I need to devote more time and study to learning from where, how, when, how and in what detail the whole show has gone so terribly wrong from its first minute. Couldn't finish tonight's episode, got as far as about 15 to 18 minutes, it was so so painful.
And equally my view on what's been on telly earlier tonight couldn't be less relevant. So here we go. Thursday is comedy night. Don't know why, but it is, and here is what we watched
The Daily Show from last night (on Virgin Catch Up, how does anyone live without it?)
The Persuasionists (not all of it)
A really bad Eastenders
Tonight's Daily Show
Mock The Week
Rab C Nesbitt for a few mins then gave up and listened to...
Count Arthur Strong on iPlayer
Bellamy's Britain
Big Bang Theory
The Daily Shows had their moments, which are always part of a show whose general standard is so high it's hard to criticise. Though I have to say we occasionally give up on the interview segment at the end. The day before yesterday's Bill Gates piece was a pretty poor bit of propaganda timed to distract from Apple's week. But the Daily Show is the best satirical TV in the world at the moment, so its lows are pretty damn high.
Eastenders, on the other hand. When it's good it's... well it's dated because of the whole video thing, but it does some touching and ambitious things sometimes. Not tonight it didn't. It was Archie's funeral and the writing was so On The Nose I'm just glad it wasn't Sam Mitchell's nose they chose to be on. It would have given.
Mock The Week is getting over the lack of Frankie Boyle, just, and Rab C Nesbitt is way better than The Persuasionists but not enough to keep me watching. I fancied a laugh, sorry, so Count Arthur won. It is a very old fashioned comedy, based largely on inconsequential malapropisms, but there has not been an episode that has had me in tears of laughter by the end. Tonight's Doncaster song was tremendous.
Bellamy's Britain got into its stride following last week's quiet start and, though I may well have been excessively warmed up by Count Arthur, had me laughing out loud, particularly at those moments where they have to cut away from someone clearly about to corpse.
But as always it's the Big Bang Theory that tops the lot. Tonight it was the episode where the 3 boys go meteor watching and get high while Sheldon has to take Penny to hospital. In a style that possibly hasn't advanced much since I Love Lucy (which Penny regularly evokes), this studio audience comedy shows that the form will long survive as long as it is done by smart writers and performers who know the game.
Which begs the question of where The Persuasionists went wrong. I actually chose to watch it on Catch Up, having not watched it live last night. And parts of it weren't bad. Some lines were inspired, if a little reliant on the Thesaurus. But the whole tenor is wrong, the air is juvenile, the style is old fashioned, the characterisations are cartoony, the acting is perfunctory, and I need to devote more time and study to learning from where, how, when, how and in what detail the whole show has gone so terribly wrong from its first minute. Couldn't finish tonight's episode, got as far as about 15 to 18 minutes, it was so so painful.
iPad - Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre look at the new Apple iPad. We say new. Obviously this is yesterday's news. Which, in computer terms, makes it last year's news. By the time you finish watching it, it will be history. Enjoy.
69 Events I just RSVP'd "Maybe" to on Facebook
I just RSVP's Maybe, cos you don't want to seem rude. Many of these events are in foreign countries and most clash with each other. Which is worse? To get peoples hopes up or to dash them cruelly? I'm sorry, I'm not in a dashing mood. Anyway, I told them we might be here doing this: http://bit.ly/8P0lxc - so I'm sure they'll understand.
You may be attending Devizes Comedy Night.
You may be attending Greg Davies - Firing Cheeseballs at a Dog...
You may be attending My Life As A Footnote.
You may be attending My Life As A Footnote.
You may be attending The 9th Vince Atta Show! Thursday 28th Jan.
You may be attending CAG Starts Boston Chapter.
You may be attending New Moon: Vampires and Werewolves Valentines Disco (ALL AGES).
You may be attending MAXWELLS FULLMOONERS - The ReMOONion.
You may be attending The Carnival of Kitsch.
You may be attending Miss Galaxy Eco Fashion show.
You may be attending Sara Pascoe @ The Soho Theatre.
You may be attending Good Ship Comedy Club 1st Feb.
You may be attending JOHNNYS BIRTHDAY..BE AFRAID..BE VERY AFRAID COS HE IS.
You may be attending C69 Reloaded presents GREG DAVIES.
You may be attending The Dark & Freeman: Signing at Ace Comics.
You may be attending My First Gig.
You may be attending The Victoria's Secret.
You may be attending Progressive London - "A Progressive Agenda to stop the right in 2010."
You may be attending Knock2bag Comedy At The Tabernacle, Notting Hill.
You may be attending Knock2bag Comedy, Shepherds Bush.
You may be attending Clown Chowder 2: Electric Boogaloo.
You may be attending SPLEEN Charles Baudelaire: Gedichte in Prosa.
You may be attending NOTLD:R on FridayNight-FrightNght.
You may be attending The Huddersfield Laughter Lounge.
You may be attending Laughing Lasses Comedy Club.
You may be attending Strong & Wrong's Lockside Lock-in.
You may be attending Ordinary Lads 2010.
You may be attending Fluffy!! Rides again.
You may be attending BristolCon '10.
You may be attending Michael Jackson: World Greatest Entertainer.
You may be attending Bob Slayer R&R Hitchike + EES Live (2000 to 2010) available through Pledge.
You may be attending Erotic Awards.
You may be attending C69 COMEDY Presents DELETE THE BANJAX.
You may be attending The Freddie Valentine Variety Show.
You may be attending SOUND & ROSES EXCENTRIC FASHION PARTY at EGG 20TH FEBRUARY 2010.
You may be attending The Segue Sisters @ The Comedy Song Club.
You may be attending "Why I'm Here" new book by Lucy English and Sally Mundy.
You may be attending GARY COLMAN IS... VERY RARELY RONG @ LEICESTER COMEDY FESTIVAL.
You may be attending My book 'Wordwatching' is out.
You may be attending Out of Bounds Comedy with Nick Revell.
You may be attending The Shape of Things.
You may be attending Loveboat Cabaret.
You may be attending Jarred Christmas - Captain Curious.
You may be attending Free Comic Book Day.
You may be attending Idiot's of Ants - This is War!
You may be attending Relax Everyone, Carl Donnelly is Back!
You may be attending Dogetts Comedy (Jan) Lee Nelson + Steve Day + Bob Slayer (MC).
You may be attending The Frog and Bucket @ The Orwell.
You may be attending Brendon Burns Live Dates 2010.
You may be attending The Huddersfield Laughter Lounge.
You may be attending Knock2bag Comedy, East.
You may be attending Peacock and Gamble.
You may be attending Fergus Craig Still Watches Neighbours.
You may be attending Uberfest 2010.
You may be attending Works in Progress in Camden.
You may be attending Australia Tour.
You may be attending Zoe Lyons - Miss Machismo.
You may be attending Wilson Dixon's American Dream.
You may be attending Frisky and Mannish's School of Pop.
You may be attending Leicester Comedy Festival London Previews.
You may be attending Rob Rouse - My Family and The Dog That Scared Jesus.
You may be attending LONDON BURLESQUE WEEK 2010 *Pre-Festival Teaser.
You may be attending Bottle Rocket Comedy Club - February.
You may be attending ANTI-VALENTINE COMEDY DOUBLE BILL: Rosie Wilby & Helen Arney.
You may be attending EDWARD ACZEL AT THE SOHO THEATRE.
You may be attending Devizes Comedy Night.
You may be attending Greg Davies - Firing Cheeseballs at a Dog...
You may be attending My Life As A Footnote.
You may be attending My Life As A Footnote.
You may be attending The 9th Vince Atta Show! Thursday 28th Jan.
You may be attending CAG Starts Boston Chapter.
You may be attending New Moon: Vampires and Werewolves Valentines Disco (ALL AGES).
You may be attending MAXWELLS FULLMOONERS - The ReMOONion.
You may be attending The Carnival of Kitsch.
You may be attending Miss Galaxy Eco Fashion show.
You may be attending Sara Pascoe @ The Soho Theatre.
You may be attending Good Ship Comedy Club 1st Feb.
You may be attending JOHNNYS BIRTHDAY..BE AFRAID..BE VERY AFRAID COS HE IS.
You may be attending C69 Reloaded presents GREG DAVIES.
You may be attending The Dark & Freeman: Signing at Ace Comics.
You may be attending My First Gig.
You may be attending The Victoria's Secret.
You may be attending Progressive London - "A Progressive Agenda to stop the right in 2010."
You may be attending Knock2bag Comedy At The Tabernacle, Notting Hill.
You may be attending Knock2bag Comedy, Shepherds Bush.
You may be attending Clown Chowder 2: Electric Boogaloo.
You may be attending SPLEEN Charles Baudelaire: Gedichte in Prosa.
You may be attending NOTLD:R on FridayNight-FrightNght.
You may be attending The Huddersfield Laughter Lounge.
You may be attending Laughing Lasses Comedy Club.
You may be attending Strong & Wrong's Lockside Lock-in.
You may be attending Ordinary Lads 2010.
You may be attending Fluffy!! Rides again.
You may be attending BristolCon '10.
You may be attending Michael Jackson: World Greatest Entertainer.
You may be attending Bob Slayer R&R Hitchike + EES Live (2000 to 2010) available through Pledge.
You may be attending Erotic Awards.
You may be attending C69 COMEDY Presents DELETE THE BANJAX.
You may be attending The Freddie Valentine Variety Show.
You may be attending SOUND & ROSES EXCENTRIC FASHION PARTY at EGG 20TH FEBRUARY 2010.
You may be attending The Segue Sisters @ The Comedy Song Club.
You may be attending "Why I'm Here" new book by Lucy English and Sally Mundy.
You may be attending GARY COLMAN IS... VERY RARELY RONG @ LEICESTER COMEDY FESTIVAL.
You may be attending My book 'Wordwatching' is out.
You may be attending Out of Bounds Comedy with Nick Revell.
You may be attending The Shape of Things.
You may be attending Loveboat Cabaret.
You may be attending Jarred Christmas - Captain Curious.
You may be attending Free Comic Book Day.
You may be attending Idiot's of Ants - This is War!
You may be attending Relax Everyone, Carl Donnelly is Back!
You may be attending Dogetts Comedy (Jan) Lee Nelson + Steve Day + Bob Slayer (MC).
You may be attending The Frog and Bucket @ The Orwell.
You may be attending Brendon Burns Live Dates 2010.
You may be attending The Huddersfield Laughter Lounge.
You may be attending Knock2bag Comedy, East.
You may be attending Peacock and Gamble.
You may be attending Fergus Craig Still Watches Neighbours.
You may be attending Uberfest 2010.
You may be attending Works in Progress in Camden.
You may be attending Australia Tour.
You may be attending Zoe Lyons - Miss Machismo.
You may be attending Wilson Dixon's American Dream.
You may be attending Frisky and Mannish's School of Pop.
You may be attending Leicester Comedy Festival London Previews.
You may be attending Rob Rouse - My Family and The Dog That Scared Jesus.
You may be attending LONDON BURLESQUE WEEK 2010 *Pre-Festival Teaser.
You may be attending Bottle Rocket Comedy Club - February.
You may be attending ANTI-VALENTINE COMEDY DOUBLE BILL: Rosie Wilby & Helen Arney.
You may be attending EDWARD ACZEL AT THE SOHO THEATRE.
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
The Great British Comic, some thoughts
My latest thoughts on the Great British Comic:
A periodical paper comic sold on a newsstand will never, I think, happen again. Looking at the state of newspapers and magazines and the progress of online publishing, I can only see online continuing to beat paper.
In the past four days I have been approached about turning my comic strip content into 3 different online formats - an iPhone app, a new tech being developed for strips, and a Comic Book Reader things. None of these involved me earning any money, and one was going to actually cost me money to get into. However stuttering the uptake of these things is, I see them becoming established.
I've also just been watching the launch of the ultra-absorbent Apple iPad ($499 for Regular, costs more for Ultra, Maxi & Nightime - insert own iTampon gags here). However daft its name might be, it is the size of a comic.
So, there's my thought on the format for any comic, it will be online and you'll earn bugger all from it.
However the book is a different thing. Books are big, books make good presents, books are taken seriously, everyone loves books and, thanks to Amazon and print on demand, books have never been bigger and easier to get into publishing.
So I see the future of comic strip art as being in books.
The only criteria, then, for the content is that it needs to be good. And lots of people have to want it and therefore buy it.
And those are my thoughts on comics. Now, lets' all go out and write them. If they're good enough we'll be rich.
A periodical paper comic sold on a newsstand will never, I think, happen again. Looking at the state of newspapers and magazines and the progress of online publishing, I can only see online continuing to beat paper.
In the past four days I have been approached about turning my comic strip content into 3 different online formats - an iPhone app, a new tech being developed for strips, and a Comic Book Reader things. None of these involved me earning any money, and one was going to actually cost me money to get into. However stuttering the uptake of these things is, I see them becoming established.
I've also just been watching the launch of the ultra-absorbent Apple iPad ($499 for Regular, costs more for Ultra, Maxi & Nightime - insert own iTampon gags here). However daft its name might be, it is the size of a comic.
So, there's my thought on the format for any comic, it will be online and you'll earn bugger all from it.
However the book is a different thing. Books are big, books make good presents, books are taken seriously, everyone loves books and, thanks to Amazon and print on demand, books have never been bigger and easier to get into publishing.
So I see the future of comic strip art as being in books.
The only criteria, then, for the content is that it needs to be good. And lots of people have to want it and therefore buy it.
And those are my thoughts on comics. Now, lets' all go out and write them. If they're good enough we'll be rich.
Kev F's Comic Art Masterclass
I'm promoting my Comic Art Masterclass with a new photo of me in action surrounded by comics created by the kids:
I teach pupils all there is to know about making comic strips and manga. I can work with two groups in a school day, up to 30 in each group, any age from 7 (year 3/ Primary 4 Scotland) upwards. By the end of each session the group has produced a comic containing a strip by every single one of them, a copy of which they take home, plus I've drawn a caricature of every one of them (I can even draw all the staff if there's time).
You can see examples of my workshops, and videos of me in action on the websites listed below.
I'm taking bookings through 2009 into 2010 and would love to be able to come to your school. I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours in anticipation
Kev F Sutherland
COMIC ART MASTERCLASSES
http://comicfestival.co.uk
kevf.sutherland@virgin.net
01275 872111 / 07931 810858
Examples and videos: http://myspace.com/kevfdrawsthecrowds
Video clip of masterclass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKC3POAcFOA
Video of Kev F on BBC 1's One Show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MI3caquoKw
Examples of pupils' comics: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/photo.php?pid=6007008&id=884840178
More videos of Kev F doing comics stuff: http://uk.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6E85D15DEC1C7062
BIG PROMO PHOTO http://i48.tinypic.com/2ptw4ki.jpg
I teach pupils all there is to know about making comic strips and manga. I can work with two groups in a school day, up to 30 in each group, any age from 7 (year 3/ Primary 4 Scotland) upwards. By the end of each session the group has produced a comic containing a strip by every single one of them, a copy of which they take home, plus I've drawn a caricature of every one of them (I can even draw all the staff if there's time).
You can see examples of my workshops, and videos of me in action on the websites listed below.
I'm taking bookings through 2009 into 2010 and would love to be able to come to your school. I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours in anticipation
Kev F Sutherland
COMIC ART MASTERCLASSES
http://comicfestival.co.uk
kevf.sutherland@virgin.net
01275 872111 / 07931 810858
Examples and videos: http://myspace.com/kevfdrawsthecrowds
Video clip of masterclass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKC3POAcFOA
Video of Kev F on BBC 1's One Show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MI3caquoKw
Examples of pupils' comics: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/photo.php?pid=6007008&id=884840178
More videos of Kev F doing comics stuff: http://uk.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6E85D15DEC1C7062
BIG PROMO PHOTO http://i48.tinypic.com/2ptw4ki.jpg
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