Socks in Bath, Falkirk, Denmark, London this week

Attention Socks fans,

If you know anyone who needs to see the Socks, one of these gigs must be near them, surely. The Socks are playing....

Thu April 7 - Rondo, Bath
Fri April 8 - Falkirk Town Hall
Sat & Sun April 8 & 9 - Theatr Katapult, Aarhus Denmark
Mon April 11 - Leicester Square Theatre, London

Spread the word to all points of the... rhombus. That's actually a rhombus we're drawing on the world there. Don't let anyone miss out and let's have fun together.

And we're betting none of the venues will be like this one, last month in Fairfield Halls, Croydon:

You wouldn't think it would work, performing the foyer of a giant theatre, with the audience for someone else's show filing through, but amazingly we went well.

Here are some videos you might have missed:

Professor Hazel
Antiques Roadshow
Dickens 200
Rastamouse
Doctor Who sort codes

Enjoy

The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre

Snap! SNL v Sitcom Trials

Snap! Spotted these two pictures whose similarities are quite uncanny, aren't they?

Saturday Night Live cast 1976

Laraine Newman, John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner, Garrett Morris, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase

Sitcom Trials cast 2002

Gerard Foster, Charity Trimm, Kev F Sutherland, Miranda Hart, Dan Clegg

Sitcom Trials Manchester, July 2 2011, is looking for scripts and actors. Details here

Captain Clevedon as seen on Points West

Here's a lovely snippet from the archive that I haven't seen for a while, the launch of Captain Clevedon comic, as seen on BBC Points West.



The story, from the 90s, rather optimistically predicts issue two will be coming very soon. I'm afraid we're all still waiting for that. If anyone fancies volunteering to finish the story, do please get in touch. I'd like to know how it ends.

You can read the first issue online here.

Protection - new ad strips by me

As well as being busy with the Socks and the classes and Galaxy Wanderers and Dr Who Adventures, I've recently started wrting and drawing a series of advertising comic strips, for a client called Protection UK. It's all insurance based, and as part of the promotion they're taking my strips and putting them on YouTube as animatics. Here's the first one:



And another one, showing the range of characters I designed for the strips, is here. When they catch on and become mega-successful, I look forward to a Jack Kirby sized copyright battle. Until then, enjoy.

Prince William comic strip

With the forthcoming Royal wedding in mind, I've had a look back in the archives and found a strip of mine I'd almost forgotten about. Prince William - He's Second In Line To The Throne ran between 1991 and 1993 in UT, Zit and Gag comics, long before the events of 1997 which make a lot of the stuff in the stories look even less tasteful than they did at the time. Click to see the strips in full.



I think my storytelling's moved on since 1993, and those cluttered panels with multiple voice bubbles (a necessity given the length of story I was trying to tell and the very few pages I had to condense them into) are hard to read. But I love the characters of William, Charles, Harry & Di and find them genuinely funny. Who could have thought they'd have grown up like they did. If ever I could find the money to produce more stories, a graphic novel of the Further Adventures of Prince William would be fun to produce. I hope you enjoy it.

Socks in Aarhus

Did I not mention the Socks will be playing in Denmark on April 9th and 10th? Check this out. Too cool:



Er en af de mest omtalte og anmelderroste comedyacts på de britiske øer de seneste to år. Showet har modtaget mere end 4 og 5 stjernede anmeldelser, og sokkerne vandt Edinburgh Festival Insider Comedy Award 2009. Sokkerne har de seneste år optrådt på alt fra MTV til BBC. Det er ganske rigtigt, som titlen lyder, sokker, falsetsang og tons af grin. Det er showet, som får voksne mennesker til at falde på halen over et par sokker! Dette fantastiske og mærkværdige comedyshow er festivalens bud på de shows, som først bliver udsolgt, så skynd dig! Book billetter allerede i dag! ”Det er lang tid siden, jeg har grinet så meget. Jeg stod jo og græd af grin over et par sokker!” Citat Torben Dahl, teaterdirektør Teater Katapult

Tidspunkt: 9. april 2011 - kl. 21:00

Pris: 125 kr plus gebyr

Sted: Teater Katapult

Antiques Roadshow - Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre

New from the Socks, Antiques Roadshow. A studio version, and a live clip too. You're welcome.



The Socks are still on tour, some tickets still available:

Apr 1 - Voodoo Rooms Edinburgh
Apr 4 - Leicester Square Theatre, London
Apr 7 Rondo Bath
Apr 8 Falkirk Town Hall
April 11 - Leicester Square Theatre, London
Apr 15 - Barnfield Theatre, Exeter
Apr 22 - Eden Court Inverness
May 6 - Farnham Maltings(+Ali Cook)
May 7 & 8 - Brighton Komedia
May 12 - The Lowry, Manchester
May 13 - Halifax Victoria Theatre
May 14 Chorley Little Theatre
May 21 Norwich Fringe
June 22 & 23 - Harrogate Previews
July 2 & 3 - Lass O Gowrie, Manchester previews
July 9 - Norden Farm, Maidenhead
July 16 - Firestation Windsor (+ Ali Cook) NEW
July 21 - Eastgate Peebles