Burke & Hare - Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre

Online for the first time, a brand new studio version of Burke & Hare, from last year's Boo Lingerie show.



This version includes material that found itself dropped from the live show (though, sadly, the extended surgeon/Nicola Sturgeon routine has remained on the cutting room floor. Who could have guessed that was never actually funny?). The Michael Jackson song that topped off the live version of this routine is also missing, for copyright reasons (past experience suggests the soundtrack would find itself removed in some countries).

As always the best way to experience the Socks is live, and here's where you can see our brand new show, Socks In Space:

TOUR DATES Spring/Summer 2013

Feb 2, 3 - The Black Pearl, Malta
Feb 8, 9, 10 - Leicester Comedy Festival, Kayal
Mar 9 - Flavel, Dartmouth
Mar 21, 22, 23 - Glasgow Comedy Festival, The Dram
Mar 30, April 5 - Bath Comedy Festival, Ring O'Bells
April 12 - Plough Arts, Torrington, Devon
April 13 - Barnfield, Exeter
April 26, 27, 28 - Gilded Balloon Comedy Tour (venues tbc)
May 1 - Swindon Arts Centre
May 9, 10 - Komedia, Brighton Fringe
May 25, 26 - Inverness Happy-Ness Festival
May 29 - Theatr Mwdlan, Cardigan
May 31 - Exchange Arts, Keighley
June 1 - Junction, Goole
June 3 - Barnsley Civic
June 8 - Warwick Arts Centre
June 25, July 2, July 9 - Leicester Square Theatre, London
June 27 - Victoria Theatre, Halifax
July (date tbc) - Bedford Fringe
Aug 2-26 - Edinburgh Fringe
Sept 21 - Braintree Arts Theatre

Further dates to be added. Watch Facebook, here or ents24 for updates.

Socks 2013 Tour Dates + new flyer + new video

Announcing the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre's 2013 Spring tour dates, with a new video and a first glimpse of the flyer.

TOUR DATES Spring/Summer 2013

Feb 2, 3 - The Black Pearl, Malta
Feb 8, 9, 10 - Leicester Comedy Festival, Kayal
Mar 9 - Flavel, Dartmouth
Mar 21, 22, 23 - Glasgow Comedy Festival, The Dram
Mar 30, April 5 - Bath Comedy Festival, Ring O'Bells
April 12 - Plough Arts, Torrington, Devon
April 13 - Barnfield, Exeter
April 27 - Gardyne Theatre, Dundee
April 28 - Eden Court, Inverness
May 1 - Swindon Arts Centre
May 9, 10 - Komedia, Brighton Fringe
May 25, 26 - Inverness Happy-Ness Festival
May 29 - Theatr Mwdlan, Cardigan
May 31 - Exchange Arts, Keighley
June 1 - Junction, Goole
June 2 - Barnsley Civic
June 8 - Warwick Arts Centre
June 25 - Leicester Square Theatre, London
June 27 - Victoria Theatre, Halifax
June 28 - Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol
July 2, July 9 - Leicester Square Theatre, London
July 5 - The Lord Nelson, Norton Sub Hamden, Somerset
July 13 - Chapter Arts, Cardiff Comedy Festival
July 14 - Sheffield, New Barrack Tavern 2pm
July 17 - Bristol Comedy Box at the Hen & Chickens
July 18 - Larmer Tree Festival, Salisbury
July 20 - Bedford Fringe
July 21 - Derby Funhouse 3.25pm
+ Mimetic Festival, Enfield 8.30pm
July 22 - Clowns Pocket, Neath
July 26 - Lass O'Gowrie, Manchester
July 31 - Aug 25 - Gilded Balloon, 10.15pm, Edinburgh Fringe
Sept 4 - Belfast Black Box
Sept 5 - Derry Waterside
Sept 21 - Braintree Arts Theatre
Oct 5 - Farnham Maltings
Oct 11 - Old Joint Stock Theatre, Birmingham
Oct 24 - The Capitol, Horsham
Oct 25 - Tom Thumb Theatre, Margate
Oct 26 - Canterbury Festival
Nov 2 - Leeds Carriageworks
Nov 15 - Ropewalk, Barton On Humber
Nov 16 - Chorley Little Theatre

Further dates to be added. Watch Facebook, here or ents24 for updates.

Musical Comedy Awards Sat 19 Jan - come & support the Socks

The Scottish Falsetto Socks have made the heats of the 2013 Musical Comedy Awards. Our heat is Sat Jan 19th (afternoon) in London, please come along and help us to win.


http://www.wegottickets.com/event/199404

LONDON: Wilmington Arms
SAT 19TH JAN, 2013 Doors open 1.15pm - Show from 1.30 - 4pm

ACTS PERFORMING IN THIS HEAT:
Laurence Owen
Trine Munk
Ben Champion
Christiane O'Mahoney
Jo Public
Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
Jo Stephenson
Emily Rose

Now in it's fifth year, the The WeGotTickets Musical Comedy Awards has grown in stature to become an annual fixture in the comedy calendar and the place to see the UK's finest up and coming musical comedians alongside some of the best established acts of the genre on the circuit.

Over the years the MCA has provided a launch pad to superstar acts like Frisky and Mannish (2009 Finalists), Abandoman (2010 winners) and Jay Foreman (Best Newcomer 2009 and now touring with Dave Gorman) and created a thriving independent platform to celebrate the artform that is musical comedy. The competition has also played host to stars of the genre such as David O' Doherty, Mitch Benn, Bo Burnham, Pippa Evans, Isy Suttie and many more.

So the fifth MCA begins! The top 40 musical comedy acts have been selected from online entries to www.facebook.com/musicalcomedyawards and will now battle it out in the heats through to the Final at the Bloomsbury Theatre on April 5th at the wonderful Wilmo. Judges for this year's competition include Mark Boosey of British Comedy Guide, Tim Clark of Such Small Portions, Rupert Majendie of BBC Comedy, Lynne Parker of Funny Women, Kenny Cavey of Com Comedy and Jon Grant and Paul Weedon of Red 24 Management.

See you there - love The Socks xxxx

Where's Captain Kirk?

To launch their new show, Socks In Space, the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre present their rendition of Spizzenergi's 1980 classic, Where's Captain Kirk?

Where Am I Now? That new Bowie single

David Bowie himself now, singing a song from his retirement home.

Produced with the assistance of the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, whose own version of the song is also available. The Socks begin touring their brand new show Socks In Space at the Leicester Comedy Festival in February. Book now.

Bowie at 66 - Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre

To celebrate David Bowie's 66th birthday, the Socks pay him a visit at his retirement home...



The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre will be announcing a line-up of 2013 tour dates very soon, stay tuned for details.

First caricatures of the year - there's thorough

Last night saw my first caricaturing event of 2013, drawing all the guests at a wedding in Wales, and I must admit I did a satisfyingly thorough job. On the bride's initiative, all the caricatures were displayed on a "clothes line" for everyone to enjoy as we went along...



The plan, then, was to feed all the drawings through the photocopier, as I do at the schools where I do my Comic Art Masterclass, giving the Happy Couple a montage of everyone's faces before the guests then took the originals home with them. Unfortunately the venue didn't have the sort of copier that does that (a fine venue, by the way, it used to be Laura Ashley's house, you'll recognise the fireplaces & staircases from their many photoshoots there) so instead I laid the caricatures out on the pool table in batches of 12 and photographed them. How many caricatures was that, you ask? About this many...



That, by the way, is the 90-odd pictures laid out in alphabetical orders so that the guests could find theirs at the end of the event. Did I mention I'm thorough as well as quick? If you'd like me to come and caricature at your event (it's not just weddings, my last gig of 2012 was a corporate Christmas party and next weekend I'm doing two Bar Mitzvahs). As we might say in my native Aberdeen, fa's a clivver loon?





If anyone wants me to come and show their kids how to do what I've been doing for a living for the last two decades in my patent Comic Art Masterclasses, drop me a line, a comment, a Twitter, smoke signals, the usual methods.