Wednesday, 11 September 2013

Braintree - new videos from the Scottish Falsetto Socks

The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre play Braintree Arts Theatre on Sept 21st and, in celebration, they've produced not one but two videos. This is a song extolling the virtues of the fine town of Braintree...



... while this is just nonsense. (Extra marks to anyone who remembers the original). Please tell anyone and everyone in Essex to book now for The Scottish Falsetto Socks in Braintree on Sept 21st, and show them these videos if you think it'd help.





SOCKS IN SPACE - The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre are on tour... NOW!

July 31 - Aug 25 - Gilded Balloon, 10.15pm, Edinburgh Fringe
Sept 4 - Belfast Black Box
Sept 5 - Derry Waterside
Sept 21 - Braintree Arts Theatre
Sept 22 4pm - Nottingham Comedy Festival
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 1 - Ace Centre, Nelson
Nov 2 - Leeds Carriageworks
Nov 15 - Ropewalk, Barton On Humber
Nov 16 - Chorley Little Theatre
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Tuesday, 3 September 2013

Come On Alien - Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre



New from the Socks, a video to accompany their musical tribute to Ridley Scott's Alien, as heard as part of the audience intro music for Socks In Space. We hope you enjoy it. Now, maybe we should start writing some brand new comedy sketches....



SOCKS IN SPACE - The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre are on tour... NOW!

July 31 - Aug 25 - Gilded Balloon, 10.15pm, Edinburgh Fringe
Sept 4 - Belfast Black Box
Sept 5 - Derry Waterside
Sept 21 - Braintree Arts Theatre
Sept 22 4pm - Nottingham Comedy Festival
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 1 - Ace Centre, Nelson
Nov 2 - Leeds Carriageworks
Nov 15 - Ropewalk, Barton On Humber
Nov 16 - Chorley Little Theatre
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Sunday, 1 September 2013

Youtoobling - comics & superheroes

After a few bouts of Youtoobling (watching videos, finding links between them) as I've done in recent weeks, you start to repeat yourself, so I'll give it a rest for a bit and get on with proper work instead. (Did I mention I've just done some writing for The Beano, my first Bananaman scripts, and also have a book to illustrate for Laurence at Chase Noble, as well as having pencilled the Socks 2014 calendar images, which this year are all on the subject of... but more on that later). Last night I did comics and superheroes...

Inspired by the Socks' Comicbook Song I'm looking for comic book related



Magneto & Titanium Man, Wings

Dan Dare, Elton John (with Doctor Who in the pictures, curious)

The Mindscape of Alan Moore nice find

Hanging Out With Halo Jones, Transvision Vamp

Mutants In Mega City One, The Fink Bros

Scott Pilgrim, Plumtree

That's Really Super, Supergirl, XTC

Funny Papers, Dean Friedman

Comic Strip, Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot

Calling International Rescue, Fuzzbox

Best comic strip pop video ever: Take On Me, Aha

..and the 2nd best: Saint Saens, BA Robertson

(That wasn't the comic strip version of BA Robertson's Saint Saens, which means my VHS copy is particularly rare. But not online sadly.)

Sunshine Superman, Donovan

Little Nemo / Scenes From A Night's Dream, Genesis

I Am Superman, REM

Spider-Man Theme, Michael Buble

Superheroes, Daft Punk (used as National Comics Awards theme 2002-4, btw)

Superman's Big Sister, Ian Dury

Flash, Queen

Billy The Cat vs General Jumbo

Batman Says His Goodbyes

Superhero fashion Emergencies

The Key Of Awesome Batman

Axis of Awesome, 4 Chords (latest)

Scar, Missy Higgins

Does He Love You? Rilo Kiley

Goodbye Stranger, Supertramp

Superstar, The Motels

Superstar, Bette Midler (on a Bacharach TV Special)

Killing Me Softly, Roberta Flack

Nature Boy, Cher

Doctor Who/ Nature Boy


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September in the Socks calendar - A Clockwork Orange

This is how we celebrate September on the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre's 2013 calendar, with the Socks giving their take on A Clockwork Orange. Click to enlarge, and please resist the temptation to insert a sock-related pun into the title, not cool.


If you want to enjoy this in full printed glory you can still buy the calendar with its 12 unique brand new specially drawn cartoons by Kev F formerly of The Beano. It's good for another 4 months and is a collector's item joy to treasure. Click on the image to see more of the calendar and the link to the shop, or if you can't wait, buy it here.

You'll be delighted to hear I have already pencilled the 12 drawings that will make up the Socks 2014 calendar. Can you guess the theme this time? I think you'll be pleased. Watch this space.




SOCKS IN SPACE - The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre are on tour... NOW!

July 31 - Aug 25 - Gilded Balloon, 10.15pm, Edinburgh Fringe
Sept 4 - Belfast Black Box
Sept 5 - Derry Waterside
Sept 21 - Braintree Arts Theatre
Sept 22 4pm - Nottingham Comedy Festival
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 1 - Ace Centre, Nelson
Nov 2 - Leeds Carriageworks
Nov 15 - Ropewalk, Barton On Humber
Nov 16 - Chorley Little Theatre
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Saturday, 31 August 2013

The Comicbook Song - new video from the Socks

Recorded live as part of Socks In Space at this month's Edinburgh Fringe. the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre perform the comicbook song, now with added pictures.


As the month progressed it was clear this song wasn't getting as many laughs as our other material. Partly this is because it goes very quickly without pauses for laughs. But mostly it's because, I think, hardly anybody had heard of most of the comic characters the Socks were naming. So now it's all clear, I hope this helps.

THE COMICBOOK SONG (lyrics by Kev F)

There's Superman and Spiderman and Iron Man & Wolverine
There's X Men and Avengers & there's Thor & Hulk and then there's Green
Lantern and Fantastic Four and Wonder Woman and Capting
Marvel & America and Battyman & Ro-obin

There's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,  Catwoman & Jonah Hex
And Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Ghost Rider and Luthor, Lex
There's Watchmen, Titans, Silver Surfer, Tank Girl and even better
There's Kick Ass, Daredevil, The Phantom and V For Vendetta

There's Black Canary, Yellowjacket, Green arrow, & Black Panther
There's one guy called The Question but there's not one called the Answer
In short if you want inspiration there's no further you need look
Than finding ideas in the pages of the nearest comic book

There's Doctors Strange & Fate & Doctor Doom who's from Latveria
And Mighty Thor who first appeared  in Journey into Mysteria
There's Punisher & Ultimates &  Venom who's a big black suit
Or Power Pack or Rocketeer or Black Widow or Sabertoot'

You're probably acquainted with The Justice League or JLA
And Doom Patrol & Guardians Of The Galaxy & Birds Of Prey
And 2 Face & the Penguin, The Sub Mariner & Collosus
The Human Torch, The Riddler, Nick Fury & Doctor Octopus

There's Supergirl & Spawn & Blade The Flash Joker & Marvel Mizz
And Dennis the Menace and Rodger The Dodger & Billy Whizz
That is a tiny fraction of the characters who have passed through
I could read all the rest but I simply can't be arsed to



SOCKS IN SPACE - The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre are on tour... NOW!

July 31 - Aug 25 - Gilded Balloon, 10.15pm, Edinburgh Fringe
Sept 4 - Belfast Black Box
Sept 5 - Derry Waterside
Sept 21 - Braintree Arts Theatre
Sept 22 4pm - Nottingham Comedy Festival
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 1 - Ace Centre, Nelson
Nov 2 - Leeds Carriageworks
Nov 15 - Ropewalk, Barton On Humber
Nov 16 - Chorley Little Theatre
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Thursday, 29 August 2013

Youtoobling - Let's Twerk

For my latest night of Youtoobling (finding one video after another, loosely connected, and Tweeting them as if anyone was watching) picked up the vogue term of Twerking. It apparently refers to a raunchy style of dancing but, as I noted, didn't used to in my childhood...

How come everyone's using the word Twerk wrong all of a sudden? I invented that at school. A cross between Twat & Berk & was first used to describe my classmate Geoffrey Snushall. I invented . Bloody kids, ruin everything.

Restless Natives, Edinburgh What the city looked like, & Big Country sounded like, in 1985

I'm more blown away by the ability to drive the length of Princes St than anything else

"Eat your Vermicelli Joe" Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren Bangers & Mash

Mambo Italiano, French & Saunders Top tip: DO NOT GOOGLE "Raw Sex" on YouTube. *gulp* *gurgle* *pant*

Who Can It Be Now? Men At Twerk

Senses Twerking Overtime, XTC


The Troggs Tape done by Kraft-twerk Kraft-twerk. See what I did the..?

Twerking For The Yankee Dollar, The Skids

Devo, Twerking In A Coalmine (live on Countdown, apparently)

There's A Guy Twerks Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis, Kirsty MacColl

Where's Captain Twerk?, Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre

Twerk Wears White Sox, Adam & The Ants

Do The Twerk, Jackson 5

Young Twerks, Rod Stewart *realising how tiresome this game is*

Is it just me or is Miley Cyrus a spectacularly inept dancer? Really. My cat dances better than this.

"Wash my mouth out with soap & water" Peter Cook & Dudley Moore

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Youtoobling - Art School Pop

Inspired by the following tweet, my Youtoobling on Aug 22nd took me down the route of Art School music

. 25 Aug
Great evening listening to chatting in Edinburgh. Amazing stuff. AND a mention of They Might Be Giants!

Don't Let's Start, They Might Be Giants


Buffalo, Stump  

Get Up (Sex Machine) Flying Lizards  

There Goes Conchord Again, And The Native Hipsters  

Einstein A Go Go, Landscape  

O Superman, Laurie Anderson  

Sure Nuff Yes You Do, Captain Beefheart  

The Famous Bobby Brown, Frank Zappa  

What's So Funny Bout Peace Love & Understanding, Elvis Costello & friends  

Peace Train, Cat Stevens  

In The Middle, Tim Moore  

You're Not The Boss Of Me Now, They Might Be Giants  

Big When I Was Little, Eliza Doolittle  

Big In Japan, Cindy & The Barbie Dolls

Down The Dustpipe, Status Quo live 1970

Superstar, the Karen Carpenter story in Barbie Dolls Todd Haynes  

Goodbye To Love, The Carpenters live in Japan 1972  

Gudbuy T'Jane, Slade  

Goodbye To Hollywood, Billy Joel  

Everybody wants to shine in the Rock Follies, The Little Ladies  

Say Goodbye To Hollywood, Ronnie Spector There you go  

It Never Rains In Southern California, Albert Hammond  

I Am, I Said, Neil Diamond  

Boulevard Of Broken Dreams, Green Day  

"Mr DeMille, I'm ready for my close up| Sunset Boulevard  

Elstree, Buggles  

Video Killed The Radio Star, Bruce Wooley & The Camera Club  





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