Ace - the Socks and Sophie Aldred do Doctor Who live

At the Bedford Who Charity Con a week or so back, the Socks had the pleasure and privilege of doing a short and silly comedy routine as part of our set, with Sophie Aldred, who you'll all remember as Ace from Doctor Who. Now a video has emerged of the routine. Not the highest quality, shot on a phone from the audience, but nice to have to recorded for posterity. Enjoy.

The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre do Shakespeare at the Edinburgh Fringe August 2016 - see the previews in your town!

★★★★ "Eat your heart out, Olivier" - What's On May 2016 
★★★★ "Comedy genius at work" - Theatre Bath April 2016 

May 8 - Derby Comedy Festival 5.30pm
May 19 - Old Joint Stock Birmingham
May 22 - Komedia, Brighton Fringe
May 28 - Ards Puppet Festival, Newtonards
June 9 - Bridgend 
July 3 - Derby Bar One 2pm 
July 8 - Flavel, Dartmouth
July 10 - Tring Festival 
July 14 - Market Harborough Theatre
July 17 - Sheffield New Barrack Tavern 2pm

July 17 - Greater Manchester Fringe , Kings Arms Salford 7pm

July 21 - Barnes Fringe
July 22 - Bedford Fringe
July 30 - Blaenavon Rhymney Brewery
Aug 3 - 29 - 10.30pm The Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Fringe 

Doublet & Henry 4th - new vids from Socks doing Shakespeare

Check out the new costume in this tiny trailer for Socks do Shakespeare. Doublet, which I've also uploaded straight to Facebook, to see if it works in any viral way there. A brand new ruff, all my own work. You're welcome. And while we're at it, here's another quick one for the fun of it.

The Doublet gag came from Hev, and Henry the 5th will probably be in the audience-in music. In the meantime I have written some actual scripts for the boys to actually perform - Cymbeline, Hose, and the Girls & Boys I've already put up here - and they'll be getting a tryout at a preview in Derby on Sunday.

The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre do Shakespeare at the Edinburgh Fringe August 2016 - see the previews in your town!

May 8 - Derby Comedy Festival 5.30pm
May 19 - Old Joint Stock Birmingham
May 22 - Komedia, Brighton Fringe
May 28 - Ards Puppet Festival, Newtonards
June 9 - Bridgend 
July 3 - Derby Bar One 2pm 
July 8 - Flavel, Dartmouth
July 10 - Tring Festival 
July 14 - Market Harborough Theatre
July 17 - Sheffield New Barrack Tavern 2pm

July 17 - Greater Manchester Fringe , Kings Arms Salford 7pm

July 21 - Barnes Fringe
July 22 - Bedford Fringe
July 30 - Blaenavon Rhymney Brewery
Aug 3 - 29 - 10.30pm The Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Fringe 

Girls & Boys - Scottish Falsetto Socks do Shakespeare

Brand new from the Socks, a song that might actually get a try out for the Shakespeare show, we'll see how it plays live. Failing that, it's definitely going to be in the audience in music, and I think it's quite a nifty idea. So good I made it twice. That is to say, when you click to play you'll hear the music sounding vaguely like the source material, but if you have a listen to the version below, you'll hear it didn't come out first time lucky.

The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre do Shakespeare at the Edinburgh Fringe August 2016 - see the previews in your town!

May 8 - Derby Comedy Festival 5.30pm
May 19 - Old Joint Stock Birmingham
May 22 - Komedia, Brighton Fringe
May 28 - Ards Puppet Festival, Newtonards
June 9 - Bridgend 
July 3 - Derby Bar One 2pm 
July 8 - Flavel, Dartmouth
July 10 - Tring Festival 
July 14 - Market Harborough Theatre
July 17 - Sheffield New Barrack Tavern 2pm

July 17 - Greater Manchester Fringe , Kings Arms Salford 7pm

July 21 - Barnes Fringe
July 22 - Bedford Fringe
July 30 - Blaenavon Rhymney Brewery
Aug 3 - 29 - 10.30pm The Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Fringe 

King John - new from Socks do Shakespeare

Another song that's most likely going to be part of the audience-in music for Socks do Shakespeare, here's the boys take on King John, we hope you like it. Click to play. We would, obviously, cover this play in more detail. But to gild refined gold, to paint the lily, to throw a perfume on the violet, to smooth the ice, or add another hue unto the rainbow, or with taper-light to seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, is wasteful and ridiculous excess. As we're sure you'll agree.

Is that a new costume we spot, by the way? Why yes it is. How good of you to notice. Cannibalised from a doll Heather bought me last month for this very purpose. And, currently, lacking the written material to match. I'm working on it.

The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre do Shakespeare at the Edinburgh Fringe August 2016 - see the previews in your town!

May 8 - Derby Comedy Festival 5.30pm
May 19 - Old Joint Stock Birmingham
May 22 - Komedia, Brighton Fringe
May 28 - Ards Puppet Festival, Newtonards
June 9 - Bridgend 
July 3 - Derby Bar One 2pm 
July 8 - Flavel, Dartmouth
July 10 - Tring Festival 
July 14 - Market Harborough Theatre
July 17 - Sheffield New Barrack Tavern 2pm

July 17 - Greater Manchester Fringe , Kings Arms Salford 7pm

July 21 - Barnes Fringe
July 22 - Bedford Fringe
July 30 - Blaenavon Rhymney Brewery
Aug 3 - 29 - 10.30pm The Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Fringe 

Allusion - new from Socks do Shakespeare

Brand new from the Socks, we have a piece of material that's most likely going to be part of the audience intro music for Socks do Shakespeare. Remember how last year we had an ever-growing montage of cops-and-robbers related cover versions by the Socks? This year there looks like being songs that are quite good fun, but don't have that live dynamic going for them. This is one of the first. Do please click to play, and enjoy yourself. What with music being the food of love, and all that.

The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre do Shakespeare at the Edinburgh Fringe August 2016 - see the previews in your town!

May 8 - Derby Comedy Festival 5.30pm
May 19 - Old Joint Stock Birmingham
May 22 - Komedia, Brighton Fringe
May 28 - Ards Puppet Festival, Newtonards
June 9 - Bridgend 
July 3 - Derby Bar One 2pm 
July 8 - Flavel, Dartmouth
July 10 - Tring Festival 
July 14 - Market Harborough Theatre
July 17 - Sheffield New Barrack Tavern 2pm

July 17 - Greater Manchester Fringe , Kings Arms Salford 7pm

July 21 - Barnes Fringe
July 22 - Bedford Fringe
July 30 - Blaenavon Rhymney Brewery
Aug 3 - 29 - 10.30pm The Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Fringe 

They're Still Alive - new song from the Socks

It's not all Shakespeare around here these days, as this new video proves. The Socks have written a sing commemorating these few, these happy few, celebrities who have not yet seen better days and shuffled off this mortal coil to lie buried full fathom five deep below this sceptred isle... well, you see where that was going. Click to play, and do please enjoy.

Is that a new guitar, you ask? Why yes. And there's a new piano just rolled off the production line too, and a couple of mends and tweaks here and there, in what is clearly Prop Making Season. Let's see how well these fare. (The piano was in a right two and eight by the time of the Socks' last gig).

The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre do Shakespeare at the Edinburgh Fringe August 2016 - see the previews in your town!

May 8 - Derby Comedy Festival 5.30pm
May 19 - Old Joint Stock Birmingham
May 22 - Komedia, Brighton Fringe
May 28 - Ards Puppet Festival, Newtonards
June 9 - Bridgend 
July 3 - Derby Bar One 2pm 
July 8 - Flavel, Dartmouth
July 10 - Tring Festival 
July 14 - Market Harborough Theatre
July 17 - Sheffield New Barrack Tavern 2pm

July 17 - Greater Manchester Fringe , Kings Arms Salford 7pm

July 21 - Barnes Fringe
July 22 - Bedford Fringe
July 30 - Blaenavon Rhymney Brewery
Aug 3 - 29 - 10.30pm The Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Fringe 

O For A Muse Of Fire - new vid from the Socks

The Socks do the start of Henry V in what is basically just a plug for the new show, masquerading as work in progress. It includes clips from the preview shows, so do please click and enjoy.

The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre do Shakespeare at the Edinburgh Fringe August 2016 - see the previews in your town!

May 8 - Derby Comedy Festival 5.30pm
May 19 - Old Joint Stock Birmingham
May 22 - Komedia, Brighton Fringe
May 28 - Ards Puppet Festival, Newtonards
June 9 - Bridgend 
July 3 - Derby Bar One 2pm 
July 8 - Flavel, Dartmouth
July 10 - Tring Festival 
July 14 - Market Harborough Theatre
July 17 - Sheffield New Barrack Tavern 2pm

July 17 - Greater Manchester Fringe , Kings Arms Salford 7pm

July 21 - Barnes Fringe
July 22 - Bedford Fringe
July 30 - Blaenavon Rhymney Brewery
Aug 3 - 29 - 10.30pm The Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Fringe