Socks in Brighton and Glasgow - compare and contrast

After a Socks performance, if there's time, I give the audience the chance to take selfies with the Socks before I pack up. Here we see, from our show last weekend at Komedia in Brighton, the delightful Sam and Aoife. The odd thing about this sock-selfie, which distinguishes it from any other sock-selfie ever taken, is that this shot comprises the entire audience.

Yes, on Sunday May 22nd, at 12.30 midday, the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre performed to, officially, their smallest audience ever. Two people. And do you know what, it was an excellent show. Sam & Aoife were the perfect crowd, they'd never seen us before, and they gave Eurovision Sock Contest a really good preview, from which I know what needs rewriting, and all the usual take-aways. I also learn the downside of moving house in March, just when you should be busy finalising all the paperwork for a show in May. I forgot to pay my fee to Brighton Fringe until it was too late, so I didn't end up in the programme. I also didn't get posters or flyers to the venue, which, combined with the odd midday time slot, rendered us an invisible show. Quite how Sam & Aoife found us I don't know, but I'm glad they did.

In contrast, here's Socks fan Carolyn Sleith taking just one of the many Sock selfies taken at the Satellite 7 sci fi convention in Glasgow on Friday May 27th when we played to an audience of about 300, and they were marvellous. When we'd played there way back in 2014 we'd given them Socks In Space, which was appropriate to the theme. This time they got a special Best Of, including 4 Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, Earth Song, a bit of Superhero improv, Star Wars, and lots of fun interactive banter which went down a storm. There are two gigs in a week to play compare and contrast with, if ever there were two, and luckily both of them good 'uns. Just one more profitable than the other.

The following day was the last night of Britain's Got Talent auditions on ITV and, you won't be surprised to find, we never appeared. About which more anon.

You can catch the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre's brand new hour-long musical comedy extravaganza The Eurovision Sock Contest live on stage in a series of previews, in the run up to their return to the Edinburgh Fringe in August.

See them now at:

June 18 7pm - Ludlow Fringe

June 23 - Grassington Festival

Sun July 3 6.15pm - Derby Bar One 

Fri July 15 7pm - Beverley Puppet Fest

Sun July 17 3.25pm - Sheffield New Barrack Tavern

Sat July 23 - Bedford Fringe 

August 3 - 13 - Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Fringe, for 11 nights only, 4.30pm. Tickets on sale NOW!