Puppetry of the Sock revisited

The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre play Swindon Arts Centre on Weds May 1st (tickets here). And by spooky coincidence, on the same night in the same town, Puppetry Of The Penis are also playing. What on earth could happen if audiences get the two mixed up?



This is the back of the Socks' first ever Edinburgh flyer from 2007, when they were playing in the smallest room at The Gilded Balloon and Puppetry of the Penis were playing the largest. Let us see who's the biggest puller in Swindon next Wednesday, shall we?

The Scottish Falseto Sock Puppet Theatre Chunky Woollen Nits is at Swindon Arts Centre, Weds May 1st, 7pm. They'll be presenting their brand new Socks In Space show plus the best of their favourite stuff.

Socks in Cardigan May 29 - new video

The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre play Theatr Mawldan in Cardigan on May 29th. To celebrate that momentous event they've made a special video. Click to ply, then tell everyone you know in West Wales to book now (tickets are here).





SOCKS ON TOUR - Your next chance to see the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre

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, (plus regular appearances at your local comedy club, check listings for details and, if you can't find us, ask your local comedy club to book us, it can't hurt). Watch Facebook, here or ents24 for updates.

Socks In Swindon May 1st - new video

The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre are playing Swindon Arts Centre on May 1st (tickets available here) and to celebrate have made a brand new video commemorating some of the great names this great town has produced. Click to play, and do please enjoy...



The video includes caricatures of Swindon stars including Nick Hewer, Billie Piper, Mark Lamarr, John Francome, Diana Dors, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Melinda Messenger and Andy Partridge out of XTC, see if you can spot them all. And if you know anyone in Swindon who's not going to the gig yet it's The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre at Swindon Arts Centre on Weds May 1st (listed as Chunky Woollen Nits, but don't let that confuse you. Check out the photo - it's us).

New Socks In Space tour flyers

At last, they're here (well, they're at the printers), the new flyers. Here's the back:



And here's the slightly less surprising front of the flyer, resembling as it does the poster which you might have already seen. Ah, there's a new quote, and one in a different place. Find the poster and play compare and contrast.



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

Sincerest form of flattery and all that...

I know imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and all that, but check this out..



To the left are two images from an App called Sock Puppets which you use on the iPad to make animations lip-synched to your own voice, like so. The designers have very kindly sent me a copy. But, blimey, doesn't the template for the face look uncannily like it's been traced from the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre's 2007 Edinburgh poster and promo photo (right)? Right down to the reflections in the eyeballs, the grooves in the socks (they were a pair of my Dad's), and even the characteristic shape of my hand. I'm not entirely sure what I should, or can, do about it.



SOCKS ON TOUR - Your next chance to see the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre

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, (plus regular appearances at your local comedy club, check listings for details and, if you can't find us, ask your local comedy club to book us, it can't hurt). Watch Facebook, here or ents24 for updates.

Banned by Frankie Boyle, and other diary round-ups

Being a round-up of nonsense I may have noted on Twitter and Facebook but forgotten to put in this more 'permanent' form. Beginning with me being banned from following Frankie Boyle on Twitter...



No, me neither. I was alerted to this when The Guardian wrote a piece about Frankie's Twitter commentary on the Thatcher funeral, which I totally missed as a result (and two days later it really didn't have the same impact). Why would a broadcaster ban individuals from following their programme? We may never know. But, after Tramadol Nights, that's a second strike for Frankie. One more and he's out of my good books.

Private Eyes on eBay

Ever wanted to see how little interest you can attract to eBay? Try putting half a dozen Private Eyes from 1967-1972 up there. Not a sausage.



Random tweets:

All this fuss over the Thatcher funeral. Ted Heath just asked to be buried at sea, inserted into a small buoy.

First easily misconstrued headline of the day: Rebel Wilson killed at the MTV Movie Awards http://pezn.tv/ZvtEcS  @pedestriandaily

Ooh, been forgetting to do my little triumphant song every time we book a tour date. So, catching up, here goes... Whoo -

Whoo hoo Leeds! Whoo hoo Horsham! Whoo hoo Birmingham! Whoo hoo Belfast! Whoo hoo Barton! http://kevfcomicart.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/the-superdrug-song-scottish-falsetto.html … New Socks tour dates

The Socks' most watched video this week, oddly, is The Eden Hazard Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTxIxM6oRbE … (not the Mrs Thatcher stuff. Fair enough)

If only he hadn't written upon it "Return to Sender" : Accused ricin-mailer is an Elvis-impersonater http://theatln.tc/12ptdFX

Not sure whether to do my celebratory Tour-Date-Confirmed dance for an "I'll ping some date options back to you". Think I'll hold fire.

Ho ho, Facebook satire http://fb.me/1uWWXabmw

Today's Most-Easily-Misconstrued Tweet Of The Day: @Peston Had fab blowy pm in Nottingham

Not upgraded the carpet since 1993 I see. @mrtonylee @BuzzFeed: 1993 vs 2013 pic.twitter.com/zd3dVsHDvn

Keep forgetting to do our little celebration dance when we confirm a Socks tour date booking. So, whoo-hoo Farnham! http://kevfcomicart.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/the-superdrug-song-scottish-falsetto.html …

Doing a celebration dance for confirming another Socks tour date. Whoo-hoo Chorley! Autumn tour now biggest yet. Whoo-and very much-hoo.

1. Hit Me Baby One More Timeslip #kidstvsongs

   
   
2. Running Up That Grange Hill #kidstvsongs

   
   
3. The Demon Headmaster Blaster Jamming #kidstvsongs

   
   
4. Sound And Chucklevision #kidstvsongs

   
   
5. Bod Only Knows #kidstvsongs

   
   
6. Papa's Got A Brand New Bagpuss #kidstvsongs

   
   
7. Fraggle Rock Around The Clock #kidstvsongs

   
   

   
   

And from Facebook..?

10:27pm

Female conductor makes Proms history www.bbc.co.uk Last Night Of The Proms is to be led by a female conductor at the Royal Albert Hall for the first time in the history of the event. At last, the 1978 show.

17 Questions From Pop Songs, Answered Definitively www.buzzfeed.com Famous lyrics, taken literally. There, that's these questions answered, now we can get on with our day http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/questions-from-pop-songs-answered

3:02pm

Timeline Photos Ho ho. Unwittingly, Facebook sums up just how much of a boon it really is to all our lives... By: Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre Ho ho, Facebook satire

The Socks 2nd Comic - Sneak preview

The world has been waiting for the second edition of the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet's own comic since 2008, could that wait now be over?



Well probably not, as the 80 page comic is still only half drawn. (To be precise it's all pencilled and lettered, and a third inked, with 4 pages of it coloured). So it might not be on sale in time for the Socks summer gigs, but maybe by Autumn? Or Christmas? It really is quite a handful doing everything you know. Enjoy this taster, their classic James Bond routine adapted into comic strip.







SOCKS ON TOUR - Your next chance to see the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre

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 13 - Chapter Arts, Cardiff Comedy Festival
July 14 - Sheffield, New Barrack Tavern 2pm
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, (plus regular appearances at your local comedy club, check listings for details and, if you can't find us, ask your local comedy club to book us, it can't hurt). Watch Facebook, here or ents24 for updates.