Socks tour publicity + Edfringe costs

This will interest nobody but me, but this is the most reliable place I can think of to write it down so that, this time next year, I'll be able to find the details again.

This is how much it has cost to produce & send, and who has done the printing of,the flyers & posters for this year's Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre spring tour.

We're playing 32 dates, for which we've printed 30,000 flyers & 500 posters. These have then needed posting to venues.



Out Of Hand printing. 3 day turnaround, art sent via Transferbig files.com.
1) 30,000 17pgsm A5 dbl sided colour flyers = £475 inc delivery
2) 500 x A3 posters = £288 inc VAT (£48)
(NB: This special offer came from Big Byte 20/1/11: 1,000 x A3 posters printed full colour one side on 150gsm gloss art stock. £195 ex vat) - Updated 21/1/11: 1,000 x A3 posters printed full colour one side on 150gsm gloss art stock. £150 ex vat

Postage of flyers:
4 kilo is the limit, costs £7.06 parcel post. Over 4 kilo costs £9.
So 23 x £7.06 = £162.38
(+ one Special Delivery for Leicester Comedy Festival launch cost £21)



Postage of posters:
A roll of 10 posters weighs 350gm and costs £1.95 second class
A roll of 20 posters weighs 180gm and costs £1.51 second class
5 posters costs £1.17 second class, and just 3 posters only cost 51p
So 14 x £1.95 + 6 x £1.51 + 2 x £1.17 + 1 x 51p = £39.21

TOTAL spent so far: £985.59

(total amended 20/1/11 to include VAT on posters)

In addition to this there are festival registration fees for Brighton & Leicester, and possibly another I've forgotten, and there will be venues that either want more posters or flyers, or haven't received them (in 2008 a couple of packages of flyers disintegrated en route as a result of me trying to keep the weight of the wrapping down).

So, if every show were to generate £300 profit, it would take at least 11% of this tour to cover the publicity costs so far. Blimey. Next I'll start adding up the mileage and cost of overnight accommodation, and this may start to explain why my phenomenal success has not yet turned into actual money. (And don't get me started on venues that still owe me money about which more anon).

Kev F & the Socks

PS: Notes on Edinburgh Fringe costs written by me on Chortle, Sept 2010

Venue cost me around £4500 or 40% of door, whichever is the greater (for a 9.15pm slot in a 90 seater room, other slots are cheaper).

Accommodation cost me £1200 for me & my wife (cheaper flats are available). Fringe entry cost me £500, 8th page ad in programme cost £750.

Flyers cost approx £300 for 10,000 (though I only used 5000 so could have got away with £180). Posters cost £80 (only printed 50 to go around venue. In the past I've printed 2000 and paid £250 a week to have them fly-posted but this stopped being an option in 2008 when the council stopped all flyposting, and I don't have prices on putting posters on official sites, but no point unless you print giant sized posters which can cost thousands).

Add travel costs of £100 return and living costs of £20 a day, and putting one show on at The Fringe this year cost me approximately £8000.

So, to break even, I would need to sell over 800 tickets @£10 each. Over 25 days that's 32 tickets per show average.

Our show has been very lucky and has sold over that average every year since 2007, so the maths works for us.

I have found that flyering is the sales method that works best for us, and that 300 flyers distributed per day equates to 30 bums on seats that night. It's not a perfect science. There are some days when the audience is not out there to be grabbed. And, of course, you have to have a show that works and that people will go away saying good things about, and you need good reviews etc etc. But even starting cold, as we did in 2007 (and with my previous show The Sitcom Trials in 2001-04, which didn't get great reviews by any stretch) I found heavy flyering (done properly, another story) brought in enough of a crowd for us to at least break even every year (though we didn't start making a real profit until 2008, the second year of the Socks show).

Hope that helps

Kev F

Socks tour publicity - memo to self re costs

This will interest nobody but me, but this is the most reliable place I can think of to write it down so that, this time next year, I'll be able to find the details again.

This is how much it has cost to produce & send, and who has done the printing of,the flyers & posters for this year's Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre spring tour.

We're playing 32 dates, for which we've printed 30,000 flyers & 500 posters. These have then needed posting to venues.

Out Of Hand printing. 3 day turnaround, art sent via Transferbig files.com.
1) 30,000 17pgsm A5 dbl sided colour flyers = £475 inc delivery
2) 500 x A3 posters = £240

Postage of flyers:
4 kilo is the limit, costs £7.06 parcel post. Over 4 kilo costs £9.
So 23 x £7.06 = £162.38
(+ one Special Delivery for Leicester Comedy Festival launch cost £21)

Postage of posters (to be added tomorrow)

TOTAL spent so far: £898.38

In addition to this there are festival registration sees for Brighton & Leicester. So, if every show were to generate £300 profit, it would take 10% of this tour to cover the publicity costs so far. Blimey. Next I'll start adding up the mileage and cost of overnight accommodation, and start to explain why my phenomenal success has not yet turned into actual money. (And don't get me started on venues that owe me money about which more anon.

Kev F & the Socks

Socks 2011 Tour full listings for the press

fao all media

Here are all the tour dates & details for The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre's 2011 Spring Tour.

The avatar to go with the tour is

http://i56.tinypic.com/307z0n4.jpg

and the full promo photos are:
PROMO PHOTO: http://i39.tinypic.com/2cmly8i.jpg
PROMO PORTRAIT: http://i40.tinypic.com/10o395f.jpg
URLs are at the foot of the email.

Thanks a million


THE SCOTTISH FALSETTO SOCK PUPPET THEATRE
comicfestival.co.uk


Friday 4th February
Leicester
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
‘Filthy Wee Tykes’ (★★★★ The Scotsman)
Leicester Kayal Comedy Club, Granby Street,
LE1 6FE (0115 952 5050) 8pm, £8.00

Saturday 5th February
Leicester
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
‘Filthy Wee Tykes’ (★★★★ The Scotsman)
Leicester Kayal Comedy Club, Granby Street,
LE1 6FE (0115 952 5050) 8pm, £8.00

Sunday 6th February
Leicester
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
‘Filthy Wee Tykes’ (★★★★ The Scotsman)
Leicester Kayal Comedy Club, Granby Street,
LE1 6FE (0115 952 5050) 2pm, £8.00

Wednesday 23rd February
Dartmouth
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
‘Filthy Wee Tykes’ (★★★★ The Scotsman)
The Flavel,Flavel Place
TQ6 9ND (01803 839530) 7.30pm, £10 concs £8.00

Saturday 26th February
Stafford
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
‘Filthy Wee Tykes’ (★★★★ The Scotsman)
Gatehouse Theatre MET Studio, Eastgate Street
ST16 2LT (01785 254 653) 8.00pm, £11 concs £9.00

Friday 11th March
Stroud
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
‘Filthy Wee Tykes’ (★★★★ The Scotsman)
The Subscription Rooms, George Street
GL5 1AE (01453 760900) 8.00pm, £8.00 concs £6.00

Saturday 12th March
Wolverton, Milton Keynes
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
‘Filthy Wee Tykes’ (★★★★ The Scotsman)
Madcap, Creed Street
MK12 5LY (01908 320179) 7.30pm, £8.00


Friday 18th March
Redditch
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
‘Filthy Wee Tykes’ (★★★★ The Scotsman)
Palace Theatre, Alcester Street,
B98 8AE (01527 65203) 7.45pm, £10.00

Saturday 19th March
Glasgow
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
‘Filthy Wee Tykes’ (★★★★ The Scotsman)
Britannia Panopticon Music Hall, Trongate
G1 5HD (0141 553 0840) 7.00pm, £10.00

Thursday 24th March
Brecon
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
‘Filthy Wee Tykes’ (★★★★ The Scotsman)
Theatr Brycheiniog, Canal Wharf
LD3 7EW (01874 611622) 7.30pm, £10.50

Saturday 26th March
Banchory
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
‘Filthy Wee Tykes’ (★★★★ The Scotsman)
Woodend Barn, Burn o' Bennie
AB31 5QA (01330 825431) 8.00pm, £10.00, concs £8.00

Wednesday 30th March
Bristol
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
‘Filthy Wee Tykes’ (★★★★ The Scotsman)
The Thunderbolt, Barn, Bath Road
BS4 3ED (0117 3738947) 7.30pm, £10.00

Friday 1st April
Edinburgh
Friday Fix,
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, Teddy, Joe Lycett, Jojo Sutherland
Voodoo Rooms, West Register Street
EH2 2AA (0131 556 7060) 7.30pm, £9.00

Monday 4th April
London
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
‘Filthy Wee Tykes’ (★★★★ The Scotsman)
Leicester Square Theatre Basement, Leicester Place
WC2H 7BX (0844 847 2475) 8.00pm, £10.00

Thursday 7th April
Bath
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
‘Filthy Wee Tykes’ (★★★★ The Scotsman)
Rondo Theatre, St. Saviours Road
BA1 6RT (01225 463362) 8.00pm, £10.00 Concs £8.00

Friday 8th April
Falkirk
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
‘Filthy Wee Tykes’ (★★★★ The Scotsman)
Town Hall, High Street
FK1 5RS (01324 506850) 8.00pm, £8.00 Concs £7.00

Monday 11th April
London
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
‘Filthy Wee Tykes’ (★★★★ The Scotsman)
Leicester Square Theatre Basement, Leicester Place
WC2H 7BX (0844 847 2475) 8.00pm, £10.00

Friday 15th April
Exeter
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
‘Filthy Wee Tykes’ (★★★★ The Scotsman)
Barnfield Theatre, Barnfield Road
EX1 1SN (01392 270891) 7.30pm, £8.50 concs £7.00

Friday 22nd April
Inverness
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
‘Filthy Wee Tykes’ (★★★★ The Scotsman)
Eden Court, Bishops Road
IV3 5SA (01463 234 234) 7.30pm, £10.00 concs £8.00

Thursday 28th April
Milford Haven
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
‘Filthy Wee Tykes’ (★★★★ The Scotsman)
Torch Theatre, St. Peter's Road
SA73 2BU (01646 695 267) 7.30pm, £10.50

Friday 6th May
Farnham
Ali Cook, The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
Double bill of Socks and Magic
Farnham Maltings, Bridge Square
GU9 7QR (01252 745 444) 7.30pm, £8.00


Saturday 7th May
Brighton
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
‘Filthy Wee Tykes’ (★★★★ The Scotsman)
Komedia, Gardner Street
BN1 1UN (0845 293 8480) 7.30pm, £10.00

Sunday 8th May
Brighton
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
‘Filthy Wee Tykes’ (★★★★ The Scotsman)
Komedia, Gardner Street
BN1 1UN (0845 293 8480) 7.30pm, £10.00

Thursday 12th May
Manchester
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
‘Filthy Wee Tykes’ (★★★★ The Scotsman)
The Lowry, Salford Quays
M50 3AZ (0843 208 6000) 7.30pm, £12.00

Friday 13th May
Halifax
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
‘Filthy Wee Tykes’ (★★★★ The Scotsman)
Victoria Theatre, Fountain Street
HX1 1BP (01422 351158) 7.30pm, £9.00

Saturday 14th May
Chorley
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
‘Filthy Wee Tykes’ (★★★★ The Scotsman)
Little Theatre, Dole Lane
PR7 2RL (01257 264362) 7.30pm, £6.00

Saturday 21st May
Norwich
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
‘Filthy Wee Tykes’ (★★★★ The Scotsman)
Norwich Fringe Festival
(07920 402690) £TBC

Wednesday 22nd June
Harrogate
Ali Cook, The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
Double bill of Socks and Magic
Harrogate Theatre, Oxford St
HG1 1QF (01423 502 116) 8.00pm, £10 - £12

Thursday 23rd June
Harrogate
Ali Cook, The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
Double bill of Socks and Magic
Harrogate Theatre, Oxford St
HG1 1QF (01423 502 116) 8.00pm, £10 - £12

Saturday 2nd July
Manchester
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
‘Filthy Wee Tykes’ (★★★★ The Scotsman)
Lass ‘O Gowrie, Charles Street
M1 7DB (0161 273 6932) 7.30pm, £8.00

Sunday 2nd July
Manchester
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
‘Filthy Wee Tykes’ (★★★★ The Scotsman)
Lass ‘O Gowrie, Charles Street
M1 7DB (0161 273 6932) 7.30pm, £8.00

Saturday 9th July
Maidenhead
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
‘Filthy Wee Tykes’ (★★★★ The Scotsman)
Norden Farm Arts, , Altwood Road
SL6 4PF (01628 788997) 7.30pm, £8.00

Thursday 21st July
Peebles
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
‘Filthy Wee Tykes’ (★★★★ The Scotsman)
Eastgate Theatre and Arts Centre, Eastgate
EH45 8AD (01721 725 777) 7.30pm, TBC


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Leicester Comedy Festival http://www.comedy-festival.co.uk

Flavel Dartmouth http://www.theflavel.org.uk/whatson

http://www.staffordgatehousetheatre.co.uk

http://community.stroud.gov.uk/event_view.asp?pid=12&pgid=337&eid=5888

http://www.madcap.org.uk/

http://www.redditchpalacetheatre.co.uk

http://www.britanniapanopticon.org/2.html

http://www.brycheiniog.co.uk

http://www.woodendbarn.co.uk/home/comedy.html

http://www.allgigs.co.uk/view/event/351670/

http://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/lqt/show/S1262884630/Scottish+Falsetto+Sock+Puppet+Theatre

http://www.rondotheatre.co.uk/listing/2011/4/

http://www.ents24.com/web/event/The-Scottish-Falsetto-Sock-Puppet-Theatre-Falkirk-Town-Hall-FTH-2314690.html

http://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/lqt/show/S1262884630/Scottish+Falsetto+Sock+Puppet+Theatre

http://barnfieldtheatre.org.uk/Shows/2011/April/sock%20puppet.html

http://www.eden-court.co.uk/whats-on/shows/the-scottish-falsetto-sock-puppet-theatre

http://www.torchtheatre.co.uk

http://www.farnhammaltings.com/

http://www.brightonfestivalfringe.org.uk

www.thelowry.com

http://www.calderdale.gov.uk/victoria/

http://www.allgigs.co.uk/view/event/334994/The_Scottish_Falsetto_Sock_Puppet_Theatre_Little_Theatre_Chorley_Lancashire_14_May_2011.html

http://norwichfringefestival.com

http://www.harrogatetheatre.co.uk

http://www.thelass.co.uk

www.nordenfarm.org

http://www.eastgatearts.com/

Youtoobling, Gerry Rafferty to Michel Legrand via Beans & Toast

Read these tweets in reverse order. They end with a Gary Glitter Bot retweeting one of the vids I'd found (hence the "Eur"), but is more interesting en route as I go from an RIP Gerry Rafferty selection of vids, via Beans and Toast to... well have a look. Great fun of a night is this Youtoobling lark.

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Here we go. Windmills of Your Mind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEhS9Y9HYjU Harrison
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Laughing Gnome original http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEsm4RK9AYc David Bowie #youtoobling
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Laughing Gnome http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4B47xglAuM Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre #youtoobling
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Contender for Best Joke Ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWthVSs8QXw Norman Wisdom live #youtoobling
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Steve Martin
Sorry, thought I was on Google.
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"Steve martin" buff photos muscle speedo photos beach posing.
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Hey Tarby, cracking set. Tough crowd but you nailed it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo0SlPWVHzQ #gigreport
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Jimmy Tarbuck, 1965's own Jason Manford http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo0SlPWVHzQ #youtoobling
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Rock n Roll pt1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0EKBZns3qU Gary Glitter #youtoobling
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Rock n Roll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkFmDlx_Dsg Human League #youtoobling
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Toast & Marmalade For Tea http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt2u9WNd4Qg Tintin #youtoobling
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Bread & Butter, Newbeats http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m1cP0ez_S8 1964 #youtoobling
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Toast, Streetband http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJmKStqugMc Yes, I'm #youtoobling (& proud that no-one has used that hashtag. It's mine!)
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Noel Edmonds record of the week http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uia4dek9gfk (did I say "was") A Raincoat I love You For Your Mind etc
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RIP Gerry Rafferty http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkS169P_Eeo Baker St becomes more real if you watch the video, less beige.

Busy first week

Well that's what I call a busy first week to a year. 2011 started, after a weekend of holiday, with me taking advantage of the bank Holiday Monday to write a screenplay.

Okay, to be honest it's only the 7 page treatment for the screenplay, but the whole plot is there and it works. It currently has the very unsatisfactory title of The Insiders, which makes it sound like a crime film, which it isn't (though it does feature a theft, physical violence, kidnapping and piracy), and the two people who've read it so far are impressed. Sadly I now have the unenviable task of finding time to write it.

Which may take some time, if the example of The Tock is anything to go by. This is a kids book in rhyming couplets which I wrote and drew (pencils) on Jan 2nd 2010. Having shown it to some people a year ago, it was agreed it needed editing. It got that on Jan 2nd this year and is now down to under 40 pages (from 60), small enough to publish. All I have to do is find time to ink and colour the pictures. (Here's a tiny bit:)



Which is how I've spent the rest of this week. Having got the non-paying screenplay and kids book out of the way, I hit my desk running (and mixing metaphors badly, sorry) on Tuesday and have since delivered two pages of a brand new comic strip for Match called Galaxy Wanderers, plus a front cover (I can't show you too much of them before publication, but here's a tiny sneak preview:)



And if those three full colour pages weren't enough, I've also produced and delivered a double page spread diorama for Doctor Who Adventures. Again I'm not allowed to show you this, even after publication (you have to buy it), but here's just one small inch of it:



A very lot of Daleks appear in the spread, as well as all 11 Doctors (one of them twice), Davros, Ogrons, Movellans, Pig People, Dalek Caan, Wilf, Ace, Robomen breakdancing, Martha & Mickey and a bazooka, a Cyberman bearing gifts, Bracewell & an Ironside, and more stuff which will be fun to spot. Oh, and the new Dalek Paradigm, all five of them. Fun fun fun.

And starting tomorrow I do three days of my first Comic Art Masterclasses of the year, followed by the first Socks gig of the year (it's at The Mill at Rode, and I think low-key may be a good description. It's not a touring gig, but the 30,000 flyers in my hallway waiting to be posted to theatres suggest that a tour is about to happen. (The flyers look like this, by the way:



Best get busy eh? Here's to 2011 everyone.

Kev F

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Eric & Ernie brilliant. If they still did a top 100 TV of the year show, this'd be the first contender.
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15 Predictions for 2011 http://kevfcomicart.blogspot.com/2011/01/15-predictions-for-2011.html I guess the next Mayor, President, James Bond+
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Still bearing with it, but I'm finding this Primeval as gripping as wet sellotape. Am I alone?
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Even this is better than the new series of Primeval: It's Primarkeval http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2DmaNj6sxc Scottish Falsetto Socks
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For a TV show with dinosaurs and time travel, Primeval has managed to be stunningly boring for 15 whole minutes already.
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Primeval gets off to piss-poor start. Imagine if they'd launched Doctor Who with 30 years of recaps? Couldn't we have started with a story?
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Thankyou San'a. RT Santa Claus (@santa__claus) is now following your tweets (@falsettosocks) on Twitter.
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Leicester Comedy Fest Scottish Falsetto Socks tickets now on sale http://www.wegottickets.com/event/104144 Get booking, it's not a big room
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Kev F Sutherland
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The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppets' video review of 2010 as chosen by RT @ValWipTweets Cheers http://valselectricscrapbook.blogspot.com/
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Kev F Sutherland
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The Pope's on telly, talking live from a balcony. He's got a brilliant glass iPad. Want one.
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Kev F Sutherland
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Have a feeling 1st Scottish Falsetto Socks press release of 2011 may have to include words "confidently predict" and "Year of the Socks".
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Kev F Sutherland
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Just stretched a hotel breakfast out to an hour and a quarter, luxury. If we'd timed it well we could have made it into lunch as well.
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Kev F Sutherland
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Ok. Hev thinks Hootenanny is live. Can someone tweet me to confirm it's not? (Ideally someone who's in the audience)
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Kev F Sutherland
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If your first image, buffering, looks good, you've got it going on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUh4u-lYEhM Abba When All Is Said & Done
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Kev F Sutherland
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Abba Happy New Year getting a replay here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Uo0JAUWijM For the record I've had a great 2010 #schadenfreudling
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Kev F Sutherland
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My God Abba were REALLY unhappy in 1979 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Uo0JAUWijM Happy New Year, Abba "in 10 years time..."
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Kev F Sutherland
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"if we don't we may as well lay down and die" Yeah, go Abba! Happy New Year http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Uo0JAUWijM
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Kev F Sutherland
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Amy Winehouse not looking that bad after all #hootenanny
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Kev F Sutherland
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Happy New Year by Abba http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Uo0JAUWijM
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Kev F Sutherland
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Malcolm Tucker can't dance for **** #hootenanny
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Gareth Jones
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The Beeb just played Slade's version of Auld Lang Syne, we Slade fans now OWN THE ENTIRE HOLIDAY SEASON! #happynewyear
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Katrina Fox
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#Hogmanay in Inverness beats new year parties in everyway :) free concert an awesome firework display :) beats the celebrations down south.
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Edinburgh247
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Happy #Hogmanay Edinburgers. All the best for 2011! #edinburgh
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Kev F Sutherland
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Fireworks are, amazingly, better than HD TV. Surely this is a nail in the coffin of 3D. Happy New Year!
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Kev F Sutherland
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Well done Jools for spotting it's the end of a decade (2001-2010). For that you get to fvck up a song by playing piano over it. #hootenanny
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Kev F Sutherland
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Plan B is the only record on tonight's #hootenanny I own. I am very old. I console myself that I'm 20 years below the #laterjools average
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Kev F Sutherland
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Keeping that average age up then. #hootenanny #laterjools *viewerpinesforoldgreywhistletest*
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Kev F Sutherland
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Secret Sisters. This is why I prefer scissors to secrets. #hootenanny #laterjools
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Kev F Sutherland
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Cee Lo Green's happy. He gets Alison Moyet AND Gilson Lavis's BBC sandwiches #laterjools #hootenanny
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@caitlinmoran Hev says she said it in her head. #gastricband #alf She adds: don't be mean, she's looking fabulous
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Caitlin Moran
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Is everyone saying "gastric band" right now?
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Kev F Sutherland
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Who's spotted me in the crowd at #hootenanny yet? I'm behind - ooh, Alison Moyet's on.
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Michael Legge
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I've blacked up to welcome in 2011 for my neighbours. That's right, isn't it?
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Kev F Sutherland
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Bowties are cool @peeweeherman I hereby declare that 2011 shall be the Year of the Bow Tie. Long Live @peeweeherman! #drwho
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Kev F Sutherland
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Knob Ass #knobfilms
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Kev F Sutherland
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Kiss Knob #knobfilms
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Kev F Sutherland
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The Wicker Knob #knobfilms
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Kev F Sutherland
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Tales Of Narnia, Prince Knob #knobfilms
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Kev F Sutherland
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The Knobbit #knobfilms
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Kev F Sutherland
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Shaun Of The Knob #knobfilms
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Kev F Sutherland
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Return Of The Living Knob #knobfilms
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Kev F Sutherland
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Brokeback Knob #knobfilms
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Kev F Sutherland
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The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Knob #knobfilms
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Kev F Sutherland
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Gone With The Knob #knobfilms
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Kev F Sutherland
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@NoelClarke You could be spectating.
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Kev F Sutherland
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Elizabeth on ITV is rather good. The fact that it's on ITV is even better. #elizabethrfactor
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Kev F Sutherland
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@JaneyGodley Sorry about Jim, Janey. How you feeling? Love etc, Kev
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Kev F Sutherland
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Hoy! Why, when I click on YouTube, am I kidnapped by wsearch.net ? Is this some sort of spam scam that works on Macs? Me no likee.
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Kev F Sutherland
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I'm listening to a version of Bruce Springsteen's Santa Claus Is Coming where he lists 3 mins of local New Jersey businesses. Is this real?
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Lee Randall
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Famous artists coming out of copyright January 1: F Scott Fitzgerald, Paul Klee, John Buchan, Eric Gill
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Kev F Sutherland
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Broadband's getting really slow here in hotel. Have they started sending Happy New Yearses in Fiji or something?
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Kev F Sutherland
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Eastenders: She "forgot to mention" she adopted a son? What? And Pat's suddenly in New Zealand? It's as if this is all made up or something.
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Kev F Sutherland
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Hope we're going to have a comedy reveal for these bagpipes on Eastenders. Otherwise.. what? Who plays bagpipes in London in mid-afternoon?
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Kev F Sutherland
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How very dare Blwyddyn Newydd be trending and Hogmanay not be! Bloody Hootenanny's even trending. Come on Scotland.
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Kev F Sutherland
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We've just been laughing out loud at Dinner For One http://bit.ly/fo6JeB 47 years old and as funny as ever. Same procedure as last year?
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Kev F Sutherland
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Quick everyone, let's all watch Dinner For One RT @UKComedyNews Freddie Frinton 1963 Classic http://bit.ly/fo6JeB
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Kev F Sutherland
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Play this tonight, why not. The Hogmanay Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UGnUhfkCbU Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
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Kev F Sutherland
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In hotel, with broadband, TV, + it plays music from your iPod. It's like being at home, with a different view. Now what to do for Hogmanay?
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Alicia BBgyal
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Update: Socks TV Golf – Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre http://bit.ly/hnvP7q
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Kev F Sutherland
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Doing a big backup of the laptop. Cos I know how to party like it's 2010.
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ATSM Podcast
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thinks @chicagotardis should get @falsettosocks (The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre) to do their Doctor Who/ Torchwood sketches! :^)
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Kev F Sutherland
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Trying to put Socks vids on itunes. Falling at the RSS feed fence. How do you do that bit? http://www.podbean.com/podcast-directory-add-feed
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Kev F Sutherland
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Writing's above average on Eastenders tonight
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Kev F Sutherland
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What's missing off the telly? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4757ttTLcw Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, new clip from Edinburgh 2010
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Kev F Sutherland
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I said the landlord in the Bristol murder looked like a wrong'un from the start. I can spot em a mile off. Like that Hanratty.
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Hazeydays
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50 Pub jokes in 4 minutes - Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre youtube.com/watch?v=eHSi_s… via @youtube
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Kev F Sutherland
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I love how @tvratings finds different ways to say "watched". RT 'Rock & Chips' special tops 'Marple' http://is.gd/jLhAN
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David Quantick
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Missed the Goodies. Probably won't be on iPlayer because modern BBC rightly frowns on comedians blacking u - waiiiit a minit.
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Ian -Chorley Theatre
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@falsettosocks Haha! I'm going to put "in 3-D" on all our posters from now on. Except the films.
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@MrEdByrne Congratulations.
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Kev F Sutherland
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Dick Whittington in Bristol advertises itself as "with special 3D scene". Is 3D that much of a novelty - in a stage show?
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Boing Boing
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Muppets with people eyes http://bit.ly/eDyJ34

15 Predictions for 2011

For this year's predictions, rather than concentrating on my career, which I could only jinx, I'm going to look at some things that could really make me money. I'm having a look at the things you can bet on, with actual money.

The sporting bets aside, about which I know little and care less, the website PaddyPower.com does a nice line in Novelty Bets. Obviously I won't put any money on these bets, unless I prove to be magically prescient then next time round maybe I will, but just for fun what do I predict these outcomes to be?

Bet: Who will replace Chris Moyles as Radio 1 Breakfast DJ?
I predict: Fearne Cotton 12/1

Bet: First band to officially split in 2011?
I predict: McFly 8/1

Bet: Who will win London mayoral election in 2012?
I predict: Boris Johnson 8/11

Bet: Who Will Play Alex Hurricane Higgins in his biopic?
I predict: Simon Pegg (no odds given, so 200/1?)

Bet: Who will play the next James Bond?
I predict: David Tennant (no odds given, so 500/1?)

Bet: Who will play Holden Caulfield in the film of Catcher In The Rye?
I predict: The fat kid out of Mad Men (Sally's friend?) No odds given, so 200/1?

Bet: Who will win Oldham & East Saddleworth byelection?
I predict: Labour 1/6

Bet: Who will win the Nobel Peace Prize 2011?
I predict: Vladimir Putin (no odds given so 100/1?)

Bet: Which volcano will be next to erupt?
I predict: Totally unheard of one that's not erupted for 200 years. (no odds given, so 50/1?)

Bet: Next actor to play Superman?
I predict: Milo Ventimiglia (no odds given, so 200/1?)

Bet: Who will win US Presidency in 2012?
I predict: Sarah Palin 10/1

Bet: Who will be the next BBC Trust Chairman?
I predict: Joan Bakewell (no odds given, so 100/1?)

Bet: Who will win Eurovision?
I predict: Croatia (no odds given, so 10/1?)

Bet: Who will host the Brit Awards?
I predict: Russell Brand 6/1

Bet: Will there be a White Christmas in London?
I predict: No. (You get 11/4 on it being white, what's that make non-white?)

There you have it, fifteen perfect predictions. Stay tuned for results as they roll in. Happy New Year.