I'm back
Well it's been a while, but Edinburgh is almost upon me and I love to do an Edinburgh blog. This will be my 4th. So what have I been up to? Well this year I have two shows and have decided not to do a show doing straight stand up. I have to be honest I can't compete and never have a good idea for a show. I can fill an hour of me doing stand up and bantering, but an Edinburgh show this does not necessarily make. I did a gig years ago with Alex Horne and was impressed with the fact that he ha such a strong idea for a show and while we were having a coffee between gigs he was researching. The show was called Bird Watching and it went on to be a radio show and a book. After a fairly bog standard Edinburgh full of alcohol, infighting and bitching I vowed not to bother coming back till I had a good idea for a show. And like being caught with bald tires on your car by a policeman at 8.30 in the morning doing 3mph in the middle of London, they come in pairs.
I originally decided to come up with a children's show that would reflect the kind of children's show I like. Tiswas, Michael Bentime's Potty Time, Going Live, Trevor and Simon, Pee Wee Herman, The Monkees, Banana Splits. All that really anarchic stuff. I had the show more or less written and performed by Nov last year. Then Mike Manera suggested finally getting around to doing a show he'd had kicking around for years called Musoc Club. This also turned out to be a great idea for an Edinburgh show so we decided to go ahead with that too. Then I had a dilema. Should I just jettison he kid's show? Manera thankfully told me to stick with it as it was written and if I was already up there it would just cost a few extra hundred quid for brochure entry and flyers since I was doing it at the Free Festival. It was manera's idea to rename the show Lessons in Chaos. I was going to have guests but have since decided to make the guests/friends part of the show the puppets and toys I have in my suitcase. I was inspired by The The Junior Christian Science Bible Lesson sequence I recently saw on Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe.
I originally decided to come up with a children's show that would reflect the kind of children's show I like. Tiswas, Michael Bentime's Potty Time, Going Live, Trevor and Simon, Pee Wee Herman, The Monkees, Banana Splits. All that really anarchic stuff. I had the show more or less written and performed by Nov last year. Then Mike Manera suggested finally getting around to doing a show he'd had kicking around for years called Musoc Club. This also turned out to be a great idea for an Edinburgh show so we decided to go ahead with that too. Then I had a dilema. Should I just jettison he kid's show? Manera thankfully told me to stick with it as it was written and if I was already up there it would just cost a few extra hundred quid for brochure entry and flyers since I was doing it at the Free Festival. It was manera's idea to rename the show Lessons in Chaos. I was going to have guests but have since decided to make the guests/friends part of the show the puppets and toys I have in my suitcase. I was inspired by The The Junior Christian Science Bible Lesson sequence I recently saw on Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe.
Possibly one of the funniest, mental and disturbing things I have ever seen in my life. I've watched it about 15 times so far. Trust me, it's aimed at kids.
posted by Mike Belgrave at Tuesday, July 06, 2010
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