LONG REACH- SATURDAY GUARDIAN REVIEW

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The Private Widdle Social Club Jan 2011 Meeting.

Not our most polished event to date in some ways:
The gold slash curtain had gone missing, Jonathan the Pianist (man who can play anything) was resting, ill in Madeira. Paul Hendy was away and had taken Paul Foot's throne and crown with him. The follow spot had blown....

However, rough around the edges, January's meeting was chock full of raucous entertainment. Surprise hits were performance Poet Malcolm Head, who has just been signed for Paul Foot's national tour. Plus, the Meat Raffle courtesy of The Black Pig Butcher in Kingsdown, which contained a quadruple pig's heart bypass: pig's heart laced with chipolatas through the ventricles; some lambs kidney and bacon parcels; and some wings in blankets - chicken wings wrapped in bacon. All jolly tasty and fleshy, as were Hells Belles, Major and Mrs Perineum Twang, The Ladies of the Lake, Jodie and all our other talented acts.

Feb 26th show is bursting at the seams and will be a return to the smooth running slickness you expect from a Widdle night out.

Markets of Britain, a short film by Lee Titt (via Serafinowicz and Popper)

This is Deal MArket on a Saturday, to a tee....

PANTO - Poster

Images of Chatham at Christmas. It all felt very Victorian and cosy (like the workhouse) and made Novosibirsk look glamorous.
Even my old mucker and Gravesend boy, Woody turned up in black and white, dressed as Bill Sykes to complete the vision.




JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
Made firm new friends in Chatham.
It was a great, supportive cast who looked after each other in sickness and in health.
As the oldest member of cast (50) I was very pleased not to have succumbed to the various viruses going around, exacerbated by the shared bog outside the dressing room which pumped out sewage fumes and pea-souper shite clouds on an hourly basis.
I attribute my robust health to bloody maries of various dilutions, satsumas, beef jerky and the antispetic effects of organic rolling tobacco. Oh, and guinness after the drive home through the snow.
That's my theory, anyway.
New best friends...West End Veteran Johnny Barr, Phil "Mr Maker" Gallagher, Miss Quinn Patrick and lovely Emma Barton on whom I have a a huge crush.

Poster, originally uploaded by petercocks.

December to January was spent schlepping to Chatham through Snow and blizzards to perform Jack and the Beanstalk twice a day, and thrice on boxing day.
My mum might have been proud to have seen my face on the billboards and buses around Chatham.

full set of pics at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/petercocks/sets/72157625616033634/

LONG REACH

LONG REACH is published today. The first in a series of modern, Len Deightonesque thrillers featuring young, undercover, fledgling hard man, Eddie Savage.

Eddie Savage is shocked to learn that the body of his brother, Steve, has just been washed up in the Thames. But he soon discovers something even more disturbing: that Steve had actually been working undercover for the police – and was probably murdered in the line of duty. Determined to avenge his brother's death, Eddie relinquishes his old life and identity to take up where Steve left off, throwing himself headlong into his first mission – to infiltrate a tough south London gang. But as he becomes caught up in the world of crime, Eddie begins to question where his loyalties lie. Then he makes a terrible discovery...

Here is the trailer...

BIGGER BANG V

Despite freezing conditions and snowy blizzards 750 people turned up to see our latest Bigger Bang Show at Brighton Dome on Dec 3rd, with me as The Doc and Professor Hal Sosabowski.

There were plenty of methane gas related fart gags and plenty smutty humour all dressed up as a fantastic, explosive science display.

The highlight was our new, world record, smoke vortex generator...

Le Petomane.