I think our third season of Homework has been the best yet. So far this year, our Night Of Literary Miscellany at Bethnal Green Workingmen’s Club has seen the launch for John Osborne’s Newsagents Window, a surprise performance from Kevin Eldon, the debut of Luke Wright’s Cynical Ballads, and an amazing performance from folk legend [...]

“a forensic Stewart Lee-esque disdain for life’s stupidities. A moving and compelling show which might have you swiftly returning for seconds.” – The List (****)

“A distinct lack of hype means too many will miss out on affable music journalist and Fringe first-timer Ross Sutherland’s remarkable offering. The Three Stigmata of [...]

The fine people at Escalator (to which I owe my presence at the Fringe) asked me if I could write a poem about Edinburgh that could be included in their press packs. I’m not sure if they used it or not (its kinda about me, rather than the Fringe, so I wouldn’t blame them), but [...]

This morning I am recovering from my worst gig yet at the Fringe: my pitiful attempt to rock the karaoke room at the Rockstar Games Party last night. I chose Phil Collins’s In The Air Tonight, and insisted that the reverb be turned up to 11 so I sounded “like Megatron”. Boos commenced. The humiliation [...]

Chapter One: Journalism and the Power of the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Chapter Two: Ode to a Grecian Time-Capsule

Chapter Three: I Run Out of Funding To Make This Show

Chapter Four: The Three Stigmata of Pacman

OK, so I hope that’s cleared up any confusion.

OK, so it looks like I’m censoring myself in the title there. The truth isn’t quite as dark as that, you’ll be pleased to hear. Brian Donaldson at The List gave me a really nice write-up for The Three Stigmata of Pacman.

Over the past few Fringes, Luke Wright has earned himself a reputation [...]

Recorded last week at our rum London knockabout, Homework. Under 18’s probably shouldn’t watch this.

If its not entirely clear from our rather garbled conversation at the start, Tim is reading a univocalism, where ‘A’ is only vowel he is allowed to use. I’m providing a lippogrammatic translation of Tim’s poem, where I have to tell [...]

include a one-off special event with fellow Aisle16er Tim Clare in the Banshee  Laybrinth on August 18th. Me and Tim will be presenting an hour of stories, poems and music inspired by video games, past and present. Infinite Lives is a show that we initially wrote in collaboration with Joe Dunthorne and Chris Hicks. We’ve [...]

Wazzup Polyglots

This weekend, I’m working in collaboration with Game/Art supremos Hide and Seek. H&S are all about fusing developments in technology and theatre, in order to demonstrate how improvements in game and design lead to new kinds of theatrical practice. The audience gets more involved, basically. In a fun way.

The result of this collaboration is [...]

Myself and the rest of Aisle16 have just dragged ourselves back from Glastonbury Festival. Probably one of our best yet, both as performers and as drunken nobs. On the Cabaret stage, we rolled out almost all-new material, including John Osborne’s World Cup poems and extracts from Luke’s new Cynical Ballads show. WE EVEN FOUND TIME [...]