Half Man Half Biscuit / Upcoming Shows / A Letter to the Editor
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Half Man Half Biscuit
I saw my favourite band ever last week thanks to being The Mate Of The Bloke I met at the Walthamstow Wassail, and wrote up a review for the Morning Star.
I’m really proud of it - someone said it was “as tight as the band”, which for a HMHB fan is high praise indeed.
Half Man Half Biscuit, Electric Ballroom, 20/1/2023 – jamesofwalsh
Note – this review first appeared in the Morning Star newspaper. Web version here. 13_Culture_240123.pdfDownload In Camden Town on a cold January night, a man down the front is crying and bel…
Upcoming Shows!
Thanks to everyone who came to see Horse Passports perform at the lovely Museum of Comedy last Tuesday - full write up below!
Horse Passports at Sketch Off 2023 – jamesofwalsh
Webster’s dictionary defines Sketch Off as Leicester Square Theatre’s yearly showcase for up and coming sketch and character acts. Anyone who has attended as a punter knows that this is a very lo…
Tomorrow’s Owl Bag performance at the same venue has been cancelled, but I have two other fabulous shows this month - one in Brighton THIS THURSDAY and then Next Level Sketch in London Bridge on Wednesday 22nd.
If you live in either or both of these cities, please come along - we’ve worked hard on the lineups and we can guarantee a fun time will be had by all.
This Machine Kills Wasps Tickets, Thu 2 Feb 2023 at 19:30 | Eventbrite
Brighton’s best alternative music, comedy, and musical comedy
Next Level Sketch, with Lovely Boys, Anne Crowther and Low Effort Sketches Tickets, Wed 22 Feb 2023 at 19:45 | Eventbrite
London’s finest sketch comedy night returns for its first show of 2023. Expect owls, character comedy, and the best sketch acts anywhere.
Letter to the Editor
Letter raising concerns of The Guardian and The Observer’s increasingly transphobic coverage – jamesofwalsh
Dear Guardian reader’s editor, Equating supporting trans rights with being a violent misogynist for clicks I am an ex-employee of the Guardian and am increasingly concerned by the rising tide of tr…
Like many, I am increasingly concerned by the Guardian and Observer’s ongoing hate campaign against trans people. As an ex-employee I take it more personally from the supposed home of liberalism than I would from papers with a more historical tendency to harbour and mainstream far right attack lines, such as the Times or the S*n.
The Guardian is unique in having an editorially independent reader’s editor. Chris Elliott was in this role during my time there, and took his job very seriously.
So if anyone else out there still reads the Guardian and is concerned about the increasingly persistent transphobia contained therein, I would advise complaining to whoever Chris’ successor might be (here’s hoping they’re not a TERF).
Oh I am come to the low country
Happy Burns Night for those that celebrate! Here’s what my folk choir sung to honour the old Scottish poet man.
Oh I am come to the low country – jamesofwalsh
It is Burns Night tonight, and so at folk club on Monday we sang some Rabbie Burns, specifically 1794’s The Highland Widow’s Lament. Full lyric is published below – he’s long dead, so I suspe…
Thanks so much for reading! Have a lovely week and see you all soon I hope.
J xxx