Next Level Sketch Halloween Special this Thursday! / Spooky Infrastructure Month / Write-Up of my gig in Brighton with MJ Hibbett
We're getting towards the business end of spooky month, with ghosts, spectres and the like becoming ever more brazen in their haunting antics. Stay safe out there.
Sketch Comedy in London this Thursday! Please come!
Please come to this show if you can. I know I say this a lot but I would really, really, really like you to come to this one. I am directing and hosting and I'm really proud of the sketches we've written and how awesome everyone has been in rehearsal. It's going to be a cracker.
And our special guest acts are fab too!*
Next Level Sketch with EGG and Low Effort Sketches! Tickets, Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 8:00 PM | Eventbrite
Our spooky Halloween sketch comedy special with ghosts, monsters, occasional violent deaths and also jokes
Spooky Infrastructure Month
I'm trying to channel my anxiety-inducing hyper-awareness of how crap walking and cycling infrastructure is in this country into something constructive.
So I've been posting a few hopefully amusing and informative videos on social media as I walk and cycle about the place noticing things that aren't ideal.
We're in the midst of so many emergencies: climate, inactivity, air pollution.
Making our cities and towns more enjoyable places to exist is such a win-win-win for tackling all of the above; it bemuses me that people cling on to the car-dominated status quo.
Car culture is so embedded in our society that it makes me suspect we are like boiled frogs: it's happened so gradually and so insiduously that it's difficult for us to imagine an alternative.
There's nothing inevitable about this. To change things, all we need is collective action and political will.
A bunch of my friends have had kids recently, and I'd love them to be able to play in the streets when they're old enough, as their grandparents would have been able to without giving it a second thought.
That's a future to fight for.
Gig with MJ Hibbett: it happened
I finally got up on stage and sang some of my songs!
MJ Hibbett; James Walsh; Annabel Edmonds; Simon Topping: live at The Pipeline, Brighton, Wednesday 19th October 2022 – jamesofwalsh
The poster (design by N. Bailey) It was my first gig, and MJ Hibbett’s 873rd*. I’ve been on stage plenty of times for comedy, but this was the first time I’d stood up to sing my songs at strangers.…
That's it for this week. Hopefully see some of you on Thursday!
J xxx
(*Beige Door have had to pull out but we still have Egg and Low Effort Sketches)