Park Hill: Urban Splashback
Hi everyone! I’ve been sick but now I am slowly emerging from my cocoon, like a beautiful, snot-encrusted butterfly.
The whole city is your jewellery box
Like a comet, I return to Sheffield every eight years to see how the New Brutalism (Park Hill) and the Old Indie (Offbeat) are doing.
More on the latter in the next newsletter, but for now please enjoy my rant about the least satisfying regeneration since Colin Baker.
Park Hill: Urban Splashback – jamesofwalsh
Eighteen years on, “regeneration” has yet to reach the top of the hill. In Sheffield for Offbeat, and with an hour to kill at the station, I climbed up through the snow to see how the redevelopment…
Many exciting 2023 things!
It’s a bit too early for me to have anything legitimately useful like links, but here are some comedy dates for the diary for 2023.
January 24th, Museum of Comedy, London
Performing in the Sketch-Off 2023 heats as Horse Passports (a comedy trio consisting of me and fellow Next Level Sketch producers Paul and Nadine)
January 31st, Museum of Comedy, London
Performing in the Sketch-Off 2023 heats as Owl Bag (a comedy double act consisting of me and “Euan Brown”)
February 2nd, The Folklore Rooms, Brighton
Hosting and performing at my new music and comedy night in Brighton (name of night and guest acts TBC, but it’s looking very exciting!)
February 22nd, Hoopla at The Miller, London
Performing and (maybe?) hosting with the wonderful Next Level Sketch. Just booking in some 2023 guest acts now and it’s exciting how many people want to do our night! It’s almost as though treating your artists well and actually paying them properly makes them want to come back!?
That’s it for this week! Hopefully will have a lot more actual writing to share with you on Monday.
j xxxx