Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre - NEW 2010 vids &D

kevf · Joined: 14 Mar 2002 Posts: 1203

Another beautiful new shiny promotional video for THE SCOTTISH FALSETTO SOCK PUPPET THEATRE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD in Edinburgh. We are so original, I'd be prepared to bet we're still the only people who do promotional videos for their Edinburgh shows and put them on YouTube. I bet nobody else has thought of doing this yet. Enjoy...

And we hate to blow our own trumpet but.. no no, wait sorry, we love blowing our own trumpet so here is a rave preview from Fringe guru.
Fringe Guru has recommended us: http://www.fringeguru.com/editorial/previews-09/scottish-falsetto-sock-puppet-theatre.html (while also saying how rubbish we are, I think)
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kevf · Joined: 14 Mar 2002 Posts: 1203

Ha ha! We're included in Reuters' official #Edfringe release: http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE5745PW20090805

Sorry no videos yet this Edfringe, but we should be on GMTV tomorrow morning (Thursday). Hope so, we have to be at the bloody castle at 6am. Fingers crossed, anything could go wrong, it being TV that people actually watch.
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kevf · Joined: 14 Mar 2002 Posts: 1203

Our half a second on GMTV:

Or as it'll say on next year's flyers, "stars of GMTV"

Also we're recommended as a Five Pound show by Edinburgh Festival Guide:
http://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/article/18952-edinburgh-festival-comedy-highlights-for-a-fiver/
- not sure it's factually accurate, but bring it on!

BBC does #edfringe, dare I say better than GMTV? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/8189250.stm
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kevf · Joined: 14 Mar 2002 Posts: 1203

Get us, we've made it into the BBC's Edinburgh teaser clip on the website, and they've put us in the headline:

And we're the first review of the year on Edinburgh247:

http://www.edinburgh247.com/fringe-festival/

"The Socks are Darn Good - they'll have you in Stitches!" If they gave stars you know that'd be a five, don't you? (Ok, ok).
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kevf · Joined: 14 Mar 2002 Posts: 1203

The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre is so delighted to have received a 4 star review in The Scotsman that I've just spent all morning making it into a t-shirt. Here it is, enjoy:

PS: Look at me, all over the Bristol Evening Post for no good reason: http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/Dennis-menace-bad-idea-says-Beano-illustrator/article-1255822-detail/article.html
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kevf · Joined: 14 Mar 2002 Posts: 1203

"An absolute winner" - 4 stars. Chortle.

http://www.chortle.co.uk/shows/edinburgh_fringe_2009/s/16960/scottish_falsetto_sock_puppet_theatre_goes_to_hollywood/review

4 stars from Chortle? What is the world coming to?

And a 5 Star Review from Edinburgh Fringe Insider: http://edinfest.blogspot.com/2009/08/review-scottish-falsetto-sock-puppet.html

And we're included in the Lists's puppet round-up, getting the same number of stars as Paul 5-star-the-Scotsman Zerdin: http://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/article/20001-puppet-show-round-up-from-the-edinburgh-festival/
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kevf · Joined: 14 Mar 2002 Posts: 1203

Where have we been for the last month? Doing a show every night at Edinburgh, that's where. Here's a tiny bit of what you missed...

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kevf · Joined: 14 Mar 2002 Posts: 1203

This song was a hit in our Edinburgh show, though its apocalyptic warning seems to have been unfounded, so far. Enjoy. I've annotated the video for your extra viewing pleasure.

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kevf · Joined: 14 Mar 2002 Posts: 1203

And don't say I don't know how to spend a Thursday night. Our banner ad used to look like this...

...and now it looks like this...

I thank yew.
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kevf · Joined: 14 Mar 2002 Posts: 1203

Last night we returned to the Walnut Tree in Maidstone, having played there in 2007. It's a unique venue with a set up which suggests it shouldn't work, but which does work and has done for coming up to 20 years.

It's a stage in the corner of a pub, and nobody pays to get in. That is usually a recipe for disaster, for comedians being undervalued or ignored. Also, instead of the usual compere and 2 or 3 comics, you get one act doing 45 minutes solo. Who's going to sit through that you think. Especially since the act doesn't start till 9.30 at night, by which time your punters will be well merry and a nightmare to try and quieten down.

But no, not at the Walnut Tree. Because here they have a tradition, stretching back to 1990, whereby they have invited in up and coming comedians and given them a good hearing. Photos on the wall attest to early appearances by the likes of Bill Bailey, Ed Byrne, Jimmy Carr, Catherine Tate and many many more, all of whom have been warmly received by a faithful comedy-friendly crowd. And last night was no different.

If there's one factor that sometimes runs more smoothly in bigger venues, it is the technical back up. For sound cues, an act like the Socks has to rely on the CD player behind the bar being operated, in slightly subdued light, by Peter the owner. This can be entertaining in itself, as his clip from last night demonstrates:

I look forward to returning there sometime in the future, and urge all Maidstonians to make a bee-line there every Thursday. You won't regret it.
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kevf · Joined: 14 Mar 2002 Posts: 1203

From our gig last week in Maidstone, a favourite routine from the current show.

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kevf · Joined: 14 Mar 2002 Posts: 1203

New from the Socks, a song called Films Are Dead Good. Well, I say new. This was, in fact, the very first thing I wrote for The SFSPT Goes To Hollywood a year ago, and we recorded a couple of stabs at it, neither of them seemed performable. So, rather than the audience coming in to this track before every show in Edinburgh this August, it's mouldered unlistened and unloved in the iTunes file for nigh on 12 months. Digging it out for the Socks to perform, it doesn't sound that bad. In case you can't follow the words (the song's big problem), they're annotated on the YouTube clip and listed below. Enjoy.

Cecil B B B De Mille and
Laurel Hardy Buster Keaton
Harold Lloyd and Sennet Mack and
Keystone Cops and no-one black

Lillian Gish, Al Jolson’s Mammy
Charlie Chaplin, Goldwyn Sammy
Potempkin and Caligari
Valentino, didn’t marry

Edison, Arbuckle Fatty
Randolph Hearst, granddad of Patty
Napoleon part 1 and part 2
Griffiths Birth and Nosferatu

Douglas Fairbanks, Clara Bow
And Eisentein, Erich von Stro-
Heim, the It Girl Swanson Gloria
Nickelodeon, the Astoria

Lumiere the Melies brothers
MGM and all the others

Films are not round, but somehow you can roll ‘em
Got to go to the pictures, so we can extoll them
Films are dead good and they’re always repeated
Except the ones made on nitrate stock, they’ve disintegrated

Paramount and RKO
Frankenstein Marilyn Monroe
Disney Singing In The Rain
The 7 Dwarves Citizen Kane

Orson Welles & Errol Flynn
Gene Kelly & Gone With The Wind
Spencer Tracy The Jazz Singer
Fred Astaire and Rogers Ginger

King Kong & Count Alucard
Film noir Sunset Boulevard
Jimmy Stewart, he was super
Cary Grant and Gary Cooper

Jimmy Dean and Marlon Brando
Jimmy Cagney Greta Garbo
Ford and Wayne and all the westerns
Hepburn Davis Charlton Heston

Vertigo and North by North West
Psycho Rear Window and the rest

Films are the best, come in iMax and Dolby
Got to turn it up louder, the projectionist told me
Films are fantastic whether black and white or colour
If you burn a small hole in them, then they might get duller

Connery James Bond Carry On
Hammer Horror
Blaxploitation Peeping Tom
The Sound Of Music Krakatoa

Mary Poppins Michael Caine and Dustin Hoffman Francois Truffaut
Lawrence of Arabia The Graduate
& Mr Hulot

Great Escape La Dolce Vi-talian Job
Butch Cassidy
A Hard Days Night and Kurosawa
Jean Luc Godard Flower power

Planet Of Bonnie and Clyde
The Seventh Seal and Samurai
2001 Ray Harryhausen
Adam West & Barbra Streisand

Jules & Jim and Charles and Di
I’m Spartacus and so am I

Films are superb they come in cinerama
They come in 3D and smellovision, and they do not harm ya
Films are the best, although some are quite rubbish
Some are in a foreign language, so they get a bit dubbish
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kevf · Joined: 14 Mar 2002 Posts: 1203

Today we're off to the BICS, Birmingham Comic Art Show. An excuse, if any were needed, to have a look back at our visit there two years ago when we lead many of the luminaries of the comic book industry in song:

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kevf · Joined: 14 Mar 2002 Posts: 1203

Announcing a brand new and highly novel Socks gig, improv at Bristol Old Vic Oct 16: http://bit.ly/1ZUor

The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre perform a unique, geninely one-off gig at the Bristol Old Vic on Friday Oct 16th as part of the Bristol Jam Improv Festival.

All of their 20 minute set will be improvised based on suggestions by the audience. There have been improv items in the show before (fans may have seen Kraftwerk from their 2008 show, and various fillums attempted in the recent ...Goes To Hollywood) but now they'll be winging the whole thing. Do come.

The event is part of a weekend of improv with a unique ticketing structure. The shows vary in length from 30 mins upwards, and you either Pay What You Can or Roll A Dice and pay in pounds what the dice turns up. Details at http://www.bristololdvic.org.uk/bristoljam.html

PS: Kev F (boss of the Socks) birthday is this same weekend. So any friends who wish to celebrate with him on Friday night are urged to come to the Socks performance at 6pm, then we'll go to the bar. 07931 810858
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kevf · Joined: 14 Mar 2002 Posts: 1203

New from the Socks, some work in progress. Tolerate:

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