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The Young’uns VS Mary Poppins
“Are you going to be loud,” asks George. We’re in Belfast, at the venue, setting up for tonight’s performance of the Ballad Of Johnny Longstaff. The venue is called the Strand; an apt choice of name as the whole place is hanging on by a thread. George works at the Strand and is providing threadbare…
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There’s Snow, Smoke, Without Hire
Thanks to the person at Stockport Gig Guide who on Monday morning very kindly took it upon themselves to urge people to get tickets for our gig in Manchester. Unfortunately, this advert was no help to us whatsoever because the gig had been sold out for weeks. All it meant was that people saw the…
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Christmas Crackers, counterfeit kettle comedy, and tasteless text tones
During Christmas dinner, post Christmas cracker pull, I began to muse about the people who write the jokes for Christmas crackers. Does a Christmas cracker company just commission one person to do it, or is there a whole team of people? Is it a work-from-home job or is there a room crammed full of frustrated,…
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Cerys Matthews And Sexy Fish
This Sunday morning we (as in The Young’uns) were on Cerys Matthews’ BBC 6 Music show. Having got to bed late due to celebrating a friend’s birthday, and then waking at 5am to take a painfully slow megabus journey from Sheffield to London, I felt, rather aptly, in a state of catatonia. I hope Cerys…
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The Young’uns Podcast: Christmas 2018
https://www.davideagle.co.uk/podcast-download/3883/christmas-2018.mp3 To bastardise Band Aid: the greatest gift you’ll get this year’s online. It’s the Christmas 2018 Young’uns Podcast, festooned with festive fun from our 2016 We Three Sings Christmas tour. Play along with The Young’uns Christmas quiz, trying to guess the film, song or sitcom from our attempted re-enactments. There’s lots of music from…
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Blogging On A Bike
The last time I attempted to ride a bike was about ten years ago in Holland. It lasted for all of twenty seconds before I narrowly missed a dog and hurtled into a wall. How did it go so wrong? Well, most people reckon it’s to do with me being blind, whereas I blame it…
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Jasmine And The Jazz Men
Here’s a little audio blog from The Regent’s Park in London, in which I get accosted by a saucy duck, we discover some shocking news about Google, and we learn all about a jazz singer with a rather checkered past.
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BBC Radio 4 News
Greetings from Toronto, Canada. We are playing a festival tonight called Brave Festival, which is described as “a festival of risk and failure.” So they’ve picked the perfect band, as we can fail with an unparalleled ease. In keeping with the festival’s philosophy, Michael will be doing all the talking and trying to tell jokes,…
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I Beat The Frog, But Can I Beat The Gong?
After my victory at Manchester’s comedy competition, Beat The Frog, I travel to London for the famous King Gong comedy competition, where I come up against my most ruthless and brutal audience yet. But can I survive five minutes on stage, or will the audience hold up their red cards to herald my dismissal? And…
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Fax Finding Mission
Tickets for my Hudddrsfield gig, on Friday 13th July, can be got here. The three of us (as in The young’uns) are on a fax finding mission. We have spent the day trying to locate a fax machine. Why? You might ask. Then again, you might not, but for the purposes of fleshing out this…