WHAT?
Free Comedy Festival
WHERE?
Mozarts, Walter Road, Swansea
WHEN?
Saturday, 21st January, 2017. 2pm - 10:30pm
Sunday, 22nd January, 2017. 3pm - 10pm
It will once again take place at Mozarts on Walter Road, but this time it is set to be bigger and better than ever as it will be on for TWO DAYS!!
The dates of the festival are Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd of January, 2017 and it will be packed full of some of the best comedians on the alternative-side of the UK comedy circuit. The acts are coming with their brand new ideas and are hoping to start forming their shows for 2017 with YOUR help as a lovely audience.
You can come in and out as you please to watch the different shows that will be on throughout the day and night... it is free to enter and we will be taking donations of whatever you want at the end of each show to go towards the acts' travel and accommodation expenses.
DOORS OPEN HALF AN HOUR BEFORE THE FIRST SHOW TIME!!
Here is a quick-view of the line-up and below are more details about the acts and what shows they will be bringing to Swansea this year.
Saturday:
2pm: Adam Larter
3:15pm: Mark Dean Quinn
4:30pm: Lucy Pearman5pm: Northern Power Blouse
5:45pm: Eleanor Morton
7pm: Ben Target
8:15pm: Joz Norris
9:30pm: Michael Brunström
Sunday:
3pm: Phil Jarvis4:15pm: Andy Barr
5:30pm: Marny Godden
6:45pm: The Death Hilarious
8:00pm: Ali Brice
9:15pm: Noel James
SATURDAY
Show Title:
Lart Noveau
Blurb:
Welcome to Lart Noveau. The new 'show' from Adam Larter. Head of twice Chortle nominated 'Weirdos Comedy', comedian, artist, friend. Late night, rowdy art. Saturday night. Party night. Art night. There will be some nice music, some extreme drama and some moments of bitter bottled art.
'anarchically preposterous' Chortle
"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." Rodin
Penny Says:
Adam is a fantastic performer whose work is noted for its ‘lunacy’ and uncompromising anarchy that often defies description (thanks Wikipedia!). I think he is a great innovator and has done wonders for the alternative comedy scene in the
Blurb:
Mark
Dean Quinn has a background in art and is a very inventive act. His
performances tend to be quite low-key and deadpan. Over the years Quinn has been
compared to the legendary Andy Kaufman in reviews of his shows. He does tend to
split audiences and will almost certainly evoke strong reactions!
‘Brilliantly deadpan’ Chortle
**** The Skinny
'Other
people in the audience were laughing for some reason'
Broadway Baby
4:30pm : Lucy Pearman
Work in Progress
Blurb:
"Traditionally, unmarried
girls were sent into the veg garden to choose the 'perfect' cabbage."
(Anon)Lucy Pearman brings us a charming and playful 30 minutes about a maid looking for the perfect cabbage. Bonkers storytelling with a heart... Expect plenty of silliness and a talking cabbage!
'Brilliantly playful...marks
Lucy out as something rather special'
Laugh Out London
'Lucy Pearman is so very
endearing to watch and an integral feature of pioneering new comedy in a big
way' Funny Women
Blurb:
Join Northern Power Blouse as
they bring you a sketch show full of heart, songs and massive, massive shoulder
pads. Credits include Radio 4 (Dead Ringers, NewsJack, Show What You Wrote), E4
(Drifters), ITV (Vera) and shortlisted for BAFTA and Funny Women writing
awards.
Blurb:
Eleanor’s notable gigs include supporting Josie Long
in 2012 and Tony Law in 2014.
Recently she supported Stewart Francis on his Pun
Gent tour, and Frankie Boyle on his Hurt Like You’ve never Been Loved tour.
Eleanor has written for The BBC programmes ‘What’s
Funny About The Referendum?’ and SKETCHLAND, and appeared on BBC Scotland’s
‘Scots Squad’ and the BBC’s online ‘Room To Write’. She has also been a
panelist and writer on Radio Scotland’s ‘Breaking The News’, and appeared on
Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra. In 2016 she returned to The Stand Comedy Club for
her third solo show at The Fringe ‘Happy Birthday Katie Lewis’
‘Poster
girl for awkward’ Chortle
Ben Target's Tasty Comedy Show
Blurb:
Exquisite props, inadvisable
performance art and one joke (maybe).
'Impressively funny' Scotsman
'One of very few comics who
manage to do something new with the art form while keeping an audience
thoroughly entertained' Guardian
Penny
Says:
Ben is a fascinating performer who is very engaging and always has interesting ideas. Watching Ben is always an experience which leaves a lasting effect on me.
Look At Me, Don’t Look At Me
Blurb:
‘Performing is a way of totally removing yourself from a crowd by ensuring all their attention is focused on you; I think that’s interesting.’ Says Joz, who has been seen/heard on BBC Radio 4, ITV2, Channel 4 and Dave.Penny Says:
Come watch this fascinating and lovable performer do his thing for us once again in Swansea
'An absolute idiot... Simple, silly and screamingly funny' Fest
'Fastidiously avoids boring or obvious choices and excels at being unselfconsciously daft.' TVBomb
'A cult comedy legend.' Dead Cat Comedy
9:30pm: Michael Brunström
Show title:Dried Parsley
Blurb:
Michael Brunstrom presents a series of experiments and experiences that will comprise a ballet-ritual-caper known as parsley. Expect oddness, music, foliage, dance, sauce and melancholy.
Winner, Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality 2015
'Sense bendingly entertaining...Great, crazy, never to be forgotten comedy. ****' Kate Copstick, The Scotsman
SUNDAY
Blurb:
"If I did a story time in a
library it would go something like this…” Says Phil.Penny Says:
Having seen Jarvis' previous work, I would expect this offering to be pretty bizarre and bonkers with somewhat of an intellectual undertone. Phil and his fellow players tend to relate to both highbrow and lowbrow culture and provide us with a modern-day Brechtian experience…or he might just do a poo on the stage and leave! ;-)
4:15pm : Andy Barr
Blurb:
Penny Says:
Andy is a compelling performer.
He’s a clever guy with interesting and funny material, which in the past has
included poetry and a glimpse at his tortured soul. Andy Barr is open everyone –
mine’s a pint of ale please!
Show
Title:
Marny
Godden is: One Tooth
Blurb:
Marny Godden is one of the most joyful and original voices in British comedy.
Whether it be in her live shows or onscreen performances, her rag-tag
collection of characters transport audiences into a playground of silliness and
stupidity. In this her latest creation, a toothless punk beguiles the audience
with tales from the tooth.
‘Sublimely
silly, brilliant surreal’ THE TIMES.
‘Perfectly
executed comedy’ EDINBURGH
‘Godden’s style is hilarious’ THREE WEEKS
‘Outstandingly
performed’ BROADWAY BABY
6:45pm : The Death Hilarious
Blurb:
A darkly comic sketch-based double-act from South Wales ; The Death Hilarious are absolutely unique and original. Their cleverly written, side-splitting material (which does not shy away from the seamier side of life) is wonderfully brought alive by great acting and their willingness to give a hundred-and-ten percent to their performances. They present great comedy with delicious undertones of horror. The Death Hilarious took part in the BBC Radio New Comedy Award, 2016.
"Stop playing your weird music at all hours, it's putting these boys on edge!" Mrs Chalmers, Neighbour, The Guardian (of three foster children).
Ali Brice's Sentimental Breakdown: a work in progress by a dickhead (see
picture)!
Performing since 2009, Brice creates very silly, vividly-coloured worlds
full of very silly, larger-than-life characters.
He played the lead character of Graeme in the smash-hit live show Graeme
of Thrones: a silly tribute to Game of Thrones, which toured the UK Australia America Swansea
‘Joyously bonkers ... the perfect level of exaggerated oddness without
tipping into the self-indulgent’ **** Steve Bennett, Chortle
‘A twinkle-eyed, moustachioed comedy natural’ ***** ShortCom.co.uk
‘Completely bizarre... deadpan, yet totally off the wall’ ****
ThreeWeeks
‘Like Vic and Bob, but noisier’ Laugh Out London
Blurb:
The
legendary Noel James comes to finish the whole festival off with a bang for us!
Very experienced and talented, Noel is guaranteed to make you laugh with his relentless
silly jokes. He says of his act: ‘It is gag, gag, gag all the way – though some
of it consists of non-baby-talk. Above all, my act is highly
original; the guy who wrote it assured me of this!’
‘Liberates the lunatic side to our personalities - brilliantly!’ Time Out
‘Stands out like a droll giant in a comedy land of trite dwarfs’ The Independent
‘Huge fan!’ The Sunday Times
‘Absolutely Hilarious!’ HTV & Wales
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