The James Robot machine in action
The latest musical tyros to join the bill of An Event of Some Kind (VI) are James Robot – not actually a robot, but a band of young men playing music and that kinda malarkey. Check out some of their stuff here: www.jamesrobot.com.
They join comedians Henry Paker and James Smith, and musical types Better Fires and Chris Valentine, as well as Junior Ministers, DJ Jamie, and all the crew, at AEOSK (VI) on February 12, at the Cavendish Arms.
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The delightful Guro from Better Fires
Just added to the bill for February 12’s An Event of Some Kind (VI) are Liverpool/Norway acoustic titans Better Fires. They join us, Junior Ministers, and Chris Valentine, as well as comedians Henry Paker and James Smith, in a night that promises to be super awesome, delicious, invigorating, and downright stupendous.
Buy yourself some tickets online and beat the queues. Here is a link to that!
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Here’s the all new poster for An Event of Some Kind (VI), which takes place on Friday February 12. As usual, it’s by the talented and attractive Hannah Neale – visit her site www.hannahneale.co.uk for more cool illustrations and to offer her work etc.
Click on the poster image to buy tickets online for AEOSK (VI). I’d be super-chuffed if you did. Details about the night are in this post here.
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Henry Paker
It’s only the sixth installment of Junior Ministers’ eclectic night of comedy and music, hosted by H Anthony Hildebrand! And you can buy tickets online and everything.
This month sees the triumphant return of Jim Junior, and consequently Junior Ministers’ first appearance onstage together since last June; comedy from Henry Paker and James Smith; music from James Robot, Better Fires, and Chris Valentine; free interval snacks, an audience drawing competition; DJ Jamie on the laptop of steel, rocking an Ian Dury special, and all the usual malarkey.
Where: Cavendish Arms, 128 Hartington Road, SW8 2HJ, London
When: Friday February 12, 2010
How much: £7 (buy tickets by clicking the link below, homies.)
Pies: Available for purchase
Tickets now available forJunior Ministers present: An Event of Some Kind (VI)from www.WeGotTickets.com |
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New calendar year greetings, all! Hope your bash/quiet night in was acely.
Mine was spent in the salubrious surrounds of the Balham Bowls Club – which just happens to house my favourite piece of graffiti in London town.
Inconveniently for photos, it is located in the gents. But when no one was around, I snapped this visual evidence. Folks, it’s the lovely Lieut. GH D’Oyly Lyon, with optional extra. Enjoy!
H Anthony Hildebrand
JrM
The finest graffiti in all of London
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Eric Lampaert + tongue
That’s right – you can now view a bunch of pictures from ace photographer Nick Dillon in the gallery.
When you’re done there, why not visit his site for more exclusive AEOSK (V) images – and cool photos of other stuff too.
Go on.
AEOSK (V) was huge fun – maybe the best one yet. Witness to the Beard were fun and rocking – and sported some nice Santa beards and hats in their second set, as well as overcoming some strap-based problems with aplomb.
Eric Lampaert was very very funny indeed, and won the crowd over with his hyperkinetic nice guy improvisations and the like.
Don’t Tread On Spiders were fantastic – rock tunes with a bit of a glam stomp. With costume changes to boot. Caitlin’s last gig was tremendous, I thought.
Felicity Moch stepped up to the mic and delivered another of her hard-hitting poems about urban alienation etc. Stunning.
And headliner Tom Basden completely wowed the assembled throngs with his tunes of pedantry, whimsy, fantasy, and literalism. He was excellent.
People won prizes, I was slightly rude to the front table (apologies, ladies), mince pies were eaten, my tinsel was derided by Basden, DJ Jamie spun some winning tunes of an Xmas bent, and all in all it was super delightful.
AEOSK (VI) is February 12. Same place. Do come along.
- H Anthony Hildebrand, JrM
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HardKnut himself. He is a conker.
That little fella above is HardKnut the Viking – a horse chestnut, or conker, who lives in a post-apocalyptic wasteland with his only friend, a squirrel who is keen to eat him. Together they fight zombie squirrels etc.
The first issue of HardKnut the Viking – illustrated by the very talented Hannah Neale, and written by H Anthony Hildebrand (me) – was handed out free at AEOSK (V) on Friday night (more on this soon, including pics).
To download a free copy of the comic in PDF form, clicky here.
Hannah is the illustration-meister behind the An Event of Some Kind promotional posters. Have a gander at them here. She’s available to create hand-illustrated posters, flyers, logos, cool pictures and the like at very cheap prices, so get in touch with her for wickedcool artwork and such.
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That's Tom Basden
Ahoy there! The next AEOSK takes place on Friday December 11. It’s a very special Xmas extravaganza or something, and as a consequence, we have comedy and music a go-go. Go!
Taking the headline position is Edinburgh Comedy Award/if.comeddie/Perrier best newcomer winner Tom Basden. Tom does sublime and excellent musical comedy stuff. His show, Now That’s What I Call Music-Based Comedy!, was a big hit at this year’s Edinburgh fringe, and deservedly so – it was silly, and understated, and catchy, and smart. He is ace. He was also on Never Mind the Buzzcocks recently, and is a quarter of the sketch comedy troupe Cowards. Oh, and his play The Party won lots of awards in Edinburgh this year too.
We’ve also go Welsh musical tuneage from the excellent Don’t Tread on Spiders, who are a top-notch trio what have been in the NME and everything.
Then there’s up and coming comedy fella Eric Lampaert, who will be being funny whilst talking into a microphone. That’s good! He’s on those currently ubiquitous ‘Up Your Viva!’ ads, as the guy with the interesting face:
More acts will be announced soon, when they’re confirmed and stuff.
**Exciting edit** And here they is! It’s Witness to the Beard, the awesomely named 3-piece setting London stages alight. Or playing some music on them. Either way, it’s great to have them on board.
As usual, I’ll be hosting the damn thing, and we’ll have our drawing competition, as well as free interval snacks. And controversial poet Felicity Moch will be popping by to help out with proceedings. Superb!
It all happens at The Cavendish Arms in Stockwell, London (SW8 2HJ). Be there, if it’s at all possible. Thanks!
Time: 7.30-1am
Cost: £7
Nearest Tubes: Stockwell, Vauxhall
Pies: Available
Your pal
H Anthony Hildebrand
PS – Email juniorministers@googlemail.com to reserve a place. We’ll hold it until 8pm. Limited spaces, so get in fast, groovers.
And here’s a map!
View Map!
Oh yeah – there’s a Facebook event page, too.
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A week after An Event of Some Kind (III), I did some MCing duties at The Furbelows‘ Cirque de Creme Anglaise night at the Cross Kings in Kings Cross. It was a lot of fun.
Now, trawling the web for AEOSK/Junior Ministers coverage, I noticed they had written some nice words about me, here: http://www.newsheridanclub.co.uk/NSC6.htm
For those click-averse, the most exciting bit (from my self-obsessed perspective) says:
“Compère for the evening was H. Anthony Hildebrand, who writes humorous verse and prose and is also one half of the act Junior Ministers (the other half is currently in South America, allegedly hunting Robert Mugabe). Mr Hildebrand injected just the right amount of surreal and hilarious observation into the musical mix.”
That’s nice, right? They are very nice people indeed.
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Yes, we’ve got a listing for AEOSK (IV) in London events bible thingo Time Out. Here is a link to it.
And here is a listing in the glorious Evening Standard/London Lite web space phantasmagoria that is This Is London.
And here ’tis on London Is Funny – a rather nice and newish comedy site you should check out ‘n all.
They will tell you that Edward Aczel, Pat Burtscher, The London Dirthole Company, Filthy Boy, and myself will all be doing some things at the show that night. But click through to them anyway.
I honestly think you should come. If you’d like to reserve a space (ie, you’ll get in if you turn up before 8pm) email me at juniorministers@googlemail.com
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