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Talking About TV Comic
The latest episode of The Funny Comics Fan Club has just gone onto the interwebs, and I think this is my favourite one so far. I wouldn't necessarily expect that to be the case, as it's about a copy of TV Comic from 1970, so it contains a bunch of strips that I'm almost entirely unfamiliar with, but it turned out to be a CRACKING 49 minutes and 51 seconds of me and John nattering on about a wide variety of topics, some of which were actually to do with the comic we were reading, but many not. You can hear it for yourself HERE:



I keep meaning to say that, as hinted at above, although it is based AROUND a particular comic, it isn't an entirely dry assessment OF that particular comic. Also, although we do OF COURSE offer intellectual insight into the history of British comics and various theories about them, it is not ENTIRELY DRY and may feature items of interest to people who are not British and/or not hugely invested in the world of comics. This episode in particular features quite a lot of TITTING ABOUT that is not directly relevant to either of the above, especially late on in the episode when we get to the adventures of Popeye and the nature of hoedowns.

As you will be able to tell if you have a listen, John and I rather enjoyed ourselves recording this one, and I hope that others might get some pleasure from it too. We're both keen to get the word out about it to more people if we can, so if you, dear reader, are able to MENTION it somewhere that would be highly appreciated. As they say in the world of professional-type podcasts, please do like and subscribe!

posted 28/10/2024 by MJ Hibbett
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Lonely Tourist and Mr Spoons
Last night we gathered once more at The King And Queen for a rather spectacular evening of Totally Acoustic, with guest artistes Lonely Tourist and Mr Spoons. It all went very well indeed!

I knew it was going to be good when BOTH of the guests arrived early and were DELIGHTFUL, but then things got rapidly better and better as a multitude of Unexpected Pals appeared, not least Mr G Urquhart, who had travelled down from Glasgow FOR THE EVENING just to be there! Amazingly he wasn't the ONLY person to have come from Scotland for the gig either, as a couple of other people told me they'd done the same. We also got visits from Mr P Clarke, Mr C T-T and the legendary Mr P Buckley-Hill, as well as some International Rock Stars, various pals and regulars, and first-time attendees. All of which meant that, by the time we kicked, off pretty much every seat in the room was full. This made me very happy!

We kicked off with a rendition of the theme tune as usual, and then I did THIS:
  • Bad Back
  • I'm Doing The Ironing
  • It Only Works Because You're here

  • That all seemed to go all right - I had a lovely time anyway - and then it was Mr Spoons' turn. As he said, he was a bit nervous as it was his first time doing a gig of mostly his own material, but it went GRATE. I particularly liked the genius idea of kicking off with a song ABOUT the fact that he was playing a ukelele, and explaining to the audience that it was all going to be FINE. It was dead good, and I confidently predict it will not be the LAST time he rocks out in such a fashion.

    We then had a break for MAXI-CHAT and then Lonely Tourist came on for a STUNNING set. I must admit that I was quite surprised to see him kick off with what I consider to be two MASSIVE bangers that I'd've expected to come at the END, but then he kept on in pretty much the same way in a set of just GORGEOUS songs full of emotion and humour and... well, it was very good indeed, and the inter-song CHAT was brilliant too. It was the first time I'd seen him play live, after listening to and loving his records for a few years, and I'm going to make a proper effort to get out and see him again as soon as is sensible, he was GRATE!

    When that was all done there was the usual AMPLE time for chat, and discussions ranged widely and included some rather exciting POSSIBLE PLANS for future stuff. I also got talking to a couple of chaps who'd not been before, one of whom said "Did you write that song... what's it called?" and I thought "AHA! Obviously he is thinking of Hey Hey 16K" but NO! To my GRATE delight he meant Agile, which pleased me IMMENSELY. Apparently it is being POSTED in work chats, which was basically what it was written for. HOORAY!

    This was a high point in an evening what was FULL of them - it really could not have gone much better, and I'm very much planning to do another one soon. Well, soon-ISH anyway!

    posted 25/10/2024 by MJ Hibbett
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    Dark Star and Hush
    This week I have been consuming TWO (2) alleged classics of their respective genres - the film Dark Star from 1974 and Batman: Hush from 2002. I had Differing Opinions of them!

    I read "Hush" mostly because it's just come out as one of DC's Compact Editions i.e. a nice thick SLAB of comics in a slightly smaller than normal format at a MUCH cheaper than usual price. It's basically NINE QUID for a trade paperback of twelve comics that would usually cost three or four times that much, putting it very much in the ACTUAL AFFORDABLE category that comics used to be in. I've read a couple of stories in this format and it is WONDERFUL to be able to cacth up with the so-called "classics" of superhero comics in this way, especially for someone like me who has HEARD about stuff like this for years and never got around to reading it.

    It's been a SURPRISING number of years for me with "Hush", as I thought it came out ten years ago at MOST but is actually TWICE that far ago in the past, which led to me being a bit confused when it talked about Tim Drake as Robin rather than Damian Wayne. Apart from that, and Batman having PANTS on throughout, it felt pretty similar to how most Batman comics are in my opinion i.e. not very good. I didn't understand what is/was supposed to be so good about it AT ALL - it's basically lots of STERN PEOPLE standing around looking a) STERN and b) INDISTINGUISHABLE from each other. It's drawn by Jim Lee who I've always thought of as one of the GOOD artists from that school of 90s art where all men are eight foot tall and made of MUSCLES, all women have impossibly large bums and boobs, tiny waists, and a spine that can twist through about 300 degrees, and EVERYTHING has ten million lines over the top of it. This makes it really difficult to tell who is meant to be who, as everyone looks IDENTICAL, especially when they're standing around STERNLY at social events where tight fitting tuxedos or very very short dresses. It also seems to rely on the reader knowing who all Batman's baddies are and what their powers are - which I sort of do - as well as caring one way other the other which, by the end of it, I didn't!

    After that I put the telly on and saw that "Dark Star" was being recommended to me by Amazon Prime's Algorithm. This used to be a thing of magic and wonder, way back at the start of the century when we were unused to such things, but these days it feels like a forgetful elderly relative who has looked in your shopping bag, seen the things you have just bought, and is insistent that you should buy them all again. Nonetheless, I had vague and happy memories of watching the first half of "Dark Star" one Friday or Saturday night in the late 70s when I guess it will have been on BBC2 and we were allowed to stay up. There was a beachball monster and a LOT of beards, was my main memory of it.

    I gave it a go and I am happy to report that my memory was accurate - there was a beachball monster and an awful lot of BEARDS - but also that it was a LOT more fun than I remember. I vaguelly recall it being all right, but a bit confusing to my young BRANE, as I'd been expecting it to be more like STAR WARS and less like Some Hippies Having Workplace Issues. Watching it again now I was AMAZED that it had been made fifty flipping years ago, as it felt very FRESH and MODERN, especially with the way all of the characters kept having hissy fits at each other and loping around the universe like they didn't know what they were up to. It was also wonderfully SHORT - 83 minutes, which is about how long I think ALL films should be. It was, in fact DEAD GOOD and, unlike "Hush", I would recommend it to anyone with easy access.

    Next time I expect to be reviewing a GEORGE FORMBY movie and probably ALLY SLOPER!

    posted 24/10/2024 by MJ Hibbett
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    From Sheffield To Alaska
    Yesterday was PRS STATEMENT DAY, that most wonderful time of the year that is SO wonderful it can happen twice in the same year. Or, for a lot of us, none times in the same year.

    For LO! it is the day when The Performing Rights Society send you money (loosely) (sometimes very loosely) based on the amount of airplay you have had, whether that be from radio shows, telly, jukeboxes, gym workout sessions, or a variety of other ways to hear music publicly that seem a bit made up but almost definitely probably aren't. You have to get over a certain threshold of CA$H to GET a statement, but when you cross that line you get a full list of ALL the plays that PRS has collected money from.

    This is almost always a DELIGHT because you often find all sorts of places that your music's been played that you had no idea about - for instance, I once discovered that we'd had national radio play in SPAIN because of a PRS statement. THIS time I around I was utterly AMAZED to find that almost the entire payment - and the reason we had got over the Getting A Statement Threshold at all - was because ALASKAN AIRLINES had been playing Thank Goodness For Christmas on their aeroplanes!

    Alaskan Airlines do make a big deal about Christmas, so I ASSUMED they put us on some sort of Festive Playlist for the season, and I am thus DELIGHTED to imagine rugged Alaskan types zooming through the air with US ringing in their ears! HOORAH!

    I was also very pleased INDEED to see that BBC Radio Sheffield appear to STILL be using Good Cooking as the theme for the cooking section on their breakfast show, going by the number of times PRS say they've played it anyway. I must say I find this all rather WONDERFUL. When one releases a song into the wild, as like what I have done so many times, you have no idea AT ALL who is going to listen to it or where they're going to play it - or indeed IF anyone's going to - so it's fantastic to discover these strange uses that they have been put to. I must say I fully support it, and if any OTHER airlines or local radio shows want to follow suit I would have no problem with that whatsoever!

    posted 16/10/2024 by MJ Hibbett
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    Live From Nottingham
    I had the afternoon off work on Friday to enable ease of travel to distant Nottingham, where I was due to play an actual GIG!

    It's been a good old while since I've travelled solo for a gig, so I had done my usual careful planning. I used to stay in an IBIS in Nottingham City Centre but after some Premier Inn googling I found what appeared to be my old place trannsformed into another franchise. "Oh lovely", I thought, "all the advantages of that location, with the extra delight of Premier Inn luxury. BOOKED". It was only when I was heading up there that I realised that the original Ibis was VERY MUCH still in existence, and that I'd booked myself into a Premier Inn that LOOKED similar but was about half and hour's walk away. Luckily as an INTERNATIONAL ROCK STAR I am extremely forgiving of myself as ALSO TOUR MANAGER and so undaunted I took the first of MANY tram trips from the station to my hotel and all was well.

    About twenty minutes later I was out again and on the tram going in the other direction, back towards JT Soar where the gig was due to happen. WEIRDLY I had never been there before, despite the fact that it is also home to Snug Recording Co, which has been our studio home for MANY years, just not since they moved from Derby. Actually, I think we were MEANT to do a gig there the weekend before Covid, and we ended up all just coming to Nottingham anyway for FUN.

    I found the venue OK but when I got there there didn't seem to be anyone around. After a short time Mr T McClure arrived and then, a short while after that, Mr R Newman arrived for a) HUGS b) soundcheck. Tom was doing a guest spot on WHISTLING and INEVITABLY the soundcheck for that took about 17 times as long as the rest of it, but by golly it was worth it. As I pointed out at the time, whistling is very much like playing TAMBOURINE - you'd never think it was possible for someone to be actively GOOD at it, but you know it when you hear it.

    With that all done we strolled round the corner to Mocky D's, a vegan BURGER place with a fantastically excellent name. It is housed in an INDUSTRIAL ESTATE where there is also a BREWERY, and I was surprised to find that Tom was not familiar with this sort of thing as a concept. Round my way every second building is a brewery on an industrial estate selling vegan food! The place had been suggested by Mr N Page who had come with Mr T Pattison, who both arrived shortly after for a DELIGHTFUL early evening of grub and beer and intellectual discussion. Tim suggested that this was the first time he had EVER paid to see me play - monetarily anyway, I am pretty sure our long association has come with PSYCHOLOGICAL costs!

    I picked up some BEERS from the fridge - JT Soars is a BYOB establishment - and we headed back to the venue, which was filling up with people. This doesn't take much as it is TINY, but the people it DID fill up with were uniformly DELIGHTFUL, and as well as Vlads and The Family Machine, who arrived not long after us, there were TONNES of lovely people who I had not seen for AGES. Hugs abounded, and then it was time for me to go on and do THIS:

  • Bad Back
  • It's Hard To Be Hopeful
  • I'm Doing The Ironing
  • Fire Drill
  • Chips And Cheese, Pint Of Wine
  • In The North Stand
  • Cheer Up Love
  • It Only Works Because You're here
  • The Lesson Of The Smiths

  • It went well, I think! Loads of people made two (2) very specific comments. Firstly, they said "Ooh, I haven't heard some of those songs before", which I guess is true - I didn't INTEND it to be mostly new or new-ish songs, but I guess it was! Secondly, and much more forecefully, everyone said "COR! That whistling was BRILLIANT!" which is probably because it WAS. We should do more songs with Tom whistling in them!

    After me it was the turn of the night's main attraction, WHITE TOWN. My booking for this gig had come about as a sort of old-fashioned GIG SWAP after Jyoti and Frankie came down and played at Totally Acoustic, but this evening was very much ELECTRICAL. Jyoti has basically reunited the original White Town band, including Mr G Thatcher on AXE, and also roped in Frankie for additional GTR and especially TRUMPET. It all sounded GRATE, not least because the SOUND was being so excellently manned, and as at Totally Acoustic the songs that were somehow NOT globe-straddling hits sounded brilliant alongside the one that WAS. That one, however, sounded FANTASTIC in the full-band arrangement, as Frankie's MAGICAL LIPS tooted their way through.

    Afterwards we wafted around saying thank yous and goodbyes to friends old and new before me, Tom, Mr V Vorton and various other pals went round the corner to The King Billy pub. This had been recommended to us by Mr A Hale who, alas, was not able to attend, but I was very grateful for the suggestion as it was LOVELY, like a pub from the OLDEN DAYS of the 1990s!

    All that remained was to have a pint and then wander off into the night and onto another tram. It was a pretty BRILLIANT evening - gigs, it turns out, are GRATE!

    posted 15/10/2024 by MJ Hibbett
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    Can You Beat John Dredge (9)?
    Today we unleash the FIFTH episode of The Funny Comics Fan Club, which this time is all about an issue of KRAZY COMIC. You can listen to our THORTS on it HERE:



    (SUMMARY: we really really liked it!)

    Along with the usual mix of INSIGHT and HIJINX this episode also features an idea I have borrowed from the This Are Johnny Domino podcast - an ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITY! As you will hear in the above, the issue we looked at this time featured a winning competition entry from a young John Dredge (9) of Penn. This is the very SAME John Dredge with whom I do the show, and you can hear all about the spoils of his victory within. The competition itself was called "Get Out Of This" and involved the comic showing a first panel with a problem, and readers being invited to send in their solutions. So, the first panel was THIS:

    A bull chasing a man towards a gate
    Readers then had to suggest a way out of it, and John sent in this solution:
    A man scares off a bull with a mouse


    We may all have our thoughts on the effectiveness of this solution, but it still raises the question of whether any of US could do any better? We therefore decided to throw this out into the universe as a CHALLENGE to our listeners to see if they could come up with their own answers, putting it out on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Bluesky to see what people can come up with. If you'd like to take part please do so on the SOCIALS of your choice, and otherwise please enjoy this latest episode which is PACKED with GRATE stories!

    posted 14/10/2024 by MJ Hibbett
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    Going To The Comic Mart
    On Sunday I headed into old London town to attend my first ever COMICS MART. I have read about such affairs from afar for most of my life, not least in the FANZINES I used to buy as a teenager, where they seemed like super glamorous affairs where heroes such as Alan Moore etc wafted around buying drinks for other legends and revealing top secret secrets of future storylines. I longed to be there!

    In the intervening decades, however, I was aware that things had changed somewhat. The sort of thing I dreamt of is now called a Comic Convention (although they tend not to have a huge amount to do with comics and are more about MOVIES), whereas the actual COMICS MART had stuck to the business of LONG BOXES (i.e. cardboard boxes full of comics) to be flicked through and bargains to be sought. Still, it was quite exciting to be actually GOING to one, and I arrived with a pocket full of CASH hoping to come away with a big pile of British comics ready for future episodes of The Funny Comics Fan Club.

    Friends, it did not quite work out like that. The signs were good when I entered the MASSIVE hall where the mart was being held, as I saw before me table after table PACKED with long boxes FULL of comics. However, as I made my way around the room I realised that they were pretty much ALL American comics. Now, obviously, I was expecting this to be mostly the case, but I wasn't prepared for the almost complete lack of British comics. Even 2000AD was in short supply, but British humour comics of the 60s to 80s were almost entirely absent - in the end I found THREE stalls that had ANY British comics, and most of those were either Whizzer & Chips (which we've done), The Beezer (which I've already got) and, for some reason, Hotspur. My GOODNESS but there were a lot of issues of Hotspur!

    After some diligent flicking through boxes, many of which were hidden UNDERNEATH the stalls, I eventually came away with 8 different comics, which did not feel like quite the HAUL I had hoped for. I also attempted to publicise the podcast a bit with some FLYERS what I had made, but that didn't go terribly well either. I did FOIST them on a few stall holders I spoke to, and though most were friendly some of them gave the distinct impression that they DISDAINED the very IDEA of a podcast and would be placing the flyer in recycling as soon as they could find an appropriate receptacle.

    There was a weird sort of ATMOSPHERE overall that was a bit like that, like everyone was very much ON THEIR GUARD and I must say I came away feeling a bit UNNERVED by the whole experience. I wasn't expecting it to be glorious festival of glamour that I had read about in the back pages of Fantasy Advertiser, but I was surprised to find how DEFENSIVE everyone seemed to be. I can sort of understand it - traditionally comics readers have been outsiders and thus the target of BULLIES, and so perhaps one builds up those sort of defenses as one goes along - but I was surprised how pervasive it felt in what you would hope was a SAFE SPACE.

    However, despite all that I did manage to ACCRUE a mighty HAUL of comics, and hopefully managed to spread the word around, so it was all good in the end, and The FCFC is powered up well into next year!

    posted 7/10/2024 by MJ Hibbett
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    Comics | Histories
    Last week there was a knock at the door, and that knock was knocked by The Postie with a special package for me what had come all the way from Germany, containing THIS:

    cover of Comics Histories book


    As you can hopefully see from the above, this is a book called Comics | Histories (I'm not sure what the "|" is for) what has been published by Rombach, edited by Jessica Bauwens-Sugimoto, Felix Giesa and Christina Meyer, and I received a copy because my chapter Periodizing 'The Marvel Age' Using the Production of Culture Approach is very much in it!

    I am EXTREMELY pleased that this book is out as my chapter is the FINAL SLICE of my PhD to be published, and it is quite a BIG slice. As fellow Comics Aficionados will be aware, American superhero comics have traditionally been divided into AGES. The Golden Age starts with Action Comics #1 in 1938 - the debut of Superman - and is when most of the really big DC superheroes were first invented. The Silver Age starts in 1956 with the introduction of the new Flash in Showcase #4, and saw revised versions of most of those heroes plus, in 1962, the debut of The Fantastic Four. PEASY!

    After that, however, it all gets a bit confusing, with The Bronze Age starting somewhere in the early 1970s, sort of, and then... um... well, nobody seems to agree WHAT happens after that. It's all very inexact and unsatisfying, especially when you're trying to do an empirical analysis of a corpus of comics BASED on ages, so I decided to SORT IT OUT by developing a DIFFERENT classification, based on empirical methods rather than just "this is when a comic I like came out".

    The POINT of this, for my PhD, was that it gave me a way to select a CORPUS of comics, cartoons, radio shows etc featuring Doctor Doom that all appeared during this period, which I called "The Marvel Age". However, when I was putting together the BOOK Data and Doctor Doom, describing how all this worked was starting to DERAIL everything else, so I decided to EXCISE the full explanation and put it somewhere ELSE, and THIS is the place where I put it.

    I am therefore REALLY EXCITED that it is now OUT in the world because, as stated above, it was a HUGE part of the PhD that didn't really get into the book, and I think that ACTUALLY DEFINING what "The Marvel Age" MEANS (rather than just SAYING it, as everybody seems to) could be Quite Useful for The Comics Studies Community.

    I am EVEN MORE EXCITED to realise that you can actually READ my chapter for FREE by accessing it on the Nomos e-library! Do go and have a look if you can, it is NOT TOO LONG and does explain quite a LOT about how all this works!

    posted 4/10/2024 by MJ Hibbett
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    Influencer Level Unlocked
    I am happy to report that myself and Mr John Dredge have this week reached a whole new level with our podcast The Funny Comics Fan Club, for LO! we are now INFLUENCERS!

    Yes, you read that correctly - me and John are now being approached by organisations (well, AN organisation) desperate (I assume) for us to promote their wares for them. The TYPE of organisation is, of course, one involved in FASHION WEAR which will be of no surprise to anyone who has ever seen either or both of us casually draping ourselves in the latest must-have "togs", but I must say it was quite a nice surprise to us.

    What happened was that we got an email from Apparel of Laughs asking if we'd like a couple of free t-shirts in exchange for a mention on the show. They have the actual official licence from Rebellion to make t-shirts featuring the old IPC kids' titles and, as you can see on their website, they have done a LOVELY job with titles like Buster, Oink, Tammy, Misty and so on. We of course said "YES PLEASE" and the shirts arrived yesterday afternoon, just before I was heading off to meet John to record a new episode. This, of course, led to a FASHION SHOOT, and I am very happy to share some of the ensuing shots BELOW:

    Mark and John wearing Apparel Of Laughs t-shirt
    John wearing Apparel Of Laughs t-shirts Mark wearing Apparel Of Laughs t-shirts


    As I'm sure you will agree, we are NATURALS at this and so, in order to help boost the economy and raise national morale, we are prepared to entertain further offers for either ENDORSEMENTS or MODELLING.

    We also recorded an ADVERT for a future episode of the show. As regular listeners will be aware we usually include one in each show based on an actual advert in one of the comics we've looked at, so it felt a bit weird to do it FOR REAL. I've not started editing this episode yet, but I might have to include a bit where we tell people that this really IS an advert for something they can buy, rather than an offer for 6,000 Stamps Of All Nations that you could have sent a postal order off for about forty years ago.

    That's all to come in a few weeks, but for now please gaze in wonder at our mighty selves above, and thanks very much INDEED to Apparel of Laughs for the t-shirts, they really are very nice indeed!

    posted 3/10/2024 by MJ Hibbett
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    Triple Threat
    On Wednesday evening I headed off to distant WEST LONDON to go to the THEATRE. West London is a flipping WEIRD place as it is full of super-posh people who are ODD. As soon as I got into the lift at Gloucester Road tube I felt out of place, as everyone else seemed to be wearing KNITTED CLOTHES with haircuts from the mid-1980s and more BROACHES than I've seen for several decades. Truly, THE WEALTHY are not like the rest of us!

    I was heading for Drayton Arms Theatre to see a play called Triple Threat, written by Mr Andrew Cartmel. A certain subset of people will be thinking "Hang on, not THAT Andrew Cartmel?" to which an entire corpus of me replies "Yes, THAT Andrew Cartmel" i.e. former script editor of Doctor Who back in the Sylvestor McCoy era and current author of the Vinyl Detective series of novels. Andrew was my MENTOR back when I did my MA in Screenwriting at City University, and was both EXCELLENT in his advice and GENEROUS in his marking, so it was lovely to hear from him a week or so ago when he spotted my face in The Radio Times. "Is that you?" he asked, and it WAS!

    I bumped into Andrew almost as soon as I got into the PUB bit of The Drayton Arms and we had a delightful chat before it was SHOWTIME. I must admit I was a little trepidatious before going upstairs to see the play, as I always AM when going to see a normal play without even any songs in it, but there was no need as it was BLOODY GRATE. It was actually GRATE three times in a row, as it was THREE short plays in a row, with the same three actors in each. The acting was VERY GOOD INDEED and the writing was BRILLO - I especially enjoyed the middle play, "The Magical Money Tree", which got into some really in-depth arguments about whether money exists or not while still being DEAD FUNNY. The dialogue was especially ace here, it was very very snappy INDEED enabling the actors to bounce off each other, keeping all the THORTS rolling along while still being fun to watch. As I say, it was ACE!

    There was a break in between the second and third plays, when a rather wonderful PUB MIRACLE occurred. Being a theatre pub they had prepared for the interval by having only two members of staff on the bar and having both of them working on fulfilling food orders rather than serving customers - for some reason almost ALL theatres and theatre-like places seem to do this sort of thing, as if having a massive queue at the bar is somehow a measure of Artistic Integrity. We all waited about 10 minutes for ANYBODY to get served, and then there was a gradual shuffling about as we watched the now ONE member of bar staff keep having to go and check things with colleagues.

    ANYWAY when it was finally my turn to order I realised that I'd possibly got in front of the person next to me. I didn't want to risk the sole member of barstaff wandering off again, so I just offered to buy the other person's drink FOR them. She wasn't sure, but while we discussed it a bloke behind us said "Could you get two pints for me too please?" It seemed like the right thing to do, so I ended up getting a round for all of us but, just I was about to NOBLEY pay for the lot, the chap behind me said "Don't worry, I'll get these. I can put them on the work credit card!"

    It was all rather wonderful, like THE UNIVERSE had leant in and said "LO! You shall be repaid for your patience and - for once - not getting all arsey about the situation." I shall have to remember this in future!

    In fact, the whole EVENING was rather wonderful, and I hopefully made these feelings clear to The Author as I left. The play, or rather PLAYS, is/are on for two weeks all together, until Saturday 12 October in fact, and I would WHOLEHEARTEDLY recommend buying a ticket or even TICKETS if you are around that area. I cannot guarantee that you too will end up being rewarded with FREE BOOZE, but I CAN guarantee a FAB evening out!

    posted 3/10/2024 by MJ Hibbett
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