Hello everyone,

Here’s the full programme for the Residence event this weekend at the Tobacco Factory.

Friday 11 and Saturday 12 September 2009
Tiobacco Factory Theatre
Raleigh Road
Bristol, BS3 1TF

Booking: 01179020344
Tickets: Pay what you can (minimum £5 for both days)
if you’d like to attend breakfast or dinner please email residencemail@gmail.com

FULL PROGRAMME

Friday 11 September
7:30pm: Doors
7:30pm – 10:30pm: Search Party one-to-one
8:00pm: Welcome and introduction
8:15pm: Muddled State performance
9:30pm: Tom Marshman performance
12:00am: Close

Saturday 12 September
11:00am: Breakfast
12:00pm: Discussion about artist-led initiatives chaired by Theatre Bristol
1:00pm – 7:00pm: Tinned Fingers installation + Jo Bannon performance
2:00pm: Edward Rapley performance
3:00pm: NWN talk
3:10pm: New Work discussion
5:00pm: Tom Wainwright performance
6:00pm: Tiny Ideas (works-in-progress from non-Residence members)
8pm: Dinner
9:30pm: Party starts (Simon Cassidy playing records)
10:30pm: Action Hero party piece
10:45pm: Tom Marshman party piece

Check out the Bristol Jam network here.  Bristol Jam is the UK’s first festival of improvised performance, and runs at Bristol Old Vic between 16th and 24th October.

Having provided me with two of my all time theatre highs over the last twelve months in Once and for All We’re Going to Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up and Listen and The Smile Off Your Face, I’m looking forward to Ontroerend Goed’s new show Under the Influence, commissioned by the Drum in Plymouth.  I’m going to see it tomorrow night, despite Lyn Gardner’s not-so-great review in The Guardian.

Dancing Choose – TV On The Radio

Am I the only person in the UK that thinks it is rubbish?

That’s quite a long title.

Those are the two things I’m doing on Friday night.  1927 are at the Tobacco Factory this week with Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, which I haven’t seen, but by all accounts is rather smashing, so I’m off on Friday.  And then after that, it’s the Arctic Circle single launch.  Here are the details:

Qu Junktions presents
Arctic Circle + Munch Munch
with Katapulto + Illegal Seagull DJs
at Bristol County Sports Club
Fri 10th Oct 2008 / 7.30pm / £6 adv from Bristol ticket shop, Here Shop, 20th century flicks/ £7 on door

This is a show of pleasures rad, rare, guilty and racy.

Arctic Circle do it in a big but humble/jumble blaze of glory. They refresh the spirit with their cultish brand of DIY. They helped put the night together to celebrate the release of their new 7-incher out on Stitch Stitch records, a double A-side featuring ‘Prancing Pearl’ and ‘Mothers Ruin’ – both typically upbeat AC tracks. Munch Munch mess with songs in a delicious twin drum, freeform way. They have been touring mad this summer, proving a hit at indie, dance, prank and part nights. Take stock. Katapulto proves that off kilter keyboards are central to this night – he is singular madcap fun. Eccentronica indeed. Illegal Seagull bind it all together or just let it all hang out.

Sheesh.  A mini-festival explosion is about to hit Bristol tonight.

Igfest, the interesting games festival, starts this evening with Journey to the Middle of the Night and then a whole weekend of games, long and short.  Igfest collides with the Bristol Festival, a kind of late-summer Ashton Court-in-the-city.  This new community festival has bands and all sorts and the dubious titles ‘Brizzolfest’ and ‘Rave-on-Avon’. And then next weekend is the Bristol Do – an outdoor street theatre extravaganza organised by Bristol City Council, which happens all over Portland Square.

Today is Friday. It’s been a week of unparalleled boredom. My aim was to tick off every single item on the ‘To Do’ list and not carry anything over to next week, which is what usually happens. Failed. Miserably.

So to inject a bit of fun into proceedings I’m wearing a cardigan that I shrunk in the wash but which I still desperately want to fit me, and I might, I dunno, have a Crunchie later or something.

Sheesh. Even this post is boring.

I am going to a wedding in North Yorkshire tomorrow though, so that’s one thing.

look how mis-shapen it is