Hog Recommends 2013-14 (continued) Hog the Limelight Instant Wit Menu 2013-14 Quick fire improvisation show featuring songs, www.hogthelimelight.co.uk sketches, live music and gags all made up on the spot from audience suggestions. “Best event I’ve been to.” Hyde Contact: [email protected] www.instantwit.co.uk The Flying Toads The Flying Toads offer a highly entertaining concert of Celtic music and song - together with a dance caller if you want to get on your feet! “A really good evening!” Cliddesden Contact: [email protected] www.flyingtoads.co.uk Big Mouth Piano Tales Highly interactive shows for children in which the audience can become part of the story. Several shows available. Contact: [email protected] www.bigmouthpianotales.co.uk Opera Dudes A massive hit with everyone, the duo tour the country from Cumbria to Kent. Several shows available. “One of the best Hog events we have held.” Goodworth Clatford “The best show ever.” Botley Contact: [email protected] www.operadudes.com 32 1 www.hants.gov.uk Matt Harvey Contact Hog Recommends 2013-14 Matt Harvey 5 Cherry Cross In this section of the programme we feature some of the shows which Totnes have been very successful previously on the scheme. Although Hog Devon TQ9 5EU funding support is not available in general for these shows this year, 01803 866672 if you are a new village and would like to host one of these shows, 07403 1077632 please contact us. We have added quotes from some of the venues [email protected] who would be happy to advise you on marketing aspects etc. www.mattharvey.co.uk Space requirements Kevin Tomlinson 4ft x 4ft A great introduction to improvisation and comedy for Tech requirements villages which haven’t tried it before. Kevin has Lighting several shows available suitable for all ages. Contact: [email protected] Other requirements www.kevintomlinson.co.uk Close parking, possible Wondermentalist accommodation, refreshments Writer, poet, enemy of all that’s difficult and upsetting, Matt’s way with words has Running time Moscow Drug Club taken him from Totnes to the Wimbledon 2 x 45 minutes Tennis Championships via Saturday Live, The most popular show from last season’s programme, Interval the Edinburgh Festival and the Work MDC wowed villages throughout Hampshire with their 20 minutes intimate musical experience. section of the Guardian. He is host of Wondermentalist – Radio 4’s comedy- Get in “Best ever event we have held.” West Tytherley infused, musically enhanced interactive 1 hour Contact: [email protected] www.moscowdrugclub.com poetry cabaret – and author of The Hole Get out in the Sum of my Parts (Poetry Trust) and 1.5 hours Where Earwigs Dare (Green Books). Age suitability “Very funny…” Independent Madame Galina’s Vaudeville Party 12+ “...not only funny but tender and true” Join tenor Iestyn Edwards (aka Madame Galina) and Guardian Publicity friends for an evening of song, dance, vaudeville A4 posters & A5 flyers as “fabulously understated” Dorset Echo cabaret and Russian party games. required direct from artist “Unbelievable entertainment” Hale Fee: £450 VAT: No Availability Contact: [email protected] Hog Contribution: £225 Summer/Autumn/Winter iestynedwards.webs.com NB: Check for additional 2013 and Spring 2014 costs when booking 2 31 Contact The Roving Crows Caitlin Barrett 7 Wye View in Concert Ledbury Herefordshire HR8 2FP 07896 327069 [email protected] www.rovingcrows.com Space requirements 15 ft wide x 12 ft deep x 12ft high Tech requirements Power Other requirements Parking, accommodation The Roving Crows present a unique mix and food/drink for 6 Spaghetti Swing is an exhilarating Italian Swing Show with of original song and traditional tunes. (2 vegetarians) popular songs like “Volare”, “Parole Parole”, “O Sole Mio”... With fiery fiddle playing, trumpet, guitar, Running time and SPAGHETTI cooked live on stage! drums, bass and vocals, they draw on 60/90 minutes influences from genres including jazz, Interval Spaghetti Swing is in the process of organising a tour to the ska, folk, Klezmer and blues. 20 minutes if required UK at the end of November 2013 and we have requested four dates for Hog the Limelight. If you would be interested in one “Really individual Celtic folk rock group” Get in Mike Harding, BBC, 2012 1.5 hours of these dates, please let us know and we will forward details Get out once the tour is confirmed. "Songs you can sing along to, with tunes 1 hour you can dance to - a winning If you liked the Singing Sous Chefs, you should love this combination" Shelley Rainey, Bright Age suitability show! Young Folk (2012) 16+ Publicity Hog to provide Availability Fee: £600 VAT: No Check with artist Hog Contribution: £300 NB: Check for additional costs when booking 30 3 Contact Oliver Meech Oliver Meech Wet Picnic presents The Lift 49A Tweedy road Bromley BR1 3NH 07779 579529 New for Outdoor Events 2013 [email protected] www.magicmeech.com From the company that brought you The Dinner Table, Wet Picnic present their new show The Lift. Space requirements Minimum 5m wide x 3m Everyday a million moments sweep past in the blink of an deep x 2m high. Raised eye. Wet Picnic’s intimate new show envelopes its stage preferable audience, welcoming them into a world of captured Tech requirements moments, giving them a surreal experience that they won't Audience must view straight on (not from sides or back); forget! rows preferable to cabaret Beautiful, tragic, ridiculous, sublime, The Lift has many When Magic and layout levels to explore. Which floor will you choose? Other requirements Science Collide Private and secure changing Magic boffin Oliver Meech meddles with room, tea and water and We have limited bookings snacks for interval forces we barely understand, in a comedy available for this show. magic show for the QI generation. Running time A fun-filled fusion of magic, mirth and 2 x 45 minutes If you would be interested mind-reading. Expect brain-boggling tricks in having it at your inspired by mind-blowing science. It’s the Interval 20 minutes Summer event, please let Natural Selection! us know as soon as Get in No knowledge of science required, just a possible. mind that's open and a jaw that's ready to 1.5 hours (20 minutes to set up stage) drop! “Could rival superstar Derren Brown” Get out 45 minutes Theatre Wales “Real gasps of awe” Broadway Baby Age suitability 7+ EXTRA “Funny, endearing, impressive showmanship” Three Weeks Publicity Fee: £500 VAT: No Posters and flyers direct from artist Hog Contribution: £250 NB: Check for additional Availability costs when booking Check with artist 4 29 Contact Contact Juggling Jake’s Steve Welford Bowjangles Ezme Gaze 37a Lydford Road Circus Workshops 17 Corfe Close Winchester SO22 5DS Bowjangles Revue London W9 3LX 01962 735797 07843 388647 [email protected] [email protected] www.bowjangles.org www.jugglingjake.co.uk Space requirements Space requirements 5m x 5m preferred (bare 10ft-20ft square for minimum 4m x 4m), 2.5m smaller events or 10m high diameter if tent required Tech requirements for larger events outdoors None Tech requirements Other requirements Self contained Accommodation and hot Other requirements The Bowjangles Revue is a high energy food 2.5 hours before performance Parking performance showcasing the best of If you didn’t get a chance to book Running time Bowjangles from the last five years. Running time Juggling Jake’s Circus Workshops last 2 x 45 minutes Flexible Expect virtuosic playing, stunning singing year - he’s back by popular demand! and slapstick comedy mixed with dance Interval Get in Jake’s workshops were very popular styles ranging from tango to Charleston, 25 minutes 45 mins (with adults as well as children) and so gypsy to jazz, presented to you by four Get in Get out charismatic performers. much fun that we’d thought we’d include 4.30pm 1 hour them in the programme. These are totally “A show that kept an audience from six- flexible: they can take place inside or years-old to sixty amused. Pure gold.” Get out Age suitability 10pm outdoors and can be part of a larger Tom King, Broadway Baby 3+ event or stand-alone. “Totally uncynical, the all-ages show was Age suitability Publicity All truly appreciated by everyone. The Sessions can be structured or just drop Flyers provided by artist in and have a go! If you would like to offer quartet's energy was staggering.” Publicity Availability Views from the Gods Posters and flyers direct free drop -in sessions in a community Check with artists from artist space, Hog will cover the whole cost. If you liked Graffiti Classics you should love this show! Availability Check with artist Fee: £230 (+ £50 for tent) Fee: £750 VAT: No Hog Contribution: 50% Hog Contribution: £375 NB: Check for additional EXTRA NB: Check for additional costs when booking costs when booking 28 5 A double bill of true nostalgia! Contact Michael O’Leary Contact The Olde Tyme Players Juliette Sinclair Michael O’Leary 35 Barton Court Ave Storyteller 60 Radcliffe Road Theatre Company presents Barton on Sea Northam BH25 7EP Southampton SO14 0PN Olde Tyme 01425 612830 07733 326500 Music Hall [email protected] mike@michaelolearystoryteller. www.oldetymeplayers.com If you think your com audience would Space requirements www.michaelolearystoryteller. enjoy reliving com 15ft wide x 15ft deep the Edwardian Space requirements music hall and Tech requirements Any Power can remember BBC TV's Good Old Days of several years Other requirements Tech requirements ago, then this is definitely one to book. This Access for unloading & None professional fast paced traditional show refreshments uncannily brings back those famous Other requirements characters from the golden age of Running time Parking entertainment.