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In GBA 194 we get better acquainted with Paula Varjack. She talks about finding herself through becoming someone else, creating performed documentary, how money and art and identity intersect, singing the Cat in the Hat to the tune of Radiohead's Creep, the ethical and practical concerns of producing shows and more. I also get a chance to tease out some of the nuances around my attitude to copyright. Paula plugs: Her website: http://www.paulavarjack.com How I Became Myself (By Becoming Someone Else): http://www.paulavarjack.com/projects/How-I-Became-Myself-(By-Becoming-Someone-Else).html Contacting her if you are an artist wanting to get involved with Show Me the Money: http://www.twitter.com/paulavarjack Extra plugs: The Fail Better Podcast: http://www.londonfieldsradio.co.uk/2015/02/01/fail-better-podcast-episode-1-amy-acre-james-harris/ Anti-Slam Anti-Valantines - 14th Feb Hackney Attic: http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Hackney_Picturehouse/film/Anti_Slam_Valentine_S_Special/ Varjack and Simpson: http://varjackandsimpson.tumblr.com Never Mind the Fullstops 5th March: http://varjackandsimpson.tumblr.com/fullstops Stand Up Tragedy: Tragic Winter 28th February: http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Hackney_Picturehouse/film/Stand_Up_Tragedy_Tragic_Winter/ We mention: Spark London: http://sparklondon.com/ The Free Fringe: http://freefringe.org.uk/ The Anti Social Network: http://www.paulavarjack.com/projects/the-anti-social-network.html Rada: https://www.rada.ac.uk/ Chelsea Theatre: http://www.chelseatheatre.org.uk/ Lesley Ewen: http://www.generallife.org/ Everything's A Remix: http://everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/ Manchester Rambler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YENYMwuCG2Y Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/ James Harris: http://jamesharrisstandup.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBzeRGnvFEJTvI-cFw-TqIA Miranda July: http://mirandajuly.com/ No One Belongs Here More Than You: http://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Belongs-Here-More-Than/dp/1847671160 Bargehouse - GrimmTales: http://www.grimm-tales.co.uk/ Soho Theatre: http://www.sohotheatre.com/ Leicester Square Theatre: http://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/ Hackney Attic: http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Hackney_Picturehouse/Attic/Hackney_Attic/ The Anti-Slam: http://varjackandsimpson.tumblr.com/anti-slam Raymond Antrobus: http://raymondantrobus.blogspot.co.uk/ The Dogstar: http://dogstarbrixton.com/ Superbard: http://www.superbard.co.uk/ Creative One: https://www.creativeone.com/cmindex.aspx Paloma Faith: http://www.palomafaith.com/ Myspace: https://myspace.com/ Cat in the Hat / Creep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wl3Yc4FgjA Radiohead: http://www.radiohead.co.uk/ Cat in the Hat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_in_the_Hat The Christmas Promo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfHaBbCLzDo Dan Simpson: https://dansimpsonpoet.wordpress.com/ Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Public Liability Insurance: http://www.confused.com/small-business-insurance/guides/understanding-public-liability-insurance Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!
The third of three recordings from our Tragic Christmas live event which took place at the Dogstar in Brixton on the 12th December. This event was a fundraiser for the brilliant Arts Emergency. Find out more about Arts Emergency by going to http://www.arts-emergency.org Featuring: Felicity Ward: http://felicityward.com/ Superbard: http://www.superbard.co.uk/ James McKay: http://www.mckaypoetry.com/ and Kit Lovelace: http://twitter.com/mylifeyourhands Next week we'll be exploring the Tragic Christmas experience with a podcast put together by Bryony Hawkins that will put the Tragic Christmas performances we've shared for the past three weeks into context. Share your festive tragedies with us on twitter using the hashtag #TragicXmas. Make friends with some tragedy by friending us on Facebook or following us @standup4tragedy on twitter. This podcast was recorded by Stephen Harvey with music from Sam Wilkinson and George Brufton.
The third of three recordings from our Tragic Christmas live event which took place at the Dogstar in Brixton on the 12th December. This event was a fundraiser for the brilliant Arts Emergency. Find out more about Arts Emergency by going to http://www.arts-emergency.org Featuring: Felicity Ward: http://felicityward.com/ Superbard: http://www.superbard.co.uk/ James McKay: http://www.mckaypoetry.com/ and Kit Lovelace: https://twitter.com/mylifeyourhands Next week we'll be exploring the Tragic Christmas experience with a podcast put together by Bryony Hawkins that will put the Tragic Christmas performances we've shared for the past three weeks into context. Share your festive tragedies with us on twitter using the hashtag #TragicXmas. Make friends with some tragedy by friending us on Facebook or following us @standup4tragedy on twitter. This podcast was recorded by Stephen Harvey with music from Sam Wilkinson and George Brufton.
This is the eighth episode of Stand Up Tragedy Replayed, in which we remix past performances from our live shows so you can hear all of our tragic comedy, music, stories, poetry and much more. All performances were originally recorded at our shows at The Leicester Square Theatre, The Hackney Attic and The Dogstar in Brixton throughout 2012 and 2013. www.standuptragedy.co.uk This episode showcases some of the performers who will be reunited with us on the Stand Up Tragedy stage at our live relaunch Tragic Christmas on the 12th December. Some more highlights from the line-up include the Victorian reciter James McKay, spoken word artists Richard Tyrone Jones and the Superbard, and comedic academic Steve X. www.mckaypoetry.com www.twitter.com/rtjpoet www.superbard.co.uk www.twitter.com/steve_x We'll have more live performers for the podcast from our Tragic Christmas show on the 12th December at The Dogstar in Brixton. Tickets are available online now. All proceeds from Tragic Christmas are going to Arts Emergency, a charity who help people from less privileged backgrounds break into the arts. www.arts-emergency.org The Stand Up Tragedy podcast is produced by Bryony Hawkins with audio recording by Stephen Harvey. Our music is created for us by Sam Wilkinson (radiowhan@ymail.com) and George Brufton. It is hosted by Dave Pickering.
This is the fourth episode of Stand Up Tragedy Replayed, in which we remix past performances from our live shows so you can hear all of our tragic comedy, music, stories, poetry and much more. All performances were originally recorded at our shows at The Leicester Square Theatre, The Hackney Attic and The Dogstar in Brixton throughout 2012 and 2013. www.standuptragedy.co.uk This episode features some of our Old Friends - the performers who have done tragedy on the Stand Up Tragedy stage many times. Coincidentally they're all spoken word artists too. First we hear Superbard performing an early version of The Flood at The Dogstar in Brixton. Then Richard Tyrone Jones tells us his tragic tale of heart failure at The Leicester Square Theatre, which was the beginnings of his show Richard Tyrone Jones Has A Big Heart which was made into a BBC Radio 4 series. Then finally we finish with Edinburgh Fringe favourite Sophia Walker. www.superbard.co.uk www.facebook.com/richardtyronejones www.facebook.com/SophiaWalker We'll have more live performers for the podcast from our Tragic Christmas show on the 12th December at The Dogstar in Brixton. Tickets are available online now. All proceeds from Tragic Christmas are going to Arts Emergency, a charity who help people from less privileged backgrounds break into the arts. www.arts-emergency.org The Stand Up Tragedy podcast is produced by Bryony Hawkins with audio recording by Stephen Harvey. Our music is created for us by Sam Wilkinson (radiowhan@ymail.com) and George Brufton. It is hosted by Dave Pickering.
This is the ninteenth episode of SUT Daily. This episode was recorded as part of our 11 day run at PBH's Free Fringe at The Edinburgh Festival. All episodes will feature one of our live acts and tragedy from across the festival. www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ This episode was recorded downstairs at The Fiddler's Elbow. It features spoken word artist Superbard and an interview with London Hammer and Tongue organiser Michelle Madsen. www.superbard.co.uk/ www.twitter.com/TheSuperbard www.hammerandtongue.co.uk/ The Stand Up Tragedy podcast is produced by Bryony Hawkins with audio recording by Stephen Harvey. Our music is created for us by Sam Wilkinson (radiowhan@ymail.com) and George Brufton. It is hosted by Dave Pickering.
This is the fifth episode of podcasts recorded at our Stand Up Tragedy night that took place at The Dogstar on March 28th. In this episode we have storytelling from Superbard: http://www.superbard.co.uk/ This Stand Up Tragedy podcast was produced by Bryony Hawkins with audio recording by Stephen Harvey. Our music is created for us by Sam Wilkinson (radiohwan@ymail.com) It is hosted by Dave Pickering.
This is the ninth episode of the new improved Stand Up Tragedy podcast. In this episode we meet some of the Stand Up Tragedy team and hear a sing-a-long from The Reactionaries. Come see us live at the Dogstar Brixton on Thursday 28th March 2013. Night starts at 7.30pm. Tickets are only £5. Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/437519999657058 Tickets: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/tickets/ On the bill we have: Jay Foreman, Emily Cleaver, Lucy Ayrton, Hollowbody, Radcliffe Royds, Matthew Highton, Alison Thea-Skot, Ufuoma Urie, Allan Girod, Superbard and live drawing from Liam Willday. This Stand Up Tragedy podcast was produced by Bryony Hawkins with audio recording by Stephen Harvey. It is hosted by Dave Pickering.
GBA Edinburgh Festival 2012 Season: Three weeks of episodes related to the Edinburgh Festival 2012 (This was last year's season: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/fringe-festival-season) In GBA 70 we get better acquainted with Superbard (aka George). He talks about telling stories, playing instruments, the God number, developing, refining and improving work and being an optimist. It was recorded at Edinburgh Waverly Station last Sunday after a weekend of hardcore Edinburgh Festival-ing. It's the episode I've been most exhausted while recording and has had the fasted editing turnaround of the series so far, with the majority of it being edited on the train back to London. This is the second episode of the 2012 GBA Edinburgh Festival Season (http://goosefat101twitterspills.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/around-year-ago-getting-better.html) Over the next few weeks there will be conversations with people doing shows up there this year plus on Friday they'll be this year’s Edinburgh special documenting my journey into the opening weekend of the festival, mixed in with previews, reviews and extra snippets of conversation. George has a brilliant show. We talk about it in our conversation. And I went to see it in Edinburgh before we recorded the conversation. It charmed me completely (in a good way!) Superbard doesn't plug his show: Superbard Starts to Save the World: http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/spoken-word/superbard-starts-to-save-the-world 9.10pm 8-19 August at Spotlites @ The Merchants' Hall Price: £8.50 / £7.50 Instead he plugs previous guest Lucy Ayrton's show (which he has directed): Lullabies to Make Your Children Cry:http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/spoken-word/lucy-ayrton-lullabies-to-make-your-children-cry 6.20pm 4-14 August @ The Banshee Labyrinth Price: FREE (It is part of the excellent PBH Free Fringe) Duration 1hr Lucy was featured in episode 1 of this year's Edinburgh Festival Season: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-69-lucy Also mentioned: An early part of his show that was performed and podcasted here: http://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/stand-up-tragedy-07 Tea Fuelled Art: http://www.teafuelledart.co.uk Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Spark London: http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/spoken-word/grant-s-true-tales-presents-spark-london-storytelling Autumn Shift: http://autumnshift.co.uk/ Zombies, Run!: https://www.zombiesrungame.com/ Flea Circus: http://www.fleacircuslondon.co.uk/ http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/spoken-word/flea-circus-open-slam Soho Stories: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/soho-stories/id528325471?mt=8 Hackney Hear: http://www.hackneyhear.com/ Hardcore History: http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hh BAC "Scratch": http://www.bac.org.uk/search/?q=scratch/ You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond. On-demand and on the go! Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at http://www.stitcher.com or in the app stores. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!
The third podcast of extracts from the live Stand Up Tragedy that happened at The Leicester Square Theatre on Monday 5th March 2012. The next episode of this podcast will come out next friday. Our next night of live tragedy is on Monday 2nd April 2012. Tickets are available here: http://leicestersquaretheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows/126520120/events For all SUT related things look here: http://standuptragedy.co.uk/ You can buy our merch here: http://standuptragedy.spreadshirt.co.uk/ This episode of SUT features... A short story set to music from Superbard: http://www.superbard.co.uk See more Superbard: http://www.superbard.co.uk/#!page-3 And Ukulele comedy from Helen Arney http://helenarney.com/ If you like what you are hearing why not download full songs by Helen: http://helenarney.bandcamp.com/ See her girl band The Balconettes supporting previous SUT act Casual Violence in their portable residency: http://www.casualviolencecomedy.co.uk/upcoming-shows-and-gigs/ 26 Mar: THE BALCONETTES at Casual Violence residency, Wilmington Arms, Farringdon See her solo at: 27 Mar :: DOMESTIC SCIENCE : http://www.wegottickets.com/event/159569 Or go and see her in person at one of these upcoming Festival of the Spoken Nerd gigs: http://fotsn.com/ 2 Apr :: Edinburgh Science Festival 21 May :: PI-CURIOUS - Bloomsbury Theatre 22 May :: PI-CURIOUS - Bloomsbury Theatre http://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/whats-on/categories/show/festival-of-the-spoken-nerd
Preview and Primer for the next Stand Up Tragedy Live show (and for the next months weekly podcasts.) Come along to our live show at The Leicester Square Theatre on Monday 5th March 2012 Tickets are available here: http://leicestersquaretheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows/126520120/events For all SUT related things look here: http://standuptragedy.co.uk/ You can buy our merch here: http://standuptragedy.spreadshirt.co.uk/ This is our line-up for monday: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/show-2-5-march-2012/ Ukulele comedy: Helen Arney http://helenarney.com/ Multimedia narratives: Superbard http://www.superbard.co.uk/ True Story: Radcliffe Royds from http://www.sparklondon.com/ Short Story: An Incident On Charing Cross Road by Emily Cleaver http://emilycleaver.net/ Punky Musics: Jack Gobsmob http://jackgobsmob.wordpress.com/
The first ever Superbard Under the Sea featuring returning characters Superbard and 1st Lieutenant Blemings. Artist played include @TheSuperbard, @FayRoberts, @MellorDramatix, @PoetWalker, @SaraPascoe, @TimKeyPoet, @MixyRic, @RobertAuton, @TheMechanisms and @SamanthaMann. Recorded for Resonance FM on 11th of October, 2013
Members on the upper levels are trapped leaving Superbard and sketch troupe In Cahoots to come up with a plan. Artists played include @InCahoots, @RaymondAntrobus, @NishKumar, @mcjackdean, @Scroobiuspipyo, @danlesac, @JamesWheale, @LucyAyrton, @Vanessa_Kisuule and Daniel Kitson who is not on Twitter. Recorded on the 8th of November, 2013
Superbard finds out Lucy Ayrton is on the ship, and soon regrets asking her into the studio. Artists played include @MontyGristo, @LucyAyrton, @lukewrightpoet, @jayforeman, @HenryRaby, @dreadfuls and @HollieMcNish Recorded on the 21st of December, 2013
Superbard chats to the on board ship's computer, Hex.