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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Featuring a mixture of the UK’s best established and up and coming comic talent such as Angelos Epithemious (Shooting Stars), Kevin Eldon (Big Train, Brass Eye, Alan Partridge), Pappy’s fun club, Edinburgh comedy award winner Tim Key and many more, ‘The Un-royal Variety’ performance aims to be the last great comedy gig of the decade. All profits from the gig will go to paying the Fix’s legal fees.
The Fix the UK’s and possibly the worlds only and best loved comedy magazine has long been run out of editor and publisher Harry Deansway’s bedroom at his parent’s house. 6 months ago this was all set to change when a friend of the family offered investment in the magazine and use of his offices. It all seemed to be too good to be true and it was when 6 months later this so called friend of the family decided to call in his loan with immediate effect and evict the Fix from his offices. The Fix did not have the money to pay back the loan straight away and therefore the “friend” of the family decided to sue. (more…)
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
In advance of his large gig at London’s Royal Albert Hall, as well as in Dublin and Belfast, Russell Brand will be warming up at The Hexagon in Reading.
The warm-up show is on Friday 6 November, 8pm at The Hexagon, and will be one of the last chances to see his Scandalous show. Tickets are still available.
Click here for more information and to book your tickets now.
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Sunday, October 11th, 2009
A herd of Britain’s top comedians are standing up for planet-friendly farming at LIVEstock 2009 at the HMV Hammersmith Apollo 12 November, 2009, 7pm.
Chris Addison, Dan Antopolski, Marcus Brigstocke, Richard Herring, Russell Howard, Francesca Martinez, Stephen Merchant, Lucy Porter and Mark Watson will perform at this barnstorming, one-off event is in support of environmental charity Friends of the Earth. Special guest appearance from Razorlight.
Tickets are available from website or Ticketmaster on 08448 44 47 48 or www.foe.co.uk/livestock.
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
Comedian, Author and Activist Mark Thomas has announced that he will once again be doing a sponsored London to Brighton bike ride, and has threatened that if he fails to reach £1,000 in sponsorship he will be releasing pictures of himself in Lycra!
The big day is the 21st of June when Thomas will “set out at 6.00am with the hope of covering the 58 miles without the use of steroids or ending up in a cardiac unit.”
All of Mark’s sponsorship money is this year going to the the PSP Association – PSP, or Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, and CBD, or Cortico Basal Degeneration, are degenerative brain diseases and The PSP Association supports both.
Support Mark, the PSP, and the visual cortex of the world by making sure he raises more than £1,000 by donating at his Just Giving page.
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