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| | | Mat Ewins review – digital gagster is full of nerdy fun | | by Brian Logan Nov 29, 2022 | | Soho theatre, London
Even when the grouchy wannabe game-show host’s set is buffering he still delivers a winning formula of hi-tech comedy and twisty jokes In Danger Money, we find Mat Ewins hacked off that he can’t catch a telly break. The annoyance could be justified: surely his prodigious skills in the niche field of hi-tech comedy would make him a TV shoo-in? Certainly, this is an hour crammed with blink-and-you-miss-’em video gags, dotty digital games – and extensive grumbling from our host that his comedy career is on the slide. The curmudgeon shtick is overdone tonight, for my money, in a show that’s full of nerdy fun without quite generating the giddiness often encountered at his late-night Edinburgh shows. Maybe it’s first-night teething problems: one VR gag falls foul of tech gremlins; one or two others, projected on one of two onstage screens, were illegible from my seat. At Soho theatre, London, until 3 December Continue reading... | | | | | Pottery, pastry, beekeeping and bell-ringing could all be 'human treasures' | | by Jon Henley Europe correspondent Nov 29, 2022 | | Unesco meets this week to consider 56 cultural traditions for ‘living heritage’ status On the face of it, not much appears to link the French baguette, Georgia’s traditional equestrian games, Cuban light rum, Holy Week in Guatemala, Japan’s ritual Furyu-odori dances and the Maghreb hot chili-pepper paste known as harissa. But along with Serbia’s šljivovica plum brandy, the oral tradition of camel-calling in Saudi Arabia, Oman and UAE and a central Asian lute called the Rubāb, all could soon be recognised as part of humanity’s intangible cultural heritage. Continue reading... | | | | | 'Never as popular as pie and peas': Trevor Beales, Hebden Bridge's lost musical son | | by Daniel Dylan Wray Nov 29, 2022 | | Playing folk blues in West Yorkshire in the 70s, Beales looked to the future long before his hometown became trendy. His talent is now being recognised In the early 1970s, life in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, was dreary, says Christine Beales. “It was dead. Growing up there you just had to get out.” So she did. Christine lived in Rome between 1972 and 1974; and upon returning began a romance with a young folk singer named Trevor Beales, who had also felt the need to escape. He had been travelling in Europe and America; on the latter trip he carried stacks of demo tapes of music he’d made in the early 1970s to take to record companies. “He always had this strong belief in himself and that it was going to happen,” says Christine. “I loved his drive, zest and enthusiasm.” Continue reading... | | | | | |
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