Pegabovine News

Saving Salt Publishing

2009-05-22T02:07:00.000-07:00

If you were going to choose a money-making business plan, it probably wouldn't involve publishing poetry, but we're particularly thankful that Chris Hamilton-Emery of Salt Publishing continues to take the risk, as it means we get to read poetry by Pegabovine alum Luke Kennard.

The financial crisis means that Salt is in a little difficulty. We here republish a note by Chris on how you can help. It's pretty straightforward.

JUST ONE BOOK

1. Please buy just one book, right now.

We don't mind from where, you can buy it from us or from Amazon, your local shop or megastore, online or offline. If you buy just one book now, you'll help to save Salt. Timing is absolutely everything here. We need cash now to stay afloat. If you love literature, help keep it alive. All it takes is just one book sale. Go to our online store (UK and International or USA) and help us keep going.

2. Share this note on your Facebook and MySpace profile.

Tell your friends. If we can spread the word about our cash crisis, we can hopefully find more sales and save our literary publishing. Remember it's just one book, that's all it takes to save us. Please do it now.

With my best wishes to everyone,
Chris Hamilton-Emery

We'd obviously recommend buying Luke's books. There are three:-

The Solex Brothers (Redux)
The Harbour Beyond The Movie
and the new one: The Migraine Hotel

Also, why not try Chris McCabe's Zeppelins or Melanie Challenger's Galatea?

Google Search Insanity

2009-01-07T01:08:00.000-08:00

Longterm readers of this site will know that I scour our Google Analytics account with a zeal rarely matched in the comedy world.

Yesterday, someone reached the Pegabovine site by searching for the term "What was the song played on Neighbours today?"

Unfortunately, I don't know. Sorry. Perhaps it was by Midnight Oil! Or Men At Work!

Or another Australian stereotype!

Tom Wateracre's website

2009-01-06T04:48:00.000-08:00

Hello there, Pegaboviners -

Tom Davies aka Davis Wateracre is now known as Tom Wateracre. This is because I like to keep things limber in the old name department.

Anyway, I have a new website at www.wateracre.co.uk, which I would advise you to look at. It has lots of audio, video and shenanigans.

Check it out!

TW

Pegabovine: House Of Mirth - Episode 3

2008-10-11T06:25:00.000-07:00

Locked out of the House Of Mirth at the end of Episode Two, the Pegabovine gang take refuge in a nearby theatre, and whilst there, do a live show. Featuring songs, sketches, poetry, and a genuine bunch of live audients.

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Davis Wateracre Is A Silly Name

2008-10-10T11:57:00.000-07:00

Hello there -

All quiet and simmery on the Pegabovine front. Lots of things quietly bubbling away, but we aren't in a position to share any of them yet. Keep your cards close to your chest, as my line manager at Clinton Cards said. He was a little odd. Loved cards. Wasn't very close to any humans. Quid pro etc.

Anyway, one big thing is that, after years of people asking me my name and then saying "David?", I've decided to change my stage name to Tom Wateracre.

Hello.

This is in consultation with my wonderful new agent, Cheryl Hayes of Cheryl Hayes Management, who knows about naming things. She was called Cheryl Hayes, so she called her management company Cheryl Hayes Management. It's all so sensible. Anyway, take a look at me over there, looking speccy and startled.

I will get podcast three up soon as well. I know I've been promising it for ages, but it's really almost done. It really, really almost is.

Flyer for Kat Flint launch

2008-09-07T16:55:00.000-07:00

Hi all - Here's the flyer for the Kat Flint "Dirty Birds" album launch that I'm compering. Do come along! Bring a mix CD for the Mix Tape Swap Table! It's going to be the awesome!

Facebook event here - http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=32818563241

Four more gigs!

2008-09-05T17:40:00.000-07:00

Hi there -

The live page is now updated with four more gigs that you can check out Davis Wateracre at, including one TV gig (I'm going to be on Big Brother's Little Brother with the wonderful Potted Potter / Pirates people!); one with Pippa Evans, Sara Pascoe, Chris Cox, Girl and Dean, plus even more exciting comedians; one album launch featuring podcast alumni and all-round genius Kat Flint; and one poetry gig! I know! Poetry!

(NB. I will in no way be performing poetry.)

The TV gig will be hitting this page in a YouTubular form next week, as long as there are no technical cock-ups, we don't get bumped from the show, or one of the housemates punches us for being rude about their accents.

I would also encourage you to check out the Girl and Dean website, for I made it. I am all flushed with Internet-based parental pride.

Guesting on Podcasts

2008-08-31T09:15:00.000-07:00

Here's a podcast I'm interviewed on. It features some commentary on the Penny Dreadfuls/Pappys Fun Club rivalry, and my interview is followed by an interview with the sterling Hils Barker.

There are also some songs of mine on the Comedy 365 podcasts from Edinburgh. Check them out!

BIG NEWS!

2008-08-25T03:46:00.000-07:00

We are the official winners of the if.comedy Panel Prize!

We also had a begrudgingly-positive review from Chortle. This despite the fact that the reviewer in question threw the horns at the end of "Face Of My Fury". Can you throw the horns and still be lukewarm? Who knows...

UPDATE: Our National Student review is now online.

Boo to the internet

2008-08-14T12:27:00.000-07:00

I am having horrendous trouble getting online. I'd love to point you at the National Student review of "Polite Club", but can't find it without the internet dropping out.

I can, however, let you have a butchers at the nice review in Fest Magazine.

I'm doing lots of nice gigs with the Comedy 365 people in their show "Sex Tips For Pandas", the addition of whose title to our page will no doubt make our Google hits even more interesting. I'm doing a song or two every day from 6.40pm at the Dragonfly in the Grassmarket. It's free! So go chicky-check it out. Every gig is also edited and put on the internet, so search for Comedy 365 on iTunes or go here.

My left leg is hurting slightly.

FOUR STARS in Three Weeks

2008-08-06T07:56:00.000-07:00

"Warm and fuzzy"! "Hugely likeable"! "Funny and innovative"!

Check it out!

Other shows seen: Alex Horne's wonderful "Wordwatching" is a brilliant show, and made me feel even more warm and funny than usual. "Potted Pirates" is another top-notch show from Dan and Jeff, and I have rarely yelled "yarr" with such childish abandon. Isy Suttie is charming and wonderful, and Tim Vine's show is exhausting in its continual brilliance. A final word, however, for the Penny Dreadfuls' show "Aeneas Faversham Forever", which manages to be a massive step forward for a company already about thirty light-years ahead of every other sketch group. Amazing.

"Top-quality musical material... A natural performer" - The Scotsman

2008-08-05T09:46:00.001-07:00

Dudes, check out Polite Club's Scotsman review!

More to come!

Hello from Scotland!

2008-07-31T08:06:00.000-07:00

Hi there all -

I'm now in Edinburgh, with sporadic internet access, so here's my first post, two shows in!

Thanks to all of the people who have already come to the show. We've had some moments of extraordinary delight - like Jimmy who thought that an AK47 was a plane (we're unsure how jokey he was being), the shocking revelation that Scrabulous had been shut down (since disproved by, uh, me playing a game of Scrabulous), not to mention the most awkward loo break ever. Sorry, person whose name I've forgotten.

PEGABOVINE: POLITE CLUB is now on every day at the Pleasance Courtyard in a spangly portakabin called the Beside, at 1.30pm. Come say hello! Or book tickets here! Or at the EdFringe website if it's started working again!

Other shows seen: "Idiots of Ants" also in Pleasance Courtyard - Beside and "Girl and Dean" in the Pleasance Courtyard - Cellar. Check them out as they are both splendid.

Pegabovine Recommends

2008-07-15T03:35:00.000-07:00

Don't just come to see Pegabovine: Polite Club at this year's Edinburgh Fringe! Why not check out the shows of some of our friends and associates, and other shows that have people in that are not friends or associates, but upon whom we have rather silly friend-crushes...

Like Jo Neary! Her show was my favourite of last year, and she will undoubtedly be awesome again. (Though in the Assembly Rooms! So far away!)

The Penny Dreadfuls will, with ball-crushing inevitability, deliver amazing things with Aeneas Faversham Forever. This should be at the top of your list of shows to see. It's on in the Pleasance Courtyard. (Also check out Sketchatron for more P Diddys goodness...)

Our double-bill buddies Girl And Dean shall be splendid, and are directed by Pega-director Richard Hurst, as are those charmers Dan and Jeff in the all-new Potted Pirates, and the not-at-all-new-but-still-great Potted Potter.

Podcast alumni are also in Edinburgh. My housemate The Comedian Stuart Goldsmith is in the wonderful Kiosk Of Champions with Richard Sandling. It's completely bloody free. Amazing. It'll never work. The Actor Loo Brealey is also at the Fringe with the way-more-highbrow Pornography at the Traverse. I'm looking forward to the Google searches that title sends our way.

Our other comedy friends are also there: Faultless and Torrance, The Idiots Of Ants, the unsurpassable Josie Long, the wonderful Pippa Evans, Sanjay Shelat and the ImproJam, lovely Hils Barker, fantastic Isy Suttie, Surrey homeboy Tim Vine, and of course, King of our Edinburgh Fringe last year, the utterly brilliant Rhod Gilbert.

Theatre-wise, be sure to check out The Search for Sunshine, and a special mention for the crazy, crazy guys in Victims Of Duty, deserved NSDF award-winners, and owners of one giant hand. Please check them out!

And hey! Why not check out people who we don't even know! They're brilliant too! The awesome awesome awesome Wil Hodgson, superlatives haven't been invented that could describe the greatness of Nick Mohammed, deadpan supergroup Ginger And Black, the too-good-for-their-own-good Pappy's Fun Club... dear lord, there are a lot of shows on, aren't there?

My final two recommendations are:-
1) Susie's Wholefood Diner‎ at 51 West Nicolson Street. The food is tasty, and there is sometimes live music.
2) The Dark Knight. Obviously.

We are "very promising"!

2008-07-11T09:41:00.000-07:00

According to the esteemed journal Time Out, we're "very promising".

And also recommended.

Thanks, Time Out dudes!

Preview Review

2008-07-07T02:32:00.001-07:00

"Pegabovine: Polite Club" had its first preview on Friday in Surbiton, which went very nicely, thank you. Some lovely people there, and hopefully we all learnt a little bit about... well, something or other.

There are two more previews which you should attend if humanly possible... This Saturday (12th) at the Etcetera Theatre, and Wednesday 23rd July at the splendid Arcola Theatre. Details on the Live page.

Tickets are on sale for the Fringe run of Polite Club here and here. Do book up. We've sold at least nineteen already!

A Rock And Kennard Place

2008-06-24T08:06:00.000-07:00

How lovely to see putative meeja-hor Luke Kennard in today's Guardian talking about handstands and magnets!

For the Lord's sake, buy his books! For only when his lust for media glory is sated will he write some more stuff for Pegabovine!

Preview To A Kill

2008-06-23T09:08:00.000-07:00

For those of you who are new to this site, we make comedy. That's where you make people in a room laugh. I mention this as it seems I've recently not been making much comedy at all. I've been writing emails and doing temp work and worrying a lot. Worrying worrying worrying.

Anyway, that's all about to change, dudes! It's PREVIEW SEASON!

Yes, Preview Season... where you can see shows in their very early, fragile stages of life, as they totter about on their new little feet and try to balance, and then fall over. Except, you know, they're comedy shows.

I'm doing three planned previews of "Polite Club" before heading to Edinburgh. Why not come to them all?

FRIDAY 4TH JULY - 7.30pm
Cornerhouse, Surbiton
A hometown premiere for "Polite Club" at the venue we can't stay away from - The Cornerhouse. May include some local references, so do some research before you arrive and get ready to laugh at the merest mention of the Charrington Bowl. (Double bill with Girl and Dean.)
Info and tickets here

SATURDAY 12TH JULY - 9.00pm
Etcetera Theatre, Camden
What could be better than being offered some ACTUAL DRUGS on your way to a venue? When you've finished performing a quick citizen's arrest, come check out the show in the always-welcoming Etcetera Theatre!
Info and tickets here

WEDNESDAY 23RD JULY - 9.00pm
Arcola Theatre, Stoke Newington
Grab yourself a tasty kebab, then pop along to the last pre-Edinburgh "Polite Club". In a double bill with Girl and Dean, this prestigious show is bound to be a top night of comedy and charm!
Info and tickets here
Facebook event here

Of course, you can keep up to date with any information about these dates on our Live page.

Plenty of exciting things happening in Edinburgh as well as the show every day at 1.30pm, so keep an eye on this website! List of other recommended shows coming soon!

Google Wack

2008-06-10T04:43:00.001-07:00

Someone got to our site yesterday by googling "how to make money at edinburgh fringe".

Sorry! Move along! Nothing to see here!

Wateracre guests with the Penny Dreadfuls! Again!

2008-06-07T05:40:00.000-07:00

Hello all -

Short notice, yes, but I am thrilled to be guesting with the Penny Dreadfuls again at tonight's White Mischief. The doors open at 8pm at the Scala in Kings Cross. Plenty more info from the White Mischief website.

We're doing twenty minutes of Penny Dreadfuls sketches. It's going to be awesome, like an an angel spitting in your eyes.

The Penny Dreadfuls' show "Aeneas Faversham Forever" will be next door to Pegabovine at the Edinburgh Fringe in the Pleasance Two, and the second series of their great radio show "The Brothers Faversham" is being recorded in July and will then be out on BBC7 at some point.

More Pegabovine Fringe-related news coming soon, but do keep an eye on the Live page for future gigs...

Pegabovine Pleasance Pages

2008-05-28T07:40:00.000-07:00

Hello there -

For a sneak preview of the shows going to Edinburgh, there's two places to have a butchers before next week's brochure launch.

Firstly, have a look at the Chortle listings for Edinburgh 2008.

Secondly, have a browse through the Pleasance's PleasancePages site... Pegabovine's PleasancePage is up already and can be found by clicking here. I will try to update it, but needless to say it will end up with two blog posts on it, both of which point you at this website.

It is fun looking through the other shows on at the Pleasance, though... Penny Dreadfuls! Oooh! Girl and Dean! Aaaah! Idiots Of Ants! Hooray! TIM VINE! Yaroo! Josie Long! Isy Suttie! Jon Richardson! Pippa Evans! Ginger and Black! Dear lord, they're all there, aren't they?

(Apart from Kiosk of Champions, who will be well worth straying further afield for.)

Announcing: "Pegabovine: Polite Club"!

2008-05-09T05:53:00.000-07:00

Ladies and gents -

We'd like to announce the not-at-all predictable piece of news that Pegabovine will be returning to Edinburgh this summer.

Due to governmental cutbacks on the amount of Awesome allowed in Edinburgh shows this year, "Pegabovine: Polite Club" will be a one-man sketch show, with Pegabovine's Davis Wateracre taking the audience gently by the hand (after asking them first) and leading them through a cavalcade of songs, sketches, and overly-verbose shenanigans.

Directed once again by Richard Hurst (Potted Potter, Bill Hicks Slight Return, Miranda Hart's House Party), and performing once again at the Pleasance Courtyard, "Pegabovine: Polite Club" will be literally the best thing you could be doing at 1.30pm every day through the Edinburgh Fringe.

Unless you have, I don't know, some ice cream to eat.

Previews will be listed on the Live page and will be updated here. Many to come, lads, through June and July, so do come along and help us make the pointy corners smoother.

Here's a preliminary teaser:-

It's like "Fight Club"! Djageddit?!

PEGABOVINE: POLITE CLUB
July 30th to August 25th
1.30pm
Pleasance Courtyard - Beside

You Can Make Money From The Edinburgh Fringe After All!

2008-05-02T08:51:00.000-07:00

The Girl & Dean fundraiser is SOLD OUT.

If your name isn't already on the list, you shall receive no sweet comedy goodness tonight. Step away from the Idiots Of Ants! There are no Penny Dreadfuls to see here! You think Wateracre is on view? He isn't! etc.

Crash Test Comedy / Girl & Dean Fundraiser

2008-04-28T07:13:00.000-07:00

Two gigs this week for Wateracre:-

1) TONIGHT! Crash Test Comedy! Pleasance Islington! Lots of amazing acts on! Six quid! Starts at 8pm!

2) FRIDAY! Girl and Dean Edinburgh Fundraiser! The Railway in Clapham! Lots of amazing acts on! Ten quid plus party bag! Possibly sold out! Email girlanddean at googlemail dot com

Information on both of these and all of our appearances on the Live page (see menu to your left).

My tummy hurts with excitement.

Podcast alumnus is way famous

2008-04-23T05:45:00.000-07:00

Hello. Just thought I'd draw your attention to "House Of Mirth": Episode Two's musical guest Kat Flint being interviewed on piggin' Steve Lamacq's Radio 2 show tonight.

She is way famous. I wish I had her autograph.

There's only one Pegabovine alumnus who is more famous.

FACT.