Edinburgh Fringe 1.0

So... Last summer saw my first trip up to Edinburgh for the Fringe Festival. It was utterly mind-blowing and we were only there for three days, we've booked a week this year so it should be even awesomer! So we hopped in the car with our Rich Fulcher tickets in hand and begun the exceedingly long drive to Edinburgh! I went with my mother (say hello mother)

...and my mum's partner Steve, (say hello Steve)

...and Steve's eccentric friend Mark, (say hello Mark.)

So as you can tell, it was an interesting trip...(It will be this same group this summer as well, wish me luck!)

So we went exploring and found our way to the Fringe shop with my superb navigation skills, being handed fifty or so leaflets in the process! We stood in the queue to purchase our Patrick Monahan tickets and filed through the leaflets and Fringe magazine. We ended up purchasing tickets for Andrew Bird, Tiff Stevenson, Phill Jupitus and Patrick Monahan.

So the first show of the expedition was Phill Jupitus and his improvising posse- It was a great show and I was laughing like a madman the whole way through! They played a few improvising games on stage and did an awesome job of it!

The second day we started off by seeing Tiff Stevenson's (of ITV's Show me the Funny) show, 'cavewoman.' It was a thoroughly hilarious show and I would highly recommend seeing her if you ever get the chance. At one point in her set she asked 'any teenagers in today?' So obviously I shouted 'yes!' She said 'Oh, you! Hello, how old are you?' I replied 'Thirteen!' She laughed a little and went 'Christ, how did you get it?!'

Our second show of the day was Andrew Bird, a great comedian who told about his village tales! I thought I lived in a village until hearing the miniscule scale of his home patch! A very funny show and I once again would recommend catching him any oppurtunity that arises!

The final show of the day was Patrick Monahan, who I'd fallen in love with a couple of days previous so the chance to go see him was... just... islgfuryegfuyasgfkddyhdduyfg. I never mentioned that the day before seeing his show I saw him in the street and stalked him around Edinburgh for a bit, not daring to go up to him... eheh.

But back to the show! We decided to be very daring and take on the front row! What were we thinking?! We were sat with an old fella who decided it would be good idea to whisper in Pat's ear that he was a 'Pat Monahan Virgin' :')

So! I got my first hug as he was on his way in, just imagine how happy I was! It was a great show, from an amazing Stand-up who once again I highly recommend you go buy tickets for now!

Now for the third day... Picture the scene, we're strolling down the crowded Fringe central street, me in my Bob Fossil t-shirt when we run into the track of a girl handing out leaflets, her opening line being, 'from the makers of the Mighty Boosh...' I was immediately interested. She noticed my t-shirt saying 'oh you're a fan! Have you seen Rich yet?'

'I'm seeing him tonight actually!'

'Oh great! I saw him last year, he was in drag, it was hilarious!'

'Oh wow! '

'Anyway so these are The Real MacGuffins!'

So we headed down to the ticket place in somewhat a frenzy and quickly purchased tickets, then proceeded to practically run to the Pleasance for the show. The Real MacGuffins put on one of THE funniest shows I've ever seen! However improved a little bit more by one of them chatting up a sixthformer! Awkward. Anyway, sorry for repeating myself yet again, but I much recommend you go see them if you ever get the chance.

The second show of the day was Paul MacGaffrey. A very talented comedian who we caught in the Underbelly... JUST caught, after legging it from the Pleasance! Another recommendation is due, a very funny man, if you ever get a moment.

The final show of the third day, and indeed, the trip itself, was what it was all building up to- Rich Fulcher's Tiny Acts of Rebellion! Before the show we were hangin' around the guilded balloon bar when we spotted Rich himself wandering down the front! I ran over to him, tapped him on the shoulder, exposed my t-shirt, presented a black fabric sharpie and practically screamed 'hey! can you sign my top please!' He was really sweet and I said I was coming to the show that night and-

In case you can't read it, it says 'Georgina, Feed those chickens! Bobby Bob Bob x'

The show that follows was pure genius, however crap the guy who attempted a tiny act was! R I C H F U L C H E R Y O U M U S T S E E H I M B E F O R E Y O U D I E !

To round the trip off nicely I then saw Pat hanging around after his show so I went and got him to sign my Fringe t-shirt! He wrote 'To Georgie, big up Blackpool, hugs Patrick Monahan x'

And thankyou for reading Ediburgh Fringe 1.0 and thankyou to all the human beings who made it awesome.

~Georgie x

Hello (don't kill me)

I'm so terrible at having a blog it's been forever since I posted anything and so much has happened!! I'll try and pick up where I left off, scan old diary entries and write up all the wonderful tales I have to tell:)

NOEL FIELDING!!!

Yes thats right just 2 weeks ago today I met the one and only , the clown prince, the goth detective, the legend that is Noel Fielding!!!

Me and, guess who, my mum went down to suffolk, just 6 hours away... to go to the Latitude Festival 2011. We got their shiny and early saturday morning with our day passes and waited an hour to be let in, here we are before hand, on a log-

Happy

Not so happy

and Me!

As soon as we got let in with the other day passer's we set down the muddy latitude path when i noticed the comedy tent- found it! I ran up the hilly and joined the crowd waiting around the tent to be let in to see Never Mind the Buzzcocks, what I was there for It then started chuckin it down, it was a festival. after we joined the crowd loads of others did so we were about middle of the queue. When the peolple let us in it was a mad rush i almost fell over twice running as fast as I could to get a good spot. We weren't right a the front but we certainly weren't at the back. You wer meant to sit down in the tent but there was some really tall guy who insisted on standing up to record the whole thing on his phone which meant for me to be able to see i had to peer round his shoulder for the whole show. Also because of this twat it meant no one further back than us could sit down like you were supposed to... Never mind I had a pretty good view even if my neck was aching like hell afterwards!

On Phill's team there was Seann Walsh the comedian and a boy from one of the bands that was playing later on who was a substitute for someone who didn't turn up and didn't say much. On Noel's team there was Charlie Baker and Paloma Faith, and David O' Doherty was hosting, in a yellow cape and blue jumper? Noel was hilarious as was Phill. Paloma smashed the substitute when he was telling a story by saying 'you, awkward, never!' - hahahahahahahahaha! At one point Noel's team went under the desk- can't say what went on under there, as i don't know... Also Seann got hold of Noel's big rounded black glasses while he was under the desk and attempted to impersonate him, very badly. And I'm not just being a typical fangirl sticking up for Noel, It was a terrible impression. There was a guest 'choir' who did one of the Intro's in the Intro's round (surprisingly.) Everyone was making fun of them a bit so Noel gave them a hug and got up and sang with them- bloody lucky choir! We waited an hour and a half to meet him and didn't get hugs- oh well, meeting him is by far enough- now for the details on that, it's still unbelievable!

So after the gig we went round the side of the tent where there was two other people waiting- a Noel fan and her mum, we joined them and we could see Noel's caravan about a 100 yards away past the big metal fence, he was in there with Phill, David, Paloma and a couple of people I didn't know. Soon a few more Noel fans were gathering and we got chatting, then a few more came and there was 11 or 12 of us, all massive Noel fans, all girls around my age and a bit older and one boy who'd come from Dubai to meet him! It was still pouring it down with rain but we were adament to meet him. We told the security gaurd to go get him for us but he wouldn't, but someone else went and got him for the 'Noel Fielding Posse' as he called us. The guy went and got him and Noel came to the door in his cape and waved and we went crazy shouting 'NOELLLL WE LOVE YOUUUU!!!!' but that wasn't enough for us so we kept getting passers by to go and try and get him to come out, whilst we sang crimps to amuse ourselves and try and get his attention. One man kept on filming us saying 'here they are the Noel Fielding fans, have you seen him yet?' and we would reply 'noooooooo.' 'how long are you gonna wait?' 'FOREVERRRRRRR!' Then Paloma came out with her brolly to get pictures done, and then just before she got in her car she waved to us all! We suspected Noel must come out soon so we weren't going anywhere.

After and hour and a half stood shouting in the rain he emerged from the caravan under a big brolly, he started to walk down towards us and we were going absolutely mental, then his brolly went inside out- the cutest look ever on his face (your now realising how much of a fangirl I am.) As he walked towards us we were singing 'crimpity crimpity now now, crimpity crimpity ask me how...'

He then talked to us and signed things through the bars, but then the greatest thing happened he said he'd come round, our craziness was apparent! So he came outside round the fence to us-

I had my book ready to be signed and I got closer...

and closer...

and there I am right next to him, him signing my book. On top of that he actually signed my book about four times because some of the other fans didn't have any paper so they used mine and that meant Noel holding my book for about a minute!!

This is the book and the dint Noel made in the spine; Noel's dint :)

and here's his wicked signiture-

and overall this make's a very happy, overexcited, overwhelmed me. All I say is this is only the first, I will meet him again.

I love you Noel Fielding. x



 

Mark Watson

On 05/06/11 once again me and my mother set off on the train to another gig, this time Mark Watson the hilariously funny comedian. it was a tiny little theatre in Chorley which made it in my opinion even better, he first came on and sat at his laptop while their were still some people arriving he commented on the amount of bald people in the audience and as another bald man walked into the theatre and took his seat next to us he seemed pretty confused as to why everyone was laughing. Everyone was settled in so he went back behind the curtain introduced himself and begun. He was hilarious! For some of the interval he was just sat on stage with his laptop. He did his second half which was just as funny and then announced he would be signing his new book after-a novel called eleven. so I went and got a book signed and met him, he was very nice and I recommend you go see him any oppurtunity you get.

Take That

Well once upon a time on 10/06/11 me and my Robbie-obsessed mum went to see Take That at manchester city stadium, our hotel was packed with Take That fans and had loads of posters up and wot not as it was the closest hotel to the venue-

We got to the stadium and queued for 2 hours before RUNNING into the stadium, my mum being my mum had a cold so we couldn't stand even though we would've had an amazing spot, and as I pointed out later on we would've probably touched robbie. But never mind we sat down in a pretty good place-

Then it was another 4 hour wait and two boxes of chips before the Pet Shop Boys came on who sounded good but i couldn't see them as there was a constant stream of people down our busy aisle. (as you can kind of see on the picture above...) But then finally after a total of 7 hours waiting take that came on. (whooooooooooooooooooooo!!)

First they came on as a quatet and did some of their recent stuff without Robbie which was good, but nothing compared to the 15/20 minutes Robbie then did on his own.

Then they all came on together and the crown was going nuts-

They peformed a medley of old stuff with Gary on the piano, they sung some of Robbie's songs together, then did the stuff from their new album and ended with Never Forget , which was mental! Lastle for their encore they Relight my fire and then sang one of their new songs I didn't know whilst they walked round shaking hands with the fans at the very front. They'd put on an amazing show-all in all an amazing night, ALL HAIL Om (the 17ft purple robot!)

  

   

soorrrrryyyy

Hello anyone who looks on here sorry I've not posted anything in ages, been nice and busy,  but that also means I have lots to update you on so here go's...

Out of Control

Last night I performed 'Out of Control' with scream in the Hits Reloaded, here's the video my mum managed to get of it, I'm the one with, erm... well, my hair, my face, erm a yellow belt and i start third in from the right, (or bottom...) and i dont go off so you can just follow me round the screen, well, and watch everyone else of course, anyway here's the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eWmRzBCY70

First Post

Well if i become famous this post will be a part of history, there's a lot riding on this post. So, if your one of my freinds/followers on twitter and facebook and you came here by my request so i dont look like a loner, my name on facebook is Georgina Malone and my twitter name is @Iam5spicee just so you all (i say all, you're probably the first person) know you have the right page. Well, there's history for you, i'll remember this forever. x