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Anabel Barnston and Hannah Job in Coming of Age

I wish I were Anabel

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Free Seed On Soho Radio with JOHN ROGERS and SARAH COOK by LIL WARREN

Free Seed On Soho Radio with JOHN ROGERS and SARAH COOK by LIL WARREN

Listen to the show here! Free Seed On Soho 26.7.18

Stanley Kubrick was born on this day in 1928 and would have been 90! A selection of sound excerpts played to commemorate this genius who died 20 years ago.

Very CINEMATIC theme in the very hot Soho Radio studio with guests filmmaker and author John Rogers and Sarah Cook from the Piccadilly Picturehouse Central.

First appearance was the always…

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A VOYAGE OF THE EASY SISTERS (Edinburgh Preview) Presented by Fridge Magnet The Hen and Chickens Theatre 30th July ‘silly, brave, and perfect for the fringe’ The morning after (yet another) the night before for the Easy Sisters; over a boozy brunch, they discuss sexual conquests, exes, lost tampons, and the masturbatory practices of mermaids. It’s fair to say the performance starts as it means to go on… We learn, from a voice over of mythic and epic proportion, that the Easy Sisters are four demi-goddesses. Their demi-Goddessly duties concern Modern Dating, Political Correctness, Party Drugs, and Social Media. Demi-Goddesses for the millennial generation if I ever heard of them. They are vulgar, shameless, sexy and infinitely recognizable; we all know someone who possess the same qualities as one or more of these flawed but strangely endearing sisters. The sisters are a lively and convivial ensemble, and aren’t afraid to play around with each other on stage. There are multiple occasions on which the theatrical state is shattered and self-referential comment is passed on the action, or on one of the sisters. These moments of practiced improvisation are played extremely well, and delivered with freshness and commitment. One of the best moments of this in the show was the original musical number: The Flashback Song, which provides running commentary on the costume changes and apologises for the general vagueness and length of the flashback. A moment of genius. The sisters all adopt the same open-voweled, slack jawed, nouveau-RP accents typical of many young people today, and push it to a slightly grotesque extreme. Particularly memorable is Anabel Barnston as the doe-eyed, pendulous Goddess of Party Drugs; it’s not easy to pretend to be having audio-visual hallucinations on stage, but her commitment is so ridiculously sweet, one can’t help but go along with it. Alice Sainsbury also shines as the morbidly perky, but deeply neurotic Goddess of Political Correctness. There are some things that perhaps require some work. There are many times in the play where all the sisters’ characters seem to merge into a single, multi-voiced, vacuous female caricature. It would be nice to see the characters differentiated even more throughout the show. The plot can also feel slightly aimless, and bitty. Lots of very short consecutive moments of context give it an awkward, halting pace towards the middle and end. It is not an easy thing the company have tasked themselves with; good pastiche and irony walk a knifes edge and can so easily fall into something that comes across as hollow and annoying. This is largely avoided, but there are moments when I wasn’t sure why I was watching; what was the purpose, the message of this piece, beyond a few laughs at the cost of a particular age demographic. But, overall, it was silly, brave, and perfect for the fringe. The show is full of moments of impressive creativity and what was really palpable was the sense of pride and love that the company clearly have in the show, and it’s infectious. I wish them all the best of luck at the fringe. Follow them here to stay updated – http://bit.ly/2uOcTUw Verity Williams is a poet, actor, playwright, dog enthusiast and committed gin drinker (not necessarily in that order). Born and raised in Dorset, Verity has a BA in English and Drama from Royal Holloway, an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa and an MA in Acting from East 15. @Verity_W_

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2nd Wed OTM (9th March 2016)

2nd Wed OTM (9th March 2016)

On this week’s Free Seed on Soho on Soho Radio… (Catch up link HERE) First up on the show we were joined by curator, photographer, and optometrist(!), Julia Laird. Julia was here to talk about the latest exhibition she has curated; The Scarecrow Exhibition at the Geddes Gallery on the Caledonian Road.   The exhibition’s focus are the photographs from eccentric 70 something train-spotter, Colin…

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3rd Wed OTM (17th Feb 2016)

3rd Wed OTM (17th Feb 2016)

On this week’s Free Seed on Soho on Soho Radio… (Catch up link HERE) We were joined, first up by the lovely Colm Forde of Doc ‘n’ Roll Festival, promoting a whole BFI backed film season, Sounds of LDN! The season brings together concert films and lesser known music documentaries showing all around London in arthouse cinemas around zone 2 whether it’s Hackney, Dalston, Brixton, Crouch End or a few…

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2nd Wed OTM (10th February 2016)

2nd Wed OTM (10th February 2016)

On this week’s Free Seed on Soho on Soho Radio… (Catch up link HERE) As it was 53 years ago on the 11th February that The Beatles’, Please Please Me was recorded at Abbey Road, the show was peppered with the originals and covers from the album as a nod to the genius of it. First up in the show, Andrew Finnerty joined us once again to talk about this year’s Camberwell Free Film Festival running…

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1st Wed OTM (3rd February 2016)

1st Wed OTM (3rd February 2016)

On this week’s Free Seed on Soho on Soho Radio… (Catch up link HERE) Jemma Carnell of Without Consent Records was back with her fantastic New Call of the Freaks segment and joined by guitarist Dale Barclay. Dale is standing in for Adam Harmer of The Fat White Family for now and has been enjoying hitting the radio waves and playing London gigs such as Rough Trade East! From Glasgow, Dale’s…

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On this week's Free Seed on Soho (November 16th 2015)

On this week’s Free Seed on Soho (November 16th 2015)

On this week’s Free Seed on Soho on Soho Radio…   First up in the studio over from Louisiana, New Orleans we have the wonderfully talented songstress Acantha Lang! A true modern day blues singer, Acantha has blown away audiences with her incredible vocals. Though her discovery of blues unconventionally came when she moved to New York and bought her first blues album in Harlem. This was where she…

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