Adam Buxton

TABERNACLE, NOTTING HILL, 7.30PM, 14th SEPTEMBER 2010

Hey ho hoo ha lu la! Back from my holidays and feeling quite blue at the impending closure of another Summer but cheered by gig shaped thoughts.

I did the Popcorn night at Notting Hill’s Tabernacle a few months back and enjoyed it very much. It feels like a wedding reception in a lovely cross between a small concert venue and a fancy village hall (but better than that sounds) so I’m looking forward to going back there and doing about an hour of laptop based bits and pieces that will probably be along the lines of me showing some videos (mostly new-ish I hope), reading out some You Tube comments and singing the odd song. Whatever I do is likely to look a little slipshod after Tim Key and Rufus Hound with whom I share the bill along with compere Carl Donnelly, but I’m going to try my guts out, I promise you!

Book tickets and read the hyperbolic preview HERE

BUG AT THE NORWICH PLAYHOUSE, 8PM, THURSDAY 9th SEPTEMBER 2010

Both the BFI shows for BUG 21 on Thursday 16th September at 6.30pm and Friday 24th September at 8.45pm are now sold out but don’t forget, it’s always worth phoning the BFI box office (0207 928 3232) on the day of the show as last minute tickets often become available.

If you’re round my woodneck next week then come along to the wonderful Norwich Playhouse on Thursday evening at 8pm for our 5th Norwich BUG. I bumped into a fellow yesterday who’d dragged his girlfriend along to the last one and had this to say: “We got in there and she saw the programme with all the details of the videos on it and she thought, ‘oh god what’s this? It looks really boring’ but in the end she loved the whole night. You’d just never get to see things like that otherwise really.” I paraphrased a little and possibly made the fellow sound more goofy than he actually was, but you get the idea, and that’s typical of a lot of comments I get from people after their first BUG. It sounds as if I’m saying ‘don’t worry if you’re a bit simple and you fear art, you’ll still have a good time!’ but actually I’m saying something more profound that I refuse to explain. Come along though. We can have talk about the Labour leadership election in the bar afterwards. Or not.

Book tickets for BUG at the Norwich Playhouse HERE

BUG AT THE GREENWICH FESTIVAL, 5PM, SUNDAY 12th SEPTEMBER 2010

BUG festival shows tend to be a little more ramshackular even than the BFI shows which themselves, seldom shy from shackle ramming. As with last year’s Greenwich show, this should be a mix of my favourite Bug videos of the last 12 months as well as the odd serving of semi fresh steaming mash from my own rusty pot. Apparently we’re in a big tent this year, which is great because I’m a very in-tents person. That’s the kind of top class intellectual word play that’s got me where I am today: sitting in a field, updating my blog and noticing that I partly sat on a fresh cow shit. See you soon, I certainly hope!

Book tickets for BUG at the Greenwich Festival HERE