Caroline Mabey

Another chance to see Caroline Mabey’s One Minute Silence, featuring my animated sidekicks Kip the Coffeepot and Mr Skrangles. Together we attempt to train the audience to achieve the mind-bending super-stunt of remaining silent for sixty seconds. It really is unspeakably good. Like this year’s David Blaine.

Come!

Thursday 13th October

Phoenix Artists Club
1 Phoenix St (Corner of Charing Cross Rd)
London
WC2H 8BU
(Nearest Tube Leicester Square/ Tottenham Court Rd)

Doors 7.30, Show 8pm

Tickets are only £5. That’s a total bargain.

I’ve been invited to perform my One Minute Silence at Wilton Tennis Club in Wimbledon by the wonderful Terry Oakes, who saw the show in Edinburgh.

And there’s going to be a BUFFET!

It’s all happening on Saturday 8th October: Doors 7pm, Buffet 7.30, Show 8.30.

It seems the tennis fans are super keen and the show has nearly sold out, but there are still a few tickets available here:

www.wiltontennisclub.ticketsource.co.uk

BOING!

Well, I’m back from doing my One Minute Silence show in Edinburgh and I had lots of fun.

Here are some things said about me in the press:

“An absolute delight to watch. Fantastically ditzy and spectacularly absurd, this meandering whirligig of a show leaves you feeling a little bit dizzy and a big bit happy. A joy to behold.” The Skinny

“Highly Recommended”-Times Festivals

“Truly, Mabey’s dippy mind produces some of the most bewildering and wonderful lines you could hope to topple from a person’s mouth” EdFest Magazine

“Brilliantly Funny… Wonderfully silly… Genuinely inspired” Fringe Guru

“Hints of Will Adamsdale, reminiscent of Greg Davies… entertaining and unique” Chortle

And I was recommended in Time Out’s Top 25 Comedy Shows of Edinburgh 2011

I also did lots of other gigs including this crazy chat show with folklore legend Lorraine Chase:

If you want to know what doing the Edinburgh Fringe is really like, read Robin Ince’s three wonderful blogs.

My preview in Nottingham this Sunday 24th July has been cancelled but I am having a TOP SECRET one for friends and aquaintances at the Hackney home of lunatic trumpeter Steve Pretty on Trumpet. It’ll be a double bill with his lovely show. Message me if you are interested in  coming…

Love you, bye!

Why not spend some money and have some fun?

You can buy tickets for my Edinburgh show on the edfringe website or from the Just the Tonic website. GREAT EXCITEMENT!

It’s at 18.15 every day from 4th-28th Aug except 17th. Here’s my poster (it’s looking a bit stretched, but you get the idea):

Come and enjoy more shambleses!

MAY:

Fri 27th – Double bill with Steve Pretty’s Perfect Mixtape -Camden Head (Formerly Liberties Bar) Camden High St, NW1 0LU- 8.15 pm

Tues 31st May- Double bill with JAMES ACASTER: AMONGST OTHER THINGS -Betsey Trotwood Cellar Bar, 56 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3BL- 8pm

JUNE:

Wed 8th – Double bill with AVA VIDAL- The Albany, Great Portland St

Tue 14th – Double bill with GERRY HOWELL -Betsey Trotwood Cellar Bar, 56 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3BL

Wed 22nd- Double bill with JESSICA FOSTEKEW -Betsey Trotwood Cellar Bar, 56 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3BL

Tue 28th- Double bill with JOEY PAGE -Betsey Trotwood Cellar Bar, 56 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3BL

JULY:

Wed 6th- At Wil Hodgson’s night, Three Crowns, The Causeway, Chippenham

Wed 13th- The Caroline of Brunswick, Brighton, 8.30pm

Thur 14th- Double Bill with Joey Page, Nook Cafe, Northampton

Wed 20th- Double Bill with James Acaster- Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon

Thur 21st- Double Bill with Sanderson Jones, The Green Man, Riding House St, London W1

Tue 26th- Comedy Junket, Cardiff

Thur 28th- Double Bill with Sara Pascoe- The Lewes Arms, Lewes, Sussex

Fri 29th- Gypsy Hill Comedy Club, The Black Sheep Bar, Gypsy Hill

I know! It’s too exciting. Isn’t it? I’m going wild and taking the ultimate challenge this year in a mind-bending, world record-breaking attempt to be quiet for a bit. Kip the Coffee Pot and Mr Skrangles will be on hand as I utilise all the latest fully scientific super-methods to remain silent for up to sixty seconds. You simply won’t believe your ears.

This year’s David Blaine.

And to scintillate your eyes just a little bit here’s a taste of some of the brilliant photos taken by Idil Sukan at my photoshoot last week.

Thanks to Kevin at Speedyhire in Wandsworth for lending me the manly Road Breaker, and to Mark Allan from the Bollywood Brass Band for the super sousaphone.

MORE LONDON PREVIEWS

Now that I’ve had some photos done, I might as well write a show. Why not help me create the magic by coming to a preview, where you can be part of an elite force or super-audients whose reactions to early versions can determine the outcome of the final piece? Truly a great privilege.

I’m doing double bills with some really excellent and inventive comics so come and see two work in progress shows for cheap/ ono.

Thursday 21st April- Double bill with SARA PASCOE VS. THE APOCALYPSE- Camden Head (Formerly Liberties Bar) Camden High St, London NW1 0LU- 8pm- £5 ono

Wednesday 27th April- Double bill with LOU SANDERS in HOW TO BE AWESOME: AN INTRODUCTION- Betsey Trotwood Cellar Bar, 56 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3BL- £4 ono

Tuesday 10th May- Double bill with PAUL McCAFFREY- Betsey Trotwood Cellar Bar, 56 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3BL- 8pm- £4 ono

Friday 27th May- Double bill with TBC- Camden Head (Formerly Liberties Bar) Camden High St, NW1 0LU- 8pm

Tuesday 31st May- Double bill with JAMES ACASTER- Betsey Trotwood Cellar Bar, 56 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3BL- 8pm

More dates soon…

Please don’t tell anyone.

I’m still saving up for Easter and it’s time already to start previewing for the Edinburgh festival. My show title is TOP SECRET at the moment, but if you want to see me work out some ideas with the energy and delusion of Charlie Sheen (“Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body”) then come to one of these…

Wed 2nd March, Double bill with Gerry Howell:”Surreal rambling brilliance” – Time Out

Wed 23rd March, Double bill with Pat Burtscher’s Waffle House:“Undeniably funny” – Chortle

Wed 6th April, Double bill with Brett Goldstein Grew Up in a Strip Club: “A performance dynamo, with punchily amusing material to match.” – Chortle

All at The Betsey Trotwood (Downstairs)
56 Farringdon Rd
City of London EC1R 3BL

Show  8.30pm, Doors 8.00pm.

Tickets £4 (or voluntary contribution)

Expect more from Mr Skrangles, Kip the Coffee Pot and God Knows What Else!

Excited?

Yes. Me too.

I’ll be doing my Edinburgh Show in London again soon:

Weds 27th October – The Green Man

36 Riding House St, London W1W 7EP
Nearest tube: Oxford Circus/ Goodge St

Show starts at 8pm

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Friday 12th November – The Camden Head (Formerly Liberties Bar)

100 Camden High Street, London NW1 0LU
Nearest tube: Camden

Show starts 8pm

Come!

Whoops! I forgot to say what fun I had at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. Had a lovely run in the sweaty foggy Caves and got some nice reviews:

“Truly scrumptious… Kooky, quirky and delicious fun” – Tim Arthur, Time Out

“Inspired hilarity… oddball genius from an always-intriguing performer.” - Steve Bennett, Chortle

My favourite new fans Andy and Gwen came to see the show four times and Andy was the only person to turn up wearing the cut-out-and-keep Mr Skrangles brooch. I was very excited when he went one step further and made himself a Mr Skrangles t-shirt and mug:

I did the show again in London in September at the lovely Leicester Square Theatre in September and there are two more dates coming up which I shall announce imminently….