Due to phenomenal box office demand, following a total sell out run and 5 star reviews we are performing an extra special date of Part-Time Warlocks at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in a larger venue.
The additional show will take place at midnight on Saturday 23rd May in the Underbelly.
For tickets to this extra special dead of night gig click here.
No matter how hard we worked on this show it is still totally flattering to come here and receive such great reviews for our Part-Time Warlocks show.
There is a stunning 5 star review in The List magazine this week, which is also online here.
Also, this week in threeweeks the show was awarded 4 stars along with this fantastic article.
Here’s a blog entry about a blog entry. We were asked to guest for a day on the official edfringe.com daily blog.
You can see our entry today here.
Part-Time Warlocks is going so well here at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The show is selling out every night and, best of all we’ve had some great reviews of the show.
There is an article from The Stage Here. And the lovely people at abcedinburgh.com gave the show the following 5 star review.
“I had a couple of hours to kill so had a stroll around town before returning to the Underbelly for Barry and Stuart: Part-time warlocks in the Delhi Belly at 2220. So mesmerised was I by the show that I discarded my notebook and just watched in awe. Well I was sort of forced to when I was dragged on stage at one point. More on that later.
Any show that start with Huey Lewis and the News’s rendition of ‘Power of Love’ has got to be good. Hang on, that’s not strictly true, I doubt the secret of success is quite so simple, but this one did and it made me grin from beginning to end. Big wide happy grins of genuine enjoyment of this part magic, part comedy, all brilliant show.
From coughing up a Rubik’s cube, to turning water into wine and gin into blackcurrant squash (I know which of those tricks I’d find more useful) the show is truly amazing. Perfectly timed, tightly scripted, beautifully executed, it’s both a wonder and a shame that it’s not in a bigger venue. That said, the smaller venue offers intimacy and the close proximity to this pair of magicians make their understated trickery even more unbelievable.
I was gently forced on stage after a magical device broadcast “my” thoughts to the audience. Apparently I wanted to go up on stage, and help with a mind-reading experiment, and I wanted to take Barry’s hand and be led onto the stage to kind applause from the audience. I wish I could read my own thoughts so clearly. Once up on stage I was instructed to take a marker pen and clipboard with paper on. I was to draw a picture (keeping on the paper, not showing Stuart, and not a pineapple). Uri Geller once did something like this to me and I drew a boat, so I wondered if everyone draws boats. Trying to outwit this fiendish pair I plumped for a quick sketch of the pyramids. Lo and behold, after some supposed telepathy, Stuart also drew the pyramids. I couldn’t tell quite how it was done because I couldn’t see from the stage, but the people next to me asked me if I knew I was going on stage afterwards — as though they couldn’t believe what they’d just seen.
A bit of biblical sorcery, some voodoo and a few funny gags the hour was up and the audience left excitedly talking amongst themselves about what they’d just seen.
Barry and Stuart are not just magicians trying to be funny, they are funny and actually put some other comedians to shame with their inventive deliveries.
Where I paused before giving five stars earlier, this show deserves at least that many. Brilliant. Just brilliant. But not “just” brilliant, it’s so much more as well; witty, tight, slick, clever, fun, incredible, mind-boggling, skillful, welcoming and did I say brilliant?
(5 Stars)”
Backstage at the official Fringe Festival 2008 launch where we performed the rarely seen ‘Suicide in C#’ live at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange.
Listen to us broadcasting live on the internet from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
We will be interviewed live at 2pm today on Fresh Air
Well what we have here is our own very special and real version of the classic ‘Where’s Wally’ (or ‘Waldo’, for our American friends).
In this version you have to find me amongst these Italian scooters. Tread carefully though, I’m not in an obvious place and I am neither the fat guy in the suit nor the guy in the Calvin Klein poster.
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival online ticket booking system has suffered from extreme technical problems this week and hasn’t been able to start selling any tickets yet. Fear not, there is a way to ensure your place for our ultra limited spaces this August.
You can secretly buy tickets here ahead of the official box office opening on Monday, beating any non-warlocks who don’t visit this blog to a place.
Now go forth and book so you don’t end up looking as disappointed as this guy…
Personality deficient Scarlett Johansson has attempted to make a cover album which is released today. Taking it’s title from a song off the truly marvellous album Rain Dogs, “Anywhere I lay my Head” consists entirely of Tom Waits covers.
The fact that she can’t sing will only be the beginning of your frustration in listening to this album. Not content in sucking all soul and meaning form these great songs, Scarlett, whose vocals are so low in the mix it’s as if they’ve been recorded on a walkman, somehow manages to twist the melancholy, broken down and wandering-lost central theme of Waits’ career into a vacuous vanity project.
Here’s the video for Falling down, which contains some inspired imagery to go with the reworked classic such as Scarlett having her hair done, Scarlett having her make up done and Scarlett blowing some bubble gum on a bus…
It’ll be the best gig you’ll go to in your life. Here are some highlights from the Tom Waits press conference which details his route through the US and alludes to him touring Europe, from Spain to Dublin.
More updates on his website tomwaits.com
