Saturday night's all right for singing

The Pentameters Theatre is a lovely little Fringe place in Hampstead, right above the Three Horseshoes pub and run since the 60s by a lady of surpassing loveliness and resourcefulness called Leonie Scott-Matthews.

The reason I mention all this is on Saturday nights after the show, (After Intimacy) they have a free cabaret night consisting of music, songs, poetry and all manner of nonsense, and last week we performed there. In fact, we're performing there again tonight, and next Saturday 19th March, so if you want to see Beauty and the Bitch for free, haul your arses up to Hampstead pronto.


A theatre above a pub - who'da thunk it?!

Despite a certain amount of late-breaking keyboard trouble and poor Dave having to drag himself clear across London from the fathest reachest of Richmond, we took the stage for three songs at about 11pm (it goes on late - and you can take your drinks in!) and experienced a highly gratifying response from the 50-odd audience members.
Even when we shamelessly plugged the next Cabaret Sauvignon (Friday 1st April, fact fans) they didn't turn on us and hound us out of the theatre. The other performers were damn good too - although a song about sperm donors is a pretty tough act to follow ...