Adrian Edmundson + Neil Innes + Simon Brint + Rowland Rivron + SURPRISE GUEST!

Continuing their bizarrely successful semi-residency at The Wilmington – watch in astonishment as these four comedy chancers continue to improve before your very eyes, as they rehearse live a selection of comic songs by the likes of They Might Be Giants, Viv Stanshall, Ian Dury etc., and some new originals. Each show brings with it a different surprise guest of almost legendary comic pedigree.

Doors: 8.00pm

BUY TICKETS HERE!

IDIOT BASTARD BAND

Tony Black and the Collectors - myspace.com/tonyblack200

Blabbermouth - www.myspace.com/therealblabbermouth 

Matt Wheeler - www.myspace.com/matt_wheeler 

Doors at 7.30pm - £5 Entry

SUBSTANCE @ THE WILMINGTON ARMS

More TBC

LEIKA

Resident DJs Gary, John and Andy will be spinning the best in 60s soul, R&B and ska, northern nuggets, mod beats and funk.

Special guests - Rex Bendon and Jackie Jackson

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CRAWDADDY!

10 acts + JAMES SHERWOOD - "If you ever wondered what would happen if Bill Bailey and Marcus Brigstocke had a child..." CHORTLE

1.30pm

Tickets at £7 and available from our sponsor WeGotTickets at www.wegotcomedy.com.

Now in its third year, the Musical Comedy Awards (MCA) are back for another celebration of the UK’s best emerging and established musical comedians!

After the total sell out success of last year’s MCA, WeGotTickets have this year partnered up with Avin a Larf to sponsor the Best Newcomer Category in this prestigious competition to discover, support and promote the best emerging talent in the UK’s growing musical comedy community.

With some of the biggest names in comedy, acts such as Bill Bailey and Tim Minchin, popularising the genre, the MCA have grown in stature to become a key date in the comedy calendar and a launch pad for many careers. 

Having been selected by a panel of industry judges from the website www.musicalcomedy.co.uk, the UK’s top 40 emerging musical comedy acts will compete in a series of heats between January and March at the Wilmington Arms, with each show headlined by established stars of the circuit. From each heat of ten acts, the audience and judges will vote for their favourite five acts to progress to the next stage. The Final of the MCA will then take place on March 19th at the New Players Theatre, Embankment.

All of the MCA shows will be hosted by the 2010 MCA Runners Up, the brilliant HORSE & LOUIS - “See them before they're big, otherwise you'll regret it.” - BRITISH COMEDY GUIDE

Line-ups subject to change: for latest info check www.musicalcomedy.co.uk

2011 MUSICAL COMEDY AWARDS

FEED YOUR HEAD presents............

Wilde & The Portraits

Starken

Your Other Lover

Mexico Indigo

£5 door, 8pm kick off.

FEED YOUR HEAD

Iain Stirling

Elis James

Alison Bice

Dinosaur Planet (ft MJ Hibbett)

Sy Thomas

2.30pm-5pm, show starts 3pm prompt. 

£6/5 concessions 

Tickets available in advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/109690 or on the door, subject to availability. 

SUNDAY HULLABALOO

Like Jesus, JOKE PARTY resurrects itself in order to make you happy!

With... 

TOM BELL!

CARL SNEED!

TOM & GEMMA!

FRASER MILLWARD!

and WILLIAM ANDREWS!

ALL OF THESE PEOPLE WILL MAKE YOU HAPPY.

Do come along. It will definitely be excellent.

7.30pm

Tickets £5 on the door or £4 in advance from

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/109110

JOKE PARTY

HANDS ON YOUR HEAD and no one gets hurt as dashing sketch criminals, THE BETA MALES hijack your evening and charm you into a pub to watch a bill of new material, fun and games and superlative comedic guests!

THIS MONTH it's a DEADLY DAME DOUBLE BILL where we'll be aided and abetted by two of British comedy's most fearsome females:

Star of Radio 4's Showstopper: The Improvised Musical, BBC 2's "Fast and Loose" and if.comedy ‘Best Newcomer’ Nominee...PIPPA EVANS as LORETTA MAINE!
★★★★★ - Broadway Baby
★★★★★ - allthefestivals.com
★★★★ - Time Out

...AND...

Star of BBC 1's "Armstrong and Miller show", BBC 2's "Fast and Loose", BBC Radio 7's "Idiots of Ants: Totally Gizmo"...JESS RANSOM!
★★★★ - Fest
★★★★ - Fringe Review
★★★★ - Three Weeks

All this PLUS new sketches from the Beta's upcoming Edinburgh show, THE TRAIN JOB and the 2nd monthly Patty Hearst Award for Hostage Of The Month!
★★★★★ - Broadway Baby
★★★★★ - Fringe Guru
★★★★★ - Three Weeks

Doors are 7.30pm for an 8pm start. Tickets are £6 for law-abiding citizens, £5 for students and £4 if you turn up on the door in disguise (burglars, Catwomen, Thelma and/or Louise, etc.)

THE BETA MALES HOSTAGE SITUATION

She Keeps Bees + Support
Tickets £7.50
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/108589

The Allotment is super overwhelmedly excited to welcome the utterly wonderful She Keeps Bees back for this intimate, special show at the Wilmington Arms. The Brooklyn duo have a new album on the way and this will be a delightful opportunity to hear songs from it. There will be free cake as well, and who doesn't like free cake?!?!

THE ALLOTMENT PRESENTS

As recommended by Time Out and londonisfunny.com. Tickets are £5.£4 NUS and available here;www.wegottickets.com

March 9th's lovely* lineup features

BRENDON BURNS
...if. comeddie (aka Perrier) Award Winner 
as seen on BBC, CBC, Channel 4 and ITV.
"...the modern master of this autobiographical genre" (The Guardian)

LATE NIGHT GIMP FIGHT
Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominees 2010 and Chortle Award Winners 2011

DAVE GIBSON
Runner up for Dave TV's "Funniest Joke of the Fringe" award 2010

JAMES SHERWOOD
Elegant, intelligent stand-up, with enough regular laughs to keep everyone satisfied." Guardian
"If you ever wondered what would happen if Bill Bailey
and Marcus Brigstocke had a child..." Chortle

MATT RICHARDSON
So You Think You're Funny? Finalist 2010
and MC Ben Van der Velde "Whip sharp.. life-giving" (Chortle)

Doors open 7.30pm for an 8pm show

THE REALLY LOVELY COMEDY SHOW

The Good Gods

Man and Vertebrates

The Momeraths

£3. 

8.00 - 11.00pm

LIFE AT THE TOP

Girls Girls Girls + special guests

DJ: Doctor Matthew Wallbridge

Doors: 8pm

Acts from 8:30pm

Girls Girls Girls: 10pm

£3

Girls Girls Girls will stage a live performance on Friday March 11th 2011 at the Wilmington Arms in London.

The vagabond punk threesome will play songs old and new in celebration of the the release of their latest opus 'Hello Sailor..!' in hip new VINYL format. There will be superlative support acts, dancing vagrants and Dr Matthew Wallbridge on the Wheels of Steel.

GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS

Club Night playing the finest Twee, Indie Pop, Post Punk, Riot Girl, Lo-Fi, Girl Groups, Northern Soul.

DJ's Annagrammatical & SoftSkull will be playing the music. 

7.30pm

£5 / £4 with flyer, NUS, OAP. 

All money goes to The Depression Alliance.

MY HEART SAID YES! BUT MY THERAPIST SAID NO!

On 17th April Brian Kearney will be running the London Marathon in aid of Help the Hospices. What better way to celebrate this ludicrous endeavour and rustle up some extra sponsorship cash than get some great musicians  and DJs together for a very special night?

Line-up includes:

Tim Ten Yen

www.myspace.com/timtenyen

Joseph Aquilina

www.myspace.com/aquilinaband

Paul Kearney & Kay Tyrell

www.myspace.com/distractionsband & www.myspace.com/faulmusic

Lions & Tigers & Bears

www.myspace.com/lionsntigersnbearslh

DJ sets by:

Christopher Laird (Radio Nowhere)

Paul Stokes (NME)

Doors 6.30pm 

Entry is just £5 on the door, and all proceeds will go to Help the Hospices.

BEGGING BANQUET FOR HELP THE HOSPICES

Adrian Edmundson + Neil Innes + Simon Brint + Rowland Rivron + SURPRISE GUEST!

Continuing their bizarrely successful semi-residency at The Wilmington – watch in astonishment as these four comedy chancers continue to improve before your very eyes, as they rehearse live a selection of comic songs by the likes of They Might Be Giants, Viv Stanshall, Ian Dury etc., and some new originals. Each show brings with it a different surprise guest of almost legendary comic pedigree.

Doors: 8.00pm

BUY TICKETS HERE!

THE IDIOT BASTARD BAND

Joe Lycett - compere
Strawberry and Cream - music
John Butterwoth - physicist
Zoe Self - racehorse scientist
Ryan Nichol - physicist
Tom Manly- psychologist
Dom Furniss - Interaction Researcher

Doors 8pm

£5

What a line-up of brainboxes, intellectual heavyweights and big
thinkers we have for you this month at the clever comedy night that
this month made the front page of the BBC website!

Joe Lycett takes MCing duties for his Bright Club debut. He was best
newcomer at the 2010 Chortle Awards, so it'll be interesting to see
what he's been up to since then.

Strawberry & Cream return to their spiritual home, showcasing their
own songs alongside the usual array of sexy covers.
...
Zoe Self studies how race-horses work. They're pretty big and that's a
lot of muscle, bone and tendon to track. She won't be giving out tips
for the 4.15 at Chepstow.

Jon Butterworth smashes particles into one another using a little
piece of apparatus called the Large Hadron Collider. You might have
heard of it.

Dom Furniss is a human-computer interactions specialist, and he
tackles the really big questions like "Why don't things just
work?!?!?!"

Ryan Nicholl flies balloons in the antarctic looking for neutrinos. He
also has more magnets in his office than anyone I've met in my life.

Tom Manly is a neuroscientist. He'll popping open a few skulls to see
what's going on inside.

BRIGHT CLUB: BIG

A World in London Special

Featuring:

Movimientos DJs (Movimientos / Global Local)

DJ Ritu (BBC Radio London / Kuch Kuch)

Xtreme Link - Live! (The WildBunch)

STELLA OBE (Factory Foundation Recordings, Massive Attack Tour DJ)

Jamie Renton (Chilli Fried)

The BBC’s decision to axe the capital’s only world music radio show has shocked and incensed lovers of global music and culture prompting a huge outcry and a campaign to save AWIL.

Sign the petition to save A World in LDN

http://www.petitiononline.co.uk/petition/save-a-world-in-london/592

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-DJ-Ritus-A-World-in-London-show-on-BBC-London/177211285624267

ATTITUDE ON THE DECKS

When we read that we had the honour of doing the St Patrick's day show at
the Wilmo we were dead chuffed. Then we realised that we didn't know any
good Irish bands. So, we've gone for entirely non-Irish bands of supreme
quality and free whisky on the door until the bottle runs out. In the
words of Sean Connery, it's a compromyje...

AMBASSADORS OF MOROCCO (www.myspace.com/ambassadorsofm...orocco)
Formed in an abandoned shoe factory (Ambassadors of Morocco is Victorian
slang for a shoemaker), this London based quartet have had quite a ride
since their launch in autumn 2010. A savvy blend of early Blur, the Cure
and Depeche Mode has created a sound heavy of melody and big of hook. With
6Music and XFM already on board and songs like the oh-so-topical Wikipedia
being hailed as modern classics, AoM look set to be one of the feel-good
hits of this summer.

VETS IN HONG KONG (www.myspace.com/vetsinhongkong)
Vets in Hong Kong are a new school band with old school sensibilities.
They put on their own nights, produce a zine (no blogs here) and play
quality songs crafted in the style of Arcade Fire, Death From Above,
Vampire Weekend and Mars Volta. Following the release of their debut E.P.
in February 2011, ViHK are picking up momentum despite their early stages.
And if all else fails, they can easily go and treat sick pigs in the old
colony....

MODEL STAGGS (www.myspace.com/modelstaggs)
Electro Folk Garage. No, not somewhere that robots go to get repaired but
instead is Cambridge's finest, Model Staggs. Confusingly, they aren't
Stags either but rather the dynamic duo of Ash and Tom playing fierce
guitar and drum driven tunes with the raw energy of the White Stripes and
the foppish charm of Mumford & Sons. So, confusing descriptions aside, it
all sounds marvellous. What a relief?!

KATE STAPLEY (www.myspace.com/katestapley)
North London lass Kate Stapley is a rising star of the UK folk scene with
an edginess and charm not to be underestimated. Influenced by the likes of
Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, Fionn Regan, Joni Mitchell and Laura Marling,
Stapley is in fine company and we expect you'll be swooning in to your
free whisky in no time...

As always, doors are at 8.00pm, entry is £4 and first act on at 8.15.....ish

DEATH & GLORY ST PATRICKS DAY SPECIAL

★ Which Way Is Up! #2 ★ 

A new night from Odd Box. Every third Friday of the month at The Wilmington Arms.

★ The Felt Tips ★
http://thefelttips.com/

Pop music is all about pop crushes. And The Felt Tips first grabbed my heart back at the first ever indietracks (2007, folks!). Since then the band have found a drummer and written one of the LPs of 2010 - 'Living and Growing'. This quartet from Glasgow are playing a rare London show! Be sure to see them and prepare to have your own pop crush on The Felt Tips.

The Felt Tips play melodic indiepop songs about your life – like that time you fumbled around with a condom in your darkened bedroom while trying to keep the mood alive – well The Felt Tips were there watching you.

★ Pocketbooks ★ 
http://www.pocketbooks.org.uk/

London's premier indiepop band are playing Odd Box for the first time (although they were big favourites at my old Lost Music nights!). The band have been 'away' recording their second album. Their first 'Flight Plaths' was a highlight of 2009 and was released on the How Does It Feel To Be Loved? label. Pocketbooks deliver shimmering pop music which comes informed by 60s soul and the best that indiepop has to offer. 

"Some of the finest songwriters in indiepop today" - SCATTERBRAIN

"Remember those albums you listen to when you're laid on the floor of your bedroom and you've just done something completely life-changing? Or you're just about to? Well, this is one of those. Listen to Flight Paths, and go out and find the one you love." - A LAYER OF CHIPS

★ Falling and Laughing ★ 
www.myspace.com/duncsfallingandlaughing

Falling and Laughing are two piece indiepop band from Birmingham, UK. They released their beautiful hand crafted 'Bunny Hood' EP on Odd Box in 2010 (very few copies left folks!). And I am delighted to finally be able to bring the band down to London to play a pop show for us!

"There is something quintessentially British about the lyrical content on offer here, taking in subjects such as NME writers, bus routes and geeky girls turned supercool, while the tempo changes in all four songs ensure the ears are constantly stimulated." - THE WESTMORLAND GAZETTE

8pm  

£5 Advance tickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/104395

WHICH WAY IS UP!

MONSTER CEILIDH BAND

www.monsterceilidhband.co.uk

"On stage, in front of thousands, their music inspired dancing as the crowd kicked it up in the rain soaked mud of the arena" – NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 

"A King Kong of an album... from a band with talent as deep as Loch Ness!! " – JEZ LOWE

“Get entertained, energised and electrified with the Monster Ceilidh Band and their outrageously funky grooves that mix elegant traditional playing with raucous rave-like rhythms” – KINGS PLACE

7.00pm

Buy tickets here -  http://www.wegottickets.com/event/109163

PULL UP THE ROOTS

The boys bring you a night of new material from some of the funniest comedians on the circuit. There'll be lots of stand up, a few musical comedy numbers, a fantastic character comedian and of course the Ginge, the Geordie and the Geek- fresh from their 2000 seater sellout charity gig with Michael McIntyre and Jimmy Carr- testing more of their silly and hilarious sketches.

Tickets only £4!!! 

7.30pm doors, 8pm start 

THE LINE UP:

Tony Law

Luke Toulson,

Catie Wilkins

Kerry Gilbert

Naz Osmanoglu

Tom Meetin

Gerry Howells,

Vicki Stone,

GGG 30 MIN HEADLINE SET

www.gingegeordiegeek.com

GINGE GEORDIE GEEK AND FRIENDS

Matt Green: Too Much Information (work in progress)

Matt Green returns after a sell out 2010 show with a new hour of stand up (already nominated for Best New Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival 2011). We're living in funny times. Come and watch Matt try to make sense of it all. Warning: may contain moderate statistics and bafflement. Also jokes about politics and sex. But hopefully not at the same time. "A stand up audience's dream" ***** (Three Weeks) "A super impressive comedy brain" (British Comedy Guide) 

Tom Price - Work in Progress

Tom has been a regular on the UK stand up circuit for nine years now, and is currently preparing to think about maybe taking a show to the Edinburgh fringe for the first time. His bright and breezy manner thinly covers a dark seam of misanthropic material dealing with with daily confrontations with mannerless human beings. Manners is his starting point. No one's quite sure where it'll end. 

"One to watch" Chortle.co.uk

"Hilarious" The List

Doors 7pm, Show at 8pm. 

Price: £5, £4 adv http://www.wegottickets.com/event/113230 

MATT GREEN & TOM PRICE - WORK IN PROGRESS

FEED YOUR HEAD presents................

The Marshall Arts Family

Sparrow

Brightlight City + guests

£5 door, 8pm kick off, and the usual free shot of JAGERMEISTER to first 25 peeps!!

FEED YOUR HEAD

The Gresham Flyers + The Give It Ups

8pm: The Gresham Flyers (semi-acoustic set)

8:45pm: Give It Ups (support set)

9:30pm: The Gresham Flyers (full set)

The Gresham Flyers' Final Gig: "It's Not Finished... It's Finished." Two sets from The Gresham Flyers, with a Give It Ups performance sandwiched in the middle.

£5.00 advance tickets here - http://www.wegottickets.com/event/109301

THE GRESHAM FLYERS

Fuzzystar
Originally hailing from Edinburgh, London based Fuzzystar perform off-kilter pop that is filled with narrative and melody.

4 out of 5 "Absolutely wonderful dream-pop" - God Is In The TV

“Like the result of an illegitimate affair between a Scottish Brian Wilson & Elliott Smith.” - Records Make Great Pets

http://www.fuzzystar.co.uk

Something Beginning With L
Consisting of Lucy, Jen and Jon the outfit originally started life as a solo project before morphing into the 6 limbed shape it now retains. The band fashion beautifully maudlin pop coated in chimes, whirrs and lovely melodies.

“Sounds like the Breeders stargazing at Adem’s ‘Love and Other Planets’, with the brittle drum and guitar parts smoldering-ember vocals making for moments of scuzzy disorder and sweet transfixion. Another little miracle courtesy of Devon via Brighton’s always excellent Drift Records.” - Time Out

“Wonderfully woozy, synth-laden pastoralia.” - The Sunday Times
http://www.myspace.com/somethingbeginningwithl

Pollyanna Valentine
Pollyanna Valentine is the muse of Charley Sharp, via New York City…California… Arkansas, USA. Charley met Pollyanna at The car wash.

http://www.myspace.com/pollyannavalentine

Jess Bryant
Jess Bryant is a songwriter living in London. She has been described as ‘haunting’ a fair few times. She currently has an ep out called ‘Dusk’ which is available on iTunes.

"If Jess Bryant isn’t widely adored pretty bloody soon, we’re going to take to the street and start smacking random strangers ‘round the face. " - RockFeedback

http://www.myspace.com/jkcbryant

£5 in advance.

£6 on the door.

Doors 8pm.

FREAKSCENE PRESENTS

Chris Dangerfield
 
Katie Hearsey
 
Dougie Hastings
 
Jay Cowle
 
Jane Deane
 
and they're all RUDE, CRUDE and VERY FUNNY!!!
 
with your polite and tasteful M.C Marc Safon

Five pounds on the door.
Doors 6pm. Show 7pm.

SIR K RAH'S CAN A TING

Adrian Edmundson + Neil Innes + Simon Brint + Rowland Rivron + SURPRISE GUEST!

Continuing their bizarrely successful semi-residency at The Wilmington – watch in astonishment as these four comedy chancers continue to improve before your very eyes, as they rehearse live a selection of comic songs by the likes of They Might Be Giants, Viv Stanshall, Ian Dury etc., and some new originals. Each show brings with it a different surprise guest of almost legendary comic pedigree.

Doors: 8.00pm

BUY TICKETS HERE!

THE IDIOT BASTARD BAND

James Sherwood's Piano Bar - the comedy night where every act ends on a song!

Featuring:

John Finnemore (Mitchell & Webb, Dead Ringers, Cabin Fever, MIranda)

Nick Revell (old-school satirist)

Helen Arney (new-school warbling funny lady)

Oompah Brass (pop tunes by a brass band)

and hosted by James Sherwood

Doors 7.30pm, show 8.00pm

£7 http://www.wegottickets.com/event/107571

JAMES SHERWOODS PIANO BAR

Meet two television journalists devastated by their ex-boyfriends successes, a balloon modeller looking for You Tube fame, a couple of ‘ootreprenurial’ businesswomen whose product could take the world by storm and Katy and Wills eccentric Royal Wedding Planner!

Made it big. Made it up. Made it to the Moon and back.

Character sketches, songs and 100% silk with female musical comedy duo The Silky Pair.

£5.

8.00pm

THE SILKY PAIR: MADE IT!

Pubs cost a fortune, there's nothing good on and the music is terrible.

Not any more.

"Further down towards Exmouth Market, the Wilmington Arms is setting itself up as pretender to its crown. At the monthly night run by the sketch troupe Ladygarden, it's not unusual to see stars from Peep Show's Isy Suttie to Lenny Henry performing to a 40-strong crowd, spot Jennifer Saunders at the bar or bump into Ash Atalla, the producer of The Office, scouting for new talent."

See below for context.