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| Review
- Pappy's Fun Club, Edinburgh 06 |
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The free gig: that most dangerous of things.
The vast majority of people will equate 'free'
with 'rubbish' while for a performer, the practice
of asking for a donation leaves you relying entirely
on your talent: if people don't like it, they
won't pay.
Pappy's Fun Club is an exception to the
former. The show is a series of often inter-linked
skits performed by the four members of the Fun
Club (Pappy being their unseen benefactor) featuring
an array of unusual characters, The Three Gay
Hitlers ("Ooh! Blitzkrieg!"); The Minstrel;
The Black Knight and 'the band Gomez' being among
the most memorable. The show does lose steam somewhat
in a mis-firing rendition of 'Where Is The Love?'
during the frankly bonkers climax and the whole
affair occasionally gets a little too close to
feeling like a Rather Jolly am-dram night. But
these concerns aside, the rest of the show often
borders on the inspired (there's even a live link-up
with the Slovakian incarnation of the Fun Club)
and is ridden with some great catchphrases. It
will be worth seeing what they can come up with
for 2007. DL
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