full length evening show
THE SINGING SOUS'CHEFS
Alive Again!
Comedy, a cappella soul & time-travel for all ages
Directed by John Nicholson of Peepolykus

‘a cross between Monty Python and a Barber Shop Quartet’ Clee St.Margaret
'Exquisite harmonies’ Bruce Gomersall, Nettlebed
‘took us to places I could only ever dream of' Towersey Festival

‘musicality and life enriching’ Rod Clements Lindisfarne

Comical musical interactive historical future adventure with Italian chefs. Dr Who without the intrusive glamour. Directed by John Nicholson of the side-splitting Peepolykus Theatre Company.


Three Italian chefs helter-skelter down the continuum of Time through the congestion zone of Space across the wide-open bison plains of History and back again before last orders. Meet Michelangelo, Merlin, Newton’s Apple and The Future. Travel the globe. Feel its bigness.

With songs by Joe Jackson, Dionne Warwick, Ry Cooder, The Everly Brothers, Iggy Pop, Coope Boyes & Simpson, Lou Reed, The Spooky Men's Chorale and other iconic grooves of our Time.

‘You honour the old’ Kington Langley Village Hall
‘You’re the best’
Rural Arts Wiltshire
‘I haven’t seen my husband laugh like that in ages’
Whissendine Village Hall
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incredible vocal talents’ Jules Benjamin The Beatless
‘a cross between Coope, Boyes & Simpson and The Old Rope String Band!’
Karen Tweed The Poozies & Swåp
'So bizarrely brilliant and effortlessly charming, we wanted to take them home.'  Tolmen Centre


As featured on Rick Stein’s Food Heroes, Glastonbury Festival Comedy Marquee, Sidmouth, Hampton Court…

'slick and very, very funny’ Grasby Village Hall
‘a really classy act’ William Wilson Lyth Arts Centre
‘makes Green Wing look sensible’ Upton Village Hall
‘hilarity in harmony, guaranteed to contain nuts’ The Plough Arts Centre
‘Terrific. Terrific. Just…terrific.’ Easdale Island Village Hall
‘Aye, very good’ Eoghan Carmichael An Suinart Centre
‘united our audience!’ Joan Michael Ullapool Village Hall
‘Absolutely fabulous’ Rose Hall Village Hall
‘We were still laughing in bed’ Lily Byron Rose Hall

Alive Again! premiered in Malvern and has toured Cambridgeshire, Nottinghamshire, Worcestershire, Kernow, Devon, the Scottish Highlands & Islands, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Rutland, Herefordshire, Shropshire, with autumn dates coming upCarn to Cove Cornwall, Nottinghamshire Village Ventures,  Lincolnshire Rural Touring, Wiltshire &  Northamptonshire.

‘A generous helping of wit, with a side order of charm, dotted lightly with moments of pure magic. Delicious.' Tod Welch Constantine
the best experience I’ve ever had but don’t tell my wife’ David Christopher Jewellers
‘If they were from Cumbria, I’d bite their hands off’ Station Manager Liz BBC Radio Cumbria
‘Fab gig!’ John Denton Worcester Arts Workshop

 
  


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THE BIG HUM

The Big Hum produce steaming à cappella soul and rock'n'roll at the drop of a chapeau. Three men with golden larynxes and silver lamé reputations lasso their vocal chords around tunes by Joe Jackson, The Chiffons, Iggy Pop & The Beatles as well as hits from their own à cappella back pockets

'extremely funny and massively melodic à cappella cum theatre' Niels Eiriksson the Spectater
'kitchen knife wit, great gig, great atmosphere, great future' Marcus Moore Cheltenham Literature Festival
'a cross between Coope Boyes & Simpson and The Old Rope String Band. Can't wait to see 'em again … they're great!'
Karen Tweed Poozies, Swåp, Ian Carr
'I didn't know that was possible'
Café Subterranea
'incredible vocal talents' Jules Benjamin The Beatless

  

Co-cooked by Jim Howden, Adrian Mealing & Will Tooby.

The Big Hum have performed at Glastonbury Festival, Sidmouth International Festival of Arts, Brampton Live, Swindon Festival of Literature and Castlemorton Village Hall amongst others. Previously, Cheltenham Festival, Hereford Nightjar Music, Mid-Wales May Festival, Three Choirs Festival, National Poetry Day, Bewdley Festival, Ledbury Poetry Founders' Dinner. They have appeared with Labi Siffre, Attila the Stockbroker, Swåp, Adrian Mitchell, Harvey Andrews, Ian McMillan, John Hegley...

  
  
 
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