Festival passes go on sale 15 July while individual tickets will go on sale 22 July. The 24th edition of their festival will take place Thursday 24 August – Monday 28 August. Feature image: Suitable Flesh / AMP InternationalįrightFest, the UK’s first and foremost genre film festival specialising in all things horror and cult films, has just announced their festival line-up. As we left at the intermission to go home, we ride up the elevator with some people to the car.Genre film festival FrightFest has announced their August lineup and fans can expect 5 days of horror excellence. At the intermission, she says “can you understand him?” I said, “sorry no.” She says I can’t hear 85% of what’s being said and I think the volume is probably fine but he mumbles a lot and doesn’t speak directly into the microphone.” And there you have it. “Do I no longer understand people from where I come from?” “Has he forgotten that he should be talking to the back row not the front?” “Was there a last minute problem with the sound system that is causing him to use a hand held microphone?” “Why are some people laughing when I didn’t understand what was said?” I felt so bad for my wife who bought these tickets for us and didn’t seem to be enjoying this either. Honestly, I sat in a surreal world for the first half of this show. Yes, Brexit is a shambles but Eddie seems to have some passion for politics. Shouldn’t he just have focused on those who were paying to watch him on the night? Apparently, not.Ī political career in Britain’s Labour Party beckons, Eddie told us in what was the most interesting part of his show. It was charming to hear his multilingual dialogue but shouldn’t it have been for a bigger purpose than to try and impress the audience? There seemed no other reason to ramble on about earlier shows on his tour. His whole dialogue seemed to revolve around random occurrences that had no lesson other than that they happened to Eddie.
While one’s background can make for humor Izzard’s life stories didn’t seem particularly unique. I chuckled twice in the entire duration of this show - Eddie seemed almost bored to have to be in New York. Though I expected more this time around it felt like less. It had been 20 years since I had last seen Eddie Izzard live. Still appreciated the opportunity to catch him live but am hoping somewhere down the line there will be a video of the Wunderbar tour so I can see/hear what I missed. Was hard to keep your eyes off the most gorgeous gams I've ever seen which of course were full-on display during the first half when he wore a cute little flippy blue kilt number and the second half when he strode out coy-fully in black fishnets, red ruby Dorothy-esque heels, and a pair of very cropped black "hot pants." I will say, however, whether it's the marathon-ing or the swimming he alluded to, he's never been in such great physical shape. Had 3rd row seats & it was nearly impossible to hear what he was saying - critical given his rapid-fire delivery and ever outrageous & meandering thought process which of course is what makes him so darned funny. It pains me to say it as I've been a fan since the time Eddie's show videos were only available on VHS, but I wasn't blown away by his performance in Cleveland. It appeared that something was done during intermission to reduce the echo in the speakers and made it much more enjoyable during the 2nd half.
I feel that if there were speakers behind us or if the reverb were turned down a bit it would have helped. Having watched many of this shows in the past, I was aware that his delivery can often be under his breath and sometimes harder to make out, but this was just bad. Brilliant!Ībout the only downside to the show (thus making my rating 4, not 5) was that it was often difficult to hear/understand what he was saying - especially during the first half of the show. Bit of a disappointment he's no longer doing the bit in drag, but I suppose that's the price he has to pay to run for office :(Ībsolutely loved the bit with the talking chicken/Marc Antony.
Loved the material, been wanting to see him for years and grateful that we were finally able to do it.
EDDIE WAS GREAT, BUT HEARING HIM WAS A CHALLENGEĮddie was fan-f%cking-tastic.
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