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An interactive singalong journey along the pop superhighway

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THE PROJECT
We want to develop our piece ‘Ave A Banana : A Knees Up Through Time & Space and take it to Hoxton Hall in London on 4th May and to the Brighton Fringe Festival 5th-7th May 2011. Underbling & Vow specialise in singing through the dark times and bringing communities together through comedy and song. The show is an interactive sing-along journey along the pop superhighway from Music Hall to Grime via Marie Lloyd, the Sex Pistols and Dizzee Rascal to name a few.

This show debuted at the Edinburgh Festival last year and this year we will be including the reworked song suggestions of THE HOXTON HALL SELECT COMMITTEE; a group of young people, aged 18-26, from all over London who have chosen the show for the opening of Hoxton Hall’s Rebirth Season, this forms the first night of a small tour of our newly re-mastered piece.

THE SHOW
Four music hall time travellers; Nanna, Rosie, Beryl and Cyril take their time machine; a shopmobility scooter, powered by tea and gin along the space time continuum and up and down the pop charts in a comedy cabaret theatrical show. The audience are invited to singalong, heckle, dance and get involved and the song words are projected overhead.

The show is funny, inclusive, participatory and we believe has something for everyone. Our most recent audience at St Paul’s (The Actors Church) in Covent Garden included ranged from Billy aged 10, Esme 15, Tara 18, Alex 24, Jonathan and Pip in their 50’s to Norman and Mary who are in their 70’s.

We have been touring our sing along shows to theatres, bars, cabarets, festivals and parties all over London, Brighton, Manchester, Norwich, Southampton, Portsmouth - even the Isle of Wight. Underbling & Vow are Time Out’s Critics Choice ‘London’s Favourite Retro-Blitz Granny Rockers and at Edinburgh Festival 2010 Broadway Baby gave the show four stars **** ‘A Rollicking Laugh, The Good Ol’ Days Are Back!’

YOUR PLEDGE
Ticket sales only make up a small percentage of the costs of putting on this show so we are extremely grateful for any donation you can offer, a little (£2) will certainly go a long way and a top pledge (£1000) will give you your very own Private Knees Up! Many of our pledges include a ticket to a show - you could see this as your way of buying a ticket in advance for one of our shows.

Rosie's Update

Posted on 09/03/2011

We are 6% funded! Thanks to everyone who's supported us so far, but we need MUCH MUCH MORE. We're in rehearsal now and Beryl is creating a vortex/wheel of time, Cyril is transposing every song as he says my voice is 'mature' for a girl my age, I'm sewing costumes and Nanna is eating bananas to get her potassium levels up. lots of love Rosie
Name Amount
Candy Girl 602
Camper Vantastic 103
Richard_Smith 100
MATTHEW PASKINS 60
joemellows 50
saramellows 50
padraig 50
Vuyogawe@gmail.com 50
StephenSpencerC... 20
Tina Gettrup 20
Cheeseplease 20
creed 20
pj ayres 20
Ishani O'Connor 20
tallcurlylee 20
James Turnbull 20
Rose Barclay 20
missteresa@mac.com 20
Jenny Hammerton 20
Tim Hodges 20
sashijones 20
ashleighevoce 15
jed 10
jemellows 10
InfectiousTheatre 10
keels71 10
xteenyboo 10
Virginia Day 10
saskia.ow 10
gillywaller@hot... 10
gillywaller@hot... 10
Auntydrama 10
Andrew WhyNot 10
Acutemaleness 10
kareimel 10
weaselspoon 10
Ian Macnaughton 10
laurafhayes@gma... 10
jesstherese 10
emmavh 10
Michal 10
sir rupert crime 5
maya thomas 5
moony 5
emmamiller 4
Lyndaljane 2
bearoon 2
bearoon 2
Name
StephenSpencerC...
Candy Girl
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102%

£1535 Wefunded
of £1500 Target
48 Wefunders
1 year 6 weeks ago

  1. Pledge £2 or more

    RECESSION STYLE

    This will pay for a whole 10 minutes of technician time, 4 whole metres of ribbon for Rosie’s costume (if you buy them at the market) or 2 cups of tea for Nan when she needs a break (2 shows a night in Brighton you know!)

    You will receive: our undying LOVE and a personal thank you from Nanna, Rosie Cyril and Beryl via email.

  2. Pledge £10 or more

    MEMBERSHIP TO THE KNEES UP GANG

    £10 pays for a whole train ticket! There and back if you book online in plenty of time - book one for yourself while you’re at it!

    You will receive: A bespoke Knees Up Name and one Ticket to any U&V show past present or future valid for a Million years!!!!

  3. Pledge £20 or more

    GET WITH THE PROGRAMME

    Could pay for a whole hour of venue hire - your £20 could pay for one of the hours we’re on stage!

    You will receive: A bespoke Knees Up Name and one Ticket to any U&V show past, present or future, valid for a Million years!!!! A Badge delivered to your home and a thank you in the Programme and on our Website.

  4. Pledge £50 or more

    ROLL CALL OF HONOUR

    Lorks a lordy - a nifty fifty could pay for our ‘ole dress rehearsal!

    You will receive: A bespoke Knees Up Name and one Ticket to any U&V show past present or future valid for a Million years!!!! A Badge sent to your very home, your name in our programme and a place in the musical Roll Call of Honour, which will be sung in the show.

  5. Pledge £100 or more

    YOUR OWN PERSONAL SONG

    Could pay for a roof over our 'eads for a night!

    A bespoke Knees Up Name and one Ticket to any U&V show past present or future valid for a Million years!!!! A badge, your name in the programme, a place in the musical Roll Call of Honour PLUS you get your own Personal Song, written and recorded by us and sent to you as an MP3 that you can play to all your friends and enemies.

  6. Pledge £1000 or more

    A PRIVATE KNEES UP

    If you give us this - you’d be pretty much sponsoring the tour. In return you would receive all the above AND your own PRIVATE KNEES UP in a venue of your choice, dates times and content to be decided by your very self (subject to availability).

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