[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-a-fish-opera-and-shadow-puppets":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sadlucy1-b957515b46.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThe day before yesterday, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.vivianeschwarz.co.uk\">Viviane Schwarz\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.alexisdeacon.com\">Alexis Deacon\u003C/a>, Stuart, Ben Norland (who designed the brilliant cover for Viv's \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/209729.html\">\u003Ci>There Are Cats in this Book\u003C/i>\u003C/a>) and I met up at the \u003Ca href=\"http://littleangeltheatre.com/lat/whatson/current/MTIz\">Little Angel Theatre\u003C/a> to see \u003Cb>Matthew Robins\u003C/b>, \u003Cb>Tim Spooner\u003C/b> and their band perform brilliant songs along with shadow puppers on an overhead projector and a visualiser. The lyrics in the second half of the show were written by the fabulous Viv Herself! And they included a hymn to sheep that we all stood up in our pews and sang (just like this). \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sheep_hymn-1-998db02c0f.gif\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sheep_hymn-98262b22a3.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more More about the Sad Lucy show under the cut-->\\r\n\\r\nHere's Viv, Matthew and Tim: \\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sadlucy6-6d7328778b.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's one of the pieces Matthew sang, you can see him performing it here at a different venue:\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"134\"/>\\r\n\\r\nAnd these are terrible photos, but you can kind of get a glimpse of their setup:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sadlucy4-cee4e755ea.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sadlucy2-2d4b2ff1b6.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sadlucy3-6f3ce4549a.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nEven the trees were dancing outside!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sadlucy5-95f8c683c6.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nKeep an eye on \u003Ca href=\"http://www.sadlucy.com/\">Matthew's website\u003C/a> for future events! (I think he's doing something soon at the Barbican.)\\r\n\\r\nCome along to Hatfield this Saturday for \u003Cb>UniComics\u003C/b>, a brand-new comics festival that looks like it may turn into a brilliant annual event! I'm on a panel from \u003Cb>2-3:00\u003C/b> with \u003Ca href=\"http://www.daveshelton.com\">Dave Shelton\u003C/a> (the DFC Library's \u003Ci>Good Dog, Bad Dog\u003C/i>, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garynorthfield.co.uk\">Gary Northfield\u003C/a> (Beano's \u003Ci>Derek the Sheep\u003C/i>, DFC's \u003Ci>Little Cutie\u003C/i>), \u003Ca href=\"http://e-merl.com/\">Daniel Merlin Goodbrey\u003C/a> and \u003Cb>Douglas Noble\u003C/b> called \u003Cb>\u003Cfont size=\"3\">Creating Comics For Kids\u003C/b>\u003C/font>. It's such a brand-new panel that it's not even on \u003Ca href=\"http://www.unicomics.co.uk/UniComics/Saturday.html\">the schedule\u003C/a> yet, but it's totally happening, do come! And I'm leading a workshop from \u003Cb>11-12:00\u003C/b> called \u003Cfont size=\"3\">\u003Cb>Hungry Aliens and Manky Monsters\u003C/b>\u003C/font>. The UniComics festival's already started today, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.unicomics.co.uk/UniComics/UniComics_Home.html\">here's the website!\u003C/a> I'll have a table at the \u003Cb>Unicon\u003C/b> part of it and I still have a few copies of my \u003Ci>\u003Cb>Dear Diary\u003C/b>\u003C/i> mini comic, copies of the \u003Cb>\u003Ci>Birdsong anthology\u003C/i>\u003C/b>, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.jabberworks.co.uk/new/princess.html\">\u003Ci>You Can't Eat a Princess!\u003C/i>\u003C/a> and the few remaining rare copies of \u003Ca href=\"http://www.jabberworks.co.uk/new/morris2.html\">\u003Ci>Morris the Mankiest Monster\u003C/i>\u003C/a> (which I've jealously guarded for this event because, once again, the publisher doesn't have any left).\\r\n\\r\nThis evening, my studio mate \u003Ca href=\"http://www.littlewhitebird.com\">Ellen Lindner\u003C/a> and I will be \u003Cb>speaking on the radio with Val Phoenix in her programme \u003Ci>Odd Girl Out\u003C/i>\u003C/b> on \u003Cb>Optical Radio\u003C/b>, live from \u003Cb>7pm tonight\u003C/b> and again on Sunday from 1:00pm. You can listen online at \u003Ca href=\"http://www.opticalradio.net\">OpticalRadio.net\u003C/a>. (Not sure yet if it will be available to listen afterward.) Ellen and I haven't ever done a radio show together before, this should be good fun.","2010-04-22T12:09:00.000Z","a-fish-opera-and-shadow-puppets",[],"a fish opera and shadow puppets",1776628717999]