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Venue:   Stand 2 Dates:    1 - 24 (not 11th) Time:      22:15 Tickets:  £8 / £7

Described as a cross between 'Bill Hicks and Geoff from Byker Grove' by fellow Geordie Ross Noble, the loveable Gavin Webster is famed for his dark, surreal observations, his moronic jokes and his breakneck ukulele speed-filth. With his encyclopaedic, comedic, Geordie brain honed over years of experience, Gavin Webster will invite the audience to test out his Pictionary randomiser and get a unique picture of the rapidly changing world we live in.

This is a chance to see Gavin Webster for a whole hour in the most raw of settings, a fifty-seater room at The Edinburgh fringe where no two shows will have exactly the same material.

When he started doing stand up in the summer of 1992 it was a different world; before Tony Blair, before 9/11, before The Spice Girls and definitely before people got locked up in rooms to be filmed 24 hours a day and then come out and instantly become a celebrity!

Believe it or not, it was quite a simple world then. This was a time when a bank manager ran the country, when Muslims ran shops rather than terrorist cells and when nice people went to Church, not bible-bashing nut jobs. It's also a time when students got grants, British people worked in factories and cocaine was something pop stars did. Young people were busy popping pills and going to raves so they didn't have time to ring radio phone-ins, buy magazines to look at celebrity's houses and pretend they loved football. Also in those days, people became stand up comedians for other reasons besides instant fame and money. They wanted to become comics because they felt like they had something to say.

Gavin Webster, like his peers, was one such exponent. Over the years he's built up an arsenal of material trying to make light of this trivial but ultimately crazy western society we find ourselves in today. It's nobody's fault as such, but there are so many examples of where we've lost the plot in our utopian modern society.

To go through all this 'root and branch', needs the aid of Video, Audio, flash cards and the Pictionary 'randomiser', which is what has been provided for Gavin for the purposes of the show. The show consists of subjects coming up thick and fast on the randomiser and Gavin telling us what he thinks of these modern day subjects.

Added to this will be some Audio, Video and flash cards that would bring to life some of the more complex subjects. As a stand up comedian Gavin has played gigs from Manchester to Melbourne, from Aberdeen to Abu-Dhabi. With his own cult following of several hundred on his native Tyneside, Gavin has, in the past, been given attention from the comedy cognoscenti for his celebrated routines like the BBC world service, Pandas and most controversially the paedophile routine when no one would touch that subject with a barge pole (this is before the Chris Morris documentary). Now it seems every young comic has a gratuitous line about paedophilia but without any pertinent points being made.

Webster's Pictionary - If easily pleased stay away.

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Press Quotes

'Tough talking, no nonsense, Geordie wit'
The Scotsman

'Bawdy, droll and exceedingly good entertainment'
The Stage

'90 minutes of virtuoso and close to the bone stuff'
The Sunday Sun