As mentioned by John Fleming in his blog piece about the Free Festival Launch Party at the Counting House 3rd August 2011. Alex Petty asked me to take some images of the launch party of the Free Festival, something I was very happy to do. There was just one problem. The heat in the ballroom … Continue reading »
Apotheca Bar: Venue Website Venue Specifications Address: 17 Thomas Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester M4 1FS Located in the Northern Quarter shows are housed in the basement function room. Capacity: 40 Seating: set in a semi circular seating pattern there is a collection of seating from stools to couches, with standing room for busier shows. Dates … Continue reading »
I’ll assume you’re already familiar with the story of Cockgate being as there was some great pieces in the media and it was all over twitter (just search #cockgate). If not this piece basically explains it. Firstly just for the record I am the one who coined the term “ghost cock”. The fact that term … Continue reading »
I was in Edinburgh for the fringe for all of August but in case you need reminding most of the country was watching the rioting in London, Birmingham and Manchester on the TV. Sign at Subway shop in Manchester: "Due to imminent collapse of society we regret to announce we are closing at 6pm" http://p-bu.mp/d8i— … Continue reading »
@theianfox thinking of going up next fringe Ian & just read your blog. Great read, looking forward 2 your view on this years fringe.— Peter McCole (@PeterMcCole) August 28, 2011 I spotted this on twitter a few days ago before and thought I’d spend some time putting my thoughts about this years fringe when I … Continue reading »
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2011. The most talked about event of Fringe 2011 is cockgate. Kunt and the Gang‘s £10 worth of stickers has seen him threatened by comedians, alleged talk of legal action and workers from Edinburgh Council telling him they spent all last week pulling off over a hundred c*cks. You can read the … Continue reading »
Earlier on in the year the tagline “Homemade Heroes Of Comedy” came into existence. In recently years there has been some thing in the news that sparked off an idea for a picnic poster. 2009 it was recession, hence the “Flirting With Bankruptcy” tagline. Last year we used mug shot style photos on the poster with … Continue reading »
It’s Sunday afternoon and I’m sitting in a coffee shop in Chester waiting for the rain to pass off so as I can do some street photography. Cheshire features in my show Ian Fox Exposes Himself because that’s where I’m from. While I wait this is the artwork I’ve done so far for the 2011 … Continue reading »
The WordPress feature Blackbird Pie is excellent. It allows you to copy an paste a tweet into your blog. So here is a collection of my favourite tweets from February 2011. I’ve also included some of my tweets which were re-tweeted by others, or created discussion else where. I've invented a new word "Quimage"— Ian … Continue reading »
In a cynical attempt to drum up some traffic through my website I’ve launched a personal blog section. Most of it will be shameless compilations of other people’s stuff like this. A collection of my favourite tweets from January 2011 going back to September 2010 when I originally signed up to Twitter. I’ve also included … Continue reading »
What is Dave Turquoise’s real name? Believe it or not people actually use Google to find out what the fat dickhead’s real name is. However I’m not just going to tell you you’ve got to work out his surname yourself using these adjectives in no way related to Dave. The first is MASTURBATER but not … Continue reading »
Before Simon Cowell’s X-Factor and Pete Doherty pretty much put the final nail in the coffin of my musical interest. I used to go in music shops to buy music. Now I only go in for a cheap cup of coffee or DVDs. With that in mind I’ve put together a list of my favourite … Continue reading »
