Dear Friends
following a capacity house, smile-wreathed faces and unexpected diversity within a stiff format, I am pleased once again to urge you to visit my Next Nites on Thursday February 28th at 7.30 pm. The second Peachy Coochy occasion will be held, as usual, in the Bar at Toynbee Studios. Tickets £5.00. Booking advised but walk up welcome.
more details + map here:
http://www.artsadmin.co.uk/projects/project.php?id=211
This is what you get:
David Gale’s Peachy Coochy Nites
Just a projector and 20 images. Just 20 seconds per image. During those 20 seconds the Presenter talks about the image. So simple. So precise. So demanding. This is the Peachy Coochy Way.
David Gale, ever keen to launch a nationwide performance must-have, is curating a series of Peachy Coochy events at ArtsAdmin’s new, stylish yet reassuring Bar. Each event features six Coocheurs, or Presenters, drawn from many walks of life. Each Coocheur will compose a verbal response to 20 images of their choice. The images need not be narratively linked but randomness is frowned upon. Thematic associations are embraced. Each presentation lasts 6 minutes and 40 seconds. There will be gaps between presentations for drinking and light conversation.
It might be that a typical Peachy Coochy event contains contributions from, say, a reliable yet inevitably narcissistic performer, a lepidopterist, a nun, a surgeon, a robber.
David Gale, something of a Black Belt in these matters, will both compere and present in the course of the novel and fabulous evening. In the course of the first Nite David’s style was at times open, at times ironic, at times frothy, at times very mildly critical, at times just getting on with it, in an unadorned way, introducing the next act for goodness’ sake.
We have six Coocheurs, including myself, lined up. I have no idea what the others will do. I do know that one of the participants will push the envelope because he told me he would.
Please come along, if only to be able to say “I was there when David launched a popular art’n’ entertainment form that toppled karaoke.”
Some of you, pleased by the Nite, may wish to compose your own presentations. See me afterwards.
all the best
David