Get Old or Die Tryin'

Such larks!

On Friday evening, Hils, Crog, Madam Arcati, Julie, Ants, Mark and I all trotted off to a tent(!) on the South Bank, in the rain, to revel in the madness of Ida Barr's Bingo show!

Ida - the creation of the genius that is Christopher Green [see here and here] - is, of course, one of our fave comedy acts [Hils and Crog even had her perform/hold court at their wedding reception!], and although we have been to see her on many occasions, she didn't disappoint...

Her Bingo calls are anarchic:

Ida Barr Bingo (2014)

Her mash-ups of Music Hall numbers (and even "Will.i.am Blake's Jerusalem") with modern urban music (the style she calls "Artificial Hip-Hop") are hilarious:

Ida Barr - Get Your Coat On

And, of course, no Ida Barr show would be complete until you've done the Hokey-Cokey and a Conga line:

Ida Barr Conga Line

Heaps of fun - topped-off with me having a very late night at Halfway II Heaven indeed - we wouldn't have missed it for the world!

Who'd have thought..?

... we could have so much fun in an upside-down purple cow?



The one, the only, Music Hall Singer and Hip Hop Artist Superstar Miss Ida Barr brilliantly held the (slightly diminished by wedding fever) audience in stitches, as she conducted an afternoon of bingo (with prizes by Oxfam and the local pound shop!) in her own inimitable fashion...



We were treated to mash-ups between Eminem and The Boy I Love Is Up In The Gallery and Rihanna's Only Girl In The World with (what else?) If You Were The Only Girl In The World (And I Were The Only Boy), plus of course the "artificial hip-hop" Hokey Cokey and by-now-compulsory conga line!



We were exhausted - such larks. And all that, plus a fly-past!



Fantabulosa, dears.