The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS)

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The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS) *fresh! Sisyphean! comedy!* Monkey Barrel, One 23:55-02:45ish Sundays-Wednesdays August 3-6, 10-13, 17-20, 24 £8.50/PWYW on exit noblefailure.org tinyurl.com/acms25 monkeybarrelcomedy.com AltComMemSoc theacms | #ACMS

There's no #ACMS today. 😔
There's no #ACMS tomorrow. 😭
But there IS more #ACMS from Sunday 10th! 😍

Join us at @monkeybarrelcomedy.bsky.social to see @turlygod.bsky.social, @joznorris.bsky.social, @soozuk.bsky.social, @leslieis.cool and this lovely lot next week: www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS) *fresh! Sisyphean! comedy!* Monkey Barrel, One 23:55-02:45ish Sundays-Wednesdays August 3-6, 10-13, 17-20, 24 £8.50/PWYW on exit noblefailure.org tinyurl.com/acms25 monkeybarrelcomedy.com AltComMemSoc theacms | #ACMS

#ACMS
🗓️ TONIGHT!
🏰 @monkeybarrelcomedy.bsky.social, One
🕛 23:55-laaaate
🎟️ 2-for-1 tickets from www.edfringe.com/tickets/what... or PWYW on exit
😻 hosted by @turlygod.bsky.social & @adamlarter.bsky.social, with Cerys Bradley, Luke Rollason, Mr Handsome, Rob Duncan, @steffanalun.bsky.social AND MORE

The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS) *fresh! Sisyphean! comedy!* Monkey Barrel, One 23:55-02:45ish Sundays-Wednesdays August 3-6, 10-13, 17-20, 24 £8.50/PWYW on exit noblefailure.org tinyurl.com/acms25 monkeybarrelcomedy.com AltComMemSoc theacms | #ACMS

#ACMS
🗓️ TONIGHT!
🏰 @monkeybarrelcomedy.bsky.social One
🕛 23:55-laaaate
🎟️ £8.50 advance edfringe.com/tickets/what... or PWYW on exit
😻 hosted by @turlygod.bsky.social & @rialina.com, with @naomipaxton.bsky.social, @misterabk.bsky.social, Kathy Maniura, Paul Savage, @vixleyton.bsky.social, AND MORE

Rob Kemp: Beatlesjuice A real show (Hoots Apex, 22:50-23:50, Aug 10-23). And an excellent idea. For you to spend money on, sure. But also for a game. Movie + Musician[s] = JOY. By way of further example… Wham!let P.E.T. Shop Boys The Lady In Nirvana Titanic Cave & The Bad Seeds The Boss Babybird

Ran into @benvolchok.bsky.social at #edfringe, he provided two of the suggestions below*, this remains a GOOD GAME**.

* And also The Drop Kick Smurfys.
** As would The Drop Kick Smurfys.

Rob Kemp: Beatlesjuice ...is a real show (Hoots Apex, 22:50-23:50, Aug 10-23). And a fully excellent idea. For you to go see, yes. But also for a game. Movie + Musician[s] = JOY. By way of further example… Boyz II Men In Black 2 Dial M People For Murder Dolly Partonfink Loudon Wainwright The Third Man The Thing Tings

Look, it remains IMPORTANT y'all know:
a) @robkemp.bsky.social is doing a WIP of Beatlesjuice at #edfringe this summer (www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...)
b) combining a film and band/musician makes for a very entertaining enterprise
c) we are delighted with [ourselves for] these suggestions

Wheelchair Access, Wheelchair Accessible Toilets

And obvs there's Jordan Gray as well: www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

FRIZ FRIZZLE'S WHAT'S IN THE BOX? – PBH's Free Fringe

Yes! These acts are non-binary:
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The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS) *fresh! Sisyphean! comedy!* Edinburgh | Monkey Barrel 23:55-02:45ish, Sun-Wed August 3-6, 10-13, 17-20, 24 £8.50/PWYW on exit tinyurl.com/acms25 London | The Phoenix 19:30-22:45, Mondays Sept. 8, October 13, Nov. 10, Dec. 8 £10 from wegottickets.com noblefailure.org

Enjoy exchanging money for hours upon hours of comedy? Hi!

See us at #edfringe at @monkeybarrelcomedy.bsky.social in August:
edfringe.com/tickets/what...

See us in London at The Phoenix on Monday September 8:
wegottickets.com/event/669640/
... and October 13, November 10, and December 8 too!

The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS) *fresh! Sisyphean! comedy!* Monkey Barrel, One 23:55-02:45ish Sundays-Wednesdays August 3-6, 10-13, 17-20, 24 £8.50/PWYW on exit noblefailure.org tinyurl.com/acms25 monkeybarrelcomedy.com #ACMS | @AltComMemSoc @BarrelComedy

Ooof, #edfringe starts SOON.

Come see us at @monkeybarrelcomedy.bsky.social, 23:55-late, Sun-Wed:
www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

And some/all of our recommendations too, e.g. @bjalborough.bsky.social, @edyhurst.bsky.social, @mrsamsee.bsky.social, and @soozuk.bsky.social
noblefailure.org/ed25

artwork of Granny Weatherwax, severe and correct

Then spend a happy few moments imagining how eg Granny Weatherwax would WIPE THE FLOOR with Medea/Mombi/Circe, etc.

image with Edy in a pointy hat and many fictional witches flying around a big moon

Live from the Witch Trials Sunday 17th August | 00:30 Hark! You (the general public and our limited social connections) have been voting! And at long last, Edy Hurst has gathered the greatest Witches* in the world to compete for one night only and discover which witch can witch the witch-iest! Mystery guests from the Fringe shall become conduits for pop-culture’s most beloved sorcerers, as they battle it out (perform, sing, dance) to crown the Witch’s Witch 2025. Join us for The Witching Hour with A Witching Hour. Boo! *fictional, let’s not make real witches go through more of this.

Do you have a favourite fictional witch? Vote in docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F..., so as your choice is represented at @edyhurst.bsky.social's Witch Trials #edfringe gig.

When & where: Bedlam, 00:30, laaaaate on Sat 16th Aug
Tickets: edfringe.com/tickets/what...
More info: bedlamfringe.co.uk/late/

Rob Kemp: Beatlesjuice – WIP ...is real show (Hoots Apex, 22:50-23:50, Aug 10-23). And a fully excellent idea. For you to go see, yes. But also for a game. Movie + Musician[s] = JOY. By way of further example… FurioSZA Magnetic Fields Of Dreams Midge Ure Assic Park Rob O'Cop Zombie What Bowie Do In The Shadows

Fully DELIGHTED @robkemp.bsky.social is bringing a Beatlesjuice WIP www.edfringe.com/tickets/what... to #edfringe.
His Elvis Dead was great.
Beetlejuice + The Beatles = a glorious recipe for show goodness.
AND this kind of titling leads to other MAGNIFICENT ideas...

Ben being hazed by Nathan playing paint roller trombone over him, as the assembled Board members watch from the back of the stage

#ACMS
📆 08/09/25
🏰 The Phoenix
🎟️ £7/£10/£14 from wegottickets.com/event/669640/
😻 hosted by @turlygod.bsky.social, with as many Board Members as can be mustered - tis time for the great purge! - alongside @matthighton.bsky.social & @adamlarter.bsky.social
🏳️‍🌈 free guestlist for trans & NB folk, DM us

N.B. "And more" here includes e.g. Camilla Borges, Cordelia Graham, @edyhurst.bsky.social, Glenn Wool, Halima Habil, Jacob Henegan, Natasha Sutton-Williams, @sueharrison123.bsky.social AND air-conditioning!

The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS) The Phoenix, Cavendish Sq, by Oxford Circus Monday 14th July 2025, 7:30pm-10:40ish Thom Tuck & Tom Bell (MCs) with umpteen excellent guests: Ben Volchok, Camilla Borges, Cordelia Graham, Edy Hurst, Glenn Wool, Halima Habil, Jacob Henegan, Jeromaia Detto, Leslie Ewing-Burgesse, Natasha Sutton-Williams, Susan Harrison tickets £10/£14 online, from wegottickets.com £12 at the gig, doors open 7pm noblefailure.org

#ACMS
📆 TONIGHT
🏰 The Phoenix pub
🎟️ £10+ online, from wegottickets.com/event/662626/
😻 hosted by @turlygod.bsky.social & @tombellforever.bsky.social, with @benvolchok.bsky.social, @jeromaiadetto.bsky.social, @leslieis.cool, AND MORE
🌈 free guestlist for trans & non-binary folk, DM us your names

Monday! Us! Including #ACMS Board Member Ben Target, who probably won't be wearing this much coat, tbh, though there IS most welcome air-con in The Phoenix!

Why yes, you SHOULD go see @turlygod.bsky.social's birrof old clown business at Hoots this #edfringe...

I shall be part of this at the weekend.
You probably should be as well.
July 11-13
Warwickshire
www.also-festival.com

Also a reminder I'm doing a little stint of who-knows-what in Edinburgh for the fringe

A reminder that the new Episode of Sound Heap is.

Proud of you, hun!

Winner of Most Sketch at the ACMS Awards Show, 2022.

@theacms.bsky.social

Seems sensible to have this information be publicly trumpeted. Can't have y'all wading through umpteen posts about the American Country Music Awards [cowboy boot emoji] when what you ACTUALLY want to know is will Thom be giving out a shiny prize for Best Worst Person at #edfringe again this summer.

MOST LIKELY TO PUT THIS ON THEIR POSTER award 2024 goes to THE DANDY DANIELS

An audient has asked if we're doing the #ACMS Awards again this Fringe. Yes. Behold, INFO!

🏰 @monkeybarrelcomedy.bsky.social, One
📆 Sunday 24th August, 23:55-laaate
😻 hosted by @turlygod.bsky.social, with every comic in the room eligible for prizes
🎟️ £8.50, from www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

HIGH HOPES for Dottie to absolutely SMASH ALL CATEGORIES this year also.

And yes, Sunday 24th, wahoo.

The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS) The Phoenix, Cavendish Sq, by Oxford Circus Monday 14th July 2025, 7:30pm-10:40ish Thom Tuck & Tom Bell (MCs) with umpteen excellent guests: Ben Target, Ben Volchok, Camilla Borges, Cordelia Graham, Edy Hurst, Glenn Wool, Halima Habil, Jacob Henegan, Natasha Sutton-Williams, Susan Harrison tickets £10/£14 online, from wegottickets.com £12 at the gig, doors open 7pm noblefailure.org

#ACMS
📆 Monday 14th July
🏰 The Phoenix pub
🎟️ £10+ online, from wegottickets.com/event/662626/
😻 hosted by @turlygod.bsky.social & @tombellforever.bsky.social, with Ben Target, @benvolchok.bsky.social, @sueharrison123.bsky.social AND MORE
🌈 free guestlist for trans & non-binary folk, DM us your names

I will be giving my "woman who has swallowed a girl in a well" at this excellent night

Monkey Barrel, One 23:55-02:45ish Sundays-Wednesdays August 3-6, 10-13, 17-20, 24 £8.50/PWYW on exit noblefailure.org tinyurl.com/acms25 monkeybarrelcomedy.com #ACMS | @AltComMemSoc @BarrelComedy

Less than a month till #edfringe? Here, have a time-ordered list of gig recommendations: noblefailure.org/ed25

With e.g. @misterabk.bsky.social, @alexanderybennett.bsky.social, @camsh.bsky.social, @jainedwards.bsky.social, @turlygod.bsky.social, @tommayhew.bsky.social and 400ish others. Wahoo!

Hmmm, looks like one of those HORRIBLY MESSY CLOWNS to us.