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Saturday 26 June 2010

Ross Noble (24/06/10, Grassington Festival)

By the end of 2010 I will have seen Ross Noble live on 4 occasions: in 2007 and 2009 at the Grand Opera House in York, and again on 2nd December 2010 in York, and then in a break from tradition, at Grassington Festival last Thursday, in a marquee, the in the middle of a field. No two of Ross' shows are alike as he works on improvisation and goes wherever his mind takes him. At York he has rhapsodised about how crap the Jorvik Centre is, how York Minster is the largest place of Anglican worship north of the Alps, and myriad other things.

It was good to see him at a different venue then to 'usual' and to hear what he had to say about performing at such a place. Ross' musing ran from strippers dancing to the Last of The Summer Wine theme tune via his trousers being on the wrong setting (set to Nazi starchy march), to his unfortunate experiences of gastric flu and his time in Afghanistan entertaining the troops - Al-Qaeda like to laugh... 

It's hard to capture what is so brilliant about a Ross Noble gig. He's so spontaneous and side-achingly funny. I had tears in my eyes from laughter, and as I looked around at the rather varied/mixed crowd of old and young, saw people red in the face with mirth and it was a wonderful feeling to be laughing along with everyone at such a naturally talented performer. I can't wait until we see him again in December. 

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