Bye bye

We’re sad to announce that Bright Club Bristol will not be returning – at least not in its previous form. This is not due to any lack of interest in the event, which was extremely popular and always sold out, but to “life”, which has happened in various ways to all of us on the team and sometimes just gets in the way. If anyone is interested in reinventing Bright Club Bristol, we would be very happy to pass on our experiences and be of help in any way we can.

We hope you enjoyed the jokes about quantum thingamabobbies and equine genitalia etc etc.

Bye bye!

BCB #10: “Bristol” song by Rachael Dadd

So it’s only taken us about six months… but finally we’re bringing you the song that Rachael Dadd wrote for our two-year anniversary show. There’s some audience interaction, which did happen on the night, but we didn’t catch it so well on the audio so make sure you sing along at home. Thank you to Rachael – this was wonderful.

Bristol by Rachael Dadd

Music: Rachael Dadd / Music commissioned by: Bright Club

DECEMBER! Bright Club Bristol #10! And we are two years old!

Bright Club Bristol: “Bristol”

Thursday 12th December, 7pm

Hamilton House (above The Canteen)

Tickets: £6 CLICK TO BUY NOW  £7 ON THE DOOR

We are UBER-EXCITED to announce our tenth show and two-year anniversary gig! We’ll be joined by MC Chris Dunford to celebrate our birthday as well as the quirks of our home city and yours – because the theme, ladies and gentlemen, is “BRISTOL”. We don’t know why we didn’t think of it before. Not only that, but we asked the amazing Rachael Dadd to write us a song about BRISTOL and she’s only bloody said yes! AND because it’s Christmas, there will be mulled wine. This show is Not. To. Be. Missed. And that’s before we even get to the clever folks, who are ALL BRISTOL-based researchers and experts on ridiculous things:

Caroline Brown – how we pay attention and what we ignore

Alice Hortop – therapeutic use of humour

Paul Wyatt – left- and right-handed chemicals

Jamie McCallum – spying on animals

Anna McMullen – fashion and sweatshops

Some tickets will be available on the door for £7 from 6.30pm. Please see FAQs for ticket queries. The Bright Club bar will be serving from 6.30pm. Our bar is on the 3rd floor of Hamilton House – same as the venue for Bright Club.

This event is also on Facebook.

Image: Jens Haley (www.flickr.com/seen-by-jens)

BCB #8: “Change” song by Clayton Blizzard

Folk-rapper Clayton Blizzard went down a storm at last Thursday’s Bright Club. (Despite heckling from side-stage, MC Mike Bubbins was so impressed by his comedic banter that he brain-banked one of his jokes for future use.) Here’s the specially commissioned song Clayton wrote on the subject “Change” – recorded on the night.

Subject: Change by Clayton Blizzard

Music: Clayton Blizzard / Music commissioned by: Sounds of Science / Image: Andy Clarke

IN JUNE! Bright Club Bristol #8: “Change, the subject”

Bright Club Bristol: “Change, the Subject”

Thursday 6th June, 7pm

Hamilton House (above The Canteen), Stokes Croft

Tickets: £5 BUY NOW  £6 on door

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The summer installment of the clever comedy club features an expert on the ethics of face transplants, a space systems engineer and a quantum physicist. We really will be changing the subject. Your MC for the evening is comedian Mike Bubbins. With music from local legend Clayton Blizzard, who’s writing a “Change”-based song specially for the show. The clever folks are:

Julie Woodley – ethics of face transplants

Jacques Carolan – quantum thingamabobbies

Andrew Bacon – killer asteroids

Paul Craze – publisher /ecologist / statistician

Tamsin Edwards – particle physicist turned climate change researcher

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Advance tickets for this gig are now sold out. Some tickets will be available on the door for £6 from 6.30pm. Please see FAQs for ticket queries. The Bright Club bar will be serving from 6.30pm. Our bar is on the 3rd floor of Hamilton House – same as the venue for Bright Club.

This event is also on Facebook.—

BCB #6: “Vintage” song by Dan Everett

Amazing work by Dan Everett last Thursday night, as our songwriter for Bright Club: “Vintage”. Via Wikipedia, he came up with about a hundred different ways to define vintage. “Cupcakes, tweed and strife” was our favourite. Here’s the song. Let it wash over you as you soak yourself in cheap, very-much-the-opposite-of-vintage, wine this Christmas.

The Vintage Song by Dan Everett

Music: Dan Everett / Music commissioned by: Geek Pop / Image: Hayley Birch

Bright Club Bristol #6: “Vintage”

Bright Club Bristol: “Vintage”

Thursday 6th December, 7pm

Hamilton House (above the Canteen), Stokes Croft

Tickets: £5 in advance limited tickets on door £6

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It’s our one year anniversary show!* HOORAH! And it’s Christmas!** DOUBLE HOORAH! We’ll be bringing you the usual mix of comedy, thinky stuff and music, all wrapped up like a big sparkly present. The theme is “Vintage”, which means we’re inviting people who study old stuff to get up on stage and do the funnies.

Your MC for the evening is comedian Iszi Lawrence

Josie McLellan, East German nudity expert

Pete Insole, archaeologist for Bristol City Council

Caitlin Greenwood, ancient historian

Josie Dolan, studier of old films, and old people in old films

Connie Orbach, fledgling necromancer… sorry neurosciencer

Jon Winfield, turns poo into power

With music from the wonderful Dan Everett. He’s currently writing a “Vintage” song specially for the show.

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Tickets will cost £6 on the door. The Bright Club bar will be serving from 6.30pm. Our bar is on the 3rd floor of Hamilton House – same as the venue for Bright Club.

This event is also on Facebook.—

*There has been talk of birthday cake.

**There has also been talk of mulled wine.

BCB #5: “BRAAAAINS!” song by Katey Brooks

The lovely Katey Brooks, who performed for us recently at Bright Club: “BRAAAAINS!“, has gone away and recorded a live-esque version of her BRAAAAINS-themed song for us. At the show, the audience obliged Katey by doing a little whoop at each vaguely brainy word she sang… so “cerebellum” – “whoop!”, “nervous system” – “whoop!”. A bit like that. Anyway, this version doesn’t have the audience participation, but it’s still MOST excellent and you’re welcome to add your own whooping while listening.

Just Get Out of My Brain by Katey Brooks

Music: Katey Brooks / Music commissioned by: Geek Pop / Image: Andy Clarke

Bright Club Bristol does PLYMOUTH: “All at Sea”

Bright Club Plymouth: “All at Sea”

Saturday 17th November, doors 6pm

University of Plymouth Students’ Union

Tickets: £6 BUY NOW

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PLYMOUTH! Lucky you! We’re bringing a troupe of clever folks down there to be funny IN YOUR FACES! Come! You’ll like it! And there will be FREE SWEETS! Here’s the line-up:

Comedian Mike Wozniak – MC

Andy Phippen – mostly studies sex and kids (not like that)

Beth Atkinson – does experiments in forests (also not like that)

John Troyer – researches death and funeral practices (it gets better)

Rosie Walton – theoretical physicist who claims to be stupid (um, yeah)

Sam Olof – wielder of lasers (so a bit like a supervillain)

Rachel Freeman – carbon counter (but secretly likes to plug all electrical items in at once and then run around going “MWA HA HA HA HA!”)

AND! Musician Dan Hiscott, playing a song specially commissioned for the show!

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This event is also on Facebook.

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This event is part of the Festival of Physics and is supported by the IOP South West.

Bright Club Bristol #5: “BRAAAAINS!”

Bright Club Bristol: “BRAAAAINS!”

Friday 26th October, 7pm

Hamilton House (above the Canteen), Stokes Croft

Tickets: £6 BUY NOW limited availability on door only

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A Halloween special with Mark Olver, BRAAAAINS!-themed music and a few coffin-fulls of clever comedy sourced from the cobwebbed corners of your local universities. Feel free to zombify yourself for the occasion – there’s a free drink and ticket for next show on offer for the audience member turning up in the best zombie scientist get-up…

Comedian Mark Olver, your MC for the night

Pete Etchells, experimental psychologist – BRAAAAINS!

Simon Watt, sniffer of elephant carcasses – big BRAAAAINS!

Hannah Rumble, naturial burial expert – BRAAAAINdead

Dean Burnett, neuroscientist-slash-stand-up-comedian – BRAAAAIN picker

Suzi Gage, studier of links between cannabis & psychosis – the BRAAAAINS! behind this operation

AND “badass mother-folker” Katey Brooks, who is currently writing a special BRAAAAINS!-themed song especially for us 🙂

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The Bright Club bar will be serving from 6.30pm. Our bar is on the 3rd floor of Hamilton House – same as the venue for Bright Club.

This event is also on Facebook.

And don’t worry, we’re not quietly increasing the price – it’s because it’s a Halloween special, and a Friday, so everything (including the bar) will go on later. Party onnnnn! We’ll be back to supercheaps next show.—