#consignia

(L-R, top to bottom: Andy Barr, me, Nathan Willcox, Phil Jarvis) Next Saturday, surreal comedy group Consignia are at the Museum of Comedy in London with a show: Consignia Present: Have a Good One, Yeah? A 10 Year Anniversary Special. I call them surreal… In the billing, they call themselves: “anarchic, experimental, influential comedy geniuses”. In the past, comedy website Chortle has called…

Phil Jarvis of Consignia’s alternative review of this year’s Edinburgh Fringe

“If you like fat blokes sweating, futuristic, nihilistic storylines, confusion… and a LOT…” I blogged about the commendably eccentric Consignia comedy group at the beginning of last week. They are currently at the Edinburgh Fringe Their penultimate show is tonight; their run finishes tomorrow. Yesterday morning,The Scotsman gave their show The Flatterers a 4-star review. Critic Kate Copstick’s…

Edinburgh Fringe, Day 8: These shows are all far too good and then Consignia

Pitch perfect, beautifully written and paced

It has been a bad Fringe for me in the sense that, so far, I have not seen a truly terrible show. Where have all the shit shows gone?

I started today with Katharine Ferns in Stitches – about domestic abuse. Well, it starts off about domestic abuse and then gets more and more horrific. It is a pitch perfect performance and a beautifully-written,…

Kamera – Consignia

Oddly enough, we’ve never posted a Phantasy Sound track, but that’s soon to change, as one of the labels newcomers, KAMERA, lays down the heavy techno, with Consignia. Taken off his next EP, this track blows the hinges off ‘machine-made’ techno, with booming basses and complex drum machines, all adding to the tense atmosphere. Check it out below! [soundcloud…