Marcus Brigstocke Electric Forecast
12 October 2003
This gig was sold out and over fifty people were turned away. Brigstocke is funny and he is fast and he doesn’t stop from the time he starts with his stuff around wearing corduroy (‘rub it together and you can start a small bush fire’), the audience was in stitches. Brigstocke is good on suburban white rappers and really touched a cord with the crowd where he called for songs from rappers with low-self esteem and small penises.
His admiration for the now departed Iraqi Information Minister (‘We have America surrounded! Victory is ours!’) was touching as was his view of the success of the British Hearts and Minds Campaign – ‘they wear berets to show they don’t have aggressive intent, but impersonating Frank Spencer (oooh Betty!) is perhaps taking it too far.’
And I liked his passion too. His hatred for Ocean Finance (‘let us wank in the eyes of your pets’) and other financial debt consolidation vultures was beautiful to behold (‘trouble with CCJ’s then don’t borrow any more fucking money you’re no good at it!’) although his admission that reducing the birth of his son to a quick knob gag was cheap was all in the same vein.
And he came back for an encore (‘I knew I needed more material’).
A top night of brilliant, coruscating wit.
Lee Coombes.