I’ve been doing stand-up since January 2005. I gig around Northern England and occasionally in London, and I’m the resident compere at ’Black Comedy @ The Black Swan’, a twice-monthly gig in York which I organize. I’m also trying my hand at Improv at the ComedySportz Workshop at the Manchester Comedy Store.
My day job is in graphic design & advertising. "Oooh, look at me!"
Website
comedycv.co.uk/jameschristopher
Influences
Woody Allen. Chris Morris. Bill Hicks. Morrissey. Monty Python. Daniel Kitson. Stewart Lee. The Mighty Boosh. Andrew Lawrence. Gervais & Merchant.
James Christopher's Interests
Music
The Smiths. David Bowie. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci. Belle and Sebastien. Daniel Kitson's Listening Club. Regina Spektor. Doves. Blur. The Smiths. Siobhan Donaghy. Joanna Newsom. Mogwai. 70s Film soundtracks. My mate Paul Carter aka Unseenmachine is great (see 'Top Friends'). Warp Records. Morrissey. The Smiths again. Stuff like that.
Movies
Woody Allen. QT. Takashi Miike. Coen Bros. American Werewolf in London. The Evil Dead. The Wicker Man. Rear Window. Heavenly Creatures. Let's Scare Jessica To Death. Robocop. Witchfinder General. Monty Python & The Holy Grail. Shallow Grave. Radio Days. Company of Wolves. Deathline. Vampyres. Japanese action, European horror, American indipendant films.
Books
Kurt Vonnegut, David Mitchell, Bill Bryson, Douglas Coupland, Richard Matheson. A bit of science - Richard Dawkins; a bit of psychology - Eric Berne; a bit of philosophy - Julian Baggini; Without Feathers by Woody Allen is the funniest book I've read. A Clockwork Orange, Slaughterhouse Five and Cloud Atlas are my favourite novels.
About me: In my heady time as a stand-up, I’ve played at many venues, including:
The Edinburgh Fringe; The Glasgow Stand; New Stuff @ The Comedy Store Manchester; XS Malarkey; Mirth Control Other Side York, Scarbrough, Briddlington, Grimsby and Scunthorpe; Funny Magnet & Arc for Peter Vincent; Buzz Hull, Beverley and Buxton for Agraman; Bar Amp and Mirth on Monday for Des Sharples; Compering for Trevor Lock in York; Caper Club, Sheffield Riverside, Rotherham and Chesterfield for Anthony J Brown; Funny Bones Newcastle, Darlington and Sunderland for Warren Speed; Chillingham Arms for Long Live Comedy; Horse’s Mouth for John Scott and Gavin Webster; Amused Moose, Laughing Horse, Kayla’s Comedy and Stratford Theatre in London.
Hiya You'll be able to hear a radio mix of our new single 'What Katie Did' on Sherwoodradios unsigned show on this saturday night (13th Sept) The singles released on Oct 31st
Hiya We are playing at the Junction in York next Sunday on March 8th and the Wardrobe in Leeds on the 19th March. These gigs will be the first outing for Katie and the Questions with our new Drummer, Guitarist and Bass Player so we hope you can come and check us out love K&Qs xxx
Hiya It’s been busy in the K&Q camp and we’ve a few gigs coming up in the next few weeks. We are starting with a couple of gigs in York, Fibbers 23rd April and Speakeasy 28th April before moving on to the New Roscoe in Leeds on 25th May and then onto Nottingham Trent Students Union, Brackenhurst Bar, NTSU Brackenhurst Campus, Southwell on the 29th May, It would be great to see you at one of them if you can come. love K&Qs xxx
Hiya What a summer its been!! We’ve been working hard in the studio and are currently recording our first commercial EP 'What Katie Did' which will be released around October time. You can hear a demo version on our MySpace.
We are not planning any live shows until we are ready to promote the EP but you never know we may pop up at a venue near you.
Hiya We’ve been working on some new songs and are in pre-production for the recording of our first commercial CD release which will be recorded over the summer, with a hopeful release October time,
Our last live performance before our summer holiday will be at the Selby outdoor festival at the James Street 'bowling green' in Selby on the 21st June, the event starts at 1pm and we’ll be on stage at 5pm others on the bill are Dirty Secrets, Chantel McGregor, The Beautiful Sound, Last Gang and headlining is the Bryan Adams Experience, we hope you can be there.
my new weekly 1 hour "radio timperley" show starts this sunday 14th june at 7pm uk time (2pm nyc etc) on - www.manchesterradioonline.com (or on a crystal am radio set in the timperley area)
thank you for being mymyspace ace radio friend,... and i'll try and keep you up-to-date with my fantastic semi-proffessional radio show-biz-ness career .
We are headlining an Oxjam Charity gig at the Junction in York on this Sunday (26th October) with support from Hannah & the Junk Funk, Euphoria Audio & The Review, £3 on the door (8pm start), We hope you can make it; we’d love to see you there.
We are also playing the York Speakeasy 6th Nov, the Packhouse in Leeds on the 7th Nov and back at the Junction (in York) on the 21st Nov,
We have nearly finished mixing our mini album ‘Kitchen Drums and Turn-up Tantrums’ which will be freely available from us at gigs Hope to see you soon
could you PLEASE do some leeds gigs on either a fri or sat PERLEEEZ!? cos my friend and i have a nice free floor to crash on up there now and plan to take full advantage of it! starting with checking out sum of ur shizzle :) x
No problem. Really excited about all of those gigs p[articulary looking forward to seeing Jason Cooks, Dan Nightingale and Lucy Porters shows and from reviews Ive read the other acts always put on really good stuff too. Might see if I can catch Jasons preview next week in Newcastle fingers crossed I can. Hope your well
Evening chap. I think I've somehow got horribly confused about what's going on on Thursday. Is it this Laurence Batley gig I'm doing with you? For some reason I'd written down the name of a pub in Cradley Heath on my phone, which is bloody miles away. Please cure my confusion, oh mentor of mine.
have you ever seen button moon? with the witch and her pet dragon? where she takes him to the movies and keeps making him get up to get popcorn and get her candy and whatnot?
makes me laugh =) and im bored!
whennnnn is march 16th gonna happen? anddddddddddddddddd jonny awsum isnt online for me to wind up, neither is rossomando lee, and so good sir, you are the next obv choice ,-)
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