Welcome to the Beginning With Blobs Blog. (Now there's a mouth full)
This is an opportunity for me to let you know how my new touring show for Kazzum's is developing.
As you know 2009 is a big year for Darwin, in February it's his 200th birthday and then in November it will be a 150 years since he first published his evolutionary theory. This publication transformed the way in which we look at the world.
December 2008
Well I'd got lonely thinking about Darwin and this show on my own, so here at Kazzum we all decided to visit the Darwin exhibition at the Natural History museum together. This was of course a great day out but also great research for the project and company for me. I asked each person to have a look around the exhibition and make notes on what they found interesting about this theories and about the man himself.
Did you know that Darwin was an avid beetle collector or that Darwin took advice from his hairdresser (who was also a dog breeder) or that humans, whales, bats, birds and frogs all have a versions of forelimbs and use them in many different ways, but beneath the skin the structure is very similar. This is a result of descending from a common ancestor..... I could go on but there are lots of notes and it would take far too long.
Over lunch we shared our notes and discussed how various finding could be incorporated into the show. How the blobs could evolve. What their characters may be like, as instinctive behaviour could evolve over time as well.
As if our museum visit couldn't get any better I then got each person to create a simple story of a blob that evolved, using their notes from the exhibition. We then brought these stories to life using plastercine and the dining table as the stage.
Here are some images of what we created.
Akua's Blob Emma's Blob
Barry's Blob Claire's Blob
My Blob ( I look so proud)
Our day out at the museum was incredibly useful.
January 2009
I would like to express our thanks to law firm Allen & Overy for their generous contribution of funds to support the Research and Development of our forthcoming touring show for 4-8s.
The development process will hopefully start in March in collaboration with Kobi Nazrul Primary School, who have participated in a number of Kazzum projects to date. We will begin by running arts and science workshops in the school exploring the idea of using clay and gaining an understanding of evolution and variation. I will then work with actors and a creative team to try out ideas for the show. The R&D process will culminate in a work-in-progress presentation in May at which we plan to gather feedback to inform the rehearsal process in September.
February 2009
Well it's been a good month for the Blobs, lots of factors are coming together, just like the way single cells evolved into multi-celled organisms around about 4 million years ago. (Yes I've been doing my homework).
Also with lots of programmes about Darwin on the telly my 'record' button on the remote is almost worn out. I meet with David Pyle at Kobi Nazrul School, who are our partner school in the development of the production, and we began about setting dates for us to work with their year 4 class.
We will be working with the class each Thursday afternoon in March allowing us all to explore some of the artistic and educational concepts from the show using lots of large mouldable Blobs.Which means that I should be working with the creative team in April resulting in a 'work in progress' presentation at the beginning of May... Where you will be able to join Kabi Nazrul and see what we've all been up to.
I also met with our science advisor Lars Chittka, Professor in Sensory & Behavioural Ecology from Queens Mary University. Lars will be supporting the development of the show with his evolutionary knowledge.
I showed Lars my initial ideas and sketches which began life as a drawing I made in my notebook when we visited the Darwin exhibition at the Natural History Museum. (See my version of Darwin's sketch below)
I knew at the time this was a really interesting and simple diagram of his theory and couldn't help creating my own version of his sketch... also with the words "I think" above it just like he had.
Well after a lot of reading later I used that sketch to begin to piece together the journey of each of my Blobs own evolutionary paths. What were the great environmental and survival factors that shaped our world? How do they translate? How do they work in the context of my visual sketch/story... Well in my head it looks a bit like the diagram below. From Darwin's sketch above to this...(See below)
And from the above sketch to this visual story structure...
Happily Lars was encouraging and was easily able to connect my vision with the facts of Darwin's theories, which was a relief considering he was the first person I'd showed my notebook too.
I'm now spending most of my days refining my ideas and trying to bring these sketches to life, but at this stage I'm back on my own again, still using my plastercine and my table top as the stage ... but in March I work with Kobi Nazrul.... and April I move onto performers and clay.... Ahh company again.
March 2009
Another busy month in the world of Blobs, yet this month has been the most exciting so far.
The creative process really is…'Beginning With Blobs'! …Blobs created by year 4 at Kobi Nazrul School. The school have a great website click HERE to vistit and find out more about the school
Each Thursday I worked with Emma, a creative facilitator, Emma was also an intern with Kazzum previously and came along to the museum visit back in December, you can she a picture of her Blob back then in Decembers entry. We were running exploratory Blobs workshop with year 4 class from Kobi Nazrul.
The class are such fun to work with and so many wild and creative ideas, also I would like to thank the teacher and teaching assistants who are all really enthusiastic and encouraging to our approach.
We delivered 4 workshops, the first was drama based where we explored how we 'change' in order to adapt to our surroundings, the second and third workshops were art based sessions where we begun to create storyboards for our Blobs imaginary evolutionary journeys.
The class then created their individual Blobs out of plastercine and explored how these Blobs can be manipulated to evolve just like in their storyboards. Below are images highlighting elements of the process from the workshops…..And an explosion of colour!
The class started off by creating image storyboards of their Blob's growth
We then focused on the points of changes and what caused them
The class used plastercine to bring these points to life
3 Steps from the evolutionary journey of 'Ben the Blob'
2 Steps from the journey of 'Max the Blob' and 'Blosy the Blob'
3 Steps from the evolutionary journey of 'Ben the Blob'
The Blobs of 2 different table top habitats getting to know each other
The gathering of Blobs in Beginning
The Blobs begin to evolve (can you spot the differences?)
The Blobs by the end (can you spot the differences again?)
In the 4th and final session we finished of our plastercine Blobs and then moved to the hall where we brought our Blobs stories to life through drama and movement. We worked in small groups to show how the Blobs evolved and shared their habitats together.
The final session was also an exciting one as we had a few guests along to observe and join in. Akua and Barry came along, it was great for them to see how the ideas are evolving since the Museum visit. We also had Patsy, a photographer, documenting the session for us and our new friend, and Kazzum's new Patron, Eddie Marson came and joined in.
It was great having Eddie along to see the work we are doing with our local school and how this feeds into the creative drive of the 'Blobs' project and the company.
Eddie also filmed a few video clips for us for our Kazzum website. (Click on the highlighted words to watch the clips) One can be seen on Kazzum's Welcome page and the other is a short interview about his thoughts on Blobs.
If all of this wasn't enough I've been putting together the creative team for the next phase. Two weeks research and development with the creative team starts on 27th April with a 'work in progress' presentation on 8th May.
I've cast the 3 performers, got a musician and designer on board and now have lots of new ideas and focuses to explore…. And a lot of clay!
Find out more about the creative team, and the clay, in the next months blog….
April 2009
Wow... What a month it has been. So much has happened, but I will try and fit it all in this entry. I have become Bl-obsessed with all things Blob like.
In April I began to work with the creative team to bring together all the ideas, elements, clay, stories and people in one room to create the first physical draft of…. 'Beginning With Blobs'.
We worked intensively for two weeks in the luxury of a beautiful dance/music space in the offices of our sponsor Allen & Overy. For two weeks I was transported from our humble office in Brick Lane to a high tech modern giant that is the A&O building near Liverpool Street. (Which was also handy as it's only a few minutes walk from us)
Working with me during the 1st week were my 3 performers, Lewis Barfoot, Sarah Johnson and Shu-yi Chin. Also working with us was Nick Kent as Stage Manager and all round great guy who made our lives so much easier.
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The week began with me conveying my ideas to the team before we moved on to create images, soundscapes, and movements that represented the blobs, the characters and the environments. As with all my R&D I like to use this time to play and explore, to try lots of things out that may or may not work... Like a child in a sweet shop I try out every idea to see how they taste, some I spit out and some ideas make me go back for more.
I also realised that it's always me rambling on in this blog, so as a nice change I got the creative team to tell me their thoughts on the 2 weeks. Here Lewis is explaining a favourite moment of hers.
"One of the most enjoyable things was being given the opportunity to play with the clay and create our Alta-ego blobs. I was the sea creature and moved mellifluously in the water. (That reminds me I wasn't allowed to use any long words during the R&D)
My blob became a charming bluesy jazz singing fish, with a wide grin and rubbery lips. He had a penchant for the ladies and would swim around trying to kiss them, which still makes me giggle now. What was really delightful was that every day we made a different blob but the same bluesy, charming quality came back even if the eyes were wonky and the lips falling off.
Mind you next time I may have to do a few press ups before rehearsals as my arms were throbbing after carrying that clay around all day!! Lewis Barfoot - Performer
We spent some time thinking about the relationship between performer and Blob, during this Shu-yi raised an interesting point
I wondered if it's really a matter of tastes that the puppeteer acts the same way as the puppet does. I visualise my blob's character and the relationship between my blob and me. As a result, I made my decision very early in the process that I'd have my blob and me as one when I operated it.
By that I mean I looked at the direction where my Blob looked instead of looking at it as an omnipresent force. However, if we had more time, I believe that this, the relationship between Blobs and performers, is something worthy of exploration and could sway the tone of the performance easily. Shu-yi - Performer
Being in the A&O building inspired Sarah to write her blog entry as if she was a mouse?
"In our basement live all sorts of workers...just recently, some rather scruffy people wandering around in tracksuits and no shoes. They seem to be covered in dust? They hide away in the music room occasionally popping out for coffees from the refreshments station or to the bathrooms to remove the dust from their hands and their hair...
I believe they are something to do with children...they hang out together playing with paper, pens, clay and plastic sheets. They talk about evolution. About blobs. I don't know what they're doing in there...but I peek under the door.
I saw a volcano erupting out of boxes and strange sea images appearing out of thin air. There was clay. Balls of clay. They moulded it and kneaded it, shifted it and make it move. There were fish and birds, and round creatures with stumpy legs." Sarah Johnson - Performer or mouse?
May 2009
In the 2nd week Sue Condie, set designer, and Kerry Andrews, Musician/composer joined us in our swanky rehearsal space. Having two new people to come in after the 1st week opened up so many new ideas and possibilities. It was great to be able to work with two more brilliantly talented people. I had worked with Kerry recently on a Drake Music and Furtherfiel.org Project and was pleased to be working with her again in a different context. here's what Kerry said...
"I acted as composer/musician for the second R'n'D week with Kazzum. It's my first proper experience of working in this way and was brilliant fun as well as challenging!
I started form absolute scratch, bringing no preconceptions to the. I had to start devising some live vocals for the three girls and did this by getting them to help me: they wrote down adjectives for their particular blob and we then worked on exploring the sounds of those words, from the whole word to the broken-phonetics. From this the girls drew out musical characteristics. This was enough for me to then create some evolving music, from simple guttural grunts to developed 3-part harmonies which they worked really hard on.
The rest of time, I was at the piano/CD player, improvising music to provide underscore, sometimes a pulse and sometimes a change of mood. I really thrive on this way of working with Daryl and the team, where I have to sometimes act super-quickly, alter music on the spot, think in small sections, change the mood, and essentially not be in the slightest bit precious about it!
My most satisfying moment was when the first answer to Daryl's question of 'what did you enjoy most?' was the children saying 'the singing'! Result! I'm really looking forward to developing this music further later in the year." Kerry - Composer
The last time I had seen Sue was when I was about 16 years old, I was performing in a show that she had designed as part of her degree back in Nottingham. She said I looked the same but I think she was just being kind, Sue said...
I had not worked with Daryl for some 17 years and after meeting him again at the start of our week I knew we were in for a fun and experimental few days.
Daryl had always been clear about some initial ideas which he wished to explore and it was obvious very quickly that I needed to support and enhance this vision. Three prominent colours were being played with but they were not present in the rehearsal room so I set out to achieve this first.
The main feature of the clay blobs was becoming really well developed but restrictive in its weight and stiffness and again I wanted to see them in colour. My idea of making our own cooked playdough was well received and became another experiment particularly for those who participated with pots and pans after hours and my persistence that it really is quick easy!!(Daryl - it really was very easy and if anyone would like the recipe let me know.. it take 5 mins to make) We all agreed that given time and practice we could achieve the perfect results..
Reflecting now about the ideas delivered on Friday to an audience I am left with a clear understanding of how some of the visuals might develop and simplify in order to surprise and excite the children.
We made a great start and I hope to have the opportunity to continue exploring the possibilities of a very interesting project.
The 2 weeks ended with a 'work in progress' performance of what we had explored over the two weeks. Our audience was around 50 children from Kobi Nazrul, and about 30 or so adults. The event took place at A&O's offices. They had laid on a large room for us, recorded and produced a DVD of the event, gave the children a tour of the building, laid on refreshments and between A&O staff and Akua and Barry, in Kazzum's office, had made a small sharing performance into a spectacular event.
As my life was some what of a blur by that point I was so taken aback to see all these people in a room waiting to see the results of what we had been up to.
The 'Work in Progress' event went really well. We presented about 25 minutes of ideas (there was lots of ideas we didn't show as they were not fully developed at this stage) and lots of good responses and constructive feedback flowed which will really help the further development of the piece into it's 45 minute production in the autumn.
I was back in Kobi Nazrul this morning doing a more in depth feedback workshop with year 4, ahh I will miss working with them it's been such a great partnership and I can't wait for them to see the finished piece in October.
The children's feedback highlighted that they enjoyed the singing and the movement but wanted to see the Blobs interact more with each other, they wanted to find out more about their daily lives, what they get up to. Do Blobs go to school? Interestingly the class were split whether the Blobs should talk with words or just through sound. But they all agreed that working with plastercine/Clay/Playdough was the best bit of all...( they also really liked looking around trhe A&O building and seeing the staff canteen!)
Whilst I was in their class I noticed that they had been using plastercine now in other aspects of their learning, they had all created plastercine machine as part of a very different class project.
We now wait to hear about funding, which we should know about by the end of May, and once that is confirmed its full steam ahead to get things ready for the Autumn.... until next month...
bye for now.
NEWS FLASH
We just found out today that we have recived our funding from Arts Council England for the Blobs tour... so it's Blobs away!
July 2009
Well we've gotten over the excitement of getting our funding and now the hard work begins.
It's been a busy month with lots of planning and admin to get through. I'm pleased to say that both Kerry (Composer) and Sue (Designer) are on board and are continuing to build on the initial ideas that were generated during the R&D weeks.
Psycho Chilli, who have worked on many of Kazzum's previous posters and Flyers, are creating the art work and poster and flyer design.
We have our Educational Consultant on board as well now, her name is Tilly Branson and she will be creating the teachers pack and designing the accompanying workshop as well as training the workshop leaders that will be going into the schools.
As well as the workshop for the schools we are also running a short series of workshops for Bromley museum in August. As Darwin's old home, Downs House, is in Bromley he's possibly Bromley's most influential resident and their summer exhibition is based on another prominent resident, and close friend of Darwin, John Lubbock, whose collection they hold. The workshops will be running from Tuesday 4th August - Friday 7th August. the event is open to the public so if you are around come along and join in.
The tour is really shaping up and we have some very exciting dates and venues on board. Click HERE to see the tour dates so far.
We will be opening the show at The Brady Centre, Tower Hamlets, for a week of performances for our local schools.
I have of course been developing the story much more, taking into account all the valuable feedback I got from the R&D process. There has been a lot of minor changes and a few big ones as well as a whole load of new material and ideas to try out during rehearsals.
Another exciting development is that we are hoping to have a selection of high profile performers creating their own Blobs that we will be auctioning off in order to raise profile and funds… But I've said to much already… look out for an announcement coming soon on who and how you can get your hands on a famous Blob!
More to come next month... bye for now!
August 2009
Well as I write this there are exactly 3 weeks before rehearsals start!!!!
I have cast the show now, the performers are Lewis Barfoot (continuing from the R&D phase), joining her will be Alison Halstead and Philipe Faria. I'm really excited to be working with these three great performers. Our stage manager for the tour will be Robert Tygner
I have the rehearsal draft ready and as we speak elements of the design and music are being created. Below is a little teaser of an image from the set model box…
it starts with nothing…. then magically round blobs begin to appear…..
The flyers and posters have arrived and are being shipped out to venues, Barry is working hard liaising with all our venues in preparation for the tour. Below is an image of how the flyer and the poster look
Well that's it for this month, a short update. But believe me in 3 weeks time it's about to get a lot busier. So I'll get the Blobs creative team to start writing a little something for the Blobs Blog….
September (week 1)
Well rehearsals began last Monday and life at the Brady Centre is going well.
This week we've been looking at the story, characters, and the relationships. We have roughly blocked out most sections. The team are working hard and creating lots of beautiful images, movements and harmonies.
How do you move in them? how do they move you? what lives in these elements and what emotions do they evoke?
After a few writing exercises to find out what each element means to us we transferred these to physicality and character
Blue Blob is turning into a charming daddy cool type, Orange Blob is solid and firm and can be quite giving and withholding. Whilst Green Blob is upbeat and just looking for new friends.
Kerry has been in and worked with the cast on the music and vocal harmonies which are such an important part of the production.
Sue's with us turning the beautiful design into a realisation.
Tilly, our education consultant, who is creating the education resource pack, has been in for a day, observing and interviewing the creative team for the pack.
And Robert, our stage manager is making sure everything moves along efficiently and on time (He has also set off a craze for most of us to cycle into work now)
And I'm enjoying every minute of it... but it's still week 1 so things could change....
Week 2
Well it's the end of week 2 rehearsals and the show has come on leaps and bounds.
The second week is always slower as you try to sort out more of the detail, the connections between characters and clarity of story. The physical vocabulary of the piece is really starting to connect and make sense.
The performers, as well as continuing to work with Kerry on vocals, have also begun puppetry focused work with Robert. Looking at when they puppeteer and when they are the performer.
The set elements are coming together and the magical boxes are becoming even more magical by the day. We are at a point now where we need to start working with, and incorporating, the set and costume elements to ensure they are fully utilised in the overall look and presentation of the show.
This is always a sticky point in the rehearsal process as it's a matter of flexibility between the design team, who need to work on the items and the performer's need to work and familiarise themselves with the set.
Week 3
We have begun working with Jia-yu this week. She is a movement consultant and has come in to work with the performers on sharpening up the movement sections.
Kerry has been in again working with them on the vocal work and I have been working on pulling all the elements together.
We got lots of set elements in this week as well... oh so much magic, but so many long days and still so much more to do...
1 week to go now before we open.... Oh I can't wait!
Week 4Well we have reached the end of our rehearsal period and it has been challenging at times but mostly fun and a great experience. We have worked with lots of talented people and everyone has been completely committed to the process and the ideas and vision.
We've done our tech and a dress run and it's now at a stage where we need an audience to see it. As always I'm sure there will some small changes needed once we have done our preview show.
Now the rehearsal period is over the hard work begins for the company as they tour the show.
I will get the touring company to keep the blog up-to-date when on the road so we can find out how they cope, the different places they go and the different types of audiences they perform to.
I'll let you know how the first week goes at The Brady Centre......
Week 1 - Tour
We have just finished the 1st week of the tour with shows at the Brady Centre to local schools. It's always a nervous time; the first few show... how they will respond both audience and performers.
Well both went well. It's great to see how a performer adapts to the audiences and fine tunes their approach to engage the audiences fully.
I'm glad it's now starting it's own evolution as it sets off on tour. The touring company will now write the blog so we get a chance to see how it all work... being on the road.
Until then... bye for now
Week 2 of the Tour
Well I have now handed over the blog to the touring company. So here is their first entry.......
We said good-bye to the Brady Centre, and the awesome staff, to perform our first family show at the Half Moon Young People's theatre, in East London.
Daryl giving us our final notes and sending us on our way
Our get-in call was 8am. Wow. That felt early. (Alison wore bright colors as a antidote to the early, early start. She looked like a fruit-flavoured candy, in her blue, pink, and green.)
We performed two shows, most of the kids sat on the floor, on cushions, with their parents sitting rows behind, on proper chairs. The shows went very well. The houses were full, the young people were attentive.
Alison, Philpe and Lewis relaxing in the Half Moon dressing room
After loading up the van, we drove directly from Half Moon to Coventry, where we would be performing two shows at the Warwick Arts Centre. A state of the art complex that housed (at least) two theatres, a cinema, a cafe, and a space shuttle launch pad, and a disco. Ok, so not a disco. Our B&B was a....quaint place. Next to the M1 and...quaint.
After the first show, after we took our bow, we were told that the kids rushed the stage. They got up from their cushioned benches, ran onto the set, and proceeded to play with the blobs (play doh), and explore behind the scenes.
No one took photos, so you'll have to believe. Lewis swears that her big blob got smaller, due to 'the incident.' After the show, we hung out at the arts complex.
Our second show, in Warwick, was for a school group of about 25, 4-year olds. Throughout the 45-minute show, the children mirrored our movements, instantly copying what we did. They laughed, and freely-chatted about what they were seeing, and laughed some more. It was awesome.
Then it was off to Leicester to perform at the Birkett School, where the students had varying levels of learning disabilities. We were to perform in the main hall, and set up right after the students had their lunch. No lights, only sound. We were mindful of the levels, as we didn't want to create any distress for our audience.
It was an interesting day, and a learning experience. Some of the young people clearly enjoyed it.
Philipe, Robert (SM) and Alison enjoying the cold weather
Our next place was Newbury...the Corn Exchange. We spent the night at a Days Inn...Holiday Inn...something...located at a Welcome Break. Don't scoff...the best flat-screen TV, hot, hot water, and CLEAN! No ear plugs needed! A good night's sleep was had by all, followed by an early start, the next day.
The Corn Exchange was a big theatre, that had cathedral arches, state of the art sound, and lovely acoustics. The get-in was smooth; we've got it down to a science.
We have a hero...our lovely Phillipe. Lewis and Alison couldn't find the route to backstage and they desperately whispered to the crew person to please lead them to their places, so they could make their first cue. (At this point, the house lights had been lowered, and the show's sound and lights had started.)
As we struggled to communicate our needs to the crew person, and to get to where we needed to be, we heard the first sound cue. Not. Good. Finally, finally we got to where we should be, in a quiet panic, as we were very late. (It was a mere seconds, but it felt like an age!) However, our hero, Phillipe, was there. Some how he'd made it in time, without being seen by the audience, AND HE HAD PLACED THE FIRST BLOB. Yeah, Phillipe. Yeah! We went on to perform a very good show...we're professionals. Hee!
After the show/get-out, while Robert got a sandwich, Phillipe, Lewis and Alison sauntered off to explore the charity shops of Newbury: Cancer Society, Heart Foundation, and Save the Children. Though we all vowed we'd only look, we ALL SCORED!!!
Next stop, Cantebury.
The Blue Blob diaries
November 2009, The Egg, Theatre Royal, Bath
I'd had enough of those humans having all the fun so I thought it was about time to go on the razzle myself and where better than a Spa Town full of water.
Weeks and weeks of being squeezed into a plastic bag each night, then dumped in the cool bag and left in the van to freeze my fins off. I decided it was time for action and with three nights in one venue I thought it would be my best chance to escape.
Luckily Lewis overheard me blabbing with the other blobs about my plan to blobble around town and she thought it a great idea. She slipped me into her bag and we were off for a unadulterated 24 hours of Bath-tastic pleasure.
First stop was stage door and believe me it was an ardous task making my way past all the fans.
Then we headed off for a tasty bit of tucker at the Boston Tea Party. I ordered seaweed salad and chips and a glass of salty water of the day
Then it was time for a bath in the Beautiful Royal Bath Spa. Lewis, Alison and myself excitedly bumbled over to the baths and can you believe it- they wouldn't let me in. Not because I am a blob and no not because I am blue but because I didn't have a swim suit. I mean, all of my life I've been naked and no one's ever complained.
So once again I was bundled into the plastic bag whilst the humans had fun blobbing around in the boiling baths. To be fair though, I did enjoy the change of location; It may have been a plastic bag but the air was infused with the aromas of Eucalyptus and Mint and if I peeped out of the small handle I could see all the bathers passing by and getting changed which was at times a very laughable sight for sore eyes.
After the baths we walked home to the most sensational B+B, which was universally the favourite of the whole tour and put on our glad rags for a night of fireworks and drinking. To set the night off with a bang we all had a sniffty sherry to warm the cockles,
then we went cross country with Nick, our new Stage Manager, to the fireworks. At one point Lewis got very scared by what she thought was a giant wall. Alison fearlessly walked ahead and the "imaginary wall", turned out to be a small mound of grass. Honestly I thought Lewis she was more adventurous!
And then there were the fireworks- well to quote one Bath resident:
"they've obviously cut the budget this year"
They were luke warm but the view of Bath from Alexander park was stunning and with the fire of sherry in our stomachs we were burning with excitement regardless.
After the rocket finale we decided it was time to find a typical Bath Pub.I forgot to say that dear Phillipe had gone to London so wasn't privy to our antics, so don't tell him in case he gets really jealous.
After a 30min walk through bath we made it to Porters Pub where we downed a tasty pint
or two
And met up with some lovely locals, one a Post lady and the other a farmer. They seemed to think I was incredibly smooth
and I was very thrilled to be sharing their table. And yes, I got their numbers, in case you were wondering!
Several hours passed and Lewis and Alison wanted to get their beauty sleep so they dragged me home to rest. And what a luxury night's sleep that was, crispy clean cotton between my scales, nothing on earth could be finer.
December
It looks like Blue Blob had a ggod time on tour!
Well after an exciting and fruitful year the Blobs tour has now come to an end for 2009!
The tour finished with a performance at Kazzum's 20th Birthday celebrations at Kobi Nazrul school. Even though it was a weekend some of the children from the school came along to join us and to see the show again ( they had seen the R&D version and the show on tour, so for some this was their 3rd time)
A BIG thank you to all those involved over the last year.
But Blobs isn't over yet!
After a bit of a re-work Blobs will be touring again in autumn 2010 to venues in the north of England, so I'm sure there will be a 2010 Blobs Blog… so watch this space.
So what happened to the blobs after the last show……? Well like the thunder cats they joined together to create one super Blob!!!!!
