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Ben Glasstone |
Pub hosts search for funniest song
FORGET Simon Cowell. Arthur, Okin and Rea are the only judges who will count at a novel musical talent contest to be staged in Farringdon.
The Musical Comedy Awards – a competition aimed at finding the funniest comedy song – promises to have the audience at the Wilmington Arms in Rosebery Avenue chuckling into their ales when seven heats are staged there early next year.
The competition – the last date for entries is next month – has attracted a love song titled My Nazi Girl and a rap about the recession.
The judges are Time Out comedy critic Tim Arthur and two previous winners, Earl Okin and Leisa Rea.
They will shortlist contestants from entries uploaded to the Musical Comedy Awards website.
The winner will be crowned king (or queen) of musical comedy and awarded a £500 prize after the shows at the Wilmington.
Ben Glasstone, from Finsbury Park, whose entry, Love and Specs, is about a myopic man who falls in love with a woman on the Tube, believes musical comedy is underrated.
The musician, who works at the Little Angel Theatre, off Upper Street, said: “It possibly lost its way a bit as a genre. People associate it either with trying-to-be-too-clever stuff or with crass, cheesy songs.
“I’m very much in awe of someone called Tim Minchin who I think has raised the bar for the genre.”
The awards, founded in 2008, aim to raise the profile of musical comedy, which has grown in popularity, partly due to its championing by quiz show panelist and stand-up comic Bill Bailey.
To enter, go to musicalcomedy.co.uk. Contestants have until December 12 to upload songs. |
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