Beat’s MICF coverage is prolific within the printed guide – the one you are reading right now – acting an access point for audiences to choose which comedian will entertain them the best thus creating a win/win for the performer and the consumer. However, Beat’s coverage can benefit performers in other ways too, with local comedian Huw Joseph getting a radio show in London from appearing on our very own online video platform Beat TV.
Joseph moved to London in mid-2014 and along with the radio show he has been a regular feature in the UK musical comedy circuit, recently one of 40 comedians chosen to be a part of the UK Musical Comedy Awards, where he made the finals. Joseph, who is this year returning to MICF with his new show Songs That Will Never Leave My Bedroom, explains Beat’s role within his radio/comedy career in the UK. “I’m doing a radio show with UK rapper/actor/comedian Doc Brown, who I met when I was in at Beat filming during last year’s comedy festival,” explains a chuffed Joseph from his house in Camden. The radio show is called Sarah, Huw and Doc Too and it airs Tuesday nights on Fubar Radio.
Songs That Will Never Leave My Bedroom subject matter concerns recent life experiences in London as well his life in Melbourne prior to the move. The title of the show actually comes from a bad review that Joseph got early on in his comedy career. “I had this critic a few years ago say that my songs ‘shouldn’t have left my bedroom’ and from there I got the idea that I could take the stage into my bedroom!” describes a triumphant Joseph. “So what I am doing is turning the stage into my bedroom. A lot of the songs are personal stories that have happened in my bedroom or things that I would do in my bedroom that might be a bit weird or bit embarrassing – things that you wouldn’t feel comfortable to say out in public but it’s never going to leave my room so I can share it.”
One of the songs in the show is not so much a tale from the bedroom but a re-telling of events from when Joseph was a participant on hit UK television series called Celebrity Dinner Date (of which an Australian version is launching later this year). “Basically, a girl goes on three blind dates to three different guys houses. They cook for her and then at the end she decides who she wants to go on a big posh date with,” sets up Joseph. “So she was a ‘model’ who of course went on Big Brother. I had no idea who the fuck she was so when she turned up to my house and was like ‘Hey, it’s me’ I was like ‘Hey, it’s me too?’” laughs Joseph. Suffice to say the date didn’t go well, as the song explains during Joseph’s show.
BY DENVER MAXX
