LAGER TIME: Young UnProfessional EP 5 - Time Management

Greetings, bonjour, what’s happening

Easy Lagerlites of Lager Land.

Latest Lager Time episode is up, it;s the 5th story in the Young UnProfessional series, this one is called Time Management

Reece gets sent on a Time Management course, he’s not very happy about it, but uses it to inspire him to document his working day, this is the finding of his reasearch

If you like, there’s a link to Subsribe on the substack below and a Spotify link too; if that’s your preferred medium

Have a banging weekend

Paul

Lager Time: Young UnProfessional EP 3 - Alpine Down-Dressing

Yes yes yes

Another week, another Lager Time episode is out. This week it’s EP 3 of the Young UnProfessional series - Alpine Downdressing

This episode sees Reece goes for a few beers with his fellow New Town ex-patriate Stuart Simmons, but they’r both at very different stages in life

You can listen below on Spotify or Apple, or better still on Substack, where you’ll get extra bits, blogs etc

Nice one

Paul

Satellite Stories - all in one place

Greetings

So I’ve been doing a bit of admin over here at Lager HQ - and I’ve group together all the Satellite Stories series together on my Substack - which you can listen too HERE.

There were all semi-autobiographical stories, based on my experiances growing up in Horley and Crawley and trying to capture all those little class nuances of growing up in an area like that, in the shadow of London.

It started out with a story I wrote a few years back but didn’t really know what to do with and ended up becoming this whole series.

I realy enjoyed doing it and learned a lot along the way, it’s set a template for the way I want to go ahead with my own stuff

There’s 7 episodes in total, some

Enjoy

Lager Time is back! McGeezer The Machine

Greetings

After a bit of a hiatus, I’m back producing podcasts and blogs for Lager Tine. It’s been a busy few months for me; with work and a course I was undertaking. All is explained and more, if you listen to this episode, better still, subscribe on Substack and you’ll get it direct into your inbox every week, or if you prefer just the audio, you can get it on Spotify, Apple and all them!

This week’s epsiode featured the last in the series (strange timeing, I know) of the Satteltie Stories series which I’d done; all base don my experiances growing up in the Gatwick area. This is about the summer after the middle school I attened closed down.

Have a blast

Paul

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Make Your Own Bed and Hope for the Best, @CPT JULY PERFORMANCES

A WORK-IN-PROGRESS, ABOUT WORK, FORMALLY KNOWN AS ‘WORK’

TICKETS NOW ON SALE FOR NEXT WORK-IN-PROGRESS PERFORMANCES

JULY 30TH / 31ST @ CAMDEN PEOPLE’S THEATRE

BABY STEPS

So here’s the coo… A couple of years ago I decided I wanted to write about all the different jobs I’ve done over the years, there’s been a few. I went through each job I ever did and worked out what stories I could tell, I then put that into a body of work, which I called ‘WORK.’ Imaginative, I know.  

I spoke to Camden People’s Theatre, who were up for letting explore the idea further, in view of attempting to make a show out of it.

TODDLER TIME

I did a 15 minute scratch of some of the material I’d written at CPT. With the help of Lucy Atkinson (who produced my first solo show, A Tale From the Bedsit, in 2013) I wrote an Arts Council grant to get some dough, for a bit of R&D. I assembled a top team of collaborators to help me out, including producer Ellie Barr. In December 2019, we done another scratch, a bit longer this time, at CPT again, then put an hour-long preview together, for a show at VAULTS Festival in February. Then COVID. Then nothing.

TEENAGE STROP

I decided to leave the show for a bit, I wasn’t fully happy with it, probably a good thing, though as COVID shelved everything anyway, BASTARD!

ADULTHOOD BUT WITH A LONG WAY TO GO

Until I got the itch again about nine months later…

So here we are now, April 2021 and tickets have just gone on sale for the next work-in-progress showings at CPT. The show now has a new name, Make Your Own Bed and Hope for the Best, which I think best sums up what the show is about, in terms my journey in it.

Last November, 2020, I went back watched all the scratches, read the material and re-wrote lots of it, I then decided to film each one and stick it up online as part of the development.

 It’s very much still being developed, I’ve ended writing a load more material and I’m now wondering how the faaaack I’m gonna fit it all in but then, that’s part of the fun, isn’t it.

You can have a butchers at the journey so far, all the performances and then the story uploads, then, if you like it, come and see me do it live!

M.Y.O.B (A.H.F.T.B) // PART 4 - LEAFY CANARY WHARF

Yes

Here’s part number 4 - Leafy Canary wharf. It’s about my brief stint as a labourer for a tree-surgeon.

The whole project is coming along nicely, though at some point in the near future, I’m going to have to sit sown and edit them and start to putting them togethor

It’s looking likley that I’m going to be doing some previews in July (COVID permitting / fingers crossed and all that) - anyway, have a butchers and thanks for everyone has watched so far

Paul

M.Y.O.B (A.H.F.T.B) / / PART 3 -TROLLY BOY

Here’s the next instalment in the Make Your Own Bed (and Hope For the Best) story development

Needs a bit of work this one but I least feel like I’m getting better at making the video’s.

Progress, mate

M.Y.O.B (A.H.F.T.B) // PART 2 - SATURDAY ASSISTANT

Bonjour

Second story from my work-in-progress theatre show, Make Your Own bed and Hope For the Best (I should have a word with the Paul Cree marketing team) - this one is based on my experiences of working in a newsagent.

Despite the lapel mike, the sound was shite so I’ve had to use the video sound. It’s not just the stories that’s a work-in-progress, this whole damn project is (have a look at a blog I recently wrote, regarding this)

Big thanks to everyone that has watched and engaged with the first two videos, I’m genuinely finding this a useful exercise and I’ll keep them coming.