Kid Carpet was undoubtedly the busiest performer at this season’s Heads Up Festival. Adults were treated to a late-night pub performance and the penultimate night of the festival saw a big turnout for a first performance of The Castle Builder. Kid Carpet’s Super Mega Rockin’ Rock Show gave younger audiences a gig of their own. If this […]
Coming up trumps as a venue again, Hull Central Library allowed Heads Up Festival to stage a take over of its Children’s Library, with Likely Story and Kirsty Harris transforming this usual den of books into The Story Yard, a place where, for young participants, there are no rules and no limits on imagination. Families […]
Having witnessed the live wire antics of Kid Carpet (aka Ed Patrick) and Vic Llewllyn at the secret gig in the week, Michelle Dee was more than ready for The Castle Builder, the smash hit show from Edinburgh Fringe in 2016. The show opens with howling and the wanton destruction of an innocent wooden chair. […]
Over the years Heads Up Festival has developed a partnership with Battersea Arts Centre and is part of the Collaborative Touring Network, which takes the work of BAC to theatres all over the country. Michelle Dee catches the first night of two performances of the Motor produced Ross and Rachel, at Riverside Theatre. For a […]
The Castle Builder creators Kid Carpet and Vic Llewellyn performed a ‘secret’ warm-up gig in a Hull city centre pub a mere hour after checking in to their hotel. Dave Windass dropped by for a pint. The Old English Gentleman is no stranger to theatre. The walls of this place are decorated with 10x8s of the […]
Sarah Mole, who recently created the set design for E52’s Pale Blue Dot as well as the productions’s poster, got up close to Women of Words when they scratched their new show The Second Rehearsal at Heads Up. I did not know much about Women of Words – Vicky Foster, Lynda Harrison, Michelle Dee, Julie Corbett […]
Heads Up Introducing is the event in the programme where somebody working in the Arts industry shares with the festival audience, the film that most inspired them. After an introductory chat everyone then gets to see the film, anticipation and speculation builds as people try to guess what film the guest will have chosen. Michelle […]
Heads Up Festival prides itself on bringing great performances to audiences, it also believes that festivals should offer opportunities for people to participate. So it is that we join Michelle Dee at her very first Salsa class with Humba Rumba. With my comfort zone beating a retreat along with, I might add, my Heads Up […]
Continuing the practice of bringing new theatre-works to Hull audiences, Heads Up Festival presents The Ballad of Paragon Station written and performed by Hester Arden. Michelle Dee slips past the ticket inspector and settles in for the ride. The blurb says the play is ‘inspired by Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood’ and conceptual portrait photographer […]
Heads Up Festival got off to a great start with our launch party, which featured Hekima Asilia and the Flavas, and sell-out shows Pale Blue Dot and Hester Arden’s The Ballad Of Paragon Station. And there’s still so much more to come as we enter week two of the festival, with performances every night until Saturday, October 21 […]