Review: A Super Mega Rockin’ Rock Show of their own
Kid Carpet's Super Mega Rockin' Rock Show. Photo by Jerome Whittingham.

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 […]

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Review: The Castle Builder – raucous, joyful and eccentric

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. […]

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Review: Thousands turn out for ‘secret’ gig
Kid Carpet & Vic Llewellyn at the OEG. Photo by Jerome Whittingham.

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 […]

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