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I HAVE MORE TREES TO CLIMB...

22nd April 2009

Ben Moor - writer, actor, tree golfer, (long time L&H friend), and all round nice chap has written a book.
It's called "More Trees To Climb" and is a compilation of three short stories that were once Edinburgh shows, now tweaked into prose.

Over the years, Ben has made several visits to the Edinburgh Festival with a series of one man plays. More Trees To Climb contains the two most recent shows; 2005's Coelacanth & 2008's Not Everything Is Significant alongside A Supercollider For The Family from 1997.

Ben's shows have been consistently brilliant, funny, heartwarming, thoughtful & just generally great. And as if we needed another reason to mention it here, there's also a link to this site's main content - an introduction by Stewart Lee.

Ben is selling signed copies through his website - or you can buy direct from the publishers, Portobello books, or via amazon or any of the usual online (Or even, more traditional) methods.

Buy a copy, enjoy it, and tell your friends.

In other news, you can now buy Stew's 2006-2007 show, "What Would Judas Do?" in the form of this 3 CD "official bootleg" set announced this week by Cardiff wonders, Go Faster Stripe.
Here's the show info, shamelessly cut & pasted from their site:
"WHAT WOULD JUDAS DO? Was first performed in the autumn of 2006 at Battersea Arts Centre as one of their enormously important, work-in-progress Scratch Nights.
The idea was to know the story of the last week of Judas’ life as well as possible and then kind of throw it away, and tell it anecdotally, like someone remembering a series of events.
These three, not terribly hi-fi, recordings are all that remains of What Would Judas Do? They are about 20% different from each other."

For your tenner, you get 3 discs of what sound like audience recordings of 3 different performances of the show. A work-in-progress version of the script has been available on Stew's official site for a while now, if you want to read more.