Lowdown on The Crown

Thanks soooo much to all of you who came out and supported me at The Crown last Thursday. It was an incredible night and the performances by Lofty Heights, Cake Boy, Viagra Viola and Actavia Estee were all amazing. Congratulations to Actavia on her win and Cake Boy as the runner-up. Seven weeks of challenges have made me a sharper, wiser Angela and as several of my sets were created from scratch I now have even more to cram into my Edinburgh Fringe show this summer!

 
Competing ain't over though, I'm at The Eagle next Wednesday for their Drag Idol final and then Via the next day for their heat. Follow that with Bop & Bingo in Glossop on Friday (SOLD OUT!) and then Wigan on Sunday and it's pretty busy for Miss Angela B. Come and see me if you fancy it. I can promise no less than three songs, two costume changes and a granary-based prop (in the space of ten minutes!) for your time at either Drag Idol event.

Ta-ra!

The Final Count Crown

Blimey oh rhymey, my Lady Gaga one liners, a Papparazzi parody and a lip sync that had me on my knees (they're literally scuffed!) helped me claw my way into the final of The Crown on Thursday. Which means I'm back at The Brewers on Thursday 21st April alongside four other royally talented queens. I would love as many of you there as possible so if you can then come on down and watch me give the performance of my leggy life that would be amaaaazing.

 

The Crown: The Bloomin' Final!

The Brewers, Canal Street, Manchester

Thursday April 21st @ 8pm

Free Entry!

A Right Royal Rollercoaster

 

Oooh, look! Live dates!

 

 

 

 

Apologies apologies for the delay in updating my amazing blog for all of you but life is far too BUSY! As you can see from my neat little graphic, I have nine gigs this month + up to another three if I stay in contention for The Crown at The Brewers. That particular competition saga seems like a good place to begin.

Here's me joint-winning the movie week!

So I entered The Crown thinking it would be a heat and a final but nooooooo, it turned out I'd signed up to performing every week until April 21st in a Drag Race style event where one or two queens get eliminated each week. This is a BIG commitment but it's such amazing fun! 

Unlike comedy shows, where I usually knock out my tried and tested tens and twenties, The Crown demands new material on a different theme every week. So far I've made a song and dance about Beyonce on the theme of pop royalty, dressed up as a superhero for movie week and gone 90's raving as part of a dance through the decades. Clips of all of them can be found on my insta. This week I get my Freddie Mercury on in the Diva's round - come and see me from 7.30pm this Thursday at The Brewers, Canal Street. If I last two more rounds I'm in THE BLOOMIN' FINAL!

Getting me 50's on!

In non-competition news, Bop & Bingo has been going marvellously as always. We've done a sell-out show in Oldham to 150 crazy women, another sell-out in Middleton for Mothers Day plus a bunch of other similarly insane weekends. We've also moved into brunches and held our first one last weekend in Bury on a Grease theme. The ladies who came got properly trollied on the free bar and there was dancing, singing and a bit of bingo on the side too. I learnt the hand jive. Every day's a school day!

We've got loads of dates coming up for the bingo so if you want to join me, Annie and the rest of the gang just pop over here.

Also's, If you're near my little hometown of Glossop I've also got a few new things in the pipeline here: a new party night, Non Stop Pop Bop, and a new comedy night, Square Jest. Both are at Square West. Both will be AMAZING!

CLICK for the FB Event Page

CLICK for Info & Tickets

 

My other big news is that I'm OFFICIALLY TIKTOK FAMOUS! Well, I have 10k followers now which means I can unlock all the businessy stuff the Tok provides. Expect to see me endorsing shampoo and fashion lines in the near future. Maybe...

Until next time peoples...

Taking my mouth down south

Heyyyyy my little cupcakes, it's nice to be back on the blog with an update of all things me! It's been a proper crazy few weeks of shows and socials, here's the news.

I'll start with my twenty minutes at The Adelphi in Leeds - a proper nice venue with properly terrible parking which I just about got to on time. I found myself opening an all-lady lineup alongside some properly talented people who'd travelled from as far as North Wales. And there was me grumbling about the hour's drive! The crowd was a nice bunch and I chatted with an alpha-female between the songs and jokes. Great work Jack O' Clubs Comedy! The reception was warm - which is more than can be said for my drive home across the Peak District in the snow. "Chilling out" in a tailback at the top of a hill for thirty minutes at midnight ain't so relaxing I'm telling you.

On the weekend Annie Sup and I went Bop and Bingo-ing in Stockport with a right rowdy crowd. I did my number calling, songs, jokes and all that but it was in my game, "Letter Go," where it got proper crazy. As usual, I called out a letter and my contestants had to get something from the audience beginning with that letter. Best selection wins. I said, "T!" One respectable looking middle-aged lady pulled up a similar looking mate - who promptly whapped out a bosom and shouted, "TIT!" Holding it like a death ray, the audience responded something wild and she won the round. Obviously. More bingo coming soon.

Which brings us up to date with my trip down to London and a thrity minute set in Lewisham at The Llama's Head. A proper glitzy little bar with a podium to perform on and some very spirited cocktails. My thirty turned to forty as between the puns and pop people kept arriving and I had to welcome them before telling them to shut up and listen to me. They was a nice bunch though and we bonded as only drunk people and a part-time primary school music teacher singing about microwaves can. Proper nice.

This week I'm competing in "The Crown" at The Brewers on Canal Street, Manchester. 7pm this Thursday. Be there!

Away from reality my socials have been blowing up again. A recent Tikky Tok is sitting pretty at over 610,000 views and my Insta has moved from averaging 6 likes to 60. Both have doubled in followers in two weeks so legs crossed that carries on. I should be at 10,000 followers on the Tok soon. Which means I can do ungodly new things on it so watch out!

Anything else? Yes! Both my solo show, "Angela Bra: Life Lessons" and double act with Annie Sup, "Annie and Angela's Disco Divorce Party" are now listed on the Edinburgh Fringe site. Mega!

'Til next time...

Bingo in Bury, Comedy in Crewe and a TikTok Tsumnami

O-M-Gosh guys, girls and those of no fixed g - what an AMAZING week!

So, on Wednesday I was hosting my little music and comedy night here in Glossop and the acts was totally tip top with a cherry on top. The jokes was raining down nearly as hard as all the water crashing into the pavement outside and the music wafted among us somewhat less aggressively than the tornado blowing against the door. I did my song about a love affair with a carrier bag and we was all wrapped up by eleven. The next one is, as usual, at Square West but, not as usual, from March it'll be 3-7pm on a Sunday with the first being on the 13th.

Not happy with just the one gig, I was in my Micra driving against the elements on Thursday to perform a middle twenty (industry speak darlings) at a taphouse in Crewe. The audience was real nice and the lady in the front row was a proper good sport when I told her drinking a cocktail in a place full of beer was somewhat like taking a dump on their bar pumps. I roadtested my brand new fingernails which you just slap on your hands and look well classy. It was a "beer-ly" good laugh! 

Friday was bingo night so Annie and I picked up our mate Charlotte and drove to Bury for Bop & Bingo and over 150 crazed women looking to drink, dab and slap a naked butler's bottom. I sangs me microwave tune and made fun of Cam "the man" who does his best to keep the whole thing running. I rocked my new Topshop sequin dress (£3 from my local charity shop - BARGAIN!) so me and Annie both stormed the place with our super trendy looks. Speaking of storms, it was hailing all night with the wind threatening to turn me car into a kite but luckily by the time we left it had calmed down. Next stop for bingo is Stockport next Friday. Can't wait!

And in the online world I rebooted my most popular joke from 2021 with a much improved video and, once again, it's going more viral than the flu-that-can't-be-named-the-same-thing-for-too-long. 140,000 views when I last looked and I've now got me over 4,000 followers. If you happen to be one of them do say hiiiiiii!

Here a link to it.

Square West, TikTok and Sold Out Bingo

My oh my oh my, what a busy couple of weeks! 

First up, well done to all my lovely acts who delivered the good as Square West in Glossop earlier this month. Five music acts and five comedians on a Wednesday night, who could ask for more? The audience were well impressed and have swore blind they're coming again in February. And they definitely should, I've got a whole car load of funny people travelling across the border from Wales to entertain. But no, it ain't a clown car with a honk-honk horn. More's the pity. I made me a little video using footage from the night to promote the next one. Click to have a little look!

Elsewhere, Bop & Bingo has confirmed a pile of nights for me to MC in the coming months. A couple of them (Bury and Glossop) sold out in less than 48 hours and many of the others are about to be full up too so if you want a dab, dance and drink get your tickets now - they've also expanded into brunches so you can drink and dance in the daytime too, soundtracked by live performances of Grease and Abba!

In the virtual world I've also been smashing it with a little tribute to naughty tory boy Johnson and his lockdown garden parties. Ignore the poxy views on the youtube - it's the TikTok that has, as usual, really gone potty for my song about the prime minister's pinot predicament. I also did a TikTok Live earlier this week to road test parts of my new Edinburgh show, Life Lessons. In just under two hours I managed about a third of it and otherwise spent the time chatting to all my wonderful viewers - who totalled over 6,000 by the time I finally logged off. I'll be doing that regular I reckon as it's good fun, lots of you watch and I can do it in my lounge!

That said I do loves the live so I'm booking plenty of shows for the coming months. I'll be in London at the start of March. More details soon!

January goes POP!

O M GOSH! What a start to the year it's been!

Last Sunday I was down Canal Street in central Manchester for the first heat of Dragtastic. Arriving at 8pm I found myself in Bar Pop's glamorous cellar bar with five queens half my age and double my looks. But I'm made of tough stuff and after a stern talk with myself in one of the many mirrors about the room I settled in for three hours of chatter and checking my hair before the competition kicked off.

Being a primary school music teacher (part-time) I know all about organising rowdy kids but I didn't realise this extended to queens. Lined up and fully briefed about what we could and could not do, we was gently marched up to a waiting room in single file to be flung out onto the stage every four or so minutes.

The other performers were high kicking, lip sync assassins equipped with angelic vocals and the energy of that Duracell bunny which all of them had probably only ever seen on a retro TV adverts special on Channel 5. So in the slipstream of burlesque performances and acrobatic slut drops I was a bit worried that coming out and telling jokes might throw the audience a bit. 

But it went alright! Better than alright as it turned out 'cos they was loving the puns. A hundred joyous people doing the microwave at midnight was something to behold and when I did my Lady Gaga parody in the second half they all went proper nuts. The judges gave the nicest feedback and I was lost for words, which makes a change.

So I got through to the final. The winner would be decided by lip sync battle. I knew then I was completely up the tea spout given I can barely sync to my own Tiktoks but I held my nerve and listened for the opening of the track.

And I didn't recognise it.

And my worthy adversary did.

A minute in and she was leading hand claps, springing all over the place and miming like a girl possessed.

A minute in I realised the song was that "rolling on the river" thing by Tina Turner.

Which I don't like.

Put simply, it isn't the best.

So I wiggled about a bit like a backup dancer with a wardrobe malfunction and gracefully accepted my runner up position. But I hope to be back because it was well nice and the audience and judges were lovely lovely lovely. I got me a whole stack of new instagrammers and tiktokkers to broadcast to.

It certainly made up for the fact I got 2 hours sleep before a whole day in front of a class...!

THEN I performed in Bolton last night.

To 12 people.

Who were real nice.

But it was a bit of a reality check.

ONWARDS!