Official fan-run Kids in the Hall reunion tour MySpace
Fan labor is cheap - and if you want something done, you gotta do it yourself.Link (Thanks, Tavie!)In cooperation with their management, I'm running the official Myspace page for the Kids in the Hall 2008 reunion tour. It's pretty fun, although it mainly involves correcting date links and hitting "accept" for a bunch of people several times a day. Soon we'll have some content from the Kids themselves, which ought to be highly awesome.
Can't wait until the show gets to NYC.
This is fandom at its most fun. I love it when the artists enlist the fans to help - this whole tour feels very "homegrown" right now and I'm thrilled to be involved in it.
If they come to your city, I highly recommend you snag yourself a ticket. The Kids are all nearing "50" now, and they seriously are as funny a they ever were, if their show last summer in Montreal is any indication. (Which it is.)
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I always had a thing for the chicken lady. Some of the best comedy to make it out of Canada.
I think the hardest I've ever laughed in my life may have been late one night when my roommates and I stumbled across one of the first HBO episodes of Kids back when we were in college. None of us had heard of or seen the show before, and admittedly we may not have been entirely, but the humor just worked perfectly for those of us who had been raised on Python. For some reason the skit with the "I'm crushing your head" guy had us all on the verge of needing oxygen.
That first exposure cemented us all as long-term fans, to the extent that I even own two CDs by the band that did the show's theme song, Shadowy Men from a Shadowy Planet. I went and saw them on a previous concert tour about five or six years ago, and really enjoyed the show ... they were a little bit sloppy around the edges with the old material, but they were all having such fun, and having such fun being together, that it kept people grinning even during the more stale or slow bits. I was a little surprised that they had only written one new skit/scene for the show, though ... hopefully they've upped the percentage of "post-TV" material a bit by now.
This show is ALL new material. I believe there are some new sketches featuring old characters, but all the sketches are newly written for this show, in the spirit of their formative days performing at the Rivoli in Toronto when they would write a new show every week.
I can't wait. I am drooling with excitement.
The Kids previewed a bunch of this stuff at Sketchfest here in San Francisco in January. Before their performance, I interviewed Dave for the Onion, and got some fun stuff out of him regarding reunions, touring, staying fresh, and Canadian TV vs. Canadian cinema. The Onion produces a wealth of local content, but publishes none of it online, so I put it here: http://missionmission.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/kid-in-the-hall-dave-foley-on-comedy-festivals-reunion-tours-canada-and-young-asian-girls-growing-up-in-prostitution/
there are no words for how much i love the kids. i would poke bellini with my finger. i wouldn't even need a stick.
dammit -- i checked the listings for their tour, and they are performing in san francisco the SAME NIGHT that poi dog pondering is playing at the great american theater -- and i just bought tickets for poi dog! geez, i don't know if i could choose between poi dog and the kids, anyway. i love them both dearly.
Very cool - but I'm more of a Frantics fan. Let me know when _they're_ on tour near me (Texas), and I'll camp out for tickets.
Anyone know the (blasted) Ticketmaster presale password??? Email me at punkbvr@hotmail.com
Los Angeles May 9:
Bill Silva Presents: Kids In The Hall
Begins At 8 Pm; Doors At 7 Pm
Ticketmaster Presale Begins: Wed, 03/19/08 @ 10 Am
Regular Ticketmaster On Sale Fri., Mar. 21 @ 10 Am
Ticket prices will be:
Orch, Mezzanine, Boxes $55.00
Front Balcony $42.50
Rear Balcony $35.00
8 ticket limit for all price levels
For more info go to billsilvapresents.com
Presale PW for LA is "pink"
These guys are really on the ball with the presale passwords.
(Don't email me asking for presale passwords, nobody gives me them. I just see them posted on the site I just linked.)
2nd row for Royal Oak, Mich. Yee-ha!
Can't wait. I just stumbled across the Odds video for Heterosexual Man, featuring some of the Kids. TFF!
Saw the Milwaukee show last night. It was great and four of the five Kids came out to the lobby to hang out and meet the fans afterwards. Scott said that the Kids are doing another movie and that he's just recorded a 3 part Danny Husk series that is going to be posted online. They also wrote 2 new sketches that they're showing at the shows. Really great stuff.