Lovingly captured on on a videogramatical cylinder this performance formed part of Leviathan in the Mind Field at The Electric Picnic on September 5th 2009. This marked the performance debut of the song “Hey Brian”.
The Emergency: Live will perform in Leviathan: The Political Cabaret as part of Mind Field @ The Electric Picnic on Saturday September 5th starting @ 4:30pm.
The Emergency Live: L-R Morgan C Jones, Karen Ardiff, Joe Taylor, Dermot Carmody*
This will be the first time the full cast of The Emergency appears onstage together (though we came pretty close to it back in the Trim Swift Satire Festival ). Dermot Carmody, Morgan C Jones, Karen Ardiff, Nick McGivney, Joe Taylor and Eoin Byrne, will perform a full-length live version of the radio show onstage. Just without the radio. But with visibility. Material will include songs and sketches from already broadcast radio shows as well as brand new script never before heard or seen (or indeed, written at the moment). Read more »
A detachment from The Emergency is already hitching to Galway for the inaugural Leviathan: West at The Róisin Dubh in Galway tomorrow night.
The Emergency continues its fruitful new partnership in live performance with the Leviathan Political Cabaret:
We are launching Leviathan: West in Galway next Tuesday 28th July in the Róisín Dubh in Galway.
Guided by the theme “Is the West Awake?”, Tuesday’s show is hosted by incoming Late Late Show host Ryan Tubridy and the panel includes Irish Times journalist Harry McGee, Connacht Tribune Editor Dave O’Connell, John Concannon of Ireland West Tourism and Carol Hunt of the Sunday Independent. We want to examine how the innate creativity and innovation for which the west of Ireland is known can help lead the way out of recession.
Also Paddy Cullivan of the Camembert Quartet;
Come along if you are in the West – it’s not quite the Galway Races Tent, but there’s politics and horseshit involved so it might provide an element of nostalgia for anyone who misses that foetid institution!
We’ll be announcing further live performances by The Emergency here soon. So now for ye.
The Emergency will continue its foray into live performance with a half hour show as part of the Leviathan Silly Season Satire Special at The Button Factory on Wednesday, July 22nd.
Emergency team members Dermot Carmody, Morgan C Jones, Karen Ardiff and Joe Taylor will be joined by Crazy Dog Audio Theatre Sound FX wizard Roger Gregg to perform a radio show live on stage.
The first live performance by The Emergency was a short spot at a recent Leviathan, and the team have since performed a half hour show as part of the Trim Swift Satire Special. The Emergency received an award from the Swift festival acknowledging its services to satire. The award, fashioned from a large cut gemstone is seen here with Emergency Force consultant, Yoda.
For more information on the show at The Button Factory see Leviathan’s web site.
