anyone been to see monty python?

[ebodad]

Going to see them next week and trying to work out transpor. Just wondered what time they came on at (7.30 on the dot?) and also what time it finished.

Thanks

[Help-Ma-Boab]

Finished around 10.35, started on stage just after 7.30.

I had no probs getting home ( did leave 5 mins early as encore was coming on to avoid huge crush at tube). I live Peckham Rye, so get tube to Canada Water the Overground to PR. Took about 20 mins and was in Gowlett for a pint just after 11.

Not a huge fan but show was good and it was a free ticket.

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ebodad Wrote:

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> Going to see them next week and trying to work out

> transpor. Just wondered what time they came on at

> (7.30 on the dot?

I've told you once.

[Jack.asiliman]

I saw the show and loved it, well worth the ticket price.

[Dog duck]

Jeez.. the thought of sitting through that load of has been dross... A bit like reading most of the posts on EDF...

[ednewmy]

The "official" timings are

Act 1 - 7.30

Interval - 8.30

Act 2 - 8.50

Finish - 9.50 (approx)

But as help-ma-boab said, it has been finishing considerably later on some nights, so I would plan for it to finish at around 10.30. Transport is dead easy - tube to canada water, over ground to peckham rye, national rail to east dulwich. You can drive, but pre-booked parking is ?21 and on the day is ?30 so it's not cheap, and it can take a while to get out afterwards.

I work at The O2 and do the train journey every working day and have it down to a fine art. It takes around 30 minutes if you get on the right trains!

[Jeremy]

ednewmy Wrote:

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> tube to canada water, over ground to peckham rye, national rail to east dulwich.

Not easier to just make a single change at London Bridge? (assuming you're not walkable from an overground station)

[ednewmy]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> > tube to canada water, over ground to peckham

> rye, national rail to east dulwich.

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> Not easier to just make a single change at London

> Bridge? (assuming you're not walkable from an

> overground station)

I used to do that before the overground came and it was fine. I still do it sometimes when the overground is out, but it

a.) takes a little longer

b.) means changing at london bridge

c.) costs more as I use oyster pay as you go. The way I use costs me ?1.60 each way as I mostly travel off peak. Via LB is at least double that I think...

[Jeremy]

The change at London Bridge is pretty shitty I admit... the change at Canada Water is much much quicker

[El Pibe]

I watched some of the live show on gold a couple of nights ago and am very very glad i dodn't go to see it. It was all so cosy, and knowing and sycophantic.

Everything that as far as I was concerned was the antithesis of python, of why i was mesmerised by the anarchy of it as a kid when I hired all those series on betamax. It was Python, along with Orwell, Douglas Adams, Dave Allen, who got me questioning everything i was being spoon fed.

This article has nicely summed up much of what I felt and says it better than me.

http://thequietus.com/articles/15649-monty-python

These days it's received wisdom that Monty Python's Flying Circus ? the television show which ran from 1969 to 1974 ? was mostly rubbish. We hear it all the time. Even some of the Pythons are in lockstep. Here's Michael Palin, from April of this year: "A lot of Python was crap, it really was. We put stuff in there that was not really that good, but fortunately there were a couple of gleaming things that everyone remembers, while they?ve forgotten the dross."

As is the case with most received wisdom, there's an element of truth in this, and the rest is bollocks. Sure, anyone watching the Flying Circus for the first time in 2014 and expecting non-stop hilarity will be rather confused and perhaps a little disappointed. Sketches fail on a regular basis, sometimes quite spectacularly; extraordinarily long periods can pass without anything funny happening (the studio audience tittering nervously from time to time, to compound the embarrassment). Once considered dizzyingly fast, bits of Python now seem painfully slow.

But that doesn't matter much. Python isn't meant to be a procession of quickfire gags ? rather, it calls to mind the words of the poet Hugh MacDiarmid: "My job, as I see it, has never been to lay a tit's egg, but to erupt like a volcano, emitting not only flame but a load of rubbish." The aim is to create a flow of unnerving and bewildering ideas, an unstable atmosphere which may produce hysterical laughter, or merely dumbfound. Those longeurs are part of the deal. Python is not about wisecracks and pithy one-liners ? it's all about the swirl.

Those sketches in isolation, the discomfort with which Palin was delivering it, the luvvieness of the supporting singers and dancers, the whoops of the crowd, just yeauch.

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El Pibe Wrote:

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> Everything that as far as I was concerned was the

> antithesis of python, of why i was mesmerised by

> the anarchy of it as a kid when I hired all those

> series on betamax. It was Python, along with

> Orwell, Douglas Adams, Dave Allen, who got me

> questioning everything i was being spoon fed.

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> ....For me, being of a certain age, it was just Punk that did that all by itself and 'almost' overnight

[El Pibe]

I arrived a bit late for that.

By the time i was aware enough punk had already fractured into a million things though I was quite diggin P.I.L. by now, at a pinch I'd say this was around '83 when I devoured those MPFC videos.

Weirdly enough just writing a best man speech for a mate who i totally bonded with during those, along with kung fu, 80s horror and of course George A Romero!

That's not going in the speech though....

[Otta]

I loved Holy Grail and Life of Brian, other than that it's only the odd thing that I ever laughed at.

[Otta]

Then again it was quite a while afyer they were made that I was old enough to really get most if it.

[El Pibe]

Life of Brian is a genuine masterpiece. Holy Grail's appeal has ebbed as i grew up, though it certainly has its moments.

Time Bandits was a formative moment when it came out too!!

[Otta]

Yeah Holy Grail defo a moments in amongst meh kind of thing, Life of Brian an altogether better flowing film, and MP at their peak.

[Mick Mac]

Is this what is on TV tonight on Gold ? Seems strange that it's on so soon. Sky 110.

[Jeremy]

I watched a bit of the live show on TV too, but just seemed like bland and unimaginative song-and-dance routines... and I don't think I heard the audience laugh at all. Turned off atter ten minutes (and this is coming from someone who has almost all of their output on DVD)

[Otta]

A colleague (aged 60) went to see it and loved it, but I think it was all about the nostalgia trip for her.