The Wolverhampton Fringe taking place this weekend.

Express & Star

We join the Wolverhampton Fringe at one of it's venues, The Lych Gate Tavern.

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00:06He said me cholesterol was up a bit. Blinky neck. He told me to take these tablets and

00:11cut down on food and treats, take out all the trans fats and replace them with pulses and

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00:21me body like it's a church and for me it was time to start praying. I cut out all the black

00:26pudding, groaty dick and faggots and peys. Abstain from scratchings, dumplings and chitlins.

00:32I'd even put sugar in me day. Well you thought I'd have been a new man with all these lifestyle

00:37changes but what you'd call a new man presented numerous unwelcome challenges. It started with

00:43headaches and vertigo, palpitations and feeling sick, insomnia and nightmares and the doc said

00:48another prescription should do the trick. I went on to get muscle cramps, depression, indigestion

00:55and gout. So he told me to stop drinking and give me a capsule that did simply note.

00:59I cried for salads and herbal drinks, started to bathe and not take a shower. I went all

01:04health and wellbeing but I still couldn't pronounce quinoa. It was the strangeness that came on

01:13next. The mood swings and the sweating. I went back to the doctor and described everything

01:17I was a-getting. He said I feel somewhat perplexed and really don't know what it is you seek.

01:22He asked if I had trouble with erections. I said well I did put a shed up last week.

01:27In that moment his first little, I've got it, I've got it you see. I said well keep it

01:33to yourself me mondo you'll pass anything else on to me. You see what we've been doing is

01:38like putting petrol into a diesel engine you've been covering and spluttering about the place

01:42and it shouldn't be somewhat we shouldn't try again. So go back to your roadways, what you've

01:48got I'm absolutely sure your condition is called being black country and for that there ain't no cure.

01:54Emma you're kind of one of the organisers of the Fringe aren't you? Yeah. So what is the Fringe?

02:02What's been happening? Quite a few different events. Yeah so we've got 17 events all over this weekend

02:0725th of the 27th of July and they're happening in two cafes, one pub and also the Arena Theatre.

02:14So we've got like two headline comedians at the Arena Theatre. We had Lucy Porter last night,

02:19it was brilliant and we've got Stephen K Amos tonight and then we've just finished in the Litchgate

02:24doing a few shows upstairs in the function room and Brendan Hawthorne's just been on.

02:29Cool and you're here again tomorrow aren't you? You've got some events tomorrow? Yes we've got loads of shows

02:32upstairs here tomorrow and they're all pay as you feel so you come in you grab a seat it fills up

02:39till the venue's full and then at the end you put money in the hat what you can afford. What's happening

02:44here tomorrow then? Is it kind of a bit of a mix of music comedy? There's all sorts tomorrow we've

02:49got some stand-up comedy we've got a show called Looking for Wolverhampton's Latin Quarter which is

02:54the last show that's going to be really good I think I've seen Ian Pearce perform before. So yeah all

03:00sorts of different things really it's a poetry first show it's an indie music show she's talking

03:06about her love of indie so yeah. So what are we hoping then this will become like a bit of an

03:11annual event is that their fingers yeah is that the fingers crossed that you kind of hope yeah

03:15yeah let's see well that's me Monday. Well thank you for all the hard work behind the scenes putting

03:21this on for us all thank you. So we're at the Litchgate Tavern and we're with Alistair and Jane.

03:26Colt, good Wentfield folk and you've just been at one of the events

03:29the Fringe events. We have indeed. So it's seeing the lovely Brendan, Samwell man. What did you think?

03:35Oh it's brilliant it's brilliant it's so good to keep the memories of the black country alive

03:41yeah you know multiculturalism is great but it's diluting down the

03:48that heart of the black country the the accents the grape who eats grape peas these days you know

03:55who knows what grape peas are it's one of them when you get to London and you think oh i'm gonna love

04:00even a Cockney accent you go there and you don't hear one and that's a shame you know what i mean

04:05so yeah he comes out with all the tales and the lingo so what do you think about you know wolves

04:11having these kind of events and fringe events it's what the city needs isn't it it is isn't it i haven't

04:16been into Wolverhampton city centre for a good while other than to get to the train station to

04:21to go somewhere else yeah um so it's brought me into wolves for the first time in a long time

04:27yeah it's got to be a good thing cool are you listening to that Wolverhampton council support

04:32this festival absolutely well that's it you get people in and i dare say you've spent a couple of

04:36pound while you've been here you know a couple of drinks and stuff and we're off to see Stephen K Amos

04:41later we're going to have a mooch around we're probably going to pop into the art gallery haven't

04:45been in the art gallery a few years yeah so yeah it's it's bringing people out it's bringing them

04:49into Wolverhampton and we're listening to some good stuff cool nice one thank you guys

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