The Beagle Has Landed!

Greetings from HMS Beagle!

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Eager Beagles and new shows...

We've had great fun with Beagle over the past year. We've taken it to some fab venues, and being able to perform at this year's Shrewsbury Darwin Festival in February was one of the highlights.

It's been five years since Beagle debuted. In the intervening years the show has - of course - evolved. Or at least mutated. Either way, we were so chuffed to get such a warm response from the Festival audience.

But: we're not done with Beagle yet!

Origin Day: 24 November 2009

On 24 November 2009, it was the 150th Anniversary of Charles Darwin publishing Origin of Species - or, its full original title On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

So we created some Darwin iPhone and PC wallpaper that you might like. If you like it, let us know. If you get a tattoo of it, let us know and we'll give you a free ticket for every show we ever do from now on. Seriously. Do it.

Upcoming shows

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Saturday 13 February - Shrewsbury Darwin Festival (Old Post Office, Shrewsbury, 7:30pm)

The Beagle Has Landed!

They've invited us back! We debuted an early version Beagle at the Darwin Festival back in 2005, so we're excited to be back and performing it for our home crowd.
Monday 15 February - Leicester Comedy Festival (Bowie's Bar, Belmont Hotel, Leicester 7:00pm)

The Beagle Has Landed!
Friday 12 - Sunday 21 March - Geek Pop '10 Festival (Online)

Geekpop is the online festival for music inspired by science. This year, they've added a new stage - The Comical Flask - where you'll be able to see and hear silly stuff from the likes of us and other sciencey comedians.

Exclusively for Geekpop, we'll be performing a few of the songs from The Beagle Has Landed!

Saturday 10th July - Wrexham Science Festival

The Beagle Has Landed!

Saturday 18 September -  British Science Festival, Aston University

The Beagle Has Landed!

We're dead pleased - and more than a little humbled - to have been invited to be a part of one of Europe's biggest science festivals. Details of the performance will be posted here sometime in the next couple of months.

October - Manchester Science Festival (provisional)

Natural Hysteria: The Comedy Quiz Show and "Brain"

After an exhibit-endangering performance of Beagle in the Mammal Hall at Manchester Museum in 2009, the Festival has invited us back. Details are not finalised, but we hope to bring Natural Hysteria along with our utterly, utterly new show Brain to the 2010 Festival.