another FREE comedy night and er not much else actually...

It's a quietish week at The Ship (notice my subtle shortening there eh???) events wise but before I launch into this week a penultimate reminder that you can reserve tickets for The Smyths gig on Saturday August 5th for just £5 by emailing or calling me. It will sell out and it will also be more expensive for non reserved tickets so you know what to do. We are also reserving tickets for Guardian single of the weekers Lucky Soul + 3 supports on Saturday 12th August.

Also, we are going to be abandoning our weekly house night and having bands on Friday nights in future too. Generally funk, electronic, soul, beats etc with more indie/punk bands on a Saturday. So if you know of any bands that you would like to see let me know.

If anyone has a forthcoming birthday and they want to hire either a Friday or a Saturday (or a week day) then please let me know. We'll almost certainly offer it for free unlike most rip off joints.


Right this week....
Monday...absolutely nothing
Tuesday...absolutely nothing
Wednesday 26th July FREE Comedy
An evening with Mark Allen's Quite Good Britain plus The Comedy Bucket. Doors from 730. Acts start at 830. This show will only be shown in Edinburgh, London's West End and Kilburn. Super eh?? There is a preview here on Mark's show.
http://www.commitnonuisance.com/comedy/QGB.html and it will be the finale after an hour from the Comedy Bucket featuring Alan Stick, Arnab Chanda, Dave Nicholls, Matthew Crosby and Joe Wilkinson. Credits: winners and finalists of Hackney Empire, BBC, Jongleurs, Channel 5's SYTYF and Laughing Horse competitions.
Thursday 27th July Songbirds and Troubadours acoustic night
£2, much cheapness, to see a tranche of acoustic acts from soloists to full bands as selected by our host Brett. No chaff here and a very nice relaxing evening. Lovely.
Friday 28th July. House night
Last one from our promoter Ian. Bound to go off with a bang.
Saturday 29th July. During the day from about 3pm we will have the first public reading of a play called Love is Patient. No bands in the evening but we will have DJs from 8pm playing a mix of funk, soul, reggae, ska, pop, punk and indie and it is free entry until midnight and then discovating until 4am.
Sunday 30th July. Our resident blues, funk, soul, rock band Blues of Cain from 7ish. £3 entry.

That's all folks.

John.x
07949 008253

all aboard...

free comedy, free film and...free beer

Yes, your eyes are not deceiving you.
Find free beer in 2 paragraphs time. Now that it is baking you'll be pleased to know that it is fully air conditioned in The Good Ship and this week we have an array of entertainment.

MONDAY 17th...Free comedy night. Mirth Control presents a night of stand up comedy starting at 8 and you can get a review of all the comics below.
Headline Act - DOUGIE DUNLOP - http://www.comedycv.co.uk/dougiedunlop/index.htm
Opening Act -ANDREW O'NEILL - http://www.comedycv.co.uk/andrewoneill/index.htm
Middle Act - DIANE MORGAN - http://www.comedycv.co.uk/dianemorgan/index.htm
Middle Act - MOWTEN - no biog available
Compere - STUART GOLDSMITH - http://www.comedycv.co.uk/stuartgoldsmith/index.htm

TUESDAY 18th...Free film night. Leon Mason from Soho books down the road has made a full length film, the clever chap. The first ever showing will be at The Good Ship on Tuesday and it is a psychological drama about 3 exchange students who have some strange things happen to them as they try to leave London. Wooohooooo. There is a free beer available to anyone who answers corrrectly a question about the film at the end.

THURSDAY 20th...Charity music evening. On behalf of the Refugee Council we are hosting the acclaimed folk musician Sam Beer and his band (www.sambeer.co.uk). All the door money plus a percentage of the bar money will go to the charity, although we don't like to talk about it, oh no.

SATURDAY 22nd...4 live bands and DJ after. We have a great lineup this Saturday with the funky and chunky Dmeister headlining, plus support from the outstanding Super Nashwan who are doing their pre Lovebox Weekender show. Plus some stand out funky stuff from The Funkateers and The Honky Tonk Orchestra.
Check them all out below...
www.myspace.com/dmeistermusic
www.myspace.com/funkateersband
www.myspace.com/supernashwan
www.myspace.com/thehonkytonkorchestra

Have great weeks all.

cheers
John.x
07949 008253


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Hello sleepys, that was my attempt at the song they used to do in the cinema when I was a whippersnapper. A fanfare for our month of film where we have 3 FREE events this month for film fans amongst you. As well as 2 FREE comedy nights. Note my use of capitals to get your attention eh? Left school at 16 but will stand my ground with those marketing graduates anyday...

Anyway, there is a change of date for the feature film aftrennon from the 16th to the 30th but look at the website for full details of these events and please do support the film folk who are putting lots of effort to get these shows on. If you want the press release for the films nights email me and I'll send to you. Diary for those...

Tuesday 11th Short film night
Monday 17th Comedy night
Tuesday 18th New feature film night
Wednesday 26th Comedy night
Sunday 30th Classic feature film afternoon.

This weekend starts tonight when we have 3 great bands; Helene, LR Rockets and Zex plus DJ til 1am and bar til 2. Helene especially are hugely rated so come and have a look at them before they end up at The Luminaire!
Friday is house night 10 til 4am and on Saturday the DJ will play a mix of house soul and funk til 4am. We will be back to bands on a Saturday from the next one.

cheers all
John.x
07949 008253


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FREE Fashion sale this Sunday...plus Smyths and Lucky Soul ticket news....

Have you missed me?????
Yes, of course you have!!
Right this Sunday we have the return of the Indoor Sunday Market so whilst everyone is getting sunburnt outside pop in and have a drink in our air conditioned comfort whilst having a look at our designers and vintage clothes merchants. There will be hats, bags, clothes and shoes so hopefully you can pick up a bargain or 5. It is on from 2pm to 630ish pm and entry is entirely FREE. We also have one stall free as well so if anyone wants to sell stuff we'll allow you to do that for free too. Alas, if you buy any drinks they are not free. Sorry!

Right, for July we have 2 seperate comedy nights and 3 film nights so the film and comedy buffs amonst you are well catered for. Best of all they are all FREE as well. Gor blimey, we are good to you.
Fuller details are on www.thegoodship.co.uk but the dates are
Tuesday 11th FILM
Sunday 16th FILM
Monday 17th COMEDY
Tuesday 18th FILM
Wednesday 26th COMEDY

In August I have had loads of enquiries re The Smyths on the 5th and Lucky Soul on the 19th in terms of tickets. Advance tickets are on sale for both gigs at a fiver. The Smyths will definitely sell out and I imagine Lucky Soul too so please email me if you would like one.

cheers and have great weekends.

John.x
07949 008253

all aboard...