Gittins To Know You

Like Christmas, Gittins To Know You is a marvel of a carefully orchestrated shambles, filled with glee, spontaneity, and a knowledge that there’s nothing else like it. Hosted by Brian Gittins, he goes to lengths to explain that this is for his new material – it just so happened that this new material made my cheeks ache from laughing at cereal.
Formatted with an established act opening and a famous face closing, with a handful of spots in the middle section for up and coming local talent, it’s packed full of humour for a variety of tastes.
Mark Silcox opened well, with his deadpan idiosyncrasies poking the funny bone of the room with aplomb.
Doc Brown closed with a set that revelled in his enjoyment and skill as both comic and rapper.
This is the home of oddballs, lunatics, and risks, and the bunker environment suits it. As does the city and the audience, who keep coming back for more of this anarchic joy.

Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar, 10 November 2016

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