Review: The Shed's Greatest Hits The Shed Gigs 2010 Yorkshire Evening Press 11.11.2005 by Charles Hutchinson Mrs Boyes' Bingo featuring Mark Sanders + Gail Brand / Mark Sanders duo Thursday 29 October - Spiegeltent, Belfast Festival + Lol Coxhill By kind invitation of the Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queens   Saturday 31 October at The Shed £12.50 BOOK NOW UNDER a slice of moon and stars as bright as American teeth, Hovingham's queue for the Ryedale fish and chip van's weekly village run was longer than usual. What's more, the hiss of batter had a musical counterpoint. There was Alan Tomlinson, serenading the throng. "Serenading" would be stretching it; whenever he hit a melodic stride, he stopped, his trombone more often gurgling, whooshing and whistling like the wind. Tomlinson had passed this way before, on Steve Tate's village chip beat in 2003, and on Wednesday he returned as part of The Shed's Greatest Hits night of improvised music, his trombone slide fighting for control like Rod Hull's Emu. One of each tucked away at £3.10, the throng was drawn to a second pied piper outside the village hall: Lol Coxhill, picked out by arc lights, hunched over his curved soprano sax in a council skip. Stranger still was the finale to a night that had drawn Shed-heads from Oxford, Chesterfield, York and probably Mars too. Shed impresario Simon Thackray - the Heath Robinson of Ryedale - has invented performance bingo or bingo bango, if you prefer, wherein Malton bingo-calling legend Mrs Boyes does her stern best to ignore the scat-drumming of Mark Sanders, a sound outlawed under the Punk Reformation Act of 1976. The Shed's Greatest Hits - the grand finale! - Photo: www.davidxgreen.com Full houses and a full Shed, fruit, booze and biscuit prizes, and suddenly Tomlinson and Coxhill added to Sanders' cacophony. "Well, I must be crackers," said Mrs Boyes. Crackers? You would be mad to miss such delirium. © 2005 Charles Hutchinson, Yorkshire Evening Press Simon Thackray - "performs miracles from his eyrie" Yorkshire Post The Shed Gigs Booking Now - "The smallest show on earth" Guardian Hat - the original knitting performance Knitted Elvis Wigs - Vogue Knitting and No.1 on Google! The Fish & Chip Van Tour - on the Richard and Judy Show The Yorkshire Pudding Boat Race - Big Breakfast to Sky News North Yorkshire Elvis Bus Tour - Afternoon Play on Radio 4 Mrs Boyes' Bingo - featuring Mark Sanders The Shed Comes To Town - and Malton comes to life!

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