To Hull and Back

Here’s another review of our double bill show with the Scarlet Lights in Hull.

Hull’s Edinburgh Heroes: Double Bill

This show contrasted the routinely overstated Scarlet Lights against the routinely understated Ladma; though somehow this worked as evidenced with the show’s finale when all performers shared the stage with a rousing Chicagoesque number.

First up were Ladma, whose calmly confident delivery and squabbling had the majority of the audience in creases. The new Ladma logo and fourth member of the group material sailed very close to the wind though went down well. Ladma routinely addressed pretty much all of the taboos with a set that appealed mostly to the teenagers in the audience, and much less so to those easily offended; the content too strong for one audience member to stomach as they left halfway through.

Despite an array of deranged characters, the live comedy outshone the videos and it is in parodying themselves that could give Ladma future.

Scarlet Light’s Edinburgh show was a no-holds barred story of modern relationships, female insecurity and male indifference. The polished performance was applauded by the many Scarlet Lights fans in the audience and at times shocking for the newcomers to this group.

It seems clear that first and foremost Scarlet Lights are group of actresses, rather than comedians and although their principle characters do play to Hull-lass stereotypes, the energy and timing leads the audience to laugh when they are meant to.

The show’s finale steals the show as we see a new bride self destruct through the medium of a track borrowed from Grease 2 - the perfect closer to compliment the opening orgasmic scene.

In summary, this double bill wasn’t for the fainted hearted, wasn’t ground breaking, but it was pretty darn funny.

Reviewed by Hull Comedy

I’d like to say Hull was the first time someone walked out of our show, but sadly it’s not. A few people did walk out of the show in Edinburgh only to return a couple of minutes later having been to the toilet. Everyone else had the foresight to go to the toilet before the show. Anyway, I later learned that the woman who walked out of the show in Hull was actually a clairvoyant. It makes you wonder why she spent £6 on a ticket when she knew the show was going to be shit? Or maybe she just needed to go to the toilet? Either way she should've seen it coming.

Dan