“Think Bright Eyes but sadder and less self aware.” | Matt Hutson on plunging the emotional depths for Softboy at Vault Festival

Tell us about the show you’re bringing to the Vault Festival, Softboy. It’s basically a show that makes fun of fragile masculinity. I ‘play’ a struggling singer songwriter that is very obviously desperate for approval. I put ‘play’ in quotations because sometimes it feels like a character and sometimes it’s definitely just me singing about … Continue reading “Think Bright Eyes but sadder and less self aware.” | Matt Hutson on plunging the emotional depths for Softboy at Vault Festival

“The best comedy comes from a place of raw honesty and reality.” | Tom Mayhew talks class, austerity and comedy that stands up for the vulnerable

Tell us about your show, I, Tom Mayhew. The show was inspired by my experiences after I left school in 2010; I had good qualifications, but I didn’t feel like University was for me. I wanted to get a job and save some money, but due to the 2008 recession - which led to record … Continue reading “The best comedy comes from a place of raw honesty and reality.” | Tom Mayhew talks class, austerity and comedy that stands up for the vulnerable

“Every time I buy jelly beans I think I’m expressing the essence of who I am” | Joz Norris on distilling identity in You Build The Thing You Think You Are at Vault Festival

Tell us about the show you’re bringing to the Vault Festival, You Build The Thing You Think You Are. My last show was a sort of conceptual absurdist thing where I performed the entire show in disguise and didn’t actually really appear until the very end. It sort of deliberately kept the truth at arm’s … Continue reading “Every time I buy jelly beans I think I’m expressing the essence of who I am” | Joz Norris on distilling identity in You Build The Thing You Think You Are at Vault Festival