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“ludicrously hilarious” ***** The Public Reviews

Date of live review: Tuesday 9th Aug, ‘11

I haven’t actually seen every single improvisation comedy show at Edinburgh – there are an awful lot – but I will stick my neck out and say that if a well known brewery made improvisation comedy, it would be ‘The Noise Next Door’, consisting of five outrageously talented and engaging young men. My throat was sore with laughter by the end of the hour, which was certainly exceedingly fine!

As ever, the group improvised sketches, dances and jokes based on suggestions from the audience. As a result, every show is necessarily different but somehow equal. In the show I saw, we perhaps predictably met Harry Potter and Voldemort; observed a love triangle played out via text messages between Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare and Hannah, an audience member; saw the entire crew of Apollo 11 digging on the moon for cheese; found an ideal partner who was a seven feet tall, hunchbacked fishmonger with a liking for chicken goujons; and enjoyed a ludicrously hilarious ballet based on drawings from the audience involving dinosaurs, stick men, hot air balloons and castles. We also discovered that there are very few jokes about squirrels.

The five are talented songsmiths. Their songs are made up on the spot from ridiculous audience suggestions and not only scan and rhyme but also make a twisted sort of sense. I have seen several of their performances in the past and never cease to marvel at this skill. In this colour-coded, close-knit troupe, there simply is no weak link.

I can’t recommend them highly enough – but would suggest you take throat pastilles with you!

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THE NOISE NEXT DOOR:

THEIR FINEST HOUR

AS PART OF THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE 2011

Venue:             Pleasance – Beneath (Venue 33)

Dates:              3^rd to 29^th August 2011 (not 10^th or 17^th)

Time:               4.30pm (5.30pm)

Box office:       0131 556 6550

Internet:           www.pleasance.co.uk

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“RIOTOUSLY ENJOYABLE” **** Telegraph

Following the four-star critical acclaim of their 2010 show, Chaos Control, The Noise Next Door return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year with another dose of white-hot comedy that’ll leave you gasping in amazement.

With each show a totally unique comedy experience, audiences return again and again for a dose of The Noise Next Door’s unique cutting edge brand of off-the-cuff humour.

This year they are setting out to push the boundaries of instant Comedy even further by energising and reinventing improvised comedy formats to their utmost limits.

This is comedy at its purest and instantaneous best.

“a delight to watch” ***** Three Weeks

Date of live review: Saturday 20th Aug, ‘11

The Noise Next Door is a high-energy improv troupe whose talents are impressively varied; ‘Their Finest Hour’ combines comic songs, sketch and even ballet, along with a healthy dose of cheesy puns. Even the methods by which they glean audience suggestions are assorted and ingenious; in addition to the usual calling-out of words, the audience is asked to draw pictures and, at one point, donate a text message as inspiration for the next routine. The collective is witty and sharp throughout, and a delight to watch. Its members clearly enjoy being on stage and their marvellously self-conscious style, which consists largely in taking the piss out of each other, has the audience in stitches. A very fine hour indeed.

Review by Lisa McNally. Fringe Guru. Saturday 20^th August

“The beauty of the show is that, no two performances are the same, which keeps bringing people back” **** Edinburgh Spotlight

Date of live review: Tuesday 9th Aug, ‘11

As the room gradually fills, and people take their seats, they are serenaded by two of the members from the group. Also up in the corner of the room, there are two puppets similar to Statler and Waldorf (from the Muppets) messing around with each other, and also anyone else that gets too close to them.

The light’s go down and instantly the 5 of them burst onto stage, with a cloud of white dust accompanying them – which hangs in the air for the first few minutes, leaving the place smelling of talcum powder. Dressed in their trademark attire of all black, each with different coloured ties. They start the show with a song about 5 of the audience members Perfect Partner’s, singing about random characters to a well choreographed dance routine. The song at the start gives the room a vibe and everyone is eager to see what’s next.

Suggestions from the crowd help them to carry out a rather strange mission to and from the moon to save Carol Vordermon, and then destroy her using avocado oil – yes it does get as crazy as this. A txt from a borrowed mobile phone acts as the conversation between an audience member (played by Tom) and in this show a suggested Charles Dickens. This left the audience asking ‘please sir, can we have some more’ – with this theme recurring throughout. Sound effects and spotlights are used very well to add to the txt message theme.

With lots of side games between members, with an indie song about a relationship with a robot to an encounter between Harry Potter and Voldermort talking about Barack Obama, the audience is kept entertained for the full hour – and it is definitely their finest. It is easy to see that they have been performing together for 6 years, as they bounce off each other, with small comments like “You know far too much about (Harry Potter) that topic” and have the audience laughing throughout.

The simple-ness of the 5 members standing in a lift, acting as 5 random fictional/ non-fictional characters at the end is a brilliant finale. The beauty of the show is that, no two performances are the same, which keeps bringing people back.

Review by Elliot Bibby

“sublime comedy” **** Chortle

Date of live review: Friday 5th Aug, ‘11

“It can be difficult reviewing shows on the first day of Fringe previews. Technically anyone who has said they are happy to be reviewed should be ready… but how many really are?

But if you’re using suggestions from the crowd as the basis of your show then every day is a first day. The only thing that improv troupe The Noise Next Door need to do by way of rehearsal is a bit of warming up, and on this opening afternoon they’re showing no signs of rust. The fact that they’ve been working as a team for six years shows they’re a tight group without a weak link.

They appear on stage in their trademark garb: all black but for a different coloured tie each. And though I say there are five members, there are technically seven this year; as the audience enter the room a Statler-and-Waldorf-style puppet duo wearing the same look banter with each other and anyone who might come too close while two of the full size members of the troop serenade us.

They kick off proper with a song, a fitting display of their talents as each one adopts an attribute of the audience’s ‘perfect partner’ – on this occasion that turns out to be a female spy with four legs who likes Pokemon and can pull a condom over her head. The routine is perfectly choreographed and expertly sung and though some of the impromptu lyrics are a touch predictable, the strained exclamation, ‘I can’t breathe!’ from Charlie as the personification of ‘pulled-condom-over-head’ is simple but effective. Of course a song is an effective and dynamic way to get the energy up from the start in a typical Fringe sweat box of a venue on an unusually sunny day.

The key improv games are familiar ones, suggestions from the crowd inform a scene and, on occasion, audience members are plucked out of their seats to help out. But Noise differ in that they have created their own games from the premise. An early game sees not one scene but five (though I may have lost count) cutting across each other thick and fast. A borrowed mobile phone from the crowd begins the story of Winnie the Pooh entering into a text exchange and a subsequent trip to Berlin and audience drawings inspire a whole ballet.

There are plenty of endearing asides between the players drawing you into their world; they good naturedly pull each other up commenting, ‘can’t believe you got away with that joke’ and purple-tie Tom self referentially comments that ‘I know way too much about this for a 26-year-old man’ as he displays an impressive knowledge of A.A. Milne’s most famous creation.

Throughout the show some of the off-the-cuff quips are obvious – an indie song about a relationship with a gruff lady fire fighter includes a fair few gags about sliding down poles – but the acting, musical and choreography skills more than make up for it.

Plus there are plenty of moments of sublime comedy in the show; the improvised ballet imprints a mental image of two of the players in leotards that you’re not likely to forget in a hurry, a ’serious’ scene policed by the crowd armed with water pistols ordered to shoot when they spot inevitable corpsing from the performers is great fun and the final skit featuring Obama in a lift with some magical characters from myth is as fantastic as it is simple.”

Review by Marissa Burgess. Chortle

“ludicrously hilarious” ***** The Public Reviews

Date of live review: Tuesday 9th Aug, ‘11

I haven’t actually seen every single improvisation comedy show at Edinburgh – there are an awful lot – but I will stick my neck out and say that if a well known brewery made improvisation comedy, it would be ‘The Noise Next Door’, consisting of five outrageously talented and engaging young men. My throat was sore with laughter by the end of the hour, which was certainly exceedingly fine!

As ever, the group improvised sketches, dances and jokes based on suggestions from the audience. As a result, every show is necessarily different but somehow equal. In the show I saw, we perhaps predictably met Harry Potter and Voldemort; observed a love triangle played out via text messages between Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare and Hannah, an audience member; saw the entire crew of Apollo 11 digging on the moon for cheese; found an ideal partner who was a seven feet tall, hunchbacked fishmonger with a liking for chicken goujons; and enjoyed a ludicrously hilarious ballet based on drawings from the audience involving dinosaurs, stick men, hot air balloons and castles. We also discovered that there are very few jokes about squirrels.

The five are talented songsmiths. Their songs are made up on the spot from ridiculous audience suggestions and not only scan and rhyme but also make a twisted sort of sense. I have seen several of their performances in the past and never cease to marvel at this skill. In this colour-coded, close-knit troupe, there simply is no weak link.

I can’t recommend them highly enough – but would suggest you take throat pastilles with you!

Review by Selwyn Knight

“The Noise Next Door are attractive, talented, quick-witted and quick-thinking…astonishing talent” **** SG Fringe

Date of live review: Tuesday 9th Aug, ‘11

Improvised comedy, like anything, is not everyone’s cup of tea, although credit must be given to the pure skill, inventiveness and genius of those who manage to pull it off successfully. The Noise Next Door are in this improvisation elite, and their show this year really is their finest hour.

The pre-choreographed routines and song templates had the audience in stitches which is encouraging as these are some of the very few fixed features of the show which won’t change with each performance. Equally though, the excitement of improvised comedy such as this is that each performance will be different based on audience suggestions, and The Noise Next Door make the most of the bizarre suggestions thrown at them. The downside to this unpredictability is that during some of the more challenging and unusual scenes the performers have a tendency to break focus and laugh at themselves, although in one scene they go through intensive conditioning to beat this lack of control out of them! The only other negatives surrounding this show was that one or two sketches/songs perhaps went on a bit too long; and a couple of minor technical errors distracted from the astonishing talent being presented on stage.

The five boys of The Noise Next Door are attractive, talented, quick-witted and quick-thinking, and I don’t doubt that they have an extremely promising future both here at the Fringe and out on the wider circuit.

Review by Angus Wyatt. SG Fringe

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2011 Show Promo Continued

“IT IS EXTREMELY UNLIKELY YOU WILL SEE FUNNIER OR A MORE PURELY ENJOYABLE SHOW THAN THE NOISE NEXT DOOR…THE SHEER VOLUME OF LAUGHTER THIS SHOW PRODUCED WAS ASTONISHING”

**** Edinburgh Evening News

The Noise Next Door are Charlie Granville, Matt Grant, Tom Houghton, Tom Livingstone and Sam Pacelli. Since 2005, when they first started performing together, they have been astonishing audiences with their own distinctive brand of improvised comedy. With no rehearsal or script between them they have an uncanny knack of transforming audience suggestions into surreally entertaining scenes and songs in the blink of an eye. Their perfect blend of ludicrous characters, witty one-liners, epic stories and musical mayhem have left audiences everywhere in awe of their lightening fast imaginations and totally original comedic talents.

“IT’S VERY RARE TO SEE IMPROV COMEDY SO CONSISTENTLY HIT THE MARK”

**** The List

Since they first began performing together they have drawn a loyal fanbase and regularly headline to sell-out audiences at many of the top clubs on the UK Comedy Circuit. They have also supported some of the biggest names in contemporary comedy including Harry Hill, Ed Bryne and Lucy Porter and are the first international group to have performed at FRACAS improvisation festival in Los Angeles.

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“We all enjoyed our day and the workshops were worthwile  and please pass on my thanks to The Noise Next Door.”

To find where comedians The Noise Next Door are playing their next comedy club gigs – visit The Noise Next Door  comedy show listings page here.

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“Mike was great…he did some local references and that really worked.  He made a real effort to make it work over here so special thanks to him too. We got a half page editorial the next day which was really positive and they were all mentioned in detail.” Andaleeb Lilley

“The boys were great.  Very very funny and they were exactly what we needed to get the party started! …I had a chat with a few of them afterwards and I believe they had a good chat with my boss, our MD.  He said he would definitely use them again so that’s great feedback for them.” Suzie Sutherland. Channel 5

“The Noise Next Door were absolutely fantastic! They were the best live comedy I have ever seen! It was a perfect end to a great day.” Katie Metcalfe. Office Friendly Dealers Associates

“We are very excited to have the noise next door back for this event!” Amy Oliver. Marriott Hotels

“I just wanted to say what an excellent job Sam, Matt and Tom (from The Noise Next Door) did when they ran the workshop session for me earlier this month. It went down incredibly well with the participants and as always they provided just the right blend of challenge, creativity and encouragement.” Year One Consulting (Workshop Event)

“They were fantastic and a great success with our staff.” AEGIS

“The Noise Next Door came and completely ripped it, got two encores (only Ross Noble and Tim Vine have done that before at my gig) and the audience left absolutely exhilarated. After last night’s performance I (and everyone there) really think they are going to be massive. I’ve already thanked them but just wanted you to” Karen Bayley .Comedy Junction

“Thank you very much for your help with the booking of The Noise Next Door…They went down extremely well and rounded the evening off beautifully, lifting the energy in the room to the ceiling.” Komedia

“We all enjoyed our day and the workshops were worthwile  and please pass on my thanks to The Noise Next Door.” The University of Greenwich

“Just wanted to let you know that as an office we had an absolutely fantastic time last Friday and John Ryan made our event so very special. Everyone has been talking about it and The Comedy Club since…he is genuinely funny and lovely guy.” Eversheds International

“The comedian provided by The Comedy Club was pitch perfect and went down fantastically well both at our events in the North and South. Feedback from the delegates was great and they all really enjoyed it. I was particularly impressed with the effort John Ryan put into getting to know the audience prior to the event, he really tapped into what made them tick, another testament to The Comedy Club’s level of service and understanding of the event.” Guinness

“Thank you so much Comedy Club for securing John Ryan for our event. John Ryan’s performance was great and we will certainly be including John in future events and recommend him further.” The University of Northampton

“Thanks for sorting things out for Thursday. John was a hoot and everybody had a good time in my party!” BAA Airports

“I just wanted to say MASSIVE thank you to John Ryan who was absolutely brilliant on Saturday night – he made the evening really entertaining and helped to raise over £3,300 for Marie Curie Cancer Care. We would never have been able to raise as much money as we did without him and thank to you for an extremely efficient service.” Marie Curie Cancer Care

“John Ryan was very well received and enjoyed by all. The audience was very multinational and he handled this very well, preferring not to tell jokes but provide a more general entertainment which suited everybody. Thus, he read the situation well.” Ferrovial Agroman Airports UK Ltd

“John Ryan comedian and Master of Ceremonies for the day drew large crowds where members of the public not only benefited from a good laugh but gained valuable information as well. The day was a great success thanks to John and it is true that laughter is the best medicine!” NHS Plymouth

“What can I say? You went down a storm! …On behalf of all of the organising committee, I’d like to say a very sincere thank you. Thanks again for all your support…delivering a really engaging, valuable and interesting session. Good luck for the future, and congratulations on your award.” Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Coventry University

“the night was excellent and you went down brilliant!. Everybody in the office this morning have been saying you were hilarious.” Active Living Office. NHS Wigan

“The party went really well, and John was great.  General feedback from everyone was that the act went down well, involved the audience etc. Overall we were very happy with your service, particularly as we had left it quite late to arrange, and we will differently use you again if we do a similar event in the future. Thanks again” BDO LLP

“The event as a whole went well and the client was very impressed by John’s performance. They have asked me to pass on their thanks to him and said he provided a fantastic service as both compere and comedian on the night….I hope we work together again before too long” Joogleberry Acts

“The headliner was John Ryan from Essex who completely justified his headline spot with some brilliant stories and well thought out comic philosophy.” Whiskey Bob, 100% Biker Magazine

“The event went extremely well. John Ryan was absolutely brilliant! The feedback we received from the 200+ attendees was excellent. John was able to gauge the audience and tailored his act accordingly. He had everyone in ‘stitches’…The event ran smoothly and without any hitches…There’s a real buzz at work today. Everyone is talking about the event saying how much they enjoyed it.” Amicus Horizon

> “Bounding on stage for his first ever solo show at Edinburgh, Imran Yusuf isn’t your stereotypical stand-up. For one thing, he’s a Muslim, though he barely refers to this fact. He is also full of positive energy, happiness and joie de vivre.

He’s no doom merchant lamenting his lack of luck with the ladies but a man so full of fun that the audience can’t fail to not only warm to him, but feel positively fired up by his infectious personality. He has the feel good factor on tap.

He’s no oil painting with his scrawny build, large nose and irregular teeth, but his smile lights up the room and the sound of his laughter peppers his material. Born in Kenya, he moved to England at an early age but was educated in the USA and it is from here that he draws the inspiration for most of his material.

His stories of going to school it the States were told in faultless American accents and delighted the bunch of Americans in the audience who, by coincidence, came from the same town.

The comedy drew on his experience of being ridiculed by the Americans for his English accent, but his cultural comparisons are seen from a totally different perspective as he subverts the traditional UK-USA dissonance.

By not focussing on the obvious racial stereotypes, he wins over the entire audience. His happy, positive personality leaves them feeling uplifted, energised and privileged to have had An Audience With Imran Yusuf” ***** Chortle (Cara Sandys. 17.8.10)

>> “Imran Yusuf’s show heralds the birth of a new comedy star. Intelligent, thought provoking and laugh out loud funny it’s a glorious debut.” **** Time Out (Tim Arthur)

>>> “Imran Yusuf has to be one of the most captivating, energetic, and animated stand up comedians I’ve ever seen. His act is at a mile a minute, and he doesn’t let off for any of it. This show was a slight change on his usual act, focusing much more on his personal life, ideas, and experiences.

His delivery is lightning-fast, and with this show you get a real feeling of ‘getting to know’ him. He describes about his time at an American school, and how he was bullied for being British, patriotism and how we choose ‘British (UK)’ on software installations. Throughout the show he high-fives the front row, blows kisses to the girls, which is a really funny touch.

A highlight of the show is the ‘British citizenship test’, showing words such as ‘schedule’ that are often mispronounced due to things like American TV, which he got a guy in the front row answers with flying colours. Although the Fringe was one of the first public shows of this new material, it is already fairly solid, providing a lot of thoughtful insights into big topics like immigration, religion and culture. The material is very personal, and it’s a great to hear so much about a very interesting character such as Imran.” ***** The New Current (Mark Thomas)

>>>> “The Free Fringe is throwing up some great talent, not least this young Londoner of Asian extraction who has been gigging in clubs for a while but appears to be on the cusp of a breakthrough into the mainstream. Yusuf’s material is almost entirely about being a British Muslim, or should that be a Muslim who lives in Britain – a question he poses more than once in a very well thought-through set that subverts a lot of notions about racism.
He has some great stories about the time he spent at middle school in New Jersey; it remains the only time, he tells us, that he has ever been picked on for being English. “You people complain about being called infidel, but you don’t know what racism is until you’ve been called ‘English muffin’.”

Yusuf has a tendency to be a little preachy, but he’s clued-up enough to draw it back with an unexpected punchline when he feels he is losing the room. When he isn’t talking about racism, though, he’s leering at the women in the front row and suggesting they meet him in the loos. Classy.

He’s a very animated performer and a young man in a hurry; Yusuf references coming back next year and being a big star a few too many times, but there’s is no doubting his talent. As he says, catch him before you have to pay for the privilege. Until 29 August” **** Veronica Lee – The Arts Desk

“Imran Yusuf’s show (Laughing Horse @ Espionage 4 stars) is an hour of cheek and charm that takes us briskly through the Asian comic’s early life at an American school where his peers treated him as if he was in Mary Poppins (”Can you imagine me in that film? Well, maybe as a chimney sweep”) through to his life in Britain as a Muslim. “ **** The Independent (Julian Hall)

“Here we are at the end of the Fringe, and there are so many acts I meant to see but didn’t. I have a ‘would like to see’ list the length of the Mile. Then a couple of days ago, Imran Yusuf graduated from this list to the ‘must see’ list. He was nominated for an Edinburgh Comedy Award.
My head is not usually so easily turned; there have been some truly dreadful winners of what was the Perrier, in its various incarnations. But Yusuf is special in that he is the first winner from the ever-growing free Fringe scene, placing it more firmly on the map than ever.
The place is packed to the rafters, with as many turned away. Whilst desperately wanting such a fantastic success story to come out of the incredible amount of hard work and dedication the that is the Free Festival, I am naturally swayed to distrust such hype and so the bar is set high. As far as I am concerned, he needs to prove himself. Not prove that he is a good free act; prove that is he a good act.
He is a bloody good act. He is so good I want to cry a little at the end. Taking in themes of race, culture and identity, he pleas for peace and tolerance. He would be broadly described as ‘political comedy’, but he in fact comes across not as political but as deeply human. It is his very rejection of such boxes that make him so remarkable. Add to this a tremendous physicality and a joyful glint in his eye, and it’s easy to see why I came out of the show somewhat in love with him.
What simultaneously makes him brilliant, but hinders this from being a 5 star review, is his potential to be better. He has his weak moments. These may pass in poorer performers as strong moments, but they undermine my expectations which, by the end, are still high – not because of the hype, but because of what I have seen him do.
I hope he wins the best newcomer. It would be not only an amazing achievement for the free Fringe Festival movement, but one that is well deserved.” **** The Skinny (Lizzie Cass-Maran)

Imran Yusuf
You Would Never Believe…Imran’s a passionate Video Games Consultant for Midway, Eidos, SEGA & Headstrong Games plus enjoys martial arts, free-running, climbing, football & learning to speak Japanese in his spare time.

Edinburgh Show: An Audience with Imran Yusuf
Where: Laughing Horse @ Espionage
When: 6-30 Aug
Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm
Show Summary: The fast-talking lyrical machine-gun comic slows it down for a deep and meaningful look at life with personal stories and a unique life philosophy. Based
on intense personal experiences, a lot of soul searching, lost friendships and fights, comes a light-hearted hour on our commonalities as human beings.

Imran Yusuf’s Upcoming Comedy Club Gigs

“A compact stage benefits this quintet’s matey charm and it’s refreshing to see improv performed with such a professional lack of corpsing. Audience members are incorporated but not humiliated and there’s a great deal of fun to be had in spotting the impending gags. It’s very rare to see improv comedy so consistently hit the mark.” **** The List

“The Noise Next Door are five hyperactive, hypermobile performers, whose lively and unpredictable show is a exemplar of high-quality, high-energy improvised comedy. In a twist on the usual format, they structure their show around the establishment of an agency to fight evil, asking the audience for suggestions regarding their underground lair, the identity of their nemesis, and the format of a secret mission. It’s a clever set-up, marking their show out as distinct from the many other improv troupes on the Fringe, and – with the help of some inspired audience contributions – they create a brilliantly funny hour of preposterous scenarios and over-the-top characters. The interplay between this close-knit group and their astounding physical, facial, verbal, and lyrical dexterity is impressive and consistently entertaining. Accompanied by a quick-thinking guitarist, they also belt out some musical numbers, in an impressive range of genres, including some lightning-fast freestyle rapping. Overall, this is fun, well-executed and original improvised comedy.” **** Broadway Baby (Beth Kahn)

“The Noise Next Door consist of Charlie Granville, Tom Livingstone, Matt Grant, Tom Houghton and Sam Pacelli, with Nathan Marshall on guitar.

This improvised comedy show from The Noise Next Door is unlike anything you have ever seen before. Featuring some corny pubs and witty one-liners, ‘Chaos Control’ is hilarious and sheer genius, excellently improvised and incredibly well presented. The show follows a vague structure about forming a secret agency, but aside of that relies upon audience input. As such, the show varies greatly from performance to performance, but the key fact still remains, that the boys of this ‘camp comedy troupe’ can tackle almost anything the audience suggest to them; ranging from Viking Techno music about Goblin Ninjas, to Richard Branson being hidden away due to constipation.

At times this show can be incredibly bizarre, but it is in this that it’s merit lies – the way in which all of the performers manage to instantaneously create scenes or vocalise songs is nothing short of impressive and almost unbelievable, this is especially the case with guitarist Nathan Marshall who seems to be able to provide musical accompaniment for anything and everything and in every conceivable style. What makes this show even better is that the boys give you everything – great comedy, stunning improvisation and – described as a ‘comedy JLS’ – they can sing! If their comedy ever fails (which in some ways unfortunately it never will) The Noise Next Door could always form a boyband – maybe an option for next year’s Fringe guys?!

Chaos Control is most definitely worth more than the price of a ticket, and I recommend you all pen it into you Fringe planners.” **** ScotsGay

“The penultimate, particularly hectic section of The Noise Next Door’s new show Chaos Control doesn’t work at all. The longer it goes on, the less idea you have what the members of this quickfire improv troupe are trying to achieve, and it exhibits the worst traditional vice of this style of comedy in that the performers seem to be having far more fun than the audience.
Not so the rest of the show, a hodge-podge of off-the-cuff rhyming, (atrocious) dancing and all-round silliness that is often riotously enjoyable. It kicks off with these five young fellows embarking on a “mission”, its various components yelled out in turn from a very willling audience and incorporated with lightning speed into the skit. On the evening I caught them, the result was an agreably surreal adventure in which The Magic Roundabout’s Zebedee led the forces of good against Darth Vader, who was holed up in Worcester Cathedral.

Ok, maybe you had to be there. But had you been, you would have laughed a lot, as well as being treated to — among other things – a hilariously lubricious R&B love song, as well as a mini-musical that incorporated panto, folk and death-metal.
In fact, the death metal vocals sounded very and inexplicably Jamaican. Much as, when we collectively cooked up a drama in which a sausage roll was going to be crucified in the Kellogg’s factory, and four of the troupe gave the fifth punning clues as to what was going on, he came up with the still more improbable: “Are you hiding a sausage-roll that is turning into Jesus?”
The quintet win either way. When they guess correctly, or nail an impression, accent, or rhyme, the speed of thought is both impressive and funny. When they fall flat on their faces, such are the zest and all-round good humour radiating from the stage that, although less impressive, it’s funnier still. That late, scrappable section aside, this is definitely a superior kind of chaos.” **** The Telegraph (Mark Monahan)

The Noise Next Door
You Would Never Believe…Between the 5 guys, one loves mozzarella, there’s a 258 top bowling score, 5 years spent in Kenya, crying on cue, making a belly look pregnant and one has the word ‘flange’ tatooed on an arm.

Edinburgh Show: The Noise Next Door: Chaos Control
Where: 33 Pleasance – Courtyard
When: 4-30 Aug (not 11,18) (Previews 4,5,6)
Time: 7.00pm
Show Summary: Earth-shattering secrets & Impossible odds.  Our mission: Protect mankind, kick ass…and bag sexy chicks. Audience suggestions are transformed into fantastically funny scenes and songs, exposing society’s secrets and unleashing ludicrous characters, witty one-liners and explosive physicality.

The Noise Next Door’s Upcoming Comedy Club Gigs