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It’s improv adventure 3 in as many weeks for The Noise Next Door and the views are flying in!

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

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“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

“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.

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THE NOISE NEXT DOOR

***** “A comic masterpiece” ThreeWeeks

Direct from their critically acclaimed, sell out Edinburgh Fringe show, this charming fivesome will blow you away with their razor sharp improvised comedy. The Noise Next Door have enjoyed sell out shows across the UK and regularly appear on the bill alongside comedy giants such as Harry Hill and Ed Byrne.

Billed as an improvised comedy troupe, The Noise Next Door have been performing together since 2005. Transforming audience suggestions into fantastically funny scenes and songs in the blink of an eye. The Noise Next Door will have you in stitches with their perfect blend of ludicrous characters, witty one-liners, epic stories and musical mayhem. These five slightly posh blokes are based in Brighton, but are touring venues around the world, with their distinctive brand of off-the-cuff humour.

With no two shows the same, audiences return again and again for a dose of their unqiue brand of off-the-cuff humour.

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