Flo & Joan are the multi-award winning British musical comedy duo, and sisters, Nicola and Rosie Dempsey.The piano/percussion pair have headlined and played to sold-out audiences across the UK, North America and Australia, and their hour-long special is now streaming in over 200 countries on Amazon Prime. In 2019 they debuted at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the JFL Montreal Comedy Festival.
A hugely acclaimed live act, their fourth Edinburgh show, Before the Screaming Starts, completely sold-out its run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, added extra shows to keep up with demand, and is now touring nationally ahead of a run at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Their previous shows are Victory Flaps, The Kindness of Stranglers and Alive on Stage. The pair’s accolades include Top 10 Show of the Edinburgh Fringe at the Amused Moose Comedy Awards, Chortle’s Best Music and Variety Act, Leicester Comedy Festival’s Best Musical Act, Montreal Sketchfest Best of the Fest Selection and Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival’s Now Magazine Audience Choice Award and Best of the Fest Selection.
The pair have had high-profile television appearances on Live at the Apollo (BBC2) and The Royal Variety Performance 2019 (ITV) and their songs regularly go viral online, most notably with their ‘2016 Song’ which has to date received 50 million views across social media. They have written and performed songs for shows including Horrible Histories (CBBC), Rob Delaney’s Stand Up Central (Comedy Central), BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show and Fresh From the Fringe and This Hour Has 22 Minutes (CBC)
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Jayde Adams
Jayde Adams is co-host of BAFTA nominated series Snackmasters, as well as well as Channel 4’s TV Choice award nominated show, Crazy Delicious, with guest judges Heston Blumenthal, Carla Hall and Niklas Ekstedt. She has featured on Strictly It Takes Two (BBC Two) and has toured nationally with the celebrated 5 star Edinburgh show ‘The Ballad of Kylie Jenner’s Old Face’. Building on the momentum of the hit Edinburgh show, Jayde recorded her first special for Amazon Prime which was released worldwide in January 2020. A regular on our screens, has also featured as a guest on CelebAbility (ITV2), Roast Battle, Live At The Comedy Store, The Chris Ramsay Show (Comedy Central), 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (Channel 4), 8 Out of 10 Cats (E4), Dara O’Briain’s Go 8 Bit (Dave), Good Omens (Amazon Prime), and Russell Brand’s Stand Off for Comic Relief (BBC) and Alma’s Not Normal (BBC2)
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Chloe Petts
Chloe Petts’ “inexhaustibly funny mind” (Diva Magazine) and “compelling presence” (Steve Bennett, Chortle) has established her as one of the most exciting new acts on the circuit. Chloe is an alumna of the prestigious Pleasance Comedy Reserve, has been shortlisted for the BBC Comedy Award, was a finalist in the most recent Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year Awards and came runner-up in the Funny Women Awards 2017. She has appeared on Channel 4’s Random Acts and BBC 3 Quickies. She is a co-founder of The Lol Word, a queer comedy collective that hosts sell-out monthly London nights, boasting the finest female and non-binary queer acts on the circuit. Their most recent Edinburgh run was a sell-out. Diva Magazine has described it as “a space that is demographically queer, inclusive, and safe, and on top of all of that –the comedic talent is smart, insightful, hilarious.
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Earlier Event: November 10
Taylor Maid
Later Event: November 12
Aladdin Sane Bowie Tribute