The Jim Rose Circus is back! And we’d like you to go and see him, on us. Yes, it’s another chance to grab something for free.
Chay Woodman
Date published: 26th Aug 2004
The Jim Rose Circus is back! And we’d like you to go and see him, on us. Yes, it’s another chance to grab something for free. This time, we’re giving away a pair of tickets to The Jim Rose Circus show at Glasgow Arches on October 8th.
Oct 8 Glasgow (SCO) – The Arches (
www.thearches.co.uk)If you would like to win them, and we strongly advise you that you do want to enter because, well, it’s The Jim Rose Circus, then just answer this simple question:
What’s Jims favourite toy?
Is it….
Send your entries to:
SkiddleFestEd@aol.com
Usual rules apply : 18+ only, 1 entry per person, multiple entries will be disqualified….so no bloody cheating!
The full Euro tour dates
Sept 14 Bristol (UK) - Bristol Academy
Sept 15 Birmingham (UK) - Birmingham Academy
Sept 16 Liverpool (UK) - Liverpool Academy
Sept 18 Dublin (IRE) - Olympia Theatre
Sept 20 Brussels (BEL) - Ancienne Belgique
Sept 21 Amsterdam (HOL)- Milkweg
Sept 23 Fribourg (SWI) - Fri-Son
Sept 24 Basel (SWI) - NT Areal
Sept 26 Paris (FRA) - Le Reservoir
Sept 29 Barcelona (SPA)- Teatro Principal
Oct 1 Murcia (SPA) - Super Chuys
Oct 5 Oxford (UK) - Oxford Zodiac Upstairs
Oct 7 Sheffield (UK) - The Leadmill
Oct 8 Glasgow (SCO) - Arches (www.thearches.co.uk)
Oct 9 Edinburgh (SCO) - Liquid Room
Oct 11 London (UK) - Empire Theatre
The absolute must-see act is the Seattle-based Jim Rose Show" – Rolling Stone
"Freakmania is spreading unabated" – Newsweek
"The line in Salt Lake City stretched all the way to the Mormon Temple. They had to turn hundreds away" –Wall Street Journal
"His delivery is brutally comic. He plays the highly-strung audience like a violin"- The Independent, London
"Amazingly, it is actually fun. It may not be everyone’s idea of entertainment, but then what is? It certainly does not deserve to be banned." – The Times Magazine, London
"We all went home satisfied, entertained and suitably appalled to the depth of our being" – New Music Express, London
"I’ve seen a lot of things in my time. I must see 40 circuses a year, but this lot…They came on in their street clothes and then…They’re beyond anything I’ve ever seen. They shocked me"-Gerry Cottle – circus proprietor – in Sunday Telegraph, London
"Jim Rose is a cult hero" – Tucker Carlson, CNN
"Audience reaction in largely that kind of revolted amusement more commonly associated with tourists at a bullfight" – Melody Maker, London
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