Tag archive: Late Late Show
‘Tis the Season to be Manky
Christmas is coming! It cannot be stopped! It will kill us all! Aaaaaarrrgggh!!! It’s been one of those years. Economy? Dead. Hope? Dead. Michael Jackson? Dead. Karl Malden? Dead. Patrick Swayze? Dead. Konstantin Feoktistov; Danny La Rue; Jeremy Clarkson? Dead,… continue reading »
None for Anyone in the Audience: The 2008 Manky Toy Show – Live!
9.00 – A pair of cheap, stained curtains open. A thin figure bounds jovially through them and onto the stage. A glamorous, heavily pregnant, assistant follows (her movements cautious & wary). The scene reeks of tawdry & thrown-together charm –… continue reading »
Manky Toy Show is Go!
Friday, 5th December, 2008 @ 9.00 p.m. Pencil that date and that time into your diaries. If you don’t have a diary then sprint madly out the door this instant and buy one. If you don’t have a pencil…then, God… continue reading »
The Manky Toy Show 2008: The Countdown Begins…
Ask square and un-hip members of society what the highlight of their 2007 Christmas season was and they’ll most likely answer: the dinner; time spent with loved ones; browsing through the bumper issue of the RTÉ Guide etc. Cool cats,… continue reading »
To Whom it Concerns…It’s The Manky Toy Show (Live)!
9.00 – Hup! Hup! Quiet down now. Welcome dear friends, lads and lassies, boys and girls, mices and meeses, to the first ever fustar.info Manky Toy Show. We have a great live program (un)prepared for you tonight. Music, mirth, merriment… continue reading »
The Toy Show: An Alternative
Like many unwashed, barefoot children of pre-SUV Ireland, the Late Late Toy Show was (far more than the birth of a certain Nazarene) what Christmas was all about for me. Uncle Gaybo & Star Wars merchandise (yay!), Wooden Toys, Billy… continue reading »
