Where to start to try and review Ross Noble and his latest UK tour ‘Fizzy Logic’?

Okay, Geoff has seen Ross over the years mainly at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I personally had only seen Ross on TV or video until last December, when he appeared at the Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre and was hooked. I was therefore delighted to be able to tell Ross on meeting him by chance in the Pleasance Courtyard on the 22^nd August, the day before he started this tour, I was looking forward to seeing him in September.

I suppose in a way his set sort of puts his show in a nutshell. We see numerous, various sizes of purple spheres like bubbles all over the set with one central screen on which is projected moving bubbles then three primary coloured circular singing men telling us to enjoy the show, switch off mobiles and not use recording equipment.  The reason I say it is sort of his show in a nut shell is that if you can imagine a box containing ideas and thoughts, encased in purple bubbles contact with any of these sends Ross off on a different tangent as the show progresses the energy builds and everything in the box gets faster and faster. He jumps from story to story, from idea to idea and occasionally just seems to loose it wondering himself exactly what was he doing.

Fortunately he tends to explain over and over to his audiences that before the end of the show he will get back and finish or bring to a conclusion every story he starts.  How he achieves this night after night I just can’t imagine as my head aches by the end of just one performance, mind you so does my jaws and my sides from laughing.

Some of the subjects covered last night were uncontrollable man boobs, the road from Glasgow to Edinburgh, a remembrance flowchart, things people say you shouldn’t laugh at, religious subjects, past shows, his life in the UK and Australia, exploding vaginas and juggling owls but only one or two mentions of monkeys and donkeys!  Any heckles during his show can push things in really strange directions and broad Scottish accents occasionally defeat  him, not helped by the hecklers obvious inability to repeat the comment when requested to by Ross. Most of the places he mentioned round the globe got various responses and I wondered where he got so many variations of positive grunts he was trying to arrange us into a chorus.

He did keep commenting on the fact he hoped there were reviewers in as the show was even getting a little surreal for him, culminating in his first ever eviction of a punter by the Rock Steady Crew for fighting. Apparently when asked not to talk during the show, this individual took offence and started to fight back. At the height of the debacle a female voice was heated to shout ‘piss off you dwarf!’ The extraction of this moron got rapturous applause.

There are not enough new words to describe the unique, yet weird talent of this fabulous amazing hilarious comedic icon whose plays on words have produced shows called ‘Fizzy Logic’, ‘Randomist’, ‘Noodlemeister’, ‘Unrealtime’ and ‘Sonic Waffle’.  Not only that, but after meeting the man himself over the years I can say he is such an approachable lovely person who has not changed over the years, Geoff also admires the man and occasionally thinks if it is possible he is just a little too nice for his own good.

For more information on the man and his merchandise and memorabilia see his website www.rossnoble.co.uk you will also get his other tour dates.