Foil Arms & Hog UK Tour Stops Off At Chester's Storyhouse
With nine million hits on their YouTube channel, Foil Arms & Hog have a fast-growing fan-base; their weekly sketches, filmed in Dublin, include the hilarious WTF is Brexit?, US Immigration Test and How to Speak Dublin. The boys are equally in their element, however, when performing live to sellout audiences, and for this reason they are taking to the road in 2018 with a big tour of the UK and Ireland and stop off at Storyhouse in Chester on Friday 6th April.
If you like the videos, you'll love the live show OINK, for no better reason than that the show encapsulates all the irreverent mirth of the vids - but with the added bonus of being longer. And live.
OINK is a fast-paced sketch show that features a collection of songs for the elderly, a baggage handler's interpretive dance, and a shop that naively sells balaclavas and nothing else. Need we say more?
And what is, or who are, Foil Arms & Hog? Well they are three young Irishmen by the names of Sean Finegan, Conor McKenna and Sean Flanagan, who met at University College Dublin while studying architecture, engineering and genetics, and decided to give all that up to pursue the noble art of being downright silly, yet observational, yet sometimes very topical and refreshingly philosophical.
Since then the boys have come a long way, and as well as fill venues with laughter at their live shows they have embraced the digital universe to become veritable internet stars. Besides the YouTube nine million, they also have well over half a million Facebook followers and a fair few on Twitter too. All because they do concise, tightly-filmed stories that are both culturally relevant and absurd. But most of all, as Rowan Atkinson testifies, the trio are "very funny".
Performing live is what FA&H do best though, and besides their native Ireland they have toured the UK, US and Australia - to rapturous applause. In 2018 they're touring around Ireland and the UK. It's guaranteed laughs all round, so go see them live, in the flesh, without a dodgy broadband connection in sight.
Further Information & Tickets: www.offthekerb.co.uk
www.youtube.com/user/foilarmsandhog
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