Improverts Fringe 2006

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Music

Drop Tracks

If you know of a drop track (the track we use to introduce the first Improvert) that we should be using instead of these old dogs, list it, let me know.

• Everybody Rock the Dinosaur - Was (Not Was) (an oldie, but a good track!)
• Fire - (I am the God of Hell and Fire... And I bring you...FIRE!) by a 70's glam rock band who's name escapes me The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - CS
• Song 2, Blur
• Battle Without Honor Or Humanity, Kill Bill Soundtrack
• China Girl, David Bowie
• Gay Bar, Electric 6
• Year 3000, Busted (only started using in the last year, not used too often but then - it is Busted)
• Brimfull of Asha, Cornershop
• Any big hit by Fatboy Slim
• Unbelivable, EMF -- I don't have this track. Somebody help? - Xander
• A Little Less Conversation, Elvis vs JXL (this host intro is so old it's on the Improvert themes CD)
• Sell Out, Reel Big Fish - of course! -- I don't have this track. Somebody help? - Xander
• Oasis, Roll With It

Work In Progress

From Rusholme With Love, Mint Royale

Needs remixing a little

Lucky Star, Basement Jaxx

With a little encouragement, I think the first ten seconds of this track could work like a badass

Sugar is Sweeter, CJ. Bolland

Has a small drop that needs beefing up a bit.

All Systems Go, Box Car Racer

Er, this track is emo. BUT IT'S GOT A DROP.

Block Rockin' Beats, Chemical Brothers

Could work with remixing, but the drop isn't really phat enough.

Holding Out for a Hero, Bonny Tyler

Moments

Help me find tracks for all of those music-needing moments in an improverts show. The "got this?" column refers to whether I've got it, not you. If you've got it and I haven't, let me know.

Theme Tracks
Theme	Suggested Track	When you might use this theme	Got this?
Heroic/Sad	Adagio For Strings	A hilarious re-enactment of the bit where all the soldiers get shot	READY
Elizabethan	Greensleeves	2 Genres, etc	READY
The Smallest violin in the World		Sad Times
Wedding	Bridal Chorus, Wagner	No organ, but the right sound	READY
Horror/Suspense	Jaws		READY
Horror/Murder	Psycho Theme	For playing when someone is actually getting stabbed or something	READY
Cheesy Disco	Staying Alive	Wrong decade, but the best I can think of for now	READY
Hardcore Rave	Pearls Girl, Underworld	It's not cheesy disco	READY

Suggestions

Does anyone remember the Hamlet cigar ads "Happieness is..." and the music that went with it? I think its 'Air On A G String' by JS Bach. Its a great bit of music that will work well for the fringe as we have an older audience who will know the music from the hamlet ads. Not quite sure what to use it with as I haven't heard it for ages, I just know its a very good evocative piece of music. Dave.

The piece is indeed 'Air On A G String' by J.S. Bach, and the slow jazz version in the Hamlet adverts was by Jacques Loussier. I've got a copy of both verisons which I'll leave in the theatre at the Saturday rehearsal, if anyone wants to play with it! - CS

I seem to have the non-jazz version of this piece on my laptop, so I've catalogued it in the 'Emotions' playlist under "intense". Could work for a few games, perhaps Freeze, if the mood is right. Xander

Games

Many of these games have themes already, but maybe we can update them a bit. Improverts Game List

Die

Suggestions welcome (we do have an intro for Space Jump, after all)

Well if you're going for dramatic classical style there's always Carmen Burana O Fortuna. More Impy maybe a bit of I Hope You Die, the Bloodhound Gang. - Raechel ... I'll check 'em out. We've been using an edit of Madonna's "Die Another Day" - Xander ... I think they used to use 'Old Before I Die' by Robbie Williams, it should be on some of the older imps CDs. Bit outdated now, tho' - CS

Emotional Rollercoaster

Suggestions welcome (currently using Chris’s’ 'love rollercoaster')

Commentator

The Maple Leaf Rag/Grandstand (or can we do better than this?)

There are actually two intros for Commentator; one to introduce the game and one to start the scene (could swap it with Ski Sunday at some point, previous fringes have used "Gladiators")

News/Interview games

ATM we only have a news (or chat show) theme for the start of these scenes, do we want something new for these intros?

In past shows people have substituted "Have I Got News For You"