My Corresspondings with Asley
Here is a list of my letter from my fiend asley. He full of advise for me. You can sees he will say I need to blog more and i thinks i will with topical storeys.
Asley do send me a lot of letters, but I think he intend well he not mental or a stalkist.
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 01 June 2004 14:43:58
To :
Subject : Hi there
Hi Blaized,
I've seen the tech programme (tech get ins etc) for The Underbelly - your show isn't listed as "The Great Spider Welch". What are you actually doing?
I am constantly amused by your posts on Chortle - you certainly know how to draw attention to yourself and it's entertaining and charming. I'm still wondering who you really are, but we'll have plenty of time during the festival to catch up.
Keep doing what you do - you have a cult following... deservedly.
Ashley
From: Blaized Carmey [mailto:blaizedcarmey@hotmail.com]
Sent: 01 June 2004 17:23
To: Ashley Frieze
Subject: Re: Hi there
i ams very worriyd know. i do not need a technicals for my shows but they have not asked me so how could they know if i needs one ofr not needs one. i just using my voice and some puppets. i get to edinburghgh on the 14 of august so maybe i will sort it outs then. or should i ask twinkey baretm whats going on? what a cult?
your friend Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 02 June 2004 08:50:44
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Hi Blaized,
The tech get-in sheet I saw was for shows doing the whole run. I didn't realise that you're only doing a bit of it.
You're definitely a cult figure, in that you have a gang of followers who know that they like you, but can't quite identify why. I think you're great and very inventive - how you can convert "Ed Bartlam" into "Twinkey Bartem" is delicious.
In terms of pre-show publicity, yours is the example to follow.
Have we ever met?
Ashley
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 08 June 2004 10:04:23
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Hi Blaized,
The Underbelly programme appears to be online now - at least the daily diary is. Which room do you have and what is your show called... Come on, you can tell me - it'll be our little secret.
Ashley
From: Blaized Carmey [mailto:blaizedcarmey@hotmail.com]
Sent: 08 June 2004 11:27
To: Ashley Frieze
Subject: Re: Hi there
I already teld you Ashleys, I am performing The Great Spider Welch at the edinburgh. I will be in the theatrical at Twinkey Bartems Underbelly. It will be a huge suchess.
Hows is all your planning oign? have you got your costumes? I got something i got when i met with Chastissety. I worry though becuase i have not heard anything from her voice since that time and i not sure if everything ok and if we still friends. i seen nothing of her. do you think it because i said she was fat? i got a personal massage from someones tellin gme it not the nicest thing to say abouts anone but i said she was fat but pretty and i dont know.
Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 08 June 2004 10:31:46
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Hi Blaized,
I know what you told me, and I've looked for the words "The Great Spider Welch", but it's not on any of the diary pages for any of the rooms in The Underbelly. So either you're not actually performing, or you're down under a different title. I hope you are on, since you've provided excellent company to the chortle-forum community since you suddenly turned up a few months back. Indeed, I hope we'll get chance to meet up so I can buy you a drink or whatever. Which of the rooms have you booked? What time of day are you performing?
My planning is going well. I have costumes, since we've already performed the show once, and we're doing it again in less than two weeks' time. Lots to arrange for that too. Current problem is producing press packs on time. Must get myself organised.
Women don't like to be called fat, even if you qualify it with the words "but pretty". However, if you try to keep in touch and show her you care, she may start speaking to you again.
What do you do when you're not posting on chortle and emailing people? Indeed, who are you? Are you young? old? In showbusiness? Might we have met before?
Keep doing your thing.
Ashley
From: Blaized Carmey [mailto:blaizedcarmey@hotmail.com]
Sent: 09 June 2004 14:37
To: Ashley Frieze
Subject: Re: Hi there
Hellos ashley, i asked twinkey to tell me exactly which room i have to stand in and he say it the jelly belly. it not got jelly in it thoughs! also good news is that i can comes to edinburgh when i lick so i will come soon and see you and chastisseyity
Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 09 June 2004 14:00:34
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Do you mean the Delhi Belly?
Come on, Blaized, don't tease me. You don't just wander along and do a show. You'll have paid Ed handsomely for the privilege, so you'll know the time of day and dates that your show is on. Your secret is safe with me - what's the show?
Ashley
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 21 June 2004 15:00:13
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Hi Blaized
I've been having a look at your website - nice work. I'm really enjoying it. Thing is... well... you've had some help. You're using the services of Chris Limb, who's a web designer and involved with the likes of the Gonzo Dog-do Bar Band... and probably has some involvement with the folks from The Trap. In addition, you know too much about the whole Edinburgh festival thing.
Your stuff is absolutely hilarious and well worth a read - it's been keeping a bunch of chortlers very very entertained for a few months... but the time is going to have to come when we find out who you really are... reckon you can trust me to keep your secret?
Which show are you really doing? Cos there ain't no "great spider welch" in the programme :)
Just keep doing the whole blaized carmey thing - it's totally brilliant.
Ashley
From: Blaized Carmey [mailto:blaizedcarmey@hotmail.com]
Sent: 21 June 2004 16:19
To: Ashley Frieze
Subject: Re: Hi there
Hello Asley!
yes i am a frined with Christopher Limb. I met him after i was going to do my show in the lift last year at the edinburghgh festival. he did the website of kiki who was almost put me in the lift but she did not (and then was rude to me). Christopher annd me keep in touch since we met in brighton. i did the website myself though on free programmes on my computers and then i mailed it to christopher and then he made it appear on the computers. i do not knows how to do that. The great Spider Welch IS happening in edinburghgh fringe, why do you keep saying it isn't. I am doing my story telling in the jelly belly which has a bar in it and twinkey bartem says that i could!
you will know when yu see me with your own face!
Blaized
Ashley Frieze
Sent : 21 June 2004 15:39:15
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Hi Blaized,
I can't see your show listed on the Underbelly website. I keep looking to see if I can find out more about it. I'm in London tomorrow evening - why don't we meet up in Camden - I should be there for about 7pm. Then I can know you and we can see each other's faces.
Anyway, your website was done with Microsoft Frontpage, which is not a free piece of software... I'm a computer geek - it's my job to know these things.
I can keep a secret too...
Ashley
From: Blaized Carmey [mailto:blaizedcarmey@hotmail.com]
Sent: 21 June 2004 16:47
To: Ashley Frieze
Subject: Re: Hi there
i gottted it free becuase it was on my compter when i gotted it!
i think i being advertised on a blackboard and not in a brochure. i dodn't give the twinky bartem belly any money so that is the problem i keep encountering.
I will see if i can change my plans for tomorrow so i can meets you and give you whiskey.
i lick camden
Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 21 June 2004 15:52:40
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Hey Blaized,
Not sure about the Whiskey - I'm day tripping it to London in the car, so will have to stay sober. I'll be near Chalk Farm tube at the Enterprise pub. My mobile number is 07*** *** **1 I'll buy the whiskey for you.
I've given Twinky Bartem plenty of money - I wish I'd worked out how to do it your way :)
See you later.
Ashley
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 24 June 2004 10:16:50
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Hi Blaized.
Shame you couldn't make it along to the gig the other night. I needed something magical injecting into me - maybe some Blaized magic would have been just the ticket. I got the audience laughing in the end, but it felt awfully lonely up there at the start.
So what's news with you?
Have you written any more of your Edinburgh show - there's more of it online, but surely it couldn't fill an hour in its current incarnation?
Are you going to come along on July 17th or 18th to see my show at the Etcetera in Camden? Apparently you were going to perform there, but had to pull out at the last minute.
I also understand that you are telling people that I am your friend. I'm touched by this, since it means that you're not ashamed to admit to knowing me. Sadly, I feel a bit disappointed that we haven't met yet. Surely friends would be better at keeping in touch? We'll have to sort this out.
Good luck with being Blaized.
See you soon.
Ashley
From: Blaized Carmey [mailto:blaizedcarmey@hotmail.com]
Sent: 24 June 2004 11:32
To: Ashley Frieze
Subject: Re: Hi there
Asley. i did not see this emails until it was too late. i seens it just now, i am sorry that you were lonly without me. I will try to come to see your show in camden, i will book tickets today. last times i was supposed to do a bit of my play there but i then went to the wrong theatre at the canal cafe thetare and i got there and they said i was in the wrong place. i tried to hurry to the write place but it was too late but then some peoples readed my script for me anyways on the stage i was told.
Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 24 June 2004 10:53:12
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Hi Blaized,
I heard that they read your script too. I'd love to have a look at it - can you email it to me?
Let me know which night you're coming to my show in Camden - I'll make sure we can meet up afterwards.
Are you doing any previews of your show before you go to Edinburgh? I've learned a lot about our show over the last two previews - thankfully, I'm happy with most of it, but it must be a big risk trying out a show you've never done before during the Edinburgh festival itself. I'm so glad I was advised to do previews.
Good luck.
Ashley
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 29 June 2004 14:32:53
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Labi Siffre
http://www.so-strong.com/archives/music/lyrics/05_so_strong.htm
That's who sang it
Ashley
From: Blaized Carmey [mailto:blaizedcarmey@hotmail.com]
Sent: 01 July 2004 14:40
To: Ashley Frieze
Subject: Re: Hi there
I don't understand your email asley. nevermind. perhaps you drunk! I am exciting now abouts edinburghhgr. I am going to have a special chair in the jelly belly and mes own board saying when i sit there! exclaim!
Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 01 July 2004 13:47:00
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Hi Blaized - I read your blog and you were asking who wrote "something inside so strong" - the song you sang to the dog you found on the street. I found out who did it and emailed you the stuff below.
I'm very excited about Edinburgh too.
Are you doing any previews of your show?
I'm currently working on getting the show ready to come to London in just over two weeks' time. It's a lot to organise. In September, I will be very relieved that it's all over... I'll also miss the flurry of activity.
What will you be doing after Edinburgh?
Ashley
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 07 July 2004 11:11:47
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Hi Blaized,
Are you Anil?
Ashley
From: Blaized Carmey [mailto:blaizedcarmey@hotmail.com]
Sent: 07 July 2004 13:26
To: Ashley Frieze
Subject: Re: Hi there
Hi Asley, what is anil? is it a type of feeling?
Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 07 July 2004 12:42:56
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
I'm asking whether you are actually Anil - as in the Pineapple Boys member called Anil.
It's a fair guess. If I'm right, you may as well admit it. I'm telling noone.
Ashley
From: Blaized Carmey [mailto:blaizedcarmey@hotmail.com]
Sent: 07 July 2004 13:49
To: Ashley Frieze
Subject: Re: Hi there
hello asley,
someones else called kiki says this to me too. i do not lick it very much. i am not a pin apple boys i am a man and quite an old man and i dont unerstand why peoples guessing who i am these days. if that the best you say to me today than i can do without it.
Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 07 July 2004 13:10:18
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Sorry Blaized,
I am just excited about meeting you when you come to see my musical. Kiki suggested it to me and gave a compelling reason for why she thought you were Anil. If you don't want me to question the man behind "Blaized" then I won't.
What are you doing today?
Ashley
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 22 July 2004 15:33:47
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Hi Blaized
Did you make it along to see my show this weekend - you said you would. If you did and then didn't come and see me afterwards, that's a bit of a disappointment.
So, when are we going to meet up in Edinburgh?
Ashley
From: Blaized Carmey [mailto:blaizedcarmey@hotmail.com]
Sent: 23 July 2004 16:54
To: Ashley Frieze
Subject: Re: Hi there
Hi Asley
I am coming to see you tommorroww at 7.30. I ams looking forward to it. Do I need to book a ticket or will you give me a compliment?
yours, Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 23 July 2004 16:16:06
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Hi Blaized
Sorry, but it was last weekend - you missed it. I would have comp'ed you in... you'll have to wait until Edinburgh now.
Ashley
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 21 September 2004 10:44:46
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : Did we actually meet during the Fringe?
Hi Blaized,
Thanks for coming to see The Musical! during the fringe. You never introduced yourself to me, though we must have run into each other in the underbelly. What do you look like?
Ashley
From: blaized carmey [mailto:blaizedcarmey@hotmail.com]
Sent: 28 September 2004 12:42
To: ashley@incredible.org.uk
Subject: RE: Did we actually meet during the Fringe?
Dear Asley, surely you know what i looks lick? have you not seens my phot? have you seen my poster for my show?
Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 28 September 2004 12:44:35
To : "'blaized carmey'"
Subject : RE: Did we actually meet during the Fringe?
Hi Blaized,
I'm not sure that you do look like the photo I've seen on your website. I would have definitely noticed you if you did. Having said that, the photo was an odd one, coming, almost at random, from a german university's photo
website: http://www.geogr.uni-goettingen.de/kus/pics/vn3/vn1999-bremer-old-man-small1.jpg
So I'd be forgiven for my assumption that it's not actually you.
I've seen the poster for your show and I'm really tempted to come along and watch it. The problem being that it's a long way to go for watching a show and I have a day job which may get in the way. I'm 300 miles away from your venue. If only it were on 3 days later: I'm in London on a company-paid-for trip then anyway.
Good luck with the show.
Ashley
From: blaized carmey [mailto:blaizedcarmey@hotmail.com]
Sent: 28 September 2004 17:40
To: ashley@incredible.org.uk
Subject: RE: Did we actually meet during the Fringe?
Dear Asley,
It is an old picture of me, i think at least 5 or 6 years olds i think. I do not unerstand why you not think it me why? just because it on another wesbite and not just your wesbite? I been to many places, i seed a lot of things. i quite old asley.
Maybe the picture of you dressed as a soldier is random, i am tempting to think so but i know it is you because i have seed your flesh.
I sorry that you can not come to see my play but i dont think you wood reaaly come anyway because you dont even belive i a person which is my biggest insult from you. nasty cruel is your name
Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 28 September 2004 16:48:32
To : "'blaized carmey'"
Subject : RE: Did we actually meet during the Fringe?
Blaized,
I'd love to see your play and see the man behind the name. If I can, I will. Thank you for coming to see mine. I only wish you'd taken the time to say hello - you knew my whereabouts and I had no means of finding you.
As for your identity. You are Blaized Carmey. Everything else is irrelevant.
Good luck with the show. The etcetera is a good venue, I'm sure you'll have fun there.
Ashley
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 29 September 2004 15:26:41
To : "'blaized carmey'"
Subject : RE: Did we actually meet during the Fringe?
Hi Blaized,
How long does your show last? If it will be over by 9.30pm then I may be
able to come - do I get a discount?
Ashley
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 12 November 2004 16:59:29
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : I'll be there on the 22nd.
Hi Blaized,
It's a big trip to make for a one-hour-long play, but I guess I couldn't miss out on the chance to see the premiere. Good luck organising it. The show must go on... and invariably, it does.
Will you be around for post-show drinks?
Ashley
From: blaized carmey [mailto:blaizedcarmey@hotmail.com]
Sent: 15 November 2004 17:36
To: ashley@incredible.org.uk
Subject: RE: I'll be there on the 22nd.
Dear Asley,
many thanks for being my supporter. I hope to have pre show drink and after show drink of whiskey. I will need it for my nerves because they is getting shaky already and it not yet the day of the preformance. I have been very busy making all of the costume and it difficult for me because i have roomatism in both of my hands and this make it a long job. i try to rest but when i rest i dream of the play. i hop it is my best work. i worry that i old and will not have many chances at this before i die.
I look forward to see you and to hear you laugh and cry at the play
Your Fiend, Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 15 November 2004 17:41:20
To : "'blaized carmey'"
Subject : RE: I'll be there on the 22nd.
Hi Blaized
If the play turns out as I'm certain it will, and if you are prepared to sit and have a drink me, it will be my pleasure to buy the whiskey.
How are rehearsals going? Do the cast need to learn their lines? Or will they do it radio-play-style? Scripts in hands?
Is there much of a set?
Good luck with it. I'm sure you'll have fun. As for the performance anxiety dreams - enjoy them, you've earned them!
Ashley
From: blaized carmey [mailto:blaizedcarmey@hotmail.com]
Sent: 16 November 2004 15:40
To: ashley@incredible.org.uk
Subject: RE: I'll be there on the 22nd.
thankyou asley. i look forward to your critike.
Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 16 November 2004 15:51:02
To : "'blaized carmey'"
Subject : RE: I'll be there on the 22nd.
I was just going to come along and enjoy, but if you want me to give you a critique, then I'll bring a notepad...
What are your hopes for this preview? Some people do previews to get press attention, or to see if the material works, or to give themselves a first step towards completing the show. In your case, you've made a real challenge for yourself, so I don't know your aims.
When I first put on "The Musical!" one of my main aims was to see my efforts come to fruition. It's a really good feeling. I met a friend of a friend today who'd seen the show in Edinburgh. It was the first time I'd met him. As we parted, he told me that the show had been the highlight of his trip (albeit a day-trip) to Edinburgh and that he still listened to the CD and enjoyed it. That's kind of weird, but it makes it all worthwhile... (personally, I thought my show was fairly worthless - except, perhaps, as a bit of entertainment)
Keep doing what you're doing. I'm enjoying watching your progress.
And blog more often.
Ashley
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 23 November 2004 22:27:23
To : "'blaized carmey'"
Subject : RE: I'll be there on the 22nd.
Hi Blaized,
Well... Interesting. You were in the audience, then. If so, where were you sitting. In fact, you can't have missed a big fellow like me, so where was I sitting?
Why didn't you say hi to me after the show? I thought I was going to buy you a whisky?
I'm disappointed in you. I thought that the climax of this story would be that we'd meet at your play and talk of the future. Now I'm more puzzled than ever. What is the purpose of this? Really... I'm utterly stumped. Give me a clue. Is this some sort of test?
Ashley
From: blaized carmey [mailto:blaizedcarmey@hotmail.com]
Sent: 24 November 2004 10:37
To: ashley@incredible.org.uk
Subject: RE: I'll be there on the 22nd.
Asley,
I am sorry not to drink the Whiskey with you after you comes all the way from Scotland to see my humble show. I not well enough to go inot the smockey bar. Ruman phone me and tell me to go straight home, he angry I even go to the show in the frist place but I could not resit.
It no test to you or anyone, I is just being Blaized and hasing some fun in my old age. I want to make peoples smile and be happy and I sorry if I fale to do this to you. Did you lick the peace? I heared you laughing Asley...
Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 24 November 2004 11:24:13
To : "'blaized carmey'"
Subject : RE: I'll be there on the 22nd.
Hi Blaized,
I had a fun evening. I laughed. I learned about Newcastle disease.
What's next for Blaized? Are you going to become a legend on the back of Monday? Or is there some impending denouement to look forward to?
Ashley
From: blaized carmey [mailto:blaizedcarmey@hotmail.com]
Sent: 24 November 2004 12:32
To: ashley@incredible.org.uk
Subject: RE: I'll be there on the 22nd.
what is next? i have a few ideas and have writted them down in my dairy. You oculd have a look Asley.
Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 24 November 2004 12:52:21
To : "'blaized carmey'"
Subject : RE: I'll be there on the 22nd.
I read your diary, Blaized. I suppose my real question is - how much longer are you going to keep up doing what you've been doing? If you don't make it bigger each time, then the appeal will wear off. If there's to be no climax surrounding Monday night, then you will either need to do something a lot more difficult, or disappear completely. Staying as you are will not be an option.
So what do you think? Did Monday go well enough to justify all the work you put in?
Ashley
From: blaized carmey [mailto:blaizedcarmey@hotmail.com]
Sent: 24 November 2004 16:52
To: ashley@incredible.org.uk
Subject: RE: I'll be there on the 22nd.
I thinks you worry two much, Asley. I is not an master ciminal from a James Bond film. I not planning to take over the world. Given my age and the currant state of my health I do not think it two safe to assume that I will be around for a long time, I will stop when I dies or when the people kerb their interest.
Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 24 November 2004 17:02:26
To : "'blaized carmey'"
Subject : RE: I'll be there on the 22nd.
I'm not worried... I'm just extremely puzzled. You've been doing your thing for months now and I've been waiting for the grand finale. In much the same way as your play just suddenly came to an end, so do you expect your presence in the comedy world to come to an end without a punchline? What sort of a story would that be to tell?
You're truly an entertaining being - more so on the page than spoken, I might add - and I know you've gotten yourself something of a following, but do you really plan to string this along indefinitely with no purpose? Or is there some grand plan that you're yet to reveal? In an earlier email, you suggested that Monday night's show was a preview for something for Fringe 2005. Will there be a show in August?
I think you ought to write more for your website. Your takes on current affairs, along with your turn of phrase in your "dairy" are well worth reading.
Maybe I'm just looking for meaning in all of this. Perhaps you're just bored and filling time. Still, putting a 45 minute show together in a London theatre is a bit ambitious for just a time filler... Isn't it?
Ashley
Asley do send me a lot of letters, but I think he intend well he not mental or a stalkist.
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 01 June 2004 14:43:58
To :
Subject : Hi there
Hi Blaized,
I've seen the tech programme (tech get ins etc) for The Underbelly - your show isn't listed as "The Great Spider Welch". What are you actually doing?
I am constantly amused by your posts on Chortle - you certainly know how to draw attention to yourself and it's entertaining and charming. I'm still wondering who you really are, but we'll have plenty of time during the festival to catch up.
Keep doing what you do - you have a cult following... deservedly.
Ashley
Sent: 01 June 2004 17:23
To: Ashley Frieze
Subject: Re: Hi there
i ams very worriyd know. i do not need a technicals for my shows but they have not asked me so how could they know if i needs one ofr not needs one. i just using my voice and some puppets. i get to edinburghgh on the 14 of august so maybe i will sort it outs then. or should i ask twinkey baretm whats going on? what a cult?
your friend Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 02 June 2004 08:50:44
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Hi Blaized,
The tech get-in sheet I saw was for shows doing the whole run. I didn't realise that you're only doing a bit of it.
You're definitely a cult figure, in that you have a gang of followers who know that they like you, but can't quite identify why. I think you're great and very inventive - how you can convert "Ed Bartlam" into "Twinkey Bartem" is delicious.
In terms of pre-show publicity, yours is the example to follow.
Have we ever met?
Ashley
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 08 June 2004 10:04:23
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Hi Blaized,
The Underbelly programme appears to be online now - at least the daily diary is. Which room do you have and what is your show called... Come on, you can tell me - it'll be our little secret.
Ashley
Sent: 08 June 2004 11:27
To: Ashley Frieze
Subject: Re: Hi there
I already teld you Ashleys, I am performing The Great Spider Welch at the edinburgh. I will be in the theatrical at Twinkey Bartems Underbelly. It will be a huge suchess.
Hows is all your planning oign? have you got your costumes? I got something i got when i met with Chastissety. I worry though becuase i have not heard anything from her voice since that time and i not sure if everything ok and if we still friends. i seen nothing of her. do you think it because i said she was fat? i got a personal massage from someones tellin gme it not the nicest thing to say abouts anone but i said she was fat but pretty and i dont know.
Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 08 June 2004 10:31:46
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Hi Blaized,
I know what you told me, and I've looked for the words "The Great Spider Welch", but it's not on any of the diary pages for any of the rooms in The Underbelly. So either you're not actually performing, or you're down under a different title. I hope you are on, since you've provided excellent company to the chortle-forum community since you suddenly turned up a few months back. Indeed, I hope we'll get chance to meet up so I can buy you a drink or whatever. Which of the rooms have you booked? What time of day are you performing?
My planning is going well. I have costumes, since we've already performed the show once, and we're doing it again in less than two weeks' time. Lots to arrange for that too. Current problem is producing press packs on time. Must get myself organised.
Women don't like to be called fat, even if you qualify it with the words "but pretty". However, if you try to keep in touch and show her you care, she may start speaking to you again.
What do you do when you're not posting on chortle and emailing people? Indeed, who are you? Are you young? old? In showbusiness? Might we have met before?
Keep doing your thing.
Ashley
From: Blaized Carmey [mailto:blaizedcarmey@hotmail.com]
Sent: 09 June 2004 14:37
To: Ashley Frieze
Subject: Re: Hi there
Hellos ashley, i asked twinkey to tell me exactly which room i have to stand in and he say it the jelly belly. it not got jelly in it thoughs! also good news is that i can comes to edinburgh when i lick so i will come soon and see you and chastisseyity
Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 09 June 2004 14:00:34
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Do you mean the Delhi Belly?
Come on, Blaized, don't tease me. You don't just wander along and do a show. You'll have paid Ed handsomely for the privilege, so you'll know the time of day and dates that your show is on. Your secret is safe with me - what's the show?
Ashley
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 21 June 2004 15:00:13
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Hi Blaized
I've been having a look at your website - nice work. I'm really enjoying it. Thing is... well... you've had some help. You're using the services of Chris Limb, who's a web designer and involved with the likes of the Gonzo Dog-do Bar Band... and probably has some involvement with the folks from The Trap. In addition, you know too much about the whole Edinburgh festival thing.
Your stuff is absolutely hilarious and well worth a read - it's been keeping a bunch of chortlers very very entertained for a few months... but the time is going to have to come when we find out who you really are... reckon you can trust me to keep your secret?
Which show are you really doing? Cos there ain't no "great spider welch" in the programme :)
Just keep doing the whole blaized carmey thing - it's totally brilliant.
Ashley
From: Blaized Carmey [mailto:blaizedcarmey@hotmail.com]
Sent: 21 June 2004 16:19
To: Ashley Frieze
Subject: Re: Hi there
Hello Asley!
yes i am a frined with Christopher Limb. I met him after i was going to do my show in the lift last year at the edinburghgh festival. he did the website of kiki who was almost put me in the lift but she did not (and then was rude to me). Christopher annd me keep in touch since we met in brighton. i did the website myself though on free programmes on my computers and then i mailed it to christopher and then he made it appear on the computers. i do not knows how to do that. The great Spider Welch IS happening in edinburghgh fringe, why do you keep saying it isn't. I am doing my story telling in the jelly belly which has a bar in it and twinkey bartem says that i could!
you will know when yu see me with your own face!
Blaized
Ashley Frieze
Sent : 21 June 2004 15:39:15
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Hi Blaized,
I can't see your show listed on the Underbelly website. I keep looking to see if I can find out more about it. I'm in London tomorrow evening - why don't we meet up in Camden - I should be there for about 7pm. Then I can know you and we can see each other's faces.
Anyway, your website was done with Microsoft Frontpage, which is not a free piece of software... I'm a computer geek - it's my job to know these things.
I can keep a secret too...
Ashley
Sent: 21 June 2004 16:47
To: Ashley Frieze
Subject: Re: Hi there
i gottted it free becuase it was on my compter when i gotted it!
i think i being advertised on a blackboard and not in a brochure. i dodn't give the twinky bartem belly any money so that is the problem i keep encountering.
I will see if i can change my plans for tomorrow so i can meets you and give you whiskey.
i lick camden
Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 21 June 2004 15:52:40
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Hey Blaized,
Not sure about the Whiskey - I'm day tripping it to London in the car, so will have to stay sober. I'll be near Chalk Farm tube at the Enterprise pub. My mobile number is 07*** *** **1 I'll buy the whiskey for you.
I've given Twinky Bartem plenty of money - I wish I'd worked out how to do it your way :)
See you later.
Ashley
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 24 June 2004 10:16:50
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Hi Blaized.
Shame you couldn't make it along to the gig the other night. I needed something magical injecting into me - maybe some Blaized magic would have been just the ticket. I got the audience laughing in the end, but it felt awfully lonely up there at the start.
So what's news with you?
Have you written any more of your Edinburgh show - there's more of it online, but surely it couldn't fill an hour in its current incarnation?
Are you going to come along on July 17th or 18th to see my show at the Etcetera in Camden? Apparently you were going to perform there, but had to pull out at the last minute.
I also understand that you are telling people that I am your friend. I'm touched by this, since it means that you're not ashamed to admit to knowing me. Sadly, I feel a bit disappointed that we haven't met yet. Surely friends would be better at keeping in touch? We'll have to sort this out.
Good luck with being Blaized.
See you soon.
Ashley
From: Blaized Carmey [mailto:blaizedcarmey@hotmail.com]
Sent: 24 June 2004 11:32
To: Ashley Frieze
Subject: Re: Hi there
Asley. i did not see this emails until it was too late. i seens it just now, i am sorry that you were lonly without me. I will try to come to see your show in camden, i will book tickets today. last times i was supposed to do a bit of my play there but i then went to the wrong theatre at the canal cafe thetare and i got there and they said i was in the wrong place. i tried to hurry to the write place but it was too late but then some peoples readed my script for me anyways on the stage i was told.
Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 24 June 2004 10:53:12
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Hi Blaized,
I heard that they read your script too. I'd love to have a look at it - can you email it to me?
Let me know which night you're coming to my show in Camden - I'll make sure we can meet up afterwards.
Are you doing any previews of your show before you go to Edinburgh? I've learned a lot about our show over the last two previews - thankfully, I'm happy with most of it, but it must be a big risk trying out a show you've never done before during the Edinburgh festival itself. I'm so glad I was advised to do previews.
Good luck.
Ashley
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 29 June 2004 14:32:53
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Labi Siffre
http://www.so-strong.com/archives/music/lyrics/05_so_strong.htm
That's who sang it
Ashley
Sent: 01 July 2004 14:40
To: Ashley Frieze
Subject: Re: Hi there
I don't understand your email asley. nevermind. perhaps you drunk! I am exciting now abouts edinburghhgr. I am going to have a special chair in the jelly belly and mes own board saying when i sit there! exclaim!
Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 01 July 2004 13:47:00
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Hi Blaized - I read your blog and you were asking who wrote "something inside so strong" - the song you sang to the dog you found on the street. I found out who did it and emailed you the stuff below.
I'm very excited about Edinburgh too.
Are you doing any previews of your show?
I'm currently working on getting the show ready to come to London in just over two weeks' time. It's a lot to organise. In September, I will be very relieved that it's all over... I'll also miss the flurry of activity.
What will you be doing after Edinburgh?
Ashley
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 07 July 2004 11:11:47
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Hi Blaized,
Are you Anil?
Ashley
From: Blaized Carmey [mailto:blaizedcarmey@hotmail.com]
Sent: 07 July 2004 13:26
To: Ashley Frieze
Subject: Re: Hi there
Hi Asley, what is anil? is it a type of feeling?
Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 07 July 2004 12:42:56
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
I'm asking whether you are actually Anil - as in the Pineapple Boys member called Anil.
It's a fair guess. If I'm right, you may as well admit it. I'm telling noone.
Ashley
From: Blaized Carmey [mailto:blaizedcarmey@hotmail.com]
Sent: 07 July 2004 13:49
To: Ashley Frieze
Subject: Re: Hi there
hello asley,
someones else called kiki says this to me too. i do not lick it very much. i am not a pin apple boys i am a man and quite an old man and i dont unerstand why peoples guessing who i am these days. if that the best you say to me today than i can do without it.
Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 07 July 2004 13:10:18
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Sorry Blaized,
I am just excited about meeting you when you come to see my musical. Kiki suggested it to me and gave a compelling reason for why she thought you were Anil. If you don't want me to question the man behind "Blaized" then I won't.
What are you doing today?
Ashley
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 22 July 2004 15:33:47
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Hi Blaized
Did you make it along to see my show this weekend - you said you would. If you did and then didn't come and see me afterwards, that's a bit of a disappointment.
So, when are we going to meet up in Edinburgh?
Ashley
From: Blaized Carmey [mailto:blaizedcarmey@hotmail.com]
Sent: 23 July 2004 16:54
To: Ashley Frieze
Subject: Re: Hi there
Hi Asley
I am coming to see you tommorroww at 7.30. I ams looking forward to it. Do I need to book a ticket or will you give me a compliment?
yours, Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 23 July 2004 16:16:06
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : RE: Hi there
Hi Blaized
Sorry, but it was last weekend - you missed it. I would have comp'ed you in... you'll have to wait until Edinburgh now.
Ashley
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 21 September 2004 10:44:46
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : Did we actually meet during the Fringe?
Hi Blaized,
Thanks for coming to see The Musical! during the fringe. You never introduced yourself to me, though we must have run into each other in the underbelly. What do you look like?
Ashley
Sent: 28 September 2004 12:42
To: ashley@incredible.org.uk
Subject: RE: Did we actually meet during the Fringe?
Dear Asley, surely you know what i looks lick? have you not seens my phot? have you seen my poster for my show?
Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 28 September 2004 12:44:35
To : "'blaized carmey'"
Subject : RE: Did we actually meet during the Fringe?
Hi Blaized,
I'm not sure that you do look like the photo I've seen on your website. I would have definitely noticed you if you did. Having said that, the photo was an odd one, coming, almost at random, from a german university's photo
website: http://www.geogr.uni-goettingen.de/kus/pics/vn3/vn1999-bremer-old-man-small1.jpg
So I'd be forgiven for my assumption that it's not actually you.
I've seen the poster for your show and I'm really tempted to come along and watch it. The problem being that it's a long way to go for watching a show and I have a day job which may get in the way. I'm 300 miles away from your venue. If only it were on 3 days later: I'm in London on a company-paid-for trip then anyway.
Good luck with the show.
Ashley
From: blaized carmey [mailto:blaizedcarmey@hotmail.com]
Sent: 28 September 2004 17:40
To: ashley@incredible.org.uk
Subject: RE: Did we actually meet during the Fringe?
Dear Asley,
It is an old picture of me, i think at least 5 or 6 years olds i think. I do not unerstand why you not think it me why? just because it on another wesbite and not just your wesbite? I been to many places, i seed a lot of things. i quite old asley.
Maybe the picture of you dressed as a soldier is random, i am tempting to think so but i know it is you because i have seed your flesh.
I sorry that you can not come to see my play but i dont think you wood reaaly come anyway because you dont even belive i a person which is my biggest insult from you. nasty cruel is your name
Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 28 September 2004 16:48:32
To : "'blaized carmey'"
Subject : RE: Did we actually meet during the Fringe?
Blaized,
I'd love to see your play and see the man behind the name. If I can, I will. Thank you for coming to see mine. I only wish you'd taken the time to say hello - you knew my whereabouts and I had no means of finding you.
As for your identity. You are Blaized Carmey. Everything else is irrelevant.
Good luck with the show. The etcetera is a good venue, I'm sure you'll have fun there.
Ashley
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 29 September 2004 15:26:41
To : "'blaized carmey'"
Subject : RE: Did we actually meet during the Fringe?
Hi Blaized,
How long does your show last? If it will be over by 9.30pm then I may be
able to come - do I get a discount?
Ashley
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 12 November 2004 16:59:29
To : "'Blaized Carmey'"
Subject : I'll be there on the 22nd.
Hi Blaized,
It's a big trip to make for a one-hour-long play, but I guess I couldn't miss out on the chance to see the premiere. Good luck organising it. The show must go on... and invariably, it does.
Will you be around for post-show drinks?
Ashley
From: blaized carmey [mailto:blaizedcarmey@hotmail.com]
Sent: 15 November 2004 17:36
To: ashley@incredible.org.uk
Subject: RE: I'll be there on the 22nd.
Dear Asley,
many thanks for being my supporter. I hope to have pre show drink and after show drink of whiskey. I will need it for my nerves because they is getting shaky already and it not yet the day of the preformance. I have been very busy making all of the costume and it difficult for me because i have roomatism in both of my hands and this make it a long job. i try to rest but when i rest i dream of the play. i hop it is my best work. i worry that i old and will not have many chances at this before i die.
I look forward to see you and to hear you laugh and cry at the play
Your Fiend, Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 15 November 2004 17:41:20
To : "'blaized carmey'"
Subject : RE: I'll be there on the 22nd.
Hi Blaized
If the play turns out as I'm certain it will, and if you are prepared to sit and have a drink me, it will be my pleasure to buy the whiskey.
How are rehearsals going? Do the cast need to learn their lines? Or will they do it radio-play-style? Scripts in hands?
Is there much of a set?
Good luck with it. I'm sure you'll have fun. As for the performance anxiety dreams - enjoy them, you've earned them!
Ashley
From: blaized carmey [mailto:blaizedcarmey@hotmail.com]
Sent: 16 November 2004 15:40
To: ashley@incredible.org.uk
Subject: RE: I'll be there on the 22nd.
thankyou asley. i look forward to your critike.
Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 16 November 2004 15:51:02
To : "'blaized carmey'"
Subject : RE: I'll be there on the 22nd.
I was just going to come along and enjoy, but if you want me to give you a critique, then I'll bring a notepad...
What are your hopes for this preview? Some people do previews to get press attention, or to see if the material works, or to give themselves a first step towards completing the show. In your case, you've made a real challenge for yourself, so I don't know your aims.
When I first put on "The Musical!" one of my main aims was to see my efforts come to fruition. It's a really good feeling. I met a friend of a friend today who'd seen the show in Edinburgh. It was the first time I'd met him. As we parted, he told me that the show had been the highlight of his trip (albeit a day-trip) to Edinburgh and that he still listened to the CD and enjoyed it. That's kind of weird, but it makes it all worthwhile... (personally, I thought my show was fairly worthless - except, perhaps, as a bit of entertainment)
Keep doing what you're doing. I'm enjoying watching your progress.
And blog more often.
Ashley
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 23 November 2004 22:27:23
To : "'blaized carmey'"
Subject : RE: I'll be there on the 22nd.
Hi Blaized,
Well... Interesting. You were in the audience, then. If so, where were you sitting. In fact, you can't have missed a big fellow like me, so where was I sitting?
Why didn't you say hi to me after the show? I thought I was going to buy you a whisky?
I'm disappointed in you. I thought that the climax of this story would be that we'd meet at your play and talk of the future. Now I'm more puzzled than ever. What is the purpose of this? Really... I'm utterly stumped. Give me a clue. Is this some sort of test?
Ashley
From: blaized carmey [mailto:blaizedcarmey@hotmail.com]
Sent: 24 November 2004 10:37
To: ashley@incredible.org.uk
Subject: RE: I'll be there on the 22nd.
Asley,
I am sorry not to drink the Whiskey with you after you comes all the way from Scotland to see my humble show. I not well enough to go inot the smockey bar. Ruman phone me and tell me to go straight home, he angry I even go to the show in the frist place but I could not resit.
It no test to you or anyone, I is just being Blaized and hasing some fun in my old age. I want to make peoples smile and be happy and I sorry if I fale to do this to you. Did you lick the peace? I heared you laughing Asley...
Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 24 November 2004 11:24:13
To : "'blaized carmey'"
Subject : RE: I'll be there on the 22nd.
Hi Blaized,
I had a fun evening. I laughed. I learned about Newcastle disease.
What's next for Blaized? Are you going to become a legend on the back of Monday? Or is there some impending denouement to look forward to?
Ashley
From: blaized carmey [mailto:blaizedcarmey@hotmail.com]
Sent: 24 November 2004 12:32
To: ashley@incredible.org.uk
Subject: RE: I'll be there on the 22nd.
what is next? i have a few ideas and have writted them down in my dairy. You oculd have a look Asley.
Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 24 November 2004 12:52:21
To : "'blaized carmey'"
Subject : RE: I'll be there on the 22nd.
I read your diary, Blaized. I suppose my real question is - how much longer are you going to keep up doing what you've been doing? If you don't make it bigger each time, then the appeal will wear off. If there's to be no climax surrounding Monday night, then you will either need to do something a lot more difficult, or disappear completely. Staying as you are will not be an option.
So what do you think? Did Monday go well enough to justify all the work you put in?
Ashley
From: blaized carmey [mailto:blaizedcarmey@hotmail.com]
Sent: 24 November 2004 16:52
To: ashley@incredible.org.uk
Subject: RE: I'll be there on the 22nd.
I thinks you worry two much, Asley. I is not an master ciminal from a James Bond film. I not planning to take over the world. Given my age and the currant state of my health I do not think it two safe to assume that I will be around for a long time, I will stop when I dies or when the people kerb their interest.
Blaized
From : Ashley Frieze
Sent : 24 November 2004 17:02:26
To : "'blaized carmey'"
Subject : RE: I'll be there on the 22nd.
I'm not worried... I'm just extremely puzzled. You've been doing your thing for months now and I've been waiting for the grand finale. In much the same way as your play just suddenly came to an end, so do you expect your presence in the comedy world to come to an end without a punchline? What sort of a story would that be to tell?
You're truly an entertaining being - more so on the page than spoken, I might add - and I know you've gotten yourself something of a following, but do you really plan to string this along indefinitely with no purpose? Or is there some grand plan that you're yet to reveal? In an earlier email, you suggested that Monday night's show was a preview for something for Fringe 2005. Will there be a show in August?
I think you ought to write more for your website. Your takes on current affairs, along with your turn of phrase in your "dairy" are well worth reading.
Maybe I'm just looking for meaning in all of this. Perhaps you're just bored and filling time. Still, putting a 45 minute show together in a London theatre is a bit ambitious for just a time filler... Isn't it?
Ashley
