The shortlist for the Perrier Award has been announced. The nominees are Chris Addison, Reginald D.Hunter, Epitaph, .Jackson's Way and Sarah Kendall.
The nominees for the best newcomer are Alun Cochrane, Will Hodgson, Joanna Neary and Sabotage.
The list finally features a female nominee, the first since Jenny Eclair famously won it in 1995. The chatter has been that if a lady was nominated she'd win.
It's the Big Shield in comedy terms and is now in its 24th year. It offers a £7,500 prize to a comedy cabaret act or stand-up comedian at the annual Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
The winner will be announced at midnight on Saturday.
I'm interested obviously cos it's a big thing in comedic terms, but Perrier's parent company is those fuckers Nestle. I'm not big on refusing to buy stuff in order to support the Mongolian Teepee Workers or that, as soon as you start that there's no end to it, but I do refuse to buy any Nestle products. So, for the alternative awards, why don't you head over to The Bongo Club (which is like a cross between a youth club disco and Drexl's lair from True Romance) on Sunday night for The Tap Awards. On the site you can go to a link to see what evil fuckers Nestle are, if you don't know already.
Wednesday 25 August 2004
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Another reason to hate Nestle, in addition to the water one: http://www.babymilkaction.org/pages/boycott.html
I'm sure you already knew that, though...
(T)
Forgot to add this one. Typing "nestle evil" (without the quotes) brings up, as its first result, this heartwarming story about Nestle from The Guardian in 2002:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/famine/story/0,12128,862655,00.html
The Milky Bars are on them...
Cheers for that T. The reason I stopped buying Nestle stuff was just that, when they went to Ethiopia with their hand out for 4 million notes. Evil scum. It does mean that instead of Milky Bars my niece gets Teenies white chocolate though.
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