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.
The live show encapsulates all the irreverent mirth of the videos. 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?
Foil Arms & Hog are three young Irishmen 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 they 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.
Buy tickets for all dates here.
TOURING SCHEDULE:
MARCH:
Wednesday, 14 Mar & Thursday 15 Mar – Glasgow Comedy Festival, Garage 0844 873 7353 www.glasgowcomedyfestival.com
APRIL:
Friday, 6 April Chester, Storyhouse 01244 409 113 www.storyhouse.com
Saturday, 7 April Birmingham, Town Hall0121 780 3333 www.thsh.co.uk
Thursday, 19 April Manchester, Dancehouse 0161 237 1413 / 0161 2379753 www.thedancehouse.co.uk
Friday, 20 April Durham, Gala Theatre 03000 266 600 www.galadurham.co.uk
Thursday, 26 April Exeter, Corn Exchange 01392 665938 www.exetercornexchange.co.uk
MAY:
Thursday, 10 May Hammersmith, Apollo 0208 563 3800 www.eventimapollo.com
