Anthony Irvine
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The Iceman performance available for download
A recording of a show by alternative comedian The Iceman, titled The Final Block, is now available to download.
British Comedy Guide, 28th March 2025The Iceman: The Final Block review
The Iceman is surely the act most widely cited to illustrated the weird and wonderful state of the fertile post-punk alternative cabaret circuit which birthed the modern stand-up scene.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 28th March 2025The final performance by The Iceman shows the impermanence of existence
Last night, I witnessed what was allegedly the last ever performance by legendary act The Iceman. It had not been billed in advance as his final performance, but there was a sense of anticipation before the show started.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 23rd September 2024The Iceman to perform as part of Go Faster Stripe recording day
Go Faster Stripe is to film four live stand-up shows back-to-back on 22nd September. Tickets are now available.
British Comedy Guide, 4th September 2024The Iceman to perform again for new documentary
The Iceman - a legendary figure from the early days of alternative comedy - is to recreate his notoriously bizarre act once more. Anthony Irvine was one of the most talked-about acts of the 1980s for his performances, which involved fruitlessly trying to melt a large block of ice while cracking puns.
Chortle, 3rd September 2024For a second year, The Iceman / AIM's to make an exhibition of himself...
So unexpectedly popular was last year's extravaganza in rural Dorset that he has returned this year for another month-long exhibition, this time titled "Hiceggledy Piceggledy".
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 17th July 2024The AIM of The Iceman's artifICE...
Performance art act The Iceman aka Anthony Irvine has cropped up in this blog over the years, including his pure art incarnation as AIM. Last year, I blogged about AIM's month-long art exhibition residency at the Guggleton Farm Arts centre in Dorset. Now, blow me down, AIM - or it might be The Iceman or it might be Anthony or it might be all three - is/are back there for another month-long exhibition/residency, 12th July-10th August.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 18th June 2024Is The Iceman's upcoming movie MELT IT! a documentary or a piece of Art...?
The documentary is co-produced by Robert Wringham and director Mark Cartwright. I talked to Robert and Anthony via Zoom... Mark was elsewhere, possibly in Wolverhampton.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 5th January 2024The Iceman to be celebrated in documentary film
Alternative comedy performer Anthony Irvine, AKA The Iceman, is to be the subject of a new documentary.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd December 2023The Iceman on eccentric Bob Flag and selling his own artworks in a rubbish tip
Anthony Irvine has just shared some memories of Bob Flag with me.
Anthony Irvine, John Fleming's Blog, 14th August 2023