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Kid Carpet and the Noisy Animals launch their first YouTube channel
When he was growing up, Kid Carpet wanted to be a drummer like Ringo Starr. Then he wanted to be a comedian or a footballer. Then he wanted to do nothing.
Since those days, he has morphed into musical-theatre, “peculiar stand-up-fall-down music” in his own words, entertaining children and their grown-ups with his brand of nonsensical and often improvised shows.
Kid Carpet, aka Ed Patrick, is now also a YouTuber, with Noisy Animals TV featuring 10-minute long episodes of Noisy TV, video shorts, pop videos and more, mostly filmed from his studio in Easton.
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“I’ve got a few hopes and dreams for Noisy TV,” Kid Carpet told the Bristol24/7 Behind the Headlines podcast. “I hope that it can drive a TV audience to the theatre shows because we go and tour around and it’s the same people.
“Every town, the same people come. It’s the middle class people who buy the tickets to come to the theatre. They know how to behave and they sit there. And it’s fine.
“But sometimes you do a rural show in a village hall somewhere. Everyone from the village is there. They don’t know how to behave. And it’s chaos! It’s fantastic!
“But they’re not going to buy the ticket to go to the metropolitan theatre. So it would be really nice to get a few more of the chaos people into the theatre and I’m hoping that the telly thing can maybe pull some of them in.”
Listen to Kid Carpet on the latest episode of the Bristol24/7 Behind the Headlines podcast, including an exclusive play of Doing a Poo in the Forest:
Filming for Noisy TV first began just before lockdown above the Improv Theatre in Clifton but had to be canned.
Throughout the pandemic, Kid Carpet and his camera operator and editor, Ben Dowden, have been tinkering away.
“We haven’t got ten episodes anymore. We have got three episodes. But they are everything that I have wanted them to be, and I just want to do another. I want to do more. It’s good fun!”
Watch the first episode of Noisy TV:
Main photo: Ben Dowden
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