A New Adventure for Christmas Eve 2009 From beyond the grave, The Fez of Etymology present a brand new audio adventure for your listening pleasure. Yes, though we parted company in 2008, we thought it only tidy, as the sun sets on the twenty-noughties, to complete for you a story we devised some eighteen months ago. We finally came together this week, to record our stand-alone chiller, The Masonic Zombie Brides.
Thus, a title for which we'd been seeking a story since our very second episode in 2003 finally reaches your waiting ears. Though October-ridden, it has the flavour of a Christmas ghost story, so we hope you'll enjoy it either as a festive fez this week, or an evergreen escapade, the year round. Listen to, or download it, here, please.
The Fez of Etymology, as a generally two-man comedy collective, ran for almost five years from from Fall 2003 to Summer 2008. They produced three audio-adventure series, The Fez of Etymology, a SUBMARINE trip to Atlantis, The Mundane Egg, a supernatural murder mystery in a sleepy seaside village, and Darius Cantor Must Die, wherein comedy was set aside for grand narrative, and epic adventure.
From their humble beginnings at Bretton Hall, where Tom Hagley, Ben Swithen and Dan Bloor came together to shout at a computer, to their humble conclusions, more than ten miles further North, the Fez produced more than seven hours of audio comedy (it doesn't look impressive on the page, but if you tried to listen to it, it might sound longer), and wrote and performed several plays* and short dramatic readings. In their time, they were honoured to work alongside such luminaries as Tom Hollingworth, Goosey, Garry Lyons, and the Bretton Mixed-Ability Choir.
A fairly amicable split leaves Tom directing and producing motion pictures, and Ben attempting to carve out a solo writing career. The site remains here as a small monument to what's gone before, a modest advertisement for 'Darius Cantor Must Die' (now available from Ben and/or Tom in CD quality. On CD!), an an opportunity for us to finally put up a 'happy new year' announcement on New Year's Day - something I, as webmaster, have tried (and failed) to do for four years now. We may not be working together at present, but, I tell you, we'll wish you a happy new 2010 on January First, when it rolls around, if it's the last thing we do!
The Original Fez of Etymology Team. 2003-2008