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JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA!

BRAND NEW FOR 2006

THE ODYSSEY

HOMERS EPIC STORY RETOLD
AS ONLY THE WIZARDMARRA CAN.

All the cast is assembled, Odysseus, Polyphemous, Circe, Eolus The god of the winds (WARNING! fart gags!!!)
What is the song the Sirens sing to lure men to there dooms? How does Hermes get dressed in the morning? These questions and more will be answered in the Wizardmarras telling of this classic tale.

A FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK

Part inspired by the only decent Christmas song ever written. This is a completely new interpretation of the Scottish tale TAM LIN written by Wizardmarra.

When Janet a highly successful New York advertising executive decides to go to Fairyland, an ultracool nightclub situated in the old Carter Hall building her life takes a very strange turn. For the owner of the club is The Queen Of The Night herself. Like Tam tells her;
"She's not into black magic, she IS black magic.

CAPTAIN CREST.

Captain Crest, the most evil pirate that ever sailed the seven seas. Fouler than a mizzen deck on
Sunday morning after a Saturday night when we been having a knees
up with a barrel of rum at the
Pirates Legion. The treasure we got with the Cap'n were vast, Then he went and hid it and died!Now he haunts it, a ghost with a heart blacker than when he were alive.
Tis true! Sure as my names Legless Bob, I'd stake my wooden bum on it!

The Pirates try to find it!
Hear how the Scurvy Scum Scatter in their pants at the sight of the ghost!

The Explorer tries to find it!
CARRINGTON CARSTAIRS SCARES HIMSELF SILLY
(Serialised in “THE BIG BOOK OF BOYS OWN ADVENTURE TALES BY CAPITAL CHAPS!”)

The TV Crew tried to find it.
“Tonight viewers something really really peculiar happened on
“NOT HAUNTED AT ALL, MOSTLY”
when our clairvoyant Erik Askowser came over all funny, and I heard a bang.”

And then three others try

WHO ARE THEY?

If I see you, I’ll tell you

*****

THE HOGFATHER

OK! So it's about pigs! Like you know the deal, when The Hogfathers daughter gets herself hitched, The Hogfather grants favours to people who ask him nice. So he sets his three sons Anthony, Paulie and Micheal up in business. Basically it’s about these 3 pigs and this wolf who's on the jazz. Capeche! Sit back pull up a pizza find out what happens, One guy ends up being the new Hogfather, The Big Cheese.
You know what they call that in France, it’s
Le Grand Fromage.
I like that, Le Grand Fromage, that’s French!

*****

ONE RUNG TO RULE THEM ALL

A tale of the Utensils of Power that were made when the world was new to keep it squeaky clean! Of the Hoovers of the Elves, the Black & Delver of the Dwarves and of THE ONE LADDER. Of Freddy Higgins, Grand Alf, Gobbo and the evil Sarosama Binliner Claddam! and
his Weapons Of Magical Destruction.
It all started when old Harry Higgins started going off the festivals. He won the ladder when he guessed Gobbos' riddle.
"What have I got on the roofses of my van?"

*****

THE GREAT STORY OF BORROWDALE

Begun when the beasts of the world slept. The Boar, Albion stirred and
the wrinkles on his back formed Cumbria. A tale of walls and gowks, of Jack Mallinson who tried to catch the moon in an umbrella so it would only rain at night, and of Millican Dalton* who lived in a cave and never wasted a word.


WORDS FOR MR DALTON

There was once a man from a northern town
who packed up his life and set off down
To work with a pen
in the city
So he scribbled and scribed
‘til he asked himself why?
and what was the point of his life?
The Whys’? And The How’s’?
and The
What happens now?
The Wherefores? And What ifs? Invaded
They spun in his head
He was numbed…
He was dead…
Never to reach a conclusion…
He discussed it with friends
used a magnifying lens
‘till all finer points were debated
The answers came fast
from the
first to the
last
and
every single one was original
from that simple why?
It all multi-plied
and the answers just left him with questions
But then came a thought
On the wind from the north and
The great final answers just hit him

Don’t waste words
Jump to conclusions

Don’t talk all night, do the walk of life
Actions speak louder than words
Life is for living for laughter for giving
For running like mad through the grass
For splashing in water as it falls down the fells
For climbing right up to the top


So
He threw down his pen
Said goodbye to the men
Who continued to scribble and scribe
But nobody worried and
nobody cried and
nobody followed the man
who
best foot forward
Set on his course and followed his nose to the north
To live out his days in a Cumbrian cave
Showing the folk who caught on to the joke
How to scramble to splash to scree run and dash to
Sail on the sunlight and water
To clamber on rock
and climb right to the top
That to waste all those words is really absurd

Take a leap of faith

JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS

*

Millican Dalton really existed, to learn more about this amazing man check out Matthew Entwhistles amazing website and buy his book!

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/matthew.entwistle/welcome.html

and for a downloadable mp3 of the above words with music by Wizardmarra and featuring extracts from Millican Daltons guidebooks and a quote from "Rogue Herries" by Hugh Walpole check out

http://www.myspace.com/Wizardmarra1

CAPTAIN CREST Do you want talk to other Pirates Ring 0898 989 9999 PIRATELINE

THE HOGFATHER "The Wolfs gonna do all that Huffity Puffity Jazz!"

ONE RUNG TO RULE THEM ALL "What have I got on the Roofses of my Van?"

THE GREAT STORY OF BORROWDALE

Alan Whittaker,
2004