Apologies also for the apparent lack of action, we’ve been working on our audiocast and waiting to hear from Current TV. If you do see Current TV could you please tell them that we’re waiting and want to make some bloody films?

In other news, we plan to record some audio sketches before Christmas so keep your ears open for them.

In other news, we’ve just got back from Hull Comedy Festival following a week of publicity culminating in the orgasmic climax of our show. Thanks to everyone who attended and also everyone involved with the festival – particularly John Gilbert. The gig went rather well and we’ll be posting a blog entry shortly which will go into more detail about the festival.

Sebastien Foucault:

• “Loved it” Phil Marshman
• “Highly original and offbeat, quirky and effective” Mike Szewczuk
• “Good performances and hilarious dialogue” Brian Clay
• “The actors worked very hard…and without them there would have been no film” Carol Black pointing out the necessity of actors.
• “I did get tired of those bollards” Dave Watterson

Safe Blokes:

• “Of doubtful entertainment value…I doubt very much if it would be appreciated by any and all the females I know – and that’s a lot!!!” Grant Thornton BSc (Grant’s own exclamation marks)
• “It would make Channel 4 proud” Grant Thornton BSc
• “Sickening attack” Max Eigen
• “The performances are good, especially the trio towards the end” Max Eigen

Unfortunately, the trophy Ladma received (which may remind you of Sunday League Football) was inscribed ‘Lamda Comedy Group’. We are considering changing our name

In other news, Look North! has been completed and will be made available online next week. If you can’t wait until then, please watch the Ladma Showreel below which contains a brief trailer of Look North! It also contains trailers for Seb Fou, Safe Blokes and Deep Catalyst and is intended as a sort of ‘viral’ Ladma advert.

But we haven’t been resting on our laurels. We’ve been planning, writing and recording the audiocast. We’ve also started the Ladma blog which will be updated more often than the news and will go into a little more detail about what we’ve been up to. Hopefully it’ll also be funny. The blog – entitled Thoughts of a Ladma – will be replacing the forum. The blog can be found under Words.

With only editing, voice-overs, music, sound and graphics to do, hopefully the film should be with you within the next month or so.

The second screening is part of Brighton Fringe Festival. Sebastien Foucault and Safe Blokes will be shown along with the World Premier of Deep Catalyst. The screening will be part of Brighton Promises held at More Bar, Trafalgar St, Brighton and begins at 19:30. The evening will also showcase a selection of other short films and exhibit work by a local artist.

Oh yeah, Seb Fou is also being shown at Guerrilla Zoo’s Spring Roll event on May 19th in London. There’s also loads of other crazy shit going on so you might want to check out our cleverly embedded hyperlink.

As you can probably tell we’ve been redesigning the website. We’ve also had various film screenings so thanks very much to everyone who turned up to them. Apologies to all those who’ve been clicking on the podcast page expecting to find a podcast. We’re actually in the process of writing it so keep your eyes (or rather ears) open for that. Also, we’ve been hard at work all week editing Deep Catalyst so that should be assaulting your eyes within the week.

The film has already been entered into Myspace’s Mymovie Mashup competition. The myspace version can be viewed below. Again, please feel free to criticize, analyze and commentize our piece. If you feel you can’t swallow a whole mouthful of truth, why not view the Safe Blokes teaser which is available on our myspace?

Please feel free to watch, comment on, or nominate for feature our film. The myspace version can be viewed below.

As usual, the Ladmas have left one more scene to be recorded. Why can’t they just learn to let go? The provisional title for the film is Safe Blokes.

Plans were also finalised for a new Ladma project which is due to be filmed this weekend. Rumour has it that it will feature a special guest star. Unconfirmed reports speculate that it is either Debbie King of Quizmania fame or Danielle Nicholls of being-an-annoying-kids-TV- presenter-in-the-mid-nineties fame.

Please use the forum to give us any feedback.

The article can be read here. Ladma holds no responsibility for the poor standards of journalism exhibited in the story and, indeed, many Ladmas are “noticeably uneasy” at the author’s decision to start a sentence with “Some of whom…”.

The full article and accompanying picture can be ogled here.

The Film Rush itself was part of the Brighton Film Festival. Restrictions of the Rush require that all films are 5 minutes in length and that they feature a random prop and location. The random prop given to Ladma was a ‘typewriter’ and the location was ‘under a desk’. The Jury Prize was voted for by academics from the Media and Film departments at Sussex University and local film producers.

The Audience Prize – as voted for by sycophantic students – went to Hell’s Kitchen which featured a man having a swift wank. Ironically, the wank also took place under a desk.

This weekend’s Ladma team consists of Ladma Christ, Ladma Key, Ladma Smythe and Ladma Christ’s brother (James).

For all those interested in coming to see the final product on a big screen, it will be shown at the Gardeners Arts Centre, Brighton, at 20:00 on Sunday.

In spite of having over 4 hours of footage complete and over an hour of audio, there is still much filming and voice-over work to do. Hence, sadly, it will be some time before people know the truth.