Wednesday, February 18, 2004 13:52 GMT
Dave Gorman - review | |
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| | Dave Gorman visited Forest Arts in New Milton earlier this year on a warm up for his new UK tour.
BBC Southampton's Stephen Stafford logged on to the Googlewhack Adventure. |
| | | Imagine a conversation which combines Michael Palin's traveller's tales, an Open University professor's lecture on thermodynamics and a computer nerd passing the time and you've got Dave Gorman's latest stand-up show - a "heavily edited" version of his 'Googlewhack Adventure'.
The show in the intimate surroundings of Forest Arts started with some helpful definitions - a Googlewhack is where you type in two unrelated words into the Google search engine and get just one suggestion for a site back.
For example, Unicyclist Periscopes was one - although it isn't anymore as websites (like this one) reviewing Dave's show at the Edinburgh Festival published the words Unicyclist Periscopes which are now picked up by a Google search.
The single Googlewhack site is completely unrelated to anything (although some remarkable coincidences did crop up during the show), but in tracking down the owners of the sites and getting them to find more Googlewhacks, Dave somehow fell into a journey of thousands of miles and met all kinds of remarkable (if only for being normal) people.
Bearing in mind, this is the man who has already travelled the globe finding other people called Dave Gorman, and carried out an Important Astrology Experiment in which he followed every instruction in his horoscopes for 40 days and 40 nights, and it almost seems sane!
The Googlewhacking trip saw Dave criss-crossing the world having a run in with a Texan tatoo artist and making friends with a bloke from Birmingham who compiles pictures of women and dogs (www.womenandogsuk.co.uk - it's hilarious).
It's all illustrated with big screen projections of comedy pictures, holiday snaps, diagrams, scans and, Dave Gorman diehard fans will be pleased to hear, the all-important graphs.
Dave's passion, obsessive quick fire delivery and self-depricating humour made it an hilarious journey where we covered the vast distances with him at the click of a mouse. It may be a product of the 21st Century cyber-nerd generation, but the human stories he unearthed renews your faith in people and the true spirit of the internet.
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