Four Blokes in Search of a Plot – Neil Broadfoot, Gordon Brown, Mark Leggatt and Douglas Skelton – are heading to the Glasgow International Comedy Festival.

On Wednesday March 18 they will be ensconced in The Glad Café on the city’s Pollokshaws Road and delivering their own particular brand of mayhem and madness.

Yes, there will be a mirtherrrr…!

It’s an improvisational show that sees the guys given a main character and murder weapon and then take turns to create a crime story, with the audience selecting who goes next.

And as they write their 100 words or so, they don the sacred Tea Cosy of Inspiration. Because they can.

You’ll find details here:

Four Blokes in the Glad Cafe

Here’s the story so far – Four dashing, debonair, supremely talented young crime writers agree to change the format of their already successful touring panel. It’s daring! It’s brave! It’s astounding!

Meanwhile, Neil Broadfoot, Gordon Brown, Mark Leggatt and Douglas Skelton are doing the same with theirs.

It’s madness!

Madness, I tell you!

The brilliant Byres Road Book bonanza is back – and Four Crime Writers will be looking for that elusive plot in Hillhead Library on Saturday September 23.

The new format sees us create a crime story from scratch, while also engaging in erudite conversation.

Okay, maybe not so erudite but there will be words coming from our mouths, as well as from our fingertips.

We’re not promising they’ll be in the right order or even spelled correctly, but they will be words.

So do get along and see us. We may come this way but once!

Details below and here:

https://www.byresroadbookfestival.com/23rd-september/four-crime-writers-in-search-of-a-plot2282017

 

After the success that was Newcastle, Crime Factor comes to Glasgow for the final fun-filled event.

Myself, Neil Broadfoot, Mark Leggatt and Gordon GJ Brown. Picture by Daniel Morrison. And yes, Neil was holding me up.

Myself, Neil Broadfoot, Mark Leggatt and Gordon GJ Brown. Picture by Daniel Morrison. And yes, Neil was holding me up.

Neil Broadfoot, Gordon ‘GJ’ Brown, Mark Leggatt and Douglas Skelton will bring their epic world tours of parts of Scotland (and Northern England) to a close in Waterstones Sauchiehall Street.

The tour – known variously as Crime Factor, Four Crime Writers in Search of a Plot, Four Crime Writers Who Have Lost the Plot and, more recently, the inaugural tour of the old boys band Mark Leggatt and the Pantsters – has taken in Dundee, Perth, Livingston, Linlithgow, Kirkcaldy, Ayr, East Kilbride, Edinburgh and Dunfermline.

Don’t miss the exciting finale.

Will Mark Leggatt cave and stop planning his books?

Will Neil Broadfoot tell us the name of the national newspaper he uses as a backdrop?

Will Gordon Brown balance the budget? (Sorry, wrong Gordon Brown)

Will Douglas Skelton stay awake?

Find out in Waterstones Sauchiehall Street on Friday November 4.

More details here:

Waterstones Sauchiehall Street

Well, William Wallace tried it, Bonnie Prince Charlie tried it, now it’s our turn – for the Crime Factor Four are heading across the border.

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Neil Broadfoot, Gordon Brown, Mark Leggatt and Douglas Skelton will in Newcastle – the home of the Likely Lads and Auf Wiedersehn, Pet – for a very exciting leg of the tour on Friday October 21, chaired by Jacky Collins.

Come and see us. We promise not to try the accent.