Review: Sean Lock: Lockipedia – Hartlepool Borough Hall

Sean Lock

Sean Lock’s 2010 tour show Lockipedia is a great source of information and knowledge.

It contains around 120 minutes of angrily formed opinions on life’s current gripes and problems, material of questionable truth (and decency) as well as being packed with various errors building to an accumulation of embarrassing pieces of material. This is where the similarities between Lockipedia and its Wiki counterpart end. Citation needed.

Of course, instead of poorly written articles, biased and uninformed posts, error laden pieces of work and unverified and unsourced material, Sean Lock gives us his all in a fantastic new show loosely using this Wikipedia theme to interweave stories of embarrassment, your expected rants on the Sun newspaper readers and people who get offended by television and well rounded familial tales as well as routines of life on the road into his show tonight for his Hartlepool audience.

Hartlepool’s Borough Hall was the venue for Lockipedia, a room straight out of the prom scene from Back To The Future, complete with suitable interval music to match.

Although the venue looked less than perfect for comedy – and barring a few bumps at the start due to heckling from the balcony – Lock soon got the crowd ready for the night and delivered a full show far superior to anything that makes it through the edit of the week’s 8 Out of 10 Cats.

Unfortunately a large group of a dozen or so lads sat front and centre thought they were at a musical chairs tournament and not a night of comedy where 1,000 plus punters have not paid to repeatedly see the back of their heads up and down every five minutes.

But even this major distraction didn’t put a dampener on events and the night persevered regardless.

Lock is clearly at the top of his game right now, and the people of Hartlepool are lucky to have caught him in a relatively small venue as there seems to be no end to Lock’s success – 8 Out Of 10 Cats is constantly repeated on a number of channels and plenty of comedy panel shows featuring Lock are being pumped out at the moment on TV.

As an act who has weekly television appearances sewn up nicely, a close relation to the inventor of the Breville sandwich toaster and who’s happy to keep on touring as long as it gets him out the house, this star can only continue to rise. By the way, one of those facts was taken from Wikipedia. I’ll let you guess which.