The Iceman (performer) explained

Anthony Irvine
Birth Date:1951 2, df=y
Medium:alternative comedy, performance art, fine art, outsider art
Nationality:British
Active:1977–present
Alma Mater:Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
Notable Work:The Iceman, Funny Bones, aim

Anthony Irvine (born 17 February 1951), also known as the Iceman and aim, is a British performance artist and visual artist.[1] [2]

As the Iceman, his act is to creatively melt large blocks of ice[3] [4] [5] while talking to the audience over a soundtrack of tightly-looped music[6] and sound effects.[7] [8] His methods of attempting to melt the ice include breath, salt and a blowtorch.[9] [10] He might also sing songs, make puns, attempt to release a rubber duck from inside the block of ice,[11] or sell photographs of the ice to the audience.[12]

In the 1980s and '90s, he performed at notable alternative comedy venues including Cluub Zarathustra[13] [14] and Malcolm Hardee's Tunnel Club as well as the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.[15] [16] [17] In 2007, he performed at the Hackney Empire in a tribute show to the late Malcolm Hardee.[18] In 2011 he performed at the Royal Festival Hall.[19]

He is often cited by Stewart Lee as a legend of alternative comedy[20] [21] [22] and by Jo Brand as a favourite act of the 1980s.[23] Lee dedicates his epic poem about stand-up comedy, "I'll Only Go if you Throw Glass," to notable 1980s performers including the Iceman.[24]

In 1995, Irvine appeared in Peter Chelsom's film Funny Bones.[25] [26] In the same year, he shared the Edinburgh Tapwater Award with Malcolm Hardee and Charlie Chuck.[27]

Since 2014, he has produced art brut paintings under the name aim.[28] [29] 2023 saw his first solo art show at Guggleton Farm Arts in Dorset.[30]

In 2022, Irvine published an ice-related children's book called Lockdown Melter.[31]

The Iceman is the subject of a 2023 book released by Go Faster Stripe called Melt it! The Book of the Iceman.[32] [33] As a result, he appeared on Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast.[34] There is also a film in production based on the book.[35]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Anthony Irvine - Iceman . C86 Podcast.
  2. Mcgillivray, David. British Alternative Theatre Directory 1992-1993 (Rebecca Books, 1992).
  3. Web site: Anthony Irvine is a man with a mission: to melt blocks of ice meaningfully (part 1). . 24 August 1995.
  4. Web site: Anthony Irvine is a man with a mission: to melt blocks of ice meaningfully (part 2). . 24 August 1995.
  5. Web site: RHLSTP 63 - Stewart Lee (TMWRNJ Special). Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast .
  6. Web site: Show People : A Chip off the Old Block. . 3 January 1991.
  7. Giappone, K. (2018) The Punk Turn in Comedy: Masks of Anarchy
  8. Web site: Changing times... : Interviews 2007 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide .
  9. Web site: Edinburgh Festival Day 12: Apparently .. . . 24 August 1993 .
  10. Web site: Jo Brand: 'If you're doing comedy, you must be funny first and preach second' . . 15 May 2016 .
  11. Web site: The Iceman . The List Archive . 25 August 1995 .
  12. Web site: Meanwhile... . . 17 August 1995 .
  13. Wringham, R. (2012) You Are Nothing
  14. Web site: Top 10 Cluub Zarathustra Routines . 13 April 2016 .
  15. Web site: Edinburgh Festival Day 12: Apparently .. . . 24 August 1993 .
  16. Web site: The Iceman . The List Archive . 25 August 1995 .
  17. Web site: 1995 Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme by Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society - Issuu .
  18. Web site: The Iceman - the Malcolm Hardee Tribute Night . .
  19. Web site: Legendary cult act the Iceman talks of comedians Stewart Lee, Mike Myers &, inevitably, about melting blocks of ice . 21 March 2014 .
  20. Lee, S. March of the Lemmings. (Faber & Faber, 2019)
  21. Web site: Brexit confusion is scuppering my show – what next? . 28 October 2016 .
  22. Web site: Stewart Lee: A funny thing happened to comedy . . 28 November 2010 .
  23. Web site: Jo Brand: 'If you're doing comedy, you must be funny first and preach second' . . 15 May 2016 .
  24. Web site: I'll Only Go if You Throw Glass : Stewart Lee - 41st Best Standup Ever! .
  25. Web site: A ★★★★ review of Funny Bones (1995) .
  26. Web site: Anthony Irvine . https://web.archive.org/web/20220813211521/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2be27c9da4 . dead . August 13, 2022 . British Film Institute.
  27. Hardee, M. (1996) I Stole Freddie Mercury's Birthday Cake.
  28. Web site: ANTHONY IRVINE: Art as an agonising torment . RoshanDoug.com . 26 September 2022 .
  29. Web site: The artist formerly known as the Iceman has sold a painting… I think . 3 December 2016 .
  30. https://vasw.org.uk/whats-on/aim-the-iceman-painting-clearance-sale
  31. Web site: Cult creative performer/Painter the Iceman turns children's book author… . 29 May 2022 .
  32. Web site: Bennett . Steve . The Iceman gets exposure : News 2023 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide . 2023-01-23 . www.chortle.co.uk . en.
  33. Web site: 1980s alternative comedy star the Iceman reveals all in new book . . 19 January 2023 .
  34. https://www.rhlstp.co.uk/website.cgi?page=podcasts&id=1830
  35. https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/news/7703/the-iceman-documentary/

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