Asking if there's anymore WKD blue round the back this week is the brilliant Jenny Bede. At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new guest enters the bar and attempts to solve an unsolved mystery alongside the regulars. Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner. It’s a high concept comedy and true crime podcast, set in a fictional...
Jan 09, 2020•45 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Another festive special this week, where the gang attempt to solve a very peculiar mystery indeed... At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new guest enters the bar and attempts to solve an unsolved mystery alongside the regulars. Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner. It’s a high concept comedy and true crime podcast, set in...
Jan 02, 2020•51 min•Season 2Ep. 7
A very special Christmas treat for you all! The gang attempt to solve the Smokehead Mystery. At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new guest enters the bar and attempts to solve an unsolved mystery alongside the regulars. Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner. It’s a high concept comedy and true crime podcast, set in a ficti...
Dec 26, 2019•26 min•Season 2Ep. 6
There's no dogs allowed in the bar for John Robertson as he joins the gang on this week's show! John in his own words is a comedian, author, columnist, satirist, professional troublemaker, multimedia artist and recreational sadist. In 2012, he created “ The Dark Room “, an interactive YouTube game that went viral. After 4,000,000 hits he turned the game into a live comedy show at Edinburgh Fringe 2012. It has a cult following of people who call themselves Darrens. Don’t ask questions. At the Mys...
Dec 19, 2019•51 min•Season 2Ep. 4
No drinks outside after 10pm for Poppy Hillstead as she joins the gang for this week's episode. Poppy is a comedian and artist and is one third of the amazing Gossipmongers podcast! At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new guest enters the bar and attempts to solve an unsolved mystery alongside the regulars. Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris St...
Dec 12, 2019•56 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Throwing chairs across the bar this week is the fantastic Jess Fostekew. Jess got nominated for the Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show at the Edinburgh Festival with her sold out show Hench. It’s spending all of January the Soho Theatre and then going an international tour! Jess also hosts the amazing Hoovering podcast that you 100% should check out. At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, ...
Dec 05, 2019•53 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Ordering the first drink of the series is the wonderful Milton Jones. Milton is regularly on Mock the Week, has appeared on Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, Live at the Apollo and he has headlined Dave’s One Night Stand. MIlton Jones’s tours, Milton Jones and the Temple of Daft (2015) and On the Road (2013), both played to over 100,00 people. He is a previous Perrier Best Newcomer and Nominee, Sony Award winner and British Comedy Award nominee. At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a re...
Nov 28, 2019•51 min•Season 2Ep. 1
After a quick refurb and a cleaning of the line the bar is back and open for business! At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new guest enters the bar and attempts to solve an unsolved mystery alongside the regulars. Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner. It’s a high concept comedy and true crime podcast, set in a fictional c...
Nov 26, 2019•2 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Masud needs to refurbish the bar, so it's time for last orders! The bar be open again soon. At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new guest enters the bar and attempts to solve an unsolved mystery alongside the regulars. Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner. It’s a high concept comedy and true crime podcast, set in a fictio...
Aug 15, 2019•7 min
Tom Parry joins us in the beer garden this week as we take the show out into the open at Latitude Festival! Tom Parry is a comedian, writer and actor. He performs solo stand up, appearing on E4’s SHOW AND TELL, and his debut hour YELLOW T-SHIRT earned him an Edinburgh Comedy Award nomination for Best Newcomer and enjoyed a sold-out London run at the Soho Theatre. In 2019, he has returned to the Edinburgh Fringe with the hotly tipped PARRYOKE. For more than a decade, Tom has been working alongsid...
Aug 08, 2019•56 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Dancing on the tables in the bar this week is the brilliant Helen Bauer. Helen is a stand-up comedian who enjoys drama. In her own words she's her mother's daughter, taking a small situation, blowing it up, then getting upset that it's out of her control. Just like all the best reality TV. She is currently performing her highly anticipated debut hour, Little Miss Baby Angel Face, at Edinburgh this year! She also hosts Daddy Look At Me alongside Rosie Jones, a podcast that looks at comedians and ...
Aug 01, 2019•54 min•Season 1Ep. 21
In the bar this week is the incredible Rachel Fairburn. Rachel is a brilliant comedian, Oasis obsessive and one half of All Killa No Filla Podcast alongside Kiri Pritchard-McLean. We reckon you'd love it as the pair talk all things murder and macabre and have a right laugh doing it. At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new guest enters the...
Jul 25, 2019•45 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Another pack of peanuts for Eleanor Morton in the bar this week. Eleanor is a Scottish stand-up, writer and actor who started doing comedy when she was 18 years old. She is also a performer with the award winning London comedy groups Weirdos and Comedian’s Cinema Club. She also hosts the brilliant All Rather Mysterious , another brilliant Mystery Podcast! At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, ...
Jul 18, 2019•48 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Asking if Sooz will play Wonderwall this week is the amazing Gareth Joyner! Born and raised in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, he has made an indelible mark on the UK’s cabaret and comedy scene with his better known comic creation; the acerbic-witted ‘self-declared Siren of South Yorkshire’ Ms Myra DuBois. Casting Gareth aside, Myra has managed to harvest critical acclaim, a few awards and following her appearance on BBC1’s The John Bishop Show, the fandom of Sir Tim Rice, who professed Myra DuBois’...
Jul 11, 2019•44 min•Season 1Ep. 18
In the bar this week is the fantastic Athena Kugblenu. Athena is a 2017 nominee for the 99 Club Female Comedians’ Bursary. She writes for BBC Radio 4, regularly records stand up for BBC radio and in 2017 performed at the Johannesburg International Comedy Festival. She has taken two acclaimed hours to the Edinburgh Fringe, KMT (2017) and Follow the Leader (2018). And as if that wasn't enough, look out for her appearances on panel show ‘Global Pillage‘ and hosting The Guilty Feminist Podcast, host...
Jul 04, 2019•43 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Pulling up a chair at the bar this week is the amazing Ellen Waddell. Ellen is a fantastic comedian and writer; member of the 2019 x BAFTA crew, a handpicked list of up and coming filmmakers, as well as being an invited participant in the ITV 50:50 scheme, aimed at increasing the amount of female TV comedy writers. She has a play called Don’t Be Terrible going up to the Edinburgh Fringe with The Pleasance. The Royal Court said the show had the ‘most sophisticated and functional use’ of stand up ...
Jun 27, 2019•42 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Queueing for the Ladies is Alison Thea-Skot. Alison is a critically acclaimed actor, comedian, writer and improviser. Her recent 5-star smash hit show Thea-Skot Through the Heart and You're to Blame , played at Soho Theatre in March, and is in Edinburgh too! Her previous 5-star character comedy shows Some Like It Thea-Skot and It's Thea-Skot in Here (So Take Off All Your Clothes), had sell out runs at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, th...
Jun 20, 2019•47 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Keeping the corner seat warm in the bar this week is none other than Lorna Shaw! Lorna is a comedian, writer, actor and improviser. Her TV and Radio credits include 'Plebs' ITV2, 'The Midnight Beast', E4, BBC Comedy Feeds 'Life Guru' and 'Newsjack' on BBC Radio 4 amongst others. Lorna made her debut at the Edinburgh Fringe 2017 and was featured in Best Jokes of the Fringe at the Edinburgh Festival (Evening Standard) and she performed the workings of her new stand-up show at the Edinburgh Festiva...
Jun 13, 2019•45 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Ordering a packet of salt and vinegar today is Chris Washington. In 2017 a Wigan postman used all his annual leave to bring a show to the world’s biggest arts festival and was nominated for Edinburgh Fringe Festival Best Newcomer, that was Chris, and now he's in our bar. At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new guest enters the bar and att...
Jun 06, 2019•51 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Hoping for a lock in today is the briliant Eshaan Akbar. Eshaan is a fast-rising comedy talent. He has appeared on the Frankie Boyle's New World Order and Walks of Life for the BBC and SKY TV, as well as on BBC Radio 4's "The Now Show", BBC Asian Network, and is a regular on TalkSPORT and LoveSport. At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new...
May 30, 2019•45 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Waltzing into the bar this week is Niamh Walsh! Niamh is an actress and has starred in a whole host of great things from Holby City to Jamestown and will be hitting your screens later this month in Good Omens! Masud whipped up... Tom Collins 2oz Gin 3/4 oz Simple Syrup 3/4 oz Lemon Juice Club Soda Shake the gin, simple syrup, and lemon juice with ice. Strain into a Collins glass filled with ice. Top with club soda. French 75 2oz Gin 3/4oz Simple Syrup 3/4oz Lemon Juice Champagne Pour the lemon j...
May 23, 2019•38 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Asking where the gents are this week is Will Duggan! Will has been performing comedy since 2009 and since then has cemented himself as a dynamic and interesting performer in comedy clubs around the country. Will mixes stories and gags with a cheerfully cynical view of the world. At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new guest enters the bar...
May 16, 2019•45 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Sitting at the bar this week is none other than Luke Kempner! Luke started his career off in musical theatre, playing Marius in the UK tour of Les Misérables, appearing in Avenue Q and as the Professor in the UK tour of South Pacific. He came to prominence at the Edinburgh Fringe with his impressions-based show The Only Way Is Downton. He is also a trained dancer and singer, plays the piano and is a puppeteer. At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to ...
May 09, 2019•48 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Making it just in time for last orders this week is the brilliant Laura Lexx! Laura’s extensive credits include Live At The Apollo and BBC At The Edinburgh Festivals and following a critically-acclaimed run of her show Trying, Laura won Best Performer in the Comedian’s Choice Awards and was in the top 10 of Dave’s Funniest Joke of the Fringe at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe! Masud knocked together... Old Pal 1.5oz Rye Whiskey 2/3 oz Vermouth 2/3 oz Campari Fill a mixing glass 2/3 full with ice. Add ...
May 02, 2019•49 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Drinking the bar dry this week is the brilliant Sadia Azmat. Sadia is a British Asian Stand-up comedian and writer from East London. A chance encounter with a comedian in a call centre introduced her to the circuit where she has been a regular stand-up to date. In 2018 Sadia launched her critically acclaimed BBC podcast “No Country For Young Women” which has enjoyed global success and consistent reviews from audiences and reviewers alike. The podcast explores Sadia and her friend discovering the...
Apr 25, 2019•44 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Slinking into the bar this week is none other than Nish Kumar. Critically acclaimed comic, internationally famed meme & wonderfully nice gentleman, Nish Kumar is a comedian, and a bloody good one at that. Since beginning his comedy career in 2006, Nish has achieved global success on the stand-up circuit with three rave reviewed solo stand-up shows receiving huge recognition from both industry & fans alike. In 2012 Nish’s debut solo show, ‘Who Is Nish Kumar?’ earned a spot on Dave’s ‘Ten ...
Apr 18, 2019•49 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Taking a sip in the bar today is none other than Joanne McNally. Joanne burst onto the Irish comedy scene in 2014, and in less than a year in the business, she became the co-host on RTÉ 2’s flagship comedy show ‘Republic of Telly’, and has recently hosted Presenter on Republic of Telly RTÉ2 , Women on the Verge RTÉ 1, and Soft Border Patrol BBC One. She is currently working on her new stand up show for this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival and can be seen gigging across the UK and Ireland. Joann...
Apr 11, 2019•40 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Making it just in time for last call this week is the one and only Tez Ilyas. Tez is one of the stars of hit sitcom Man Like Mobeen and has appeared on Mock the Week, The Last Leg and so much more. He has also written and starred in his own scripted comedy shorts for BBC Three, BBC iPlayer and Sky Arts and we are absolutely delighted he chose to drink with us. Tez ordered mocktails for the night - Masud treated the bar to… Sweet Sunshine 4oz Orange Juice ½ oz Grenadine Orange Slice Fill a highba...
Apr 04, 2019•43 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Stumbling into the Mystery on the Rocks bar this week is Jay Foreman! Jay is a comedy singer-songwriter from North London. In 2010 he sold out his debut solo hour at the Edinburgh Fringe, "Pretend You're Happy" and in 2011 sold out his second solo Edinburgh show "We're Living in The Future. He also co-wrote and starred in cult online spoof documentaries Unfinished London, and recently helped solve The Bizarre Disappearance of Keith Reinhard in Silver Plume, Colorado. Or did he? Masud whipped up…...
Mar 28, 2019•50 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Propping up the bar on today’s episode is Kemah Bob! Kemah is a brilliant stand-up comedian, writer, improviser, drag king, presenter and producer from Houston, Texas – and, yes, is proud of drinking the same tap water as Beyoncé. How lucky we are that she found her way into the bar to help us solve the mysterious case of Alexandria Berstecher. The drinks Masud poured today are… Manhattan 1 ⅔ oz Rye Whiskey ¾ oz Sweet Vermouth 2 Dashes Angostura Bitters Pour the whiskey, sweet vermouth, and bitt...
Mar 28, 2019•43 min•Season 1Ep. 2
