Mystery on the Rocks

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 crime-solving bar (with real cocktails!). The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. Masud makes the drinks, Chris tells the mystery and Sooz sings and plays live piano – and everyone chats and chimes in with their theories.

You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram too!

This is a Studio71 production.

Producer - Jack Claramunt

Exec Producer - Tom Payne & Jody Smith

Production Support - Phie McKenzie

Editing - Joel Grove

Studio71 is a Red Arrow Studios Company.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 fictional crime-solving bar (with real cocktails!). The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. Masud makes the drinks, Chris tells the mystery and Sooz sings and plays live piano – and everyone chats and chimes in with their theories.

You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram too!

This is a Studio71 production.

Producer - Jack Claramunt

Exec Producer - Tom Payne & Jody Smith

Production Support - Phie McKenzie

Editing - Joel Grove

Studio71 is a Red Arrow Studios Company.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 alongside Ben Clark and Matthew Crosby as part of the multi-award winning sketch team Pappy's, who we love dearly.

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 crime-solving bar (with real cocktails!). The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. Masud makes the drinks, Chris tells the mystery and Sooz sings and plays live piano – and everyone chats and chimes in with their theories.

You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram too!

This is a Studio71 production.

Producer - Jack Claramunt

Exec Producer - Tom Payne & Jody Smith

Production Support - Phie McKenzie

Editing - Joel Grove

Studio71 is a Red Arrow Studios Company.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 their early life.

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 crime-solving bar (with real cocktails!). The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. Masud makes the drinks, Chris tells the mystery and Sooz sings and plays live piano – and everyone chats and chimes in with their theories.

You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram too!

This is a Studio71 production.

Producer - Jack Claramunt

Exec Producer - Tom Payne & Jody Smith

Production Support - Phie McKenzie

Editing - Joel Grove

Studio71 is a Red Arrow Studios Company.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 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 crime-solving bar (with real cocktails!). The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. Masud makes the drinks, Chris tells the mystery and Sooz sings and plays live piano – and everyone chats and chimes in with their theories.

You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram too!

This is a Studio71 production.

Producer - Jack Claramunt

Exec Producer - Tom Payne & Jody Smith

Production Support - Phie McKenzie

Editing - Joel Grove

Studio71 is a Red Arrow Studios Company.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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, 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 crime-solving bar (with real cocktails!). The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. Masud makes the drinks, Chris tells the mystery and Sooz sings and plays live piano – and everyone chats and chimes in with their theories.

You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram too!

This is a Studio71 production.

Producer - Jack Claramunt

Exec Producer - Tom Payne & Jody Smith

Production Support - Phie McKenzie

Editing - Joel Grove

Studio71 is a Red Arrow Studios Company.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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’ rendition of Rice’s own song ‘I Know Him So Well’ to be “definitive”. 

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 crime-solving bar (with real cocktails!). The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. Masud makes the drinks, Chris tells the mystery and Sooz sings and plays live piano – and everyone chats and chimes in with their theories.

You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram too!

This is a Studio71 production.

Producer - Jack Claramunt

Exec Producer - Tom Payne & Jody Smith

Production Support - Phie McKenzie

Editing - Joel Grove

Studio71 is a Red Arrow Studios Company.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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, hosted by Deborah Frances-White.

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 crime-solving bar (with real cocktails!). The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. Masud makes the drinks, Chris tells the mystery and Sooz sings and plays live piano – and everyone chats and chimes in with their theories.

You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram too!

This is a Studio71 production.

Producer - Jack Claramunt

Exec Producer - Tom Payne & Jody Smith

Production Support - Phie McKenzie

Editing - Joel Grove

Studio71 is a Red Arrow Studios Company.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 that they had ever seen employed in a stage play. She also runs comedy Fan Fiction night “Dear Harry/Spock.”!

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 crime-solving bar (with real cocktails!). The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. Masud makes the drinks, Chris tells the mystery and Sooz sings and plays live piano – and everyone chats and chimes in with their theories.

You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram too!

This is a Studio71 production.

Producer - Jack Claramunt

Exec Producer - Tom Payne & Jody Smith

Production Support - Phie McKenzie

Studio71 is a Red Arrow Studios Company.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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, 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 crime-solving bar (with real cocktails!). The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. Masud makes the drinks, Chris tells the mystery and Sooz sings and plays live piano – and everyone chats and chimes in with their theories.

You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram too!

This is a Studio71 production.

Producer - Jack Claramunt

Exec Producer - Tom Payne & Jody Smith

Production Support - Phie McKenzie

Studio71 is a Red Arrow Studios Company.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.