For those of you who have no idea who this "Haggis" guy is, here is the low down. Haggis and Charlie are a comedy juggling act formed in 1984 by Haggis McLeod and Charlie Dancey. They learned their skills together at the Walcot Village Hall juggling workshop in Bath, England. Their first performance was a busking show that took place on the waterfront of Bristol Docks. Haggis and Charlie performed regularly on the streets of Bath in their early years together, which I suspect is one of the reasons they came to perform for us at our own juggling convention on campus. They have been seen almost every year at Glastonbury Festival and became something of a tradition at the Winchester Hat Fair!
In short, they are both Gods in the juggling world, and have performed all over the world, even in front of 13 million people. And yet here they were, 25 years older nonetheless, performing their famous 7 club routine in front of us Bath UpChuck convention go-ers.
Here they are performing said routine alongside another juggler, Pippa Tee. Haggis is in the suit, Charlie is dressed as the painter. Enjoy!
Not bad eh?
Ok, here is some shoddy filming of them at Upchuck (our convention) a few days ago.
Still got it! James Strutt was wincing all the way through the whipping the newspaper section. However, both of them have lost a considerable amount of hair- especially Charlie.
And for the best bit, my picture with Haggis McLeod. You honestly couldn't meet a nicer man. He was awesome to talk to, however briefly. Soon, I will properly post about Bath UpChuck 2010.
Yeah it was amazing to watch and very comical although the editing on the video is quite poor
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