Anyone For Tennis?

Anyone for Tennis?
Also known as	AFT?
Origin	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Genres	Comedy Musical comedy Sketch comedy
Years active	2005–2012
Members	Andrew (Doody) Doodson (vocals, guitar) Jason English-Rees (guitar, vocals)

Anyone for Tennis? was a two-man Australian musical comedy band,^[1] writing team and performance duo. The two produced musical comedy, video sketch and stand-up comedy routines until their break-up in 2012.

History

Anyone for Tennis? (Andrew (Doody) Doodson & Jason English-Rees) formed in 2005 while studying advertising at RMIT University in Melbourne. After working in the Melbourne advertising industry together for just over 3 years and winning an MADC^[2] award the creative team downed pens and pads and began as a full-time comedy duo in 2006. They played around the Australian comedy scene for a while but it was not until 2007 when they made it through to the national final of the Raw Comedy Award,^[3] a nationwide open mic competition, that they started to get widely recognized on the mainstream comedy scene.

Anyone for Tennis? performed shows in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival,^[4] recorded an EP 'Acey Deucey' and released numerous YouTube clips including 'Let's get Famous',^[5] a parody of the famous OK Go treadmill video. Anyone for Tennis recorded their first and only full-length album in June 2011 titled "Prepare to be tuned" which is a live recording of the 2011 Melbourne and Edinburgh Comedy Festival show of the same name.

As a writing team Andrew Doodson and Jason English-Rees contributed material to numerous Melbourne publications such as Melbourne street press Beat Magazine,^[6] and wrote comedy sketches for Channel 31 comedy variety programme Planet Nerd in which they also appeared.

Live shows

Year	Show Details
2007	RAW Comedy National Final - Melbourne International Comedy Festival[7]
2008	Take Your Time - Melbourne International Comedy Festival[8]
2009	CUTTHROAT - Melbourne International Comedy Festival,[9] Melbourne Fringe Festival[10]
	Music, Mirth & Mayhem, Mirabel - Kids Benefit - Melbourne International Comedy Festival
2010	Abacus Birdcage Gramophone Lamp - Melbourne International Comedy Festival[11]
2011	Prepare To Be Tuned - Melbourne International Comedy Festival,[12] Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Melbourne Fringe Festival[13]
	Anyone For Tennis? at the Butterfly Club[14]
	The Polyphonic Comic Frolic - Melbourne Fringe Festival[15]

Musical releases

• Very PE (Single) (2005)
• Coincidentally Ramsey Street (single) (2006)
• Bad Morning (single) (2008)
• Acey Deucey! EP (2008)
• Five Pence ('Five Cent', Aus' Title) (single) (2009)
• Marg (single) (2008)
• My Future Wife (Single) (2010)

References

1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 24 September 2009. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
2. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 October 2009. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 March 2011. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 9 May 2009. Retrieved 2010-01-21.
5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 5 May 2009. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
6. Comics in the Doghouse, Beat Magazine, Issue 1200, Page 28
7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 March 2011. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 April 2009. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
9. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 9 May 2009. Retrieved 2010-01-21.
10. http://www.melbournefringe.com.au/fringe-festival/show/anyone-for-tennis-in-cutthroat
11. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 19 April 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-29.
12. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 12 April 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-24.
13. http://www.melbournefringe.com.au/fringe-festival/show/anyone-for-tennis-prepare-to-be-tuned
14. "Butterfly before we fly!". 2011-07-05. Retrieved 2011-11-24.
15. "The music comedy event of the year is here!". 2011-09-25. Retrieved 2011-11-24.