User:Heleendje

Hi fellow FAHns!

I "met" Foil Arms & Hog for the very first time LIVE at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2019. They were were the second-to-last show on my second day at the Fringe, and I had so many more to go... little did I realise at the time what I was getting myself into! Having spent most of my day hurrying from gig to gig (and from pub basement to pub basement), I found myself standing in the middle of Bristo Square trying to find the entrance to McEwan Hall, which turned out to be obsured by hoards of ticket holders. I asked a Fringe Lanyard Girl if this whas the right queue for... for... and then I blanked. Yes? She asked. Emm, that... pig show?

Swines was a riot and I fell in love right there in my seat on Row P. I went home and discovered they had a huge archive of sketches on YouTube and were uploading fresh ones every single Thursday. Bliss!

In October I decided I had to see them again and this time, go up and meet them after the show. I booked a trip to Dublin in December and it was just lovely... the lads were hilarious and friendly and sweet and giggly. I got them to sign my arms with a sharpie I borrowed from Mich The Merch Man (who sat next to me during the show! Legend!), still my proudest FAHn moment to date.

Back home, I started wondering if there was any "FAHn" stuff around... and discovered the Instagram FAH crowd. But to my astonishment, considering the lads practically live on YouTube, there weren't any fanvids at all! Well! I already knew how to edit, so I set to work, and posted my first FAHnvid only 5 days later. After a couple of months my channel grew. I also did a couple of silly photomanips and illustrations, and most importantly, I made loads of friends amongst the growing FAHn community.

In my mind, the To-Do List of FAHnstuff still wasn't complete... I really wanted to have a corner on the Internet where everything FAH and FAHn could be tied together in a neat little bow. A place where you could easily trace even the most obscure stuff, or browse the best FAHnart around. A haven for wacky FAHn theories that are always spawning on Twitter but get lost in the depths of its timeline.

This is that place. And you can be part of it too! Whether it is to read, browse, click through or edit: treat it as your palace! Let's enjoy the FAHndom and celebrate those lovely, gorgeous, sketch comedy boyz we love so dearly.

Heleendje.