So I was born Wilson F. Dixon in 1969 in Cripple Creek, Colorado. Cripple Creek is a beautiful part of the world – beautiful if you like rusted out cars, mountains, and waiting for nothing to happen. The F in my name didn´t actually stand for anything, so I dropped it when I turned 12. This was the age in my family that us kids (I got 4 brothers and a sister) were allowed to start making big decisions.
In the years that we all turned 12, my brother Jethro got a perm, I started to play guitar, my sister Darlene started kissing, and my brother Denis became a Shi´ite Muslim. (My Pa however enacted an old Family law, the "Dixon right of refusal" about that last one, and Denis was a shi´ite for only 2 days). My other brother Denis became a fundamentalist Christian – no Dixon law enacted there. This throws up a number of ethical questions that you can discuss amongst yourselves.
The year my brother Willard turned 12, he put all his savings (about $450) into a fledgling computer software company. He was always thinking big. About a year later, he withdrew his money and invested instead in "Rocky Mountain Rocks" a small company started by my Uncle Cleetus chiefly involved with searching through the hills for rocks that resembled The Partridge Family and selling them to tourists. Needless to say, Microsoft might´ve been a better bet.
I´ve been on the Country circuit for about twelve years now. I´ve played all over the world; throughout the U.S. and Canada, in Australia, N.Z., the U.K. and in Samoa. I play mainly solo shows, but sometimes also with my band Hard Cheese. This band comprises, at various times: Snake Wizzelteats, "Whoopsie" Daisy Rawlings, Beryl Hawkins, "Broke" Jack Mountain, Ruprect Wainwright, and Earl Scrote.
I´ve released a number of albums on my own record label Phoo-wee Records, including my most recent one, an album of love songs entitled "Soft Hands." These are all available from the Cripple Creek general store. Just call up and ask for Wes Andersen, the proprietor. He also helped make a video for one of the tracks.
The world wide web isn´t, as some of you I´m sure would imagine it to be, a large spidery-like thing draped over the planet. Instead, it is a huge information system for delivering pornography and casino advertisements into your homes. It is also handy to book airplane flights. It was invented by Abraham Lincoln to communicate with his armies, or some computer studies college students in California invented it in the 1950´s for the purpose of sending each other pictures of their asses. I´m not sure. The world wide web isn´t actually a thing. It is all around us all of the time. Like air, or like a smell.
There is no gambling or pornography on this site. I´m not against either; I just think gambling is a fools game, and pornography to be dirty and falsely representative of real human relationships. I, for one, am not aware of any woman who has had 8 boyfriends at the one time.
Some people also call the web the net. I prefer to call it the neb. Or the wet.
Top of PagePerformance History
2008
Edinburgh Fringe 2008 festival Season of Wilson Dixon Rides Again The Stand, Edinburgh.
Loose Ends, BBC Radio 4.
4 Stands Up, BBC Radio 4.
Sean Lock and Friends at The Fringe (Edinburgh 08), BBC Radio 2.
Regular Festival guest on Rhod Gilbert show (Edinburgh 08), BBC Radio Wales.
Festival guest on Lauren Laverne show (Edinburgh 08), BBC 6 Music.
Festival guest on Fred MacAulay show (Edinburgh 08), BBC Radio Scotland.
Headlining on UK comedy circuit including Comedy Store (London and Manchester), Glee club (Birmingham and Cardiff), Banana Cabaret (London), Hyena (Newcastle), Comedy Cafe (London), Up The Creek (London), The Stand (Glasgow and Edinburgh), Chiswick Headliners (London).
Ealing Comedy Festival.
Bestival Music and ArtsFestival.
UK Tour support for Stewart Lee's 41st Best Stand Up.
Support for Rhys Darby's DVD release show, Riverside Studios London.
Support for IF. comedy award winner David O'Doherty, Vicar St Theatre, Dublin.
2007
2007 Amnesty International Australia "Stand Up For Your Rights" Comedy Gala, Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne
2007 NZ International Comedy Festival
Appearance on the Cruchie Comedy Gala on TV2
World Premier season of "Wilson Dixon Rides Again" at The Classic, Auckland, NZ
TV appearance on "The World Stands Up"
For Paramount Comedy, filmed in London February 2007
2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Season of "The Wilson Dixon Hour" in The Underbelly.
Performances in Laughapoolooza, Spank, Late n Live, The Book Club
Winner of Spank Award for Best Musical Comedy Act
U.K. shows, July 2006: Spank Fundraiser Show, The Albany, Regents Park
The Crack Comedy Club, Birmingham (Edinburgh Preview)
Monkey Business, Camden
2006 Oddfellows NZ International Comedy Festival
Classic Studio, Classic Comedy Club, Auckland, season of The Wilson Dixon Hour
Appearances on:
TV 2 Comedy Gala, St James Theatre, Auckland << CHECK OUT THE VIDEO
The Big Show, Comedy Chamber, Auckland Town Hall
5 Star Preview Show, Sky City Theatre, Sky City Casino
Late n Live, The Classic Comedy Club
Late Laughs, Downstage Theatre, Wellington
Best of the Fest, Indigo Bar, Wellington
C4 Television
Included on a Best of the Festival Promotional CD distributed nationwide through Wild Bean Café
2006 Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Trades Hall Festival Club, a weekly late night residency Wilson Dixon and his band "Hard Cheese"
Appearances at The Festival Club @ The Hi Fi Bar
Appearance on Spicks and Specks, ABC Television, Australia
2006 Adelaide Fringe Festival
The Famous Spiegeltent, Garden of Unearthly Delights, 70-minute show of Wilson Dixon and his band "Hard Cheese"
Late Night Comedy, Rhino room
Adelaide Fringe Festival Club
2006 Tamworth Country Music Festival
Performances in the Family Hotel
Performances in the Southgate Inn with Glenny Rae Virus and her Tamworth Playboys
2005 Melbourne Festival of the Arts Spiegeltent Season
The Famous Spiegeltent, 70-minute show of Wilson Dixon and his band "Hard Cheese"
2005 Melbourne International Fringe Festival
The North Melbourne Town Hall, "Character Comedy" headliner
2005 Nelson Arts Festival, New Zealand
The Boat Club, season of The Wilson Dixon Hour
2005 Edinburgh Fringe
Late n Live, Gilded Balloon
Shaken n Stirred, Gilded Balloon
Spank, The Underbelly
Robin Ince´s Book Club, The Underbelly
Performances in the UK July 2005
The Comedy Store, London
Up the Creek, Maidstone and Croydon
Komedia, Brighton
Old Rope, London
Monkey Business, London
2006 Oddfellows NZ International Comedy Festival
Headlining run on The Late Show, The Classic
2005 Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Premiere season of The Wilson Dixon Hour, The Victoria Hotel, Melbourne
Appearances at The Umbrella Revolution and The Festival Club @ The Hi Fi Bar
Headlining Shows
The Classic Comedy and Bar, Auckland
The Toorak Lion, Melbourne
Character Comedy at Glitch, Melbourne
The Dockside Comedy Bar, Brisbane
The Local, Melbourne
Mic in Hand, Sydney
The Comedy Lair, Melbourne
Comedy Knockout, Melbourne
The Wrong Night, Melbourne
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