The Beat Goes On

Ray Globe and David Harmer, the irrepressible Glummer Twins, are back at Buxton and Edinburgh Fringe with The Beat Goes On, an irreverent journey through the fads, fashions, and music that shaped them. From 50s skiffle to 2024’s digital chaos, The Beat Goes On is a warp-speed tour of the cultural madness they’ve survived. Just. Expect sharp-tongued nostalgia, musical mayhem, and brutally honest takes on the indignities of ageing. Did they learn anything along the way? Unlikely. But at least they’ve got stories. The Beat Goes On is a no-holds-barred trawl through the decades, from the Beats to the Beatles, disco to doom-scrolling, and vinyl records to vanishing attention spans. With their trademark wit, the Twins skewer the absurdities of each era while shamelessly reliving their (questionable) glory days.

Maeve and Howard

New Yorker Offices 1950. Maeve Brennan, the brilliant yet reclusive journalist , aka ´The Long-winded Lady’ and closeted poetry editor Howard Moss find mutual solace in their unlikely but enduring friendship. Plush Tiger return to the Fringe with a new play by Clara Nel Haddon charting a friendship founded on razor-sharp repartee, shared dreams and unwavering affection. Their intertwined lives reveal that sometimes the most profound stories are written between the lines.

Written by Clara-Nel Haddon

The Glummer Twins

Ray Globe and David Harmer are the irrepresssible Glummer Twins. Stand up spoken word comedy and music from the Beat Generation. In a previous life, as well as having 'proper' jobs they were both members of the legendary performance poetry group Circus of Poets. They metamorphosed into The Glummer Twins in Autumn 2014 with a view to performing stand up spoken word comedy and music. The Glummer Twins have since performed at:

Edinburgh Fringe 2015
Swindon Fringe 2016
Buxton Fringe 2016 [Nominated Best Spoken Word Show]
Edinburgh Fringe 2016 [***** Review]
Rotherham Comedy Festival 2017
Buxton Fringe 2017 [Nominated Best Spoken Word Show - again]
Edinburgh Fringe 2017
Ilkley Literature Festival Fringe 2017
Buxton Fringe 2018
Edinburgh Fringe 2018
Worksop Inspire Poetry Festival 2018
Buxton Fringe 2019
Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Rotherham Civic Theatre 2019
online@TheSpaceUK August 2020
online@TheSpaceUK January 2021
Buxton Fringe 2022
Edinburgh Fringe 2022
Buxton Fringe 2023
Edinburgh Fringe 2023
Buxton Fringe 2024
Edinburgh Fringe 2024

The Glummer Twins also have a popular podcast. Glumcast is now in its fourth season. Apparently it’s very popular in Albania.
Have a listen here

Buxton Fringe 2025

'The Beat Goes On'

will be at the 2025 Buxton Fringe.
10th July 2.30PM
12th July 4PM
at Underground at the Springs

'The Beat Goes On'

at Buxton Fringe tickets on sale now

Edinburgh Fringe 2025

'The Beat Goes On'

will be at the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
11th to 16th August 2025
13.55pm
at theSpace@surgeonshall

'The Beat Goes On'

at Edinburgh Festival Fringe tickets on sale now

reviews

Here are few of the lovely things people have said about The Glummer Twins

‘Think Morecambe and Wise crossed with The Mighty Boosh’ 
BenHuxleyblog Edinburgh Fringe 2016

‘David Harmer and Ray Globe command the stage with great chemistry and experienced ease as The Glummer Twins.’ 
ThreeWeeks Edinburgh Fringe review 2016
 
‘The guys are genuinely funny. Watching The Glummer Twins is a fine way to wind up a morning on the Fringe.’ 
EdinFortyNine Edinburgh Fringe review 2016 

Shortlisted Best Spoken Word Show Buxton Fringe 2016

‘Billed as stand-up poetry from the beat generation, this is a show that looks at the world from a particular generational perspective, they have a great eye for the absurdities and indignities of ageing a telling image and a witty rhyme.’
 Cultural Outpost Blog

‘Elements of Morecambe and Wise with a healthy dose of John Cooper-Clarke’
 Doncaster Folk Festival

‘Hilarious’ 
The Skinny

‘The duo has the empathy and professional delivery of Morecambe and Wise’
 Buxton Fringe Review

‘You absolutely won’t regret spending an hour in their company. They’re very funny men, those Glummer Twins.’
Fringe Guru Buxton 2016

About

DAVID HARMER David was born in 1952 and is best known as a children’s writer with poems and stories appearing in many books mainly published by Macmillans Children’s Books. His latest collection There’s A Monster In The Garden is from Frances Lincoln. David still regularly works in schools encouraging children and their grown-ups to write poems and laugh as much as they can. He also has a number of collections for adults. David was a founder member of the poetry performance group Circus of Poets and later worked with Paul Cookson in the highly rated poetry duo Spill The Beans. Recently he has discovered he is 64 and now gets together with Ray Globe to write and perform as The Glummer Twins. He and his wife Paula live in Doncaster because it’s their turn.

RAY GLOBE Ray was born in Yorkshire in 1954. He began performing in the late 60’s with South Yorkshire Theatre for Youth where he shared a stage with the young David Harmer. In the 1980's he worked with Circus of Poets, writing music for the performance poetry group and appearing with them on stage and television. Ray still works with a number of theatre companies in Sheffield both as a performer and director. He also writes and performs poetry with David Harmer in The Glummer Twins.