While Trio Of Dips’ Love Me Tinder has a promising start, the cast showing a great sense of comic timing and flair, the humour doesn’t last, and before long, the single note of the jokes and songs becomes deeply boring. The cabaret, performed by Alexandra Aldrich, Joachim Coghlan, and Christian Gillett is structured around the idea of a group of friends who complain about the barrenness of dating apps before heading out to a club, interspersed with songs both original or from a list of well known musicals, parodied to little effect.
Jokes about dicks, fucking and amyl nitrate don’t take long to blur out into an unmemorable nothing. There’s nothing in particular wrong with comedy about these topics, but when it feels like the humour is supposed to come from the mentioning of them alone, they inevitably fall flat. Admittedly, some of these gags are good in theory but poorly executed; others are doomed to be puerile from the start. While there are a few big laughs within the show, these are few and far between.
Love Me Tinder is camp with all the humour and fun drained out by poor jokes and a stubborn strain of repetition. There is also a serious problem with the pacing; songs often feel far too long, and the funniest sections, where the trio discuss the miseries of the modern day, are much too short, so that the musical parts feel more exhausting than entertaining. This wouldn’t matter too much if the parodies or the songs were funny, but they’re too repetitive for this to be the case. Nothing feels particularly polished, either; the powerful vocal talents of its three performers are let down by the rushed and disorganised execution. Anyone after an entertaining evening of humour and music would be better off looking elsewhere.
