ARCHIE HENDERSON composes highly original music. He pens funny lyrics and stand-up patter. At University he was a leading member of the Cambridge Footlights cabaret team. In other words there are already plenty of theatrical parallels between ARCHIE HENDERSON and his late great uncle JULIAN SLADE. The only big difference between them is that Julian, who died in 2006, was never a great dancer or body contortionist. Archie by contrast is both and the combination of all his talents has already helped him to win two comedy awards. In  2017, following  stints at the Edinburgh Festival and various other venues in a group calling themselves Two Plus One, Archie and two other Footlights partners, Luke Summer  and Joshan Chana, won the ‘Best Newcomer’ award   in the final of the WEGOTTICKETS Musical Comedy Awards at  the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London.

More recently, on April 7 2018, competing in  the Musical Comedy Awards at the Underbelly on Southwark, Archie has done it again, This time appearing on his own as ARCHIE HENDERSON. he gained the second  place award having won over the judges and the audience with what he himself describes  as a mix of’ a song from the perspective of Severus Snape (from Harry Potter) , thoughts about music as a comic device and the humorous impact it can have on words’  ‘Sounds boring to describe’ he adds ‘but the jokes are alright ‘- and, in every respect, concluded his act on a high note with an impression of the fast warbling singers in old Disney films!

His up-coming London venues are….