Frisky & Mannish the second, entitled "Frisky and Mannish's Christmas Mess...age" in December 2010, featured Miles Jupp and Abandoman. During the Edinburgh Fringe 2012, Corcoran and Jones presented a sell-out three-night run of a new show entitled "Frisky and Mannish: 27 Club", concentrating on the lives and works of members of The 27 Club such as Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. This darker, more experimental work received some rave reviews, and was described as "blistering evidence of their talent." "Time Out" called it "ambitious, often analytically shrewd, and disarmingly self-reflexive... progressive and insightful." In January 2011, Corcoran and Jones
Janis Joplin "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die" (1967). At the 1976 Montreux Jazz Festival, Nina Simone, whom Joplin admired greatly, commented on Joplin and referred to the documentary "Janis" (1975) that evidently was screened at the festival: The film "The Rose" (1979) is loosely based on Joplin's life. Originally planned to be titled "Pearl"—Joplin's nickname and the title of her last album—the film was fictionalized after her family declined to allow the producers the rights to her story. Bette Midler earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film. In 1988, on what would have been Joplin's 45th birthday,