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 Fine Arts Festival on August 31 and September 1, Joplin announced that she would be leaving Big Brother. On September 14, 1968, culminating a three-night engagement together at Fillmore West, fans thronged to a concert that Bill Graham publicized as the last official concert of Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company. The opening acts on this night were Chicago (then still called Chicago Transit Authority) and Santana. Despite Graham's announcement that the Fillmore West gig was Big Brother's last concert with Joplin, the band—with Joplin still as lead vocalist—toured the U.S. that fall. Reflecting Joplin's crossover appeal,