You know you haven’t had a particularly good gig whenever an audience member comes up to you and says: “You must be very brave to do that.” This was said…
Month: June 2012
Thursday is the new Tuesday for one night only
In the first time in nearly three years of the gig running, Ruby Tuesdays, the gig I semi-co-run, took place on a Thursday. We had to move the night because…
Ideal Edinburgh conditions
We had out second Edinburgh preview for Love and Langton’s Dirty Laundry last night and the conditions were very Fringe-like. There were about ten people in the audience and two…
Goodbye, Pembroke Road
At last night’s gig, I experienced a noticeable contrast between a tried-and-test routine of mine and a new routine that is still in its foetal stages. There were about 12…
Just beige
Last night’s gig was a good gig on a plate, with a plentiful, receptive audience and several acts doing very well indeed. Unfortunately, I was trialling one of the remaining…
First preview
Last night saw the first airing of Love and Langton’s Dirty Laundry and it was a good one. We returned to The Big Green Bookshop in Wood Green, the same…
Pay and a pint
On Tuesday night, I was on MC duties and actually got paid for once. Getting paid to do stand-up is not that easy in London; outside of the capital, it’s…
Thank you, Mr Wilson
It is always a nice feeling when a set that consists of largely new material and it goes down well. In fact, the feeling is probably up there with those…
A necessary process
Last night, it was off to the historic town of Rochester for non-historical purposes. I can’t claim to have known much about the place before my trip, but having visited…
The ghosts of the past
Last night, I was performing back on home soil. Well, not quite home soil, but soil that is ten miles from home and also the town where I worked for…