The ridiculous ride that is How To Win A Pub Quiz is continuing to ever greater heights
The other week, I was asked if I would like to perform the show at The Stand in Newcastle. The venue capacity is for 300 people for a show that I originally hoped would get me at least double figures ever day at the Kilderkin on the Free Fringe. I was in two minds about accepting, as the show was never intend for that many people.
Whenever I’m mulling over being offered stuff I have doubts over, I always think back to one of the first people I interviewed when I was a reporter in 2008 called Stan Dibben. I don’t expect you to have heard of him, but he was a former world sidecar racing champion, had been a member of the team who worked on the Bluebird land speed record, and even redesigned the wheels of supermarket trolleys. He’d released an autobiography that and when I asked him about how he had come to experience such a diverse array of weird and wonderful things, something he said stuck with me: “You say ‘yes’, always.”
So I accepted the offer and will be performing in Newcastle on Friday 27 October.
As a precaution, I asked for them to cap the ticket sales at 120 just to be on the safe side as I don’t want to be held back by doing too much admin. I obviously don’t expect to sell this many tickets, although I wouldn’t bet against it considering how ridiculously far this show has taken me so far.
One of those Facebook memories things came up recently from 2007, in a conversation with a mate about some comedy scripts I’d written and how I was trying to book up some more gigs. Then I remembered that ten years ago, I was also washing up and working in various warehouses through a temp agency. A lot has happened in the past decade, but it reminded me that I really haven’t done too badly at all.