This week, I am staying in Brighton to perform a show at the Fringe festival. It is the third year running I’ve done so and I have always found it…
Author: Alex Love
A gig in a bicycle repair shop
Thursday night’s gig took me to the bizarre location of a cafe, which also happened to be a bicycle repair shop. I can now add that to the list of…
Another decent Ruby
Another month, another good night at Ruby Tuesdays. We had a fairly decent numbers in for audience for an open mic gig, with about 12 real people and ten acts…
Audience interaction
On Thursday and Friday this week, I had two gigs that involved a great deal of audience interaction. First up, I was in a town near Romford, performing in a…
Definitely a gig
I had a gig in Windsor last night, and I’m choosing to call it a gig as there was at least one person listening there who wasn’t a comic. He…
(Untitled. Deliberately. In hindsight)
I have had two gigs this past week. The first on was down in the Wandsworth area. And whenever I get to a gig and the stage area is in…
Bizarre adventures in Norfolk
Yesterday, I travelled for three-and-a-half hours to a small town on the outskirts of Norwich, to perform at the top of a staircase to a pub with 15 people spread…
The joys of the open mic circuit
The highlight of my gig on Wednesday was when the room all spontaneously began singing the Michael Finnegan grew-whiskers-on-his-chin-again song to two people who had never heard it before and…
Quite a jolt
After a good run of my past several gigs, I knew there would be a point when I had a not-so-good gig and Monday night provided it. In order to…
A good learning experience
Last night’s gig took me to a town on the outskirts of Southend. It was the first gig at the venue and I’ve found that opening nights can go two…