My daily ramblings on here have been interrupted by still needing to work the day job this past week while also performing. For the past week, my routine has been waking up at 7am, starting work at 8am until around 2.30pm, before heading into town to do my show and coming back to my digs to start work again at around 7pm for another two or three hours. It has been tiring to say the least. The things you must do when you have a mortgage.
That said, I am eating relatively healthily, not drinking during the week and am going for a run when I can. So, I don’t feel too bad, apart from the tiredness.
It’s also been better than the 2012 Fringe routine. Because I’d used up a big chunk of my holiday that year, I had to work 9am-6pm for about two weeks of the Fringe. Once I finished work, I’d have some tea and then head off into town for about 8.30pm to do two-and-a-bit hours flyering before the 11pm performance of Love and Langton’s Dirty Laundry.
We’d finish the show at midnight, have to take the room apart for dining the next day, then have a quick pint and sometimes a pizza while we counted our money from the bucket collection. Once we were done, we’d walk back to our flat in Leith and I’d go to bed around 1.30am or 2am.
Back to this year, my show has been going nicely and I am having lots of fun with it. I have added a few bits and pieces, while cutting others. Tickets have been selling really well. I don’t think I’ll be getting my laurels to add to my collection of JPGs with small text and numbers on, but I’m not far off.
This weekend has been selling so well that an extra date has been added for tomorrow night. I am going to be back at the main Stand Comedy Club, where I was doing some late-night HTWAPQ shows when I last did a run in 2019. That was also a ridiculous routine. For the first week, I was doing a midday show and then another one around 12 hours later in a much bigger room.
That time of night, it proved hard to get many people along. As the show on Sunday hasn’t been on sale for that long, numbers are looking low at the moment. But I am going to put in a few hours of flyering today and tomorrow and keep my fingers crossed that sales pick up. The fact that the next few dates are virtually sold-out – excluding the two production holds I have every day – will hopefully work in my favour, along with the fact that I am not doing a show on Monday. Time will tell.