One week into the 2013 Fringe and audience numbers at my shows have been lower than previous years. I know for a fact that this is not due to the…
Category: Comedy gigs
Edinburgh Fringe 2013 – Day 3 and 4
Okay, so much for the daily entries. You will have to make-do with combined entries until I am officially on holiday Yesterday’s show can accurately be described as quiet and…
Edinburgh Fringe – Day 1 and 2
Despite my best intentions to write a daily entry, my laptop and general Fringe lifestyle had other ideas. So I will be writing about my first two days at the…
Edinburgh cometh
Tomorrow, I head up to Edinburgh for the Fringe Festival and I am looking forward to it. But it will feel very different from previous years. The main difference is…
This is not an ‘ahhhhh’ situation
Comedy makes the world smaller and when Edinburgh is approaching or upon us, the world gets smaller still. I tried to go into a detailed explanation using planetary alignment as…
Weather bane
It has often been said, often by me on this blog, that hot weather is the bane of comedy. It makes people lethargic and less inclined to attend a gig…
Previews time
It’s at this time of the year that Edinburgh previews are in full-swing, and last Monday saw the first ever outing of Love and Lilley: Fear and Loathing. The promoter…
A hundred chairs, hundreds of miles, Brighton Fringe and very little sleep
Comedy can open many doors and lead you to doing something you never imagined ever doing. This happened this past weekend, when after Saturday night’s gig in Droitwich, Worcestershire, I…
The latest
In what is fast (or slowly) becoming a monthly blog, it is time for another entry of what has been taking place in my life in the four weeks since…
Squid in a bottle
It has been brought to my attention by at least two people that I have not been blogging much recently. They needn’t worry, this is something I am well aware…