To paraphrase Cilla Black circa 1994: the Fringe is full, full of surprises. I should add that I don’t want to encourage Cilla Black to sing. But she has a…
Category: Comedy gigs
Edinburgh Fringe 2012: Day 3
One thing that comes with the territory at the Edinburgh Fringe, particularly when you’re starting out, is performing in front of an audience in the handfuls. There is no getting…
Edinburgh Fringe 2012: Day 2
And we’re off; my Edinburgh show experience for 2012 has officially started. We managed to reach double figures with our audience, after two more people walked in half way through…
Edinburgh Fringe 2012: Day 1
And so it begins, or at last it will at 11pm this evening. It wouldn’t be Edinburgh Fringe without me sweating twice my own body weight carrying my bags to…
Edinburgh Fringe 2012: close enough to smell
The calm before the storm – Edinburgh Fringe 2012 I write this, with my bag mostly packed and my train ticket for Edinburgh stating tomorrow as the departure date. For…
An Olympics advertising opportunity
It has come to my attention that there is a totalitarian regime operating in the Olympic park, with a zero tolerance policy on any form of branding that has not…
Standing-room only
The final preview for Love and Langton’s Dirty Laundry was performed to a room that was standing-room only. This wasn’t because of a lack of chairs, it was because there…
The penultimate preview
On Thursday, for what is likely to be the penultimate preview for Love and Langton’s Dirty Laundry, we had our largest audience yet. We had around 20 in what can…
The value of an audience
Audiences are absolutely vital for a comedy gig to go ahead; but as with most natural of the world’s natural resources there is a shortage, particularly on the London open…
One way ticket to Thetford… and back on the National Express
I am going break the traditional structure of this blog of starting with something about comedy and then throwing in some real-life at the end, because that would then put…