The title of this blog gets half of its name from the road I have lived for the last 20-odd months, the other half is from the 1990s Mountie-cop show.…
Category: Website Updates
Goings-on
It has been about a month since I gave an update to my increasingly dwindling readership, so here is the latest. I am currently putting together my first hour show…
Trying stuff
This week, I have been trying out some totally new material at open mic gigs in London that were attended by handful of people. The beauty of doing gigs such…
Gong wrong
Last year, I romanticised the King Gong at the Comedy Store as a tale of almost-redemption for my failures seven years previously. Well, I can now console my 21-year-old self…
Outside the Fringe
It would be wrong for me to perform in Edinburgh and feel anything but exhausted. Thankfully, I was able to ensure this through booking myself into a ten bed dorm…
A new year and new challenges
They say you shouldn’t wish away your days, although I doubt ‘they’ were trying to accomplish two of the challenges I’ve set myself this year. One is to write a…
Here endeth gigging for 2013
I have now finished gigging until 2014, having performed more gigs this year than any before. I set myself a challenge of doing 150 gigs this year, which admittedly wasn’t…
Memorable occassions
This week, we celebrated the fourth birthday of Ruby Tuesdays. Or what used to be called Ruby Tuesdays, before we recently switched to Mondays. We had Richard Herring headlining and…
A rock n roll week
I successfully managed to get through my most tiring non-Fringe week in years without getting ill. Then just as I was about to taunt the illness gods, they struck me…
Largest gig to date
You get used to travelling great distances to perform in front of handfuls of people in small pubs, which is what I was expecting at a gig I did this…