mild success to all out failure

What a strange week.  First off was my Comedy For Clan gig.  It went alright.  40 odd people turned up and the charity made money.  I ended up having to pay for a lot of the expenses out of my own pocket which I wouldn’t have done had 100 odd turned up.  I think it may have been the wrong night and maybe too expensive.  Those who did turn up were lovely and I think all had a good night,  My favourite audience member was the 82 year old Vincent who was having his latest night out in about 10 years.  An absolute gent who gave me the best heckle of the night.  I had a wee poke at his age and he just pretended he couldn’t hear me.  Simple, but made me look like an idiot and an arsehole.

My next gig was on Saturday at the Laughing Horse semi-final in London.  I died on my hole.  I died in a way I haven’t since the infamous ‘It’s Glasgow so I’ll start off with a joke about a child murderer – what you didn’t find that funny and now you want to kick my cunt in?’ night.  In fairness the other Scottish acts seemed to suffer unfairly by what I think was a partisan crowd.  I know the golden rule of stand up is to never blame the audience when you’ve had a shit gig but really I think they ought to take some responsibility.  Still, twas my first gig south of the border and it’s made me desperate to do a few more so that I can try and see if it was a one off or if I’m destined to being unfunny more than 300 miles away from home.

Then to top things off I didn’t turn up for a gig at the Stand on Sunday.  I had meant to pull out as I was on the radio but had forgot to tell the Stand.  Now they think I’m some sort of unreliable fuckwit.

Despite all this I thought yesterday’s Sunday Showcase was one of the best.  Dunno why, perhaps it was the sun or perhaps it was having been up for more hours than I’m used to on a Sunday, but yesterday the show seemed to go quite well.

Podcast is now up.  You can download it from itunes or listen to it on the Original website.  Had sessions from Slaves To Gravity, Mark McCabe and Tim Courteney.

Sunday Showcase Podcast

Also I’ve noticed the Frank Turner thing wasn’t working.  It hopefully should be now.