something about gutters and rainbows

Haven’t been updating the blog as much as I should.  Sorry. 

I’ve spent the last two weeks feeling very sorry for myself.  I had a job interview for a job I didn’t really want.  Because I couldn’t really care I was much more relaxed and confident in the interview than I probably would have been had I wanted the job.  Then when I got the call to come in for a second interview I thought, ‘You know, actually, this could be quite good.  I’d quite like this job’.  Which is probably why I didn’t get the job.  That and they asked me questions that I didn’t have answers to.

Secondly, it’s been a quiet month for stand up.  I’ve got plenty of gigs from November to the end of January but I’ve only had one this month - and it was on Thursday to seven people.  I mean they were seven very nice people and they laughed in all the right places but it would have been nice if the audience had hit double figures.

Thirdly there’s the radio station.  Cutbacks all round mean that I’ve lost a shift which means I’m losing money and is forcing my hand to go and get a proper job.  Also, one of my comedy chums came on my Saturday breakfast show last week and said something which almost got me the sack.  I kept my job but said comedy chum is never to be allowed on air or indeed mentioned on the station again. 

Fourthly my Evening Express Column hasn’t appeared for the last two weeks.  My editor keeps asking me to send it in but it hasn’t gone online.  I’m not sure if much is going to happen there.  Hopefully it will.

I knew when I quit my lovely, well paying job to become a freelance ‘light entertainer’ that things might be tough but Christ, this is a bit much.  I have this reoccurring nightmare where I end up back doing the same job in KFC I was doing as a 16 year old spotty child.  I can’t do it.  I just can’t do another job where I have to wear a hat.

That plus the miserable hideous weather and the impending end of the world has just left me a bit down.  Still, I’m sure something will come along which will make me cheer the fuck up.

Perhaps it’ll be this afternoon when the fantastic Punch and The Apostles come and do a wee session for me.  You probably haven’t heard of them but they are another Scottish band destined for great things.  Have a listen.

http://www.myspace.com/punchandtheapostles