Once again…

….haven’t updated this in a while. It’s sort of like a tamagotchi or a child (I’d imagine) in that the novelty soon wears off and you really can’t be bothered. But for some unknown reason I am awake at 5:55 on a Friday morning and have been for the last two hours. Having got bored of poking and prodding my girlfriend’s sleeping face and having resisted the temptation to draw on her I thought now would be the ideal time to update my blog.

It’s been strange in that I had more gigs last week than I did in the whole of October. I had a rather beautiful weekend at the Stand in Glasgow. Normally I’m not that big a fan of the Glasgow Stand as it’s generally full of Glaswegians. They tend to be quite a hard audience. Well they are for a middle class, Aberdonian ponce like myself. Except last week the Glasgow audiences were really rather perfect. I did new stuff and it got a nice reaction. The other acts (Henning Wehn, Ron Vaudrey and Antony Murray) were brilliant and it was the best back stage atmosphere I’ve experienced at a gig.

I can remember at one point looking at Antony, who was on before me, performing to a crowd of 250 odd and all I could think was why the hell would you do that? Then as soon as I buzzed off stage after I remembered why. Really is no feeling on earth like it all.

On the Thursday night there was a huge Daily Mail staff party in the audience, and do you know what? They were proper lovely. Not at all dickish. I didn’t even have to do my Princess Diana/Gypsy/illegal immigrant material.

Then on Monday I had nothing. My first proper day off in over a week and a half and I felt awful. I had a huge comedown from the gigs and just felt really depressed. In a way it reminded me of the orchestra trips I used to go on with school. You’d spend a week playing music with friends and having a good laugh and then you’d come back to normal life and it’d be dull, not even black and white. That’s seriously how I felt at the start of this week. What a tool.

Mark Gatiss of the League of Gentleman and Doctor Who was in town on Wednesday and I got to interview him in front of a live audience. That was fun. I don’t think I ballsed it up. Maybe I could have been a bit more confident but it was quite good to hear an audience react to my questions and the answers given by the interviewee. I really hope I get the chance to do more stuff like that. For the record he’s not going to be the new Doctor Who and he wouldn’t say if he knew who it would be.

There were two proper old ladies who sat in the front row that hadn’t read the book and just turned up for something to do who talked throughout the entire thing because they couldn’t hear properly. There’s something quite fun about saying ‘fuck’ and talking about man to man bum sex in front of pensioners. I’d recommend it.

By the way, I write these in wordpress and then Facebook cleverly picks them up and reproduces them. Except it forgets to add spaces and makes me look like even more of an illiterate fuck wit than I actually am. Just wanted to get across that it’s not my fault.

The Attic Lights were in session for me last week and apparently they’ve been chosen by Channel 5 to play the theme tune for the new series of Minder. I asked them and they were only too happy to play it for me. Have a listen below as it sounds superb.

Minder Theme Tune by the Attic Lights