04/08/07
Keep your city ways or throw them out the window -
Categories: Well after I left here it went a bit mad for the day, I got myself a Haggis supper, again. I'm going to have to stop eating deep fried food soon, I can barely walk around as it is, and it's just getting worse, especially today with the heat.
Anyway I headed off to try and get This gig sorted that I'm supposed to be booking, I've decided on a change of name to "the Black Parade" anyway I met up with Duncan at the venue and started prepping for his show, it's quite a set-up, we've got 10 minutes from the end of the show before his to set up a drum kit, keyboards, a guitar, a spare and try and get the levels right.
Duncan was optimistic, He'd handed out 40 free tickets for the show on the royal mile earlier in the day so our new venue, which is three times the size of the one we thought we'd have at 150 seats, would be buzzing for the first day of the show.
Unfortunately only 7 turned up. Having said that they really enjoyed it, it's hard not to, it's such a fun, silly show, definately leave your brain at the door for it. It's like a children's show for adults.
It was also good for us to have a full run through for the fist time, and the show works, there's a few kinks that need to be ironed out, and the fact that yesterday it was still a building site whilst we were doing the show didn't help. People were outside with drills and hammers working away at getting the place ready, which was distracting. But it's the first venue back on the site of the old gilded Balloon so there must be something in that we can grab onto for the promotion.
After the show we headed on up to the pleasance courtyard to debrief and chill out whilst being lied to by flyerers. It's always fun when you know the acts and you get someone who neither knows them nor has seen the show trying to flyer you for it "Andrew Maxwell, he's great you've probably never heard of him but he's this really successful Northern Irish comic..." that was the pick of them yesterday On my way here down the Royal mile a few minutes ago I got offered a flyer for a show touted as "The only disabled performer at the fringe with their own show!" I wonder how Francesca Martinez, Steve Day or Liz Carr feel about that?
Whilst we were sat there Dan Atkinson came over just before his show, I really want to go and see this and I'll try to in the next few days, I couldn't last night as I was off to see Brendon Burns show "I suppose THIS is offensive now?" and it was brilliant, just fantastic, I hope that in 13 years when I've been going as long as Brendon I can manage to create a show that gets such a visceral response. Kate Copstick was going mad about it, in a good way she loved it too. I'd love to tell you about it but it'd spoil it, so all I can say is if you're in Edinburgh before the end of the festival get down to the Pleasance King Dome for 8:30 and watch it.
After this it was a slow walk back across to the main Pleasance courtyard, where I met up with Chris, my current flatmate, he wanted to go to Old Rope as Lucy Porter and Simon Munnery were on, though it'd sold out. As luck would have it at that minute I got a call off Tiffany Stephenson who's running it, I'd not managed to catch up with her for a few weeks and I'd promised I'd go down there when I could, she told me to get my arse round there now so I could hang back stage. I dragged Chris over there. It was a great show, some of Lucy's new stuff went down a storm, Tiff and Phil Nichol compereing together work really well. whilst I remember, before the show started Phil was saying that he'd not got many people in to his show at the Stand. Go see it, he deservedly won the Iffy award last year for best show and this one's more fantastic comedy from Phil. I may well end up flyering for him.
The night really kicked into gear when Paul Foot did his Mime of the day, it was brilliant, Paul's one of those acts that at first I didn't quite get and he confused me, but over time I've grown to see what it is that he does and how fantastic it is. Harriet Bowden followed and Somon Munnery closed with a brilliant set.
As it finished Tiff, Chris, Paul and I all headed down to Maxwell's Fullmooners at the Baby Belly. When we got there, Reg D Hunter was about to go on, I've not seen Reg since I did Rawhide in Liverpool about 4 months ago so it was great to catch up with him, and Abi who was with him who I've not seen since this time last year. After a blistering set from Reg we set off to the Pleasance for him to do his last set of the day, talking about all sorts of stuff. I like hanging out with them as they're so easy to talk to. Eventually they headed home and I met up with Chris and Paul and ended up down in the Library bar chatting with Mitch Benn, Nick Doody and Kirsty Newton. Apparently Mitch's music club was great fun. So I'll try and get down there tonight.
anyway I'm getting ased to get off this computer now and if one more person asks me that I'm going to go for a full on autistic spaz out which no one wants, least of all me.
So until tomorrow, I love you all, except the two pricks who've alternately asked me to get off this PC every 30 seconds for the last 10 minutes.
BB xXx
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