19/06/08
'Canal, Edinburgh's close -
Categories: Haven't blogged for a bit - been away on the canals. Four of us on a big 10-berth boat - a lovely week with great sun, but not the restful break it could have been given that the minimum you need to man a boat like that (with locks) is 4 or 5, so we were all on duty all the time. And my, I've never known hay fever like it on them boats. For the entire seven days, all of us were mid-sneeze. Some tasty canalside pub grub too. Mmm.
So that was the last break before the final push of Edinburghian preparations. I've had 3 previews in the last few days, and the show is coming together nicely. At the minute I'm mostly previewing the speaky bits - the jokes, stories, etc - with the complicated setpieces (that I stupidly and over-ambitiously like to do) to be slotted in when I can be arsed to sit down in front of Powerpoint for a day or four. This year's show potentially features a spoof karaoke video, me on the ukulele (which I have yet to learn), plus two other songs to backing-tracks. Having never sung as part of my stand-up act, this is all a little daunting. And Edinburgh is but 6 weeks away now. Cripes.
I picked up my Edinburgh fringe guide today (available from the Time Out office in London), and was pleasantly surprised to see my 1/4 page advert is nice and near the front - just 3 pages into the comedy section. It was also nice to see that my text entry is at the top of the page it's on, so that's a slight bonus. Every little helps when you're up against every living comic. And my, there are a lot of them. I read through to halfway through the Bs, and that took half an hour. This is the one bad thing about the Fringe Guide - it's almost depressing to see that much comedy will be in one place. Which is the opposite effect that comedy should have. But no city needs this much comedy. No city can give enough punters to the number of comedy shows in the fringe guide. There will be a lot of shows peformed just to the technician this year, and I just hope mine isn't one of them.
I'll post my press release here as a blog soon - in the mean time if you fancy coming to a preview, or the show itself in Edinburgh, then my website www.paulkerensa.com has details of where and when. If you don't, then poo to you with knobs on.
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