23/08/06
Right I'm back -
Categories: Right I'm back - said I would be didn't I?
First off - well done to Simon Streeting (Avalon dogsbody) and Kat Nugent (my lighting and sound person - well I say 'sound'...only when it suits her) for their very witty texts that came through on my phone 5 minutes after I posted my last entry explaining the difference between a headache and a migraine. Here are the texts as I recieved them;
From: Kat Nugent
5:46am 23-Aug-06
A migraine is a severe recurring headache usually affecting one side of the head, characterised by sharp pain and accompanied by nausea, vomiting and visual disturbances. x
From: Simon Stre Mob
5:46am 23-Aug-06
A headache is 1/a pain in the head. 2/informal. Something, such as a problem, that causes annoyance or trouble. x
So there we go.
Now for an update on what we really care about - me.
My show last night was a really odd one. It wasn't a bad show, I actually really enjoyed doing it, but it was an odd experience for me. I had difficulty seeing the audience through the lights (the lights in The Hut get fucked around with on a daily basis) which would usually knock me out of my stride but instead I just went for it and did my show to the darkness. I like to have a bit of a link with the audience but last night I really wasn't fussed (not in a bad way), I just made a mental decision shortly after I started to let the show rely on the material rather than me just charming my way through it. The results of this experiment were mixed. Some stuff went better, some stuff went worse. It's hard to talk about "Animal Farm" (the bad one not the good one) without a cheeky smile and twinkle in the eye to show you are only messing. I felt like I was doing a one man play at some points - which wasn't the nightmare you may think. I actually like acting very very much and I am dead brilliant at it and if you don't believe me then you can watch me when I join the cast of "Doctors" on September 14th and then you'll soon come round to my way of thinking. I've not seen it yet but I bet I'll be fucking ace in it. In all, last night was a "considered" and "controlled" show - not the norm for me - but it was a nice change.
I went out for a little bit after my show and a strange trend started to emerge. People - lots of people -were coming up to me and talking about this blog. I've had a bigger response to this blog than I have from my show which leads me to believe I may have wasted a billion pounds in paying for a venue. That said, I have also sold tickets to my show on the back of this blog so it's swings and roundabouts sort of. Mitch Benn had another little huff about it, I spoke to Ewan Macintosh (who you may recognise from his legendary co-starring appearance alongside me in the film "Hic" and "Casualty" the other week which is good but not as good as "Doctors" - there you go Ewan, told you I wouldn't mention "The Office" - I bloody won that bet) and he said he has been really enjoying this blog.
Then I spoke to Katherine Jakeways (out of loads of brilliant stuff, but mainly that Comedy Lab "Skin Deep" that I was astounding in but never went to series - probably because I was in it). Katherine said lovely things about this blog - apparently when I was in my slump shows she was having trouble sleeping as a result of it. This is good because when writing is rubbish people say it is a "cure for insomnia" as a horrible joke to be unkind and witty at the same time BUT my writing has now CAUSED insomnia which must mean that it is the best writing in the world.
Thankyou people that have said nice things about this, I am not growing tired of it so carry on.
What was the other thing I was going to talk about? Oh yeah - the rugby.
I've only ever missed St Helens Rugby League Team appearing in a Challenge Cup final once, and that was when a certain celeb friend of mine didn't come good on his promise of tickets, and made out he couldn't get them for himself even, only to then be seen by me on the television at the match. He has since made up for this but - the point is - I am going to be missing a second one on Saturday.
I don't care for sport generally. I don't watch football (I don't even support anyone - I used to follow Liverpool as a child but I stopped that on the night of the Juventus business and never returned), I don't watch the snooker or the tennis or any of that bollocks. I certainly don't watch Rugby Union. But, St Helens Rugby League club have provided me with the highest highs and lowest lows of my life and I am gutted that I can't be there in person on Saturday to see them in the Challenge Cup final. I can't properly explain or do justice to how I feel about it. I don't even think of them as a sports team, they're like my family. Isn't that ridiculous? There is an ongoing major push to promote the sport of Rugby League to a wider audience, but I don't want that - I'm territorial about it. I'm also very selfish about it too. Saints are trying to get a new stadium at the minute, and everyone connected to the club seems to think this will be brilliant but I don't want them to move from their present ground of Knowsley Road. I love it there. That's were all my memories are, I grew up on those terraces - how dare they suggest taking that away so they can have better floodlights and toilets with a roof on. I have just realised that this has fuck all to do with my show or comedy in general so I am going to stop. I just wanted to say something publicly about the game so I could feel a part of it rather than apart from it.
In other news I have just had a shower and found a lump under my arm which I believe is cancer. I don't have an awful lot of gigs in my diary for the rest of the year, and as I wont be around much longer because of my illness it would be nice for me to have a few more before I die so that I can leave a bit of money behind for my friends and family and Avalon. I also think it would be nice if I did some acting on telly, just so my friends and family and Avalon have a reminder of how brilliant I was, and can pop it on the TV whenever they wish to see my gorgeous face.
Failing either of these things can somebody just give me some money? (Not you mum)
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