27/08/06
Great, I'm ill -
Categories: Great, I'm ill.
I felt it happen halfway through last nights show. Something in my chest felt different and I got a bit wheezy and that was me. Officially ill. I didn't have a coat with me, so I got even more of a chill to my chest as I went over to the Free Beer Show. Now I am fucked. I'd done so well, and despite the fact that my venue is so intimate that if someone comes to my show with a sniffle I would be guaranteed to get it too, I was beginning to dare to believe I would make it through this years fringe without any illness. This would have been a long shot, but I was so close!Oh well.
So yesterday we found out the winners - St Helens RLFC ran away with the Rugby League Challenge Cup after murdering Huddersfield Giants by 42-12. Such a bittersweet moment for me, as I have already logged here, but glad to see them lift the trophy.
My show last night was fun, other than the onset of illness and the drunken 'woman' in the front row. See, the problem is, sometimes you are on stage and getting nonsense from some drunk idiot in the audience and you just wish they would fuck off and die. Yet, in truth, they are often just trying to join in and misguidedly think they are contibuting to the show because they hear the laughter when they are involved. They often don't realise they are the butt of the laughs and start to get more confident and excited and do it even more. They never notice when other members of the audience are getting pissed off with them. Then they wait for you afterwards as they think you are now friends.
This is one of the advantages of having to run off to do the Free Beer Show.
Last nights Free Beer Show was I think my favourite so far. Great acts, great fucking about, mainly great audience, top breakdancing of course, and Will Anderson ripping the fuck out of his headline spot to wind it up nicely. Enjoyed it a lot despite the fact that I was getting increasingly ill. Tonight's Free Beer Show is the last one - it was meant to be a gong show and I was going to do it IN character, but it's looking like it'll just be a normal one given that there are no acts booked to my knowledge.
It's my penultimate show tonight, I feel like I should be constructing some sort of conclusion to this blog now, like what Stephen Grant has done, but I can't really think of anything and Stephen has set the bar pretty high with his essay. I'll have a think on it...
I met Leigh Francis last night (off of Bo'Selecta). He was a nice man as far as I could tell. He said my poster was "right good that".
Lemsip time.
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