12/09/06
Look at how they all come running back! -
Categories: Look at how they all come running back! All the Chortle bloggers!
See - I told you - something has happened to us. We all thought that doing these blogs would just be a pain-in-the-arse publicity thing for our shows but noooooo, the shows have finished now and yet still we come here. I'm telling you - these blogs are the width of a midget away from becoming a cult. What the fuck is going on? There really is a deep psychological thing happening here but as I only went to Bretton Hall I don't feel sufficiently educated to attempt a proper intelligent analysis so will leave it to someone else to explain in their blog. My money is on Stephen Grant...
Anyway back to business.
Every time I do a Fringe run September is always the same. You'd think I would have learned by now but I've never really been the sort of person to do the whole learning from experience thing. It goes roughly along the lines of:
i. Get really stressy and unbearable to be around from approx February onwards.
ii. Convince myself when I should be accepting gigs for after the Fringe that I will need a 'rest' so don't take the offers (secretly believing that I will have been so brilliant and successful during my fringe run that some sort of exciting and lucrative industry offer will require my uninterrupted time at this point)
iii. Go to Edinburgh - do fringe - get bitter and twisted to the point of being inspired.
iv. Get back in September - chomping at the bit to go and do gigs with this new found edgy confidence. And to enable me to buy the luxuries in life like bread and shoes*.
v. Have few gigs in September because I thought I would need a 'rest'. This had also spilled over into October, November and all the other months that there are.
The good news is, I have been driven and self-motivated enough to start filling up my diary, and it is looking far better than it has since...well...ever. October is pretty much full, November is well on the way, December is 'all right' and I have some biggies in the new year too. It's pretty important not to get complacent as the gigs start to come in. The easiest thing for me to do now would be to put my feet up and feel very pleased with myself for beginning to turn around my fortunes, but I haven't done that so far. I've set myself a target of getting a gig a day. Literally just one gig a day. I've been smashing that target so far - if I was on commission I'd have a healthy bonus.
But anyway, this is all just a long winded way of explaining to you why I've not been too busy gig-wise since returning from the beauty of Edinburgh. I've actually only done two gigs. And I was going to tell you about them but I've spent so much time banging on about why I've only done a couple that I now feel that going on to explain what happened at them would make this post far too long for the casual reader (which is all I get on here I reckon) so I'll tell you about them in another post later on.
I was going to tell you that secret I found out in Edinburgh as well, wasn't I?
That'll have to wait too - I promise I will tell you imminently.
*the most beautiful Les Dawson line. I really should tell you about Les Dawson projects I was involved with at some point. People regularly ask me about the Les Dawson stuff so if I explain it all on here I won't have to keep telling people what happened. Remind me to do that if I forget.
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