11/06/07
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I have simply been too busy. That's all it is. Too busy to update this.
And right now I am probably too tired to do it properly, yet am also duty bound to plug the fuck out of the podcast that was meant to be out last Monday, but has only gone up today.
There are several reasons why it was not out, but the main and probably sexiest reason was that it was banned. Well, it was pre-emptively banned, and then decided to be put back a week. There was a bit of content that I had second thoughts about on the grounds of taste, and also we discussed the episode of Doctor Who what I was brilliantly in, thinking it was on TV on 2nd June, when it was actually on TV on 9th June because the BBC put the series an episode behind so they could show the Eurovision Song Contest For Fucking Idiots Who Still Find That Sort Of Thing Amusing Because It It Kooky In Their Retarded Minds.
So to those of you who emailed me demanding where it was last week - that's what happened and I am sorry that you had to wait another week - particularly when you now discover what you were actually waiting for.
So here are the links for the podcast - very very kindly hosted by Chortle.co.uk
CLICK THIS TO LISTEN TO EPISODE ONE
RIGHT CLICK THIS AND 'SAVE TARGET AS' TO DOWNLOAD EPISODE ONE
(Once downloaded right click file and select "open with". Then select iTunes to load to your iPod, or your Media player to listen on your PC)
CLICK THIS TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE RAY PEACOCK PODCAST
PLEASE NOTE: This episode has been recorded in stereo (in a way) so is best listened to through headphones so that you can pretend you are really there and that. The first section of the show isn't the best stereo in the world as Raji was trying to be a smart arse and overcomplicated the edit. He was so giddy when he did this that he did not make a back up file so it could be fixed after his experiment went wrong. The first section therefore has been repaired to the best of our ability (bearing in mind our only previous computer experience was searching Pornotube...).
As far as gigs are concerned I have had a full on time of it, especially being a fat bloke in all this stupid hot weather. I have left it too long to go into details proper about the gigs so here are brief summaries of each one since I last indulged your faceless stalking;
1st June - Bracknell - pleasure as always, usual stuff of me mucking about, trained an audience member as a comedian and he took the roof off, making it very difficult for the headliner.
1st/2nd June - Hatfield Uni Ball - god decided to spare me.
2nd June - Boston, Lincolnshire - lovely room, got very hot towards the end of the gig (when I was on), had a very funny turn onstage and considered actually coming off due to dizzyness and nausea, but masked the whole event by sitting at a piano in the corner and leading a rendition of "I would do anything for love (but I won't do that)". I've said it before and I'll say it again - I am a trooper.
3rd June - Rotherhite, London - fucking lovely gig. Genuinely. When you walk into a pub and see a mic in the corner it is invariably the kiss of death, but I swear it was one of the nicest gigs I've done this year, totally packed out despite the summer sun, and a proper up-for-a-laugh audience.
4th June - DVD and Spider-Man comic day - blissful until depression kicked in.
5th June - Fopp, London - two Edinburgh previews, two great shows, a competition between myself and little Raji James to see who could do the best Alec Guinness impression (which he won the audience vote for, but only because he was waving his arms about for them to applaud), as good as Fopp gets...
6th June - London - a private gig in a social club for civil servants. Like a working men's club, but literally a stones throw from Big Ben. Thought it would be shit when I got there, again was proved wrong. Very informal affair to an appreciative audience. Also got to spend some time with Roisin Conaty who I have not seen properly since I sacked her out of Ray Peacock & Son in 2005 for not being able to sing at all. She still hasn't let it go and told the audience before bringing me on...
7th June - Sheffield University - Myself and Mark Watson deserve medals for this lunchtime gig. It was a Chortle event - to thank Sheffield Uni for having the most people at the Chortle Student Competition heat. Ironically, nobody turned up to see me and Mark - they were just having a piss up because their exams had finished, we hadn't really been advertised as such. Myself and Mark worked as a team though - I did a bit of compering, then brought Mark on with me and we did an interview section (during which time Mark admitted if he had to have sex with any Simpsons character it would be Lisa because of her intelligence. I said Millhouse because he was a child who looked like a paedophile and it would confuse a jury to the point of aquittal...), then Mark did a sterling set and we left as quick as our legs would carry us. Replenished my Revels supply with a couple of boxes too though.
8th June - I had a casting (I had one on Tuesday as well) for a film. Sometimes when you get to castings you just know that the part has probably already been cast. I had a very strong incling that the casting director wasn't really taking much notice of me when she asked me to stand up so she could take a long shot of me on the video camera and asked me how tall I was. I said "Six foot five"...she said "okay". I didn't bother telling her I was actually five foot six...I doubt the camera was actually on anyway.
9th June - I starred in Doctor Who and the nation ovated. I was also informed I was on television by a ridiculous amount of texts. Some of the texts seemed to just be stunned exclamations that I didn't look as fat as I normally do on the telly.
10th June - Comedy Bar, Southampton - really lovely gig, suffered a bit myself from being too hot again, but got through it reasonably. I spent a lot of time standing on a table that really wasn't safe to be holding me, so that the audience could see how short my legs are, but other than that it was pretty run of the mill.
And that was that.
I am now going to be away from you for a load more days again as I am away all week in Bristol and Wales, doing warm up for Deal Or No Deal again and then three gigs in across the Severn Bridge (Tuesday 12th June - Muni Arts Centre, Gelliwastad Road, Pontypridd. Wednesday 13th June - Pontardawe Arts Centre, Herbert St, Pontardawe. Thursday 14th June - The Queens Hall, Town Moor, Narberth).
No, I can't understand a word of that bracketed information either really.
Apologies for the scatter post, but to be honest, for the weeks that the podcast is on I won't be writing as much on here as usual because I will be saying lots of it on there.
That's why it is in your best interest to listen to it.
I've missed you like...
xx
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