27/10/06
Blog - almost live -
Categories: I'm fed up writing 'I've just got back from xxxx gig'. Of course I have, I'm in a perpetual state of 'just having got back from a gig'. So to buck the trend, I'm currently at one.
No word of a lie. Here I am, backstage at Jongleurs Portsmouth, on a laptop, attached to my mobile phone, using it as a modem. It's my new mobile phone, bought especially for internet access, after I dumped my 3G card due to my mahoosive bill (scroll to my very first blog entry).
As ever, having a laptop at a gig is bloody useful. Not only can you play games and answer emails and stuff, but you can actually do some work. Sometimes the stuff I've written at a gig has been some of the best stuff I've done, and then I've got home, and either I can't remember it or it just doesn't seem as funny as when I was 'in the moment'. For some reason; that atmosphere of being around other comics, high on the adrenaline of getting on/off stage, throws better and sharper ideas into your personal ether. So I get them written ASAP and it pays off.
Of course, that's somewhat academic, as I'm at Jongleurs Portsmouth where it's nowhere near as easy to play with ideas and the crowd as it would be in a somewhat more intimate gig (that didn't have 30 RMP's [Royal Military Police] on a leaving do). But it's not impossible, and it's not at all bad tonight. The lineup tonight is Ricky Grover, Jason John Whitehead and David Hadingham - that's a good bill anywhere. I'm compering, as ever.
(pause while the shout for the 'bubbly' draw has just gone out, meaning I'll be back on stage in 5. Do they call it 'bubbly' because it doesn't count as champagne?)
Another good reason for bringing the laptop is that there's no windows to look out of. But then... only 3 Jongleurs green rooms in the UK have actualy windows you can look out of. Can you work out where that is?
Right - 2 minutes until I'm on stage, I'd better get into the correct headspace. I need to use the time while David is on stage to write my script for my radio show tomorrow – www.bbc.co.uk/southerncounties if you’re curious, between 9am and 1pm.
EDIT - just brought David on. Stupidly did my 'staying awake driving home material' which clashes with a gag David does. Only realised when I was half way through, but then I'd committed to the gag. Annoyed with myself now. He gave my hand a healthy oversqueeze on coming on. I only worked with him last week - that's down to me not concentrating. Nuts.
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