27/08/08
Home Sweet Home -
Categories: The final Ed blog arrives courtesy of the free wi-fi on my train home. Thank god once again for this leap and bound in technology. After my constant stresses to be part of the cyber world whilst in Edinburgh, I am now able to blabber to the world via online methods once again.
Bit of a insightful blog today, sorry. Here we go:
So its all over for another year. I'm not 100% sure whether it was a good or bad year yet, and I probably wont until at least October time when the circuit is back in full swing. Sketch wise I feel like I've learnt a lot. Part of the learning involves writing and knowing what needs to be done, that we didn't do, in order to make a show work. The other part of the learning involves taking the critics less seriously after several of the things they didn't like were all the things the audiences did like. At the end of the day the audience matters most.
As for the stand-up world, I feel as though my 30 minute set couldn't be stronger and I have at least 15-20 minutes of excess stuff that I've chopped out. While I wont be doing that next year, I feel quite prepared to carry an hour, finally. I've also learnt to slow down instead of speaking at the speed of a child on sweets (which is my automatic default setting. If I have sweets it gets worse). The biggest lesson that I learnt however is to not say yes to quite so many shows, feeling that I should do everything I can. I've never hit the point of hating gigs, but last monday about 60 gigs into the fringe, I felt like I never wanted to do a show again, and I was mentally dead. I am looking forward to a week of no gigs so much, although I give myself four days before I get bored again.
I've seen some top stuff, seen some bad stuff and drunk and socialized way too much, which is just right for Edinburgh. All in all I've survived the most mental month of the year once again, and now I'm just tired. I really hope this train ride home is no way as stressful as my journey up. So far so good.
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