Category: Comment
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Crash and burn
I guess it was bound to happen eventually, that moment of quite spectacular failure, and yes, tonight was the night I had it in full force. I was in Preston for the Frog and Bucket Comedy Club’s Beat The Frog show, where you get 5 mins to avoid 3 cards being held up which end…
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The problem with 5 minutes
What can you achieve in 5 minutes? I ask this question because, after a drought of gigs in the past month I find myself with four coming up all of which are 5 min slots (Preston, Manchester, London and Liverpool in case you’re interested). The problem is that my “act”, as it is, is 17…
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Back of the net…
I have a couple of friends I used to play a huge amount of Pro Evo Soccer with on the Xbox at Uni. They’d always start as good natured games, games filled with enjoyment, laughs, maybe a beer on the side. However before long they’d descend to a dark competitive place of gloating, thrown controllers,…
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Anyone but him
Everyone has a friend who is a bit of a knob. You know the type: They’ll arrive at dinner parties with 8 cans of Carling, drink the lot before flirting outrageously with anyone with a low enough top and slow enough reflexes, slurring their way through cheese and biscuits before insisting that everyone should decamp…
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Cheese (part 1)
If you’ve not seen me recently you’ll not know that I’m eating a lot more cheese… Anyway, here’s my latest cheese ranking… Yep, cheese rankings. You’ve opened this page to read rankings of cheese…. On a serious note, I bet some of you buy the cheeses… Belton Farm – Red Fox A dark orange…
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Seating Arrangements
I was on the tube on Friday travelling to Finsbury Park from Waterloo, normally a pain-free and relatively hassle-free experience. I was sat, after a short break, with my suitcase wedged between my legs and my back on my lap. The carriage was empty, commuters long gone for the day and the party revellers not…
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Things I know… (I wish I didn’t)
It’s Tuesday, which of course means that it is time for the brilliant Fresh Meat! It got me thinking about university, what I learnt, but also the things I kind of wish I’d not learnt.. Here’s a few from me, please add your own in the comments. Milk can be sieved Sieving milk does not…
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Whisky, and other lesser issues.
For those who know me well, you’ll know that I’ve always been a fan of the odd beer or two, and politics, particularly the party conference season, drink along to Cameron, Clegg or Milliband. For those who didn’t know me that well who now think I have a drink problem, I don’t. The fact of…
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The Great British Bake Off
What is wrong with me? I mean seriously, what has become of my life? It used to be so simple, things were easy, I knew my place, I knew what to expect, I was a typical man, football on TV, a pint at the weekend, steak on a tuesday, fish and chips on a thursday,…
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Standing Up
For those who are regular followers of my blog you’ll know that I’m a wreckless self-publicist constantly inundating unsuspecting facebook friends and twitter fans with my inanely soul destroying posts. However those extremely observant will have noticed that I’m being a bit selective with what I’m posting at the moment. A year ago I went to Edinburgh…
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Facing Fear
I was trying to write some stand up material today and found myself thinking about fear and particularly having an irrational fear of slugs – not as it happens anything I could make funnier, but it got me thinking about my own fears. Fear is an interesting adversity for me – it’s something that has…
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Festival’s everywhere!
I have been considering recently what I’d do if I won the lottery, something that I imagine lots of people muse about from time to time. I quickly passed through the obvious ones (house, car, driving lessons – not in that order), before moving into the deliberately charitable ones (i’d help someone so I seem…
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Obscure Sports
“RUBBISH” I find myself proclaiming at the screen, “Absolute rubbish.” You might have thought I’d be talking about some ghastly ill advised arts coverage, or maybe something David Cameron has said about poor people being fed to the rich, or even football, at least something I am vaguely knowledgeable about. But no, the Olympics has…
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Olympic LIVE Blog
Hello and welcome to the LIVE (all caps) blog of what’s been going down… I’ve been at Jon Richardson’s show which has been a brilliant evening out, I’d highly recommend it, although it should be said it didn’t involve many flags… Review to follow at some point… Anyway, on with the Games… Let’s summarise the…
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Becoming a cycling hero…
I bought a bike. This is an unusual sentence for me to say for two reason. It’s also quite surprising and it’s pretty hard to get two reasons from a 4 word sentence. It’s unusual because a) I bought something. For those who know me you’ll know this is a rare occurance. Unless death in…
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WANTED: Company to produce
Is it me or is everyone a producer nowadays? I was chatting to my good friend, director Charlotte Bennett this week when the subject of producers came up. I have quite regular dealings with producers who, broadly speaking fit into three niche types. 1) The Megamaniac – Believe that success is achieved by shouting and…
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It’s Always Right Now…
This weekend I popped over to Manchester to see the excessively talented Daniel Kitson perform his show, It’s Always Right Now, Until It’s Later. The show is based around the lives of two people, William and Caroline, two people who meet only for the briefest moment, but live full extraordinary lives which are exceptional because of…
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Unusual chairs…
Me and Louise did a little shopping today for a chair I needed for my upcoming production at Unity Theatre of Floating (shameless plug – tickets still available). I’d never bought a chair before which I guess would have been a monumental moment in my life, one to cherish like a child’s first step or…