Author: Sam Freeman
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Gigs
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Comedy Songs
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Review: Meat & Liquor
In my life I have given probably close to twenty people severe food poisoning. I have to confess I am a terrible cook. It’s embarrassing in so many ways – I feel ashamed every time I look in the fridge at ingredients – it should be simple to turn what’s in there into a tasty…
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Five Best: Ben Folds Videos
1# – Army I just love this video, it was one of the first BBF songs I learnt to play but I love the theatricality of the staging and also the lovely buzz bass sound, combined with the honky tonk middle it’s just quite fun!
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Review: Warrington Guardian
Credit must also go to the strong line-up of support acts, particularly Sam Freeman whose bizarre observations, inspired by the venue’s haphazard lighting, were hilarious. His rants about how sex education classes did not prepare him for the world of dating also raised plenty of smiles.
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Resolutions 2014
I’m not a big fan of the whole New Year’s celebration and, in particular the resolutions that accompany them. After all it is a somewhat arbitrary date from which to enact change. I’m a particular fan of smokers who decide to quit in the New Year. This is usually in November, they’ll walk up, tell…
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Gig #59 – The one where I tried to start incest in the audience.
So Sam, how was the gig tonight? Well, to be honest both strange and good. Strange and good? Come on, don’t be coy, tell all. Okay, so I did the storytelling set tonight. The one that’s artistically very clever but ultimately a bit of a lazy cop out?
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Giggidy, Giddidy, Gee…
Sometimes you do a gig, a gig you expected to be amazing, a gig you thought would lift you on to a higher emotion, artistic and comedic level, where you prepared new material that was crafted, analysed, road tested and developed to near perfection, and then you perform it to an audience who you think…
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50 Gigs In
It’s 10 past midnight and I can’t sleep. This I suspect may be for one of two reasons. The first is that I woke up at midday today and as a consequence my body thinks that it’s 9pm, the second is that it is from the adrenaline of doing my fifty third (I think) gig.
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Who am I? Being a brand
“Who am I?” I’ve had a few conversations with both new comedians and theatre companies recently about marketing themselves to increase bookings and profile.
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A tale of three gigs
It’s inevitable over the course of doing something that you will have moments of great highs, moments of great lows and long periods of bumbling around in the middle desperate to achieve the former and avoid the latter.
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Gig Report #43: Bottletop Comedy
When I was around gigs 5 – 15 I went through a stage of recording how each gig had progressed – inspired by the brilliant Ste Price. I lost touch a bit and became a little more infrequent, mostly because I felt for a while I plateaued at a certain level – enough to be…
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Charity Ordeals & reaching 40
Just a quick post tonight after I reached two milestones in my comedy career. Firstly I just did my first charity gig. To be honest I’d heard a lot about charity gigs being often the worst and hardest gigs to do and approached this one (Help the Heroes) with a degree of trepidation.
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‘Tree’ by Daniel Kitson
I always find it very interesting in how artists, be them comedians, playwrights, actors or musicians progress over time. I think about the changes that maturity brings – Ben Folds moved from aggressive geek piano rock to a mature writer of occasionally sentimental ballads, while the Red Hot Chili Peppers went from cock rock funk…
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Me and the NHS
This is an article written for York Theatre Royal’s blog for Floating but I thought I’d share it on here too… Whenever I speak to people about Floating there are always two questions they ask. The first is a fascination about where the idea to write the play came from, how it was inspired, what planted the seed…
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Three gigs
I’ve not written about stand-up and how my gigging has been going for a while so I thought I’d write some of what I’ve been doing for you my avid readers. I say avid readers in the broadest sense, I have google analytics so know where you live and who you are (apart from the…
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Edinburgh 2013
A quick note about some of the shows I’ve seen this festival with a short review – please do not regard these as definitive, every show is worth seeing and this is almost entirely subjective.