Category: Blog Post
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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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Interview: Josie Long
If.comeddies Best Newcomer winner and three time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Josie Long is a comedian, writer and actor. Her sixth and most recent show “Romance and Adventure” is currently touring nationally after a critically successful run at Edinburgh Festival. What was it that motivated you to start in stand up? Was it a gradual…
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My first gig…
So, didn’t tell everyone because I was really nervous about this, however now its been done I can talk freely about it. Tonight I performed my first stand-up gig, doing around 12 minutes (I think, may have been more, possibly less). It’s something that I’ve wanted to do for years but have always had the…
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Who are you people?!?
I’ve been writing this blog for over a year now, possibly close to two, and yet still I don’t seem to able to shake off an audience. I mean seriously, who are you people? Have you not learnt? You’re not going to miss anything, if anything this blog has been getting worse, really, check out…
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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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Interview: Fred MacAulay
Fred MacAulay is one of Scotland’s most famous comedians who has performed nationally and internationally as well as worked extensively on radio and television. Fred is touring in 2012 with his latest show, ‘Legally Bald’. You arrived in stand-up at a relatively late age, what was it that motivated you to give it a go?…
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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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Fifty Shades Of Ginger
“…and then after that, well, there was nothing for it, we hi-fived!” concluded Christian Grey as he recounted another of his sexually deviant stories to the assorted group of red-blooded friends gathered around him in the Leek and Lion Pub just off Old Street. The old school friends met up like this every year to…
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Edinburgh 2012 Reviews
I’ve just returned from four glorious days in sunny Edinburgh (it seems wrong to say…), basking in comedic and theatrical genius with the odd road bump along the way. Last year I reviewed in depth everything I saw. However this year it wasn’t possible for 3 reasons. 1# I was there with my girlfriend who…
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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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Review: Essentials M8 Microphone
To specialise or not to specialise that is the question. Some companies are dedicated to certain types of equipment, they become synonymous with them. Think Shure and Sennheiser for Microphones, Gibson and Fender for electric guitars, Marshall and amps, Korg’s synthesizers and Ernie Ball strings. Some companies find a product that fits with them like butter…
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Comedy Review: Jon Richardson
For someone who claims to be a “bit of a penis”, “a dick” and an all round nasty person Jon Richardson is, it should be said, a comedian who audiences instinctively warm to. He has a charm, a turn of phrase and a vulnerability which allows him to say the most horrendous (yet…
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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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Review: Farida J-16ENS Guitar
No one likes to admit that they’re average. In pub conversations, on clubbing nights out, on dates, holidays, during meals in posh restaurants, when with family or friends, work colleagues or mortal enemies we avoid, flee and deny the existence of “average”. Rather be exceptional – bad or good – than languish in the middle, devoid of…
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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…