Maybe, just maybe, this year is starting to work out okay. Let's not get too carried away - I mean, I woke up to a message from the freelance place explaining to me their financial difficulties and until new contracts come in, they really can't bring me in for any work, which is a concern. I decided to be cheeky and email a company that I turned down last year because I already had enough on, just to see if they were looking for a Richards-type character and it turns out they are. We'll see, I'm meeting them tomorrow to see what I can do for them but they know what I do, we've already agreed what I expect money-wise (I really should have asked for more, they agreed a bit too quickly) and that I'd only do 20 hours a week due to the fact that I'm such a bloody rock star.
And then something else happened which made me smile, but can't really put it on a blog. Everything is early days, worky stuff, 'other' stuff, but there's just glimmers that maybe 2016 isn't going to be a total disaster after all. We'll see, it's just one good day, calm down.
Got offered a solo show in Devon, which I've accepted, now just need the other 300 people I've emailed to reply as well then I can build a tour around this. Found some more venues so emailed them, too (found that searching for 'Village hall' seems to work).
Found a website that searches for corporate sponsorship for you, they take a cut but do all the looking around, so created an event profile with them for the soap opera. Got sent the raw files of the Inadequate Man TV version I did last year by the company so I can edit it down to 6 minutes as a promo to get more stand-up shows, which I did do tonight in between 2 HOURS on the exercise bike. Wish I could say I feel great, but I don't, I just feel like a man with really rubbish legs.
Been doing too much admin recently, need to work on the show this week and nail it as it opens quite soon.
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