Monday 13th June 2016

Went into the office for a bit, enjoyed some football-based banter with the boss.

Popped out for a couple hours to do a BBC interview thing about the comedy nights we're putting on, casually not mentioning that tomorrow's is cancelled because nobody was interested. Was okay.

Met up with Claudia, Jo and Marcel to run some more of the musical stuff in a venue where Claudia and Jo both had gigs later on. Their schedules are as a bad as mine, hence why we're just 'finding' hours whenever we can. That didn't feel great tonight, there's a sense that nobody is in control of this.

Dashed over to Burwell to perform 'Least of Your Problems..' and it was honestly lovely tonight. It was in the bar of a leisure centre, which never should work, but it just felt right. The audience just looked kind. About 18 of them I think? The intro was stilted, and had to throw in the 'Grace' song to calm down my initial, somewhat predictable caffeine-fuelled rantiness which was probably a bit too in-your-face for a Monday village audience. But they really got into it, I mean yeah - so the new bit about Eva didn't work (but that only happened in real life on Friday so shouldn't have made it into the show tonight) but most of it did. Consciously left out the DIY rant and as a result the tempo stayed up, but the car stuff got a round of applause...and nobody has EVER laughed at that routine before, as did the piece of prose about the 80s. They were a different crowd, they enjoyed bits that no other audience has liked so far. People were still talking about the Ginsters bit long after the show..."you really took us with you," said somebody after. The same person also said, "it all made sense by the end," which I'm taking as a compliment.

The new bits I'm adding in often seem to disrupt the flow (and I'd left out the OCD/clothes rail rant, and the Sheffield bit which has been going down well recently) but so much of it really works.

Okay, so it's 18 people in Burwell. But it's just nice, isn't it, to have a good night for a change?