Afternoon at the college running a drum workshop which was basically my 'Comedians Drumming...' show format to international students but it really worked and was a nice hour, followed by a private lesson after in the college followed by 2 private non-college lessons after that.
13 hours of teaching today. I know it's a lot. But it does help pay for stuff, not only the holiday and my new drum kit which I'm picking up next month (getting a lovely little Ludwig, very excited) but also for my '100 Final Gigs' project. I've been feeling for a while that the stand-up thing isn't quite me, as much as there was a sense that this year's Edinburgh stand-up show was lovely (I've actually seen someone chatting on a forum where they mentioned how much they enjoyed it, which was very sweet). But also, by doing another nice hour like that, I don't have anything to prove...it's just, well, I haven't really gotten anywhere with it. I'll still do Edinburgh every year - I've got 4 shows lined up for it next year (one of of which you could say is a stand-up show, but it's more storytelling than ever), but the idea of slogging my guts out around the circuit in the hope of making it feels less appealing when I seem to be getting more success out of writing comedy plays instead. So anyway, I'm doing a hundred more stand-up gigs and leaving it there, and getting a film out of it, and I'm going to try and do it in as many places as possible...LA (on our holiday, Stu has got me gig out there, A has been lovely to tolerate me interrupting our romantic break with a gig 400 miles down the road), Istanbul (a friend runs an English-speaking gig out there), Germany...it's gonna be awesome. And expensive, but luckily I've stumbled into something wonderful with the drum teaching.
It's all good. Now all I need is MORE HOURS IN THE DAY.
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