Really, really brilliant HG today. I mean, just 7 in, but everyone TOTALLY onside, and great to see my old chum, Heather. Buzzing from how good that felt.
HOP was horrible today - an all-female audience, it felt like a cheap karaoke hen-party show. Our venue is a bit odd in the sense that it's effectively a pub with a curtain in the middle of it, and as the ladies sang loudly (especially the bit when I formed a girl band), the rest of the pub (football watching thugs, mostly) seemed to retaliate. It felt like we were in competition at times, almost at war, almost nasty. Apparently one of them is a marginally famous comedian, but I honestly don't care (and hadn't heard of him). This is not what the fringe is about. There's no matches on tomorrow so we'll be fine.
Rachel (who is my regular collaborator in the show) and I grabbed a drink to calm down, and then I had a lovely time drumming for Dominic. It's nice when it's someone else's show, isn't it? I literally turn up, drum, get paid. Why haven't I thought of this before?
I exit flyered his audience for my own show, and remarkably three of them followed me to my gig - led mostly by a lovely girl called Ellie, who seemed to spend a lot of Dominic's show watching my drumming.
'Something...' was lovely tonight. I mean, an audience of 6 - the three from Dominic's show, a random lady from Edinburgh and a very sweet couple from Cambridge who I genuinely hope to keep in touch with, but it worked. I've restructured it all, again, all of the laughs are in the right places. I was on fire tonight, felt like I couldn't do a thing wrong.
Met up with Rachel for dinner, and then off for a quick pint with Heather before she had to catch a show. Rachel is, as she has been for the last 3 years, very much my 'fringe mum' - telling me off for drinking too much and fetching me a napkin when I have cheese all over my face.
'Home' - ie; back in the flat, by 10.30pm, via a long street chat with my mate Scott, which has seemed to happen every night since I moved into these flats. I have a lot of friends up here, I'm a lucky boy.
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