Tonight, we had
our first of two shows as part of Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival.
It went fairly
well – or at least as well as a stand-up show can go when you’re performing to
such a diminutive audience (in terms of numbers as opposed to stature). We had
five people in, who were pretty responsive – but obviously, this isn’t the sort
of number you would choose to perform an hour’s worth of stand-up in front of,
if you could help it.
At the very
least, I feel that we’re in control of the show, rather than it being in
control of us. Performing stand-up to such a small turn-out is a little
soul-destroying, but we’ve grown used to it. Also, the audience were nice and
supportive; it didn’t feel as difficult as it probably should have.
I do, however,
look forward to the time when we don’t have to fight to pull in an audience.
Tomorrow, we will
be co-presenting the drive-time show for the local university radio station,
Demon FM; something that will hopefully be fun, as well as potentially helping
to increase our turn-out.
I hope so. We shall see, anyway.