Tonight saw the
last Hitchin Mostly Comedy of 2016, which all in all, was a good way to round
things off.
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| Me, tonight. |
We’ve come to
the end of our first year at the Sun Hotel, and I now think it’s safe to say our move to the venue has been a success. While the Market Theatre was a
lovely space to play and certainly enabled the club to grow, the move to The
Sun was the best thing that could happen for us. It enabled us to increase
capacity by just enough to make a real difference to how the event runs financially,
giving us more of a budget to book bigger acts. The move also
relinquished us from the responsibility of having to staff the entire theatre
for the night - including the two bars and Front of House - which was a drain on both our
finances and our time. Now, we can just concentrate on our tech and door
staff, which is of more direct benefit to us - particularly when the theatre wasn't always that accommodating in the first place.
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| Sean Hughes, tonight. |
Despite the fact tonight’s show was good, neither of us were particularly in the mood for
the gig when we met in this afternoon to set up. It was probably that ‘end of
the year' feeling more than anything, plus we’ve had so little time together to
be able to work up anything new.
When it came to
it, we needn’t have worried. Our material went well, and Luke Benson and Sean
Hughes were well-received. I tried out a tiny bit of new solo material as well that has
legs (not literally), as well as recycling a piece from my first show ‘…and
Ephgrave’ that I hadn’t touched since last summer, which still has potential.
I’m glad I went ahead with my solo set, as I wasn’t sure if I was going to put
myself through it, having not had much time to really think it through, but as
ever, it’s best to try something in the open than spending too long over-thinking
it. If nothing else, I’ve broken the seal on writing a new show;
there’s something pleasing psychologically about having done this before the
year’s up; if I can just come up with another fifty-five minutes worth, I should be all right.