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It was gratifying to see July's Hitchin Town Hall Mostly Comedy date with Dr. John Cooper Clarke sell more than our usual venue The Sun's capacity across the weekend's pre-sale - and more still today - thus boding well for how things should continue. As I've said previously, while I was sure the show would prove popular amongst our audience, there was still a slight hesitation on my part, largely due to the risk that goes with staging an event at a venue that's more expensive to us and over twice our normal capacity. Without going into specifics, it's also easily the biggest fee we've confirmed an act for in our ten year history. That said, the end justified the means as we've already covered that figure in three days of sale-time, which is something we would never have dreamt of when we started the club at The George back in 2008. The good news is this initial spike in interest affords us the opportunity to relax, safe in the knowledge that the show...

Today we confirmed Mark Watson for July's Mostly Comedy, who’s another act we’ve been hoping to book for ages. The list of people to have played - or be soon to play - the club has become ridiculous. Just when I think we might not better who we’ve had for a while, another name sneaks in to make things interesting. I try hard to book people that will excite the club’s regulars when they hear about them; I work on the understanding if it’s the sort of person I’d be really interested to see, then the same will apply for other people too (a method that seems to be confirmed by how many of the dates sell out). July’s set to be a great month for Mostly. As with last year, we’re running two consecutive shows: the 20 th with Mark Watson & Bec Hill and the 21 st with Richard Herring & Hattie Hayridge. It will be a nice way to lead into our annual sabbatical in August due to Edinburgh. Then, before we know it, we’ll be in October, celebrating t...