mostly david ephgrave

I enjoyed tonight’s Mostly Comedy, and had fun doing my work-in-progress set. Me, after they told me I'd have to do an hour at tonight's Mostly The turnout for the gig was considerably less compared to our recent run of sold out dates; a point that elicited a negative reaction from just about everyone I spoke to. “Oh,” went the standard refrain. “You usually have a lot more than that,” as if I didn’t know. The point is though: that’s fine. You can’t sustain high numbers every time. The fact we do as well as we do consistently is pretty astounding, but that’s not to say that there isn’t room for the odd quieter date, particularly on a night like tonight, where the line-up were trying out new material. What made this evening work as well as it did was the fact that people seemed to know what they were coming to see (as regards the event as a whole) rather than being enticed in by the headliner, without considering it’s a show with a...