Tonight, I caught
the train to Finsbury Park to talk to a pubful of people about Noel Edmonds
and gloryholes - which are one and the same thing - before catching the train
home again, to sit on a sofa with a cat on my lap and write this.
The gig was fun;
one of the most enjoyable I’ve had so far this year. There was a sense of
finally getting back on the horse after what’s been a slow and
uncertain start to 2017 as regards confidence and direction; finally, I’m beginning to find faith again, and am enjoying talking to an
audience about something new; the
fact the content is starting to be well-received gives me the push to work on more.
Before I forge too far ahead, I've still got my last performance of Mostly David Ephgrave to go, at the Leicester Comedy Festival on Saturday. I’m looking forward to this too; it will be nice
to give it a final airing and then draw a line under it for a while; I’m
going to treat it like the last day of term and have fun with it.
I'll do my best
not to overcook it before then. I did a run on Sunday and a run today, then I’ll
do a couple on Thursday and then leave it until the day. It’s a
fine line between reminding yourself of how it goes and going through the
motions. I don’t want to be searching to remember the content, nor do I
want to be saying the words without connecting to them. Either way, it’s nice
when - like today - it’s pretty much all in my head and feels slick. That’s
the benefit of having done it so many times in Edinburgh; you can’t beat having that many gigs in quick succession for making
you feel match fit. I’m looking forward to when I feel the same about the next show...though this is likely to be some way off.