Today I completed easily my least favourite task to do with running a comedy club (or
putting shows on full-stop) and wrote my first press release of the
year for this month’s Mostly.
Actually, while
it may be the first press release I’ve written this year (not "may be"; it is) it’s not the first copy I’ve put
together, having already supplied blurbs for Brighton, applications for
Edinburgh and mailing list mail-outs for the club (and all the associated website
listings and ticketing links that go with it), so I’d already done as much in
all but name - so it’s no wonder I find it so tedious, when it’s the least
satisfying and most time-consuming part of what I do.
While I don’t
enjoy it, I'm fortunate that it’s a job that hasn’t been so pressing
recently (no pun intended), what with how often our dates sell out in
advance, though I still have to write them even then,
as you can’t run an event without promoting it, however well it’s sold; so at
least today it felt it was more of use. I know it wasn’t my best work as
it was a little cut-and-shut, but it should do the job; hopefully reading it
will make you so excited at the thought of coming to the show that you’ll be chomping
at the bit; if you are, visit www.mostlycomedy.co.uk
and you may snap up the last few tickets; I’m ever the salesman:
Press Release – 11.01.18
mostly comedy
a monthly comedy club,
at the sun hotel in hitchin
While
February to April’s Hitchin Mostly Comedy dates with HENNING WEHN, PHILL JUPITUS
and JAMES ACASTER have all sold out,
there are still a few tickets left for 25th January’s show,
featuring cult comic favourites SIMON
MUNNERY and BRIAN GITTINS.
SIMON
MUNNERY is a Chortle Award winner, Barry Award winner, Sony Radio
Award winner, British Comedy Award nominee and Perrier Award nominee, who was
most recently seen/heard on Stewart Lee’s
Alternative Comedy Experience on Comedy Central, BBC2's Culture Show
and Radio 4's News Quiz.
Simon's 31-year stand-up career has
seen him regularly perform all over the world and star in several major
television and radio projects. He is best known for his characters Alan Parker: Urban Warrior, Buckethead and The League Against Tedium; his genre-bending innovations such as La Concepta (an interactive conceptual
restaurant show) and his TV/radio projects such as series BBC2's Attention Scum, Radio 1's League Against Tedium and Radio 4's Where Did It All Go Wrong?
Character comic David Earl joins Munnery on
the bill as BRIAN GITTINS; a
roadside café owner and self-professed nasal spray addict,
described by RIcky Gervais as 'one of the best comedy characters of the
decade'. Eagle-eyed fans of Gervais’ work will recognise Earl as Kev:
a regular character in Channel 4's Derek.
January’s line-up also features comic actor LORNA SHAW, who is one half of the
critically acclaimed Edinburgh and Soho Theatre sellout act That Pair. Lorna's TV and Radio credits include The Midnight Beast for E4, BBC Comedy Feed’s Life Guru and BBC Radio 4’s Newsjack amongst others.
The show will be emceed by DAVID EPHGRAVE (“as smooth as
they come” BBC). David’s credits include playing both Lennon
and McCartney in
the UK / Ireland No. 1 tour of The Roy Orbison Story, Buddy Holly in multiple tours of Buddy
Holly and the Cricketers and Richard
in the West End production of Dreamboats and Petticoats. He most
recently featured in the Daily
Telegraph’s 20 Funniest One-liners and Comedy Central’s 35 Funniest Jokes from
2017 Edinburgh Fringe.
The
gig takes place at the Sun Hotel. Doors open at 7:30pm, with the first act on
at 8:00pm. Tickets are £11 and available in advance at www.mostlycomedy.co.uk.
Date: Thursday 25th January
2018
Venue:
The Sun Hotel, Sun Street, Hitchin,
Hertfordshire, SG5 1AF
Time: Bar open all day. Doors at 7:30pm.
First act on at 8:00pm.
Admission:
£11.00. Tickets via www.mostlycomedy.co.uk