Day 11 Edinblog: Sold Out
Added 2016-08-14 02:30:23 +0000 UTCI woke up this morning and dashed over to Newtown to do a midday spot at the Nightcap, before sitting down to edit some video footage for a project. Then I went and met Tiff Stevenson, to see if any of my helping skills could help her with a nasty pinched nerve. Then I dashed around to some more short spots, bumping into David Quirk for a serendipitous quick hug. After that I went home to work on my show. It's far enough into the festival that it's starting to fall into rhythms, which can be a good thing but can also leave you repeating segments that aren't working as well as they could be. I tried writing a new song, which I might use to replace the current pigeon song which is jolly, but not bulletproof, any-audience, laugh-out-loud funny as I'd like it to be. By the time I'd done with that I'd got some progress in the new song but not enough that I'd feel comfortable doing it tonight. I washed my face and scuttled to The Gilded Balloon for The Resistance. It was a glorious show - sold out audience was a nice upshot for a Saturday night, but Saturday night crowds are notorious for drunken obnoxiousness. The crowd of people I had tonight were so very lovely and made me so happy. My old Cambridge bestie Victoria was in the audience and I was very pleased. Then I met up with Matt Morrisroe of Massaoke to head over to watch the Doug Anthony All Stars, because he had been sorted out two comp tickets, and then when we got there, we found out that those comp tickets had been lost somewhere in the system, so we just went for a quiet drink before heading back to The Gilded Balloon for Massaoke. Then there was a fancy party in the Loft bar, and Littlefinger from Game of Thrones was there and I was too embarrassed to introduce myself to him, or take a photograph, but I was very pleased. Did some finger-guns and then headed home to watch some olympics Til tomorrow punks.
