Saturday 11 December 2004

After me moaning on about getting the venue wrong yesterday it turned out ok after all.
Miraculously the M6 was clear and I was in Staffordshire within 65 minutes. As I was early I called into a lovely pub, The Queens at Freehay. It seems to serve delicious food and I had a top pint of hand pulled Bass, I shall be calling there again.The gig was an important one as it was a private party organised by one of my agents for his customers, so I was honoured to be asked to do it.It took place in a quaint village hall complete with stage and a bar! I was on with a Robbie Williams tribute, well when I say tribute he was more of an obituary, I'm not one for criticising fellow artistes but God! he was shite. As usual he over-ran so I had to go on to a crowd that were a bit pissed up and a bit pissed off. There was me ripping the gig, getting laughs, applause and having a great one, until there was an almight bang and the PA system blew up! I tried to do the rest of my set unplugged but the room was too big so I took a break whilst the system was repaired. During that break my nightmares came true, The DJ was playing Abba and the girls were dancing! You try to drag a load of fat lasses off the dance floor to tell them the comedian is coming back on! I knew I'd lost the crowd and the momentum, however I did manage to get them back on track and finished the night to a decent round of applause. Note to self: Don't criticise a fellow artisite and expect to use his PA without it, literally, blowing up in your face.
Tonight it's a Christmas party for HM Armed Forces, what fresh hell is this? With my political leanings, left of Marx, it's difficult for me to do shows like this. I shall bite my tongue, not get into discussions about politics etc and just make them laugh. NB: Not all squaddies are right wing bigots
FTM!