Weekly, weakly?

There's been some talk of changing the LLC so it's every week rather than every fortnight. There are good points and bad points.

Good points;
- if it's every week people think- 'Ah, Tuesday! Long Live Comedy Day, off we trot.' 'Rather than 'Ah Tuesday! But is it this Tuesday or next Tuesday?' 'Check on the website.' 'Can't be arsed.' 'Well, leave it then.' This could give us more bums on seats. Which is what we want, not people, just bums on seats.

-We get to perform more.

Bad Points;
-doing it weekly might just thin out our audience even more, rather than 10-20 people a fortnight we'll have 5-10 people a week.

-we have to do everything twice as much. For me this is puting up posters and preparing the handouts for the games, which I guess I could manage.

-We have to find more acts. We've been fine so far but we certainly don't have to put off as many acts as we put on. Finding even 3 or 4 every week might be a stretch.

-We have to perform more. An extra gig to polish existing material is fine, but if we keep our strict 'no repeated material within 3 months' policy, it'll be hard to find that much new stuff. - Maybe we could repeat stuff, so if you came two weeks in a row, you'd see some of the same stuff again, but come back in a fortnight and it's guaranteed all new.

-they might not let us. I don't know if the dog and parrot management are astonished by the boost in beer sales we've created. There are often more people watching us than in the whole downstairs bar, but we're not breaking any records.

So it looks like there are more bad than good. Still, can we call ourselves comedians and turn down a weekly residency slot? Are we men or mice?

I say we pull up our socks and go for it, more ambitious than ever, big ideas, big props, one week biting satire, the next a semi improvised version of 'Treasure Ireland' where Long John silver is made of wood, apart from a real leg, and all the pirates are incontinent, on wards, ever onwards, for England, Harry and St. George!

NEXT GIG:
TONIGHT!
TUESDAY 16TH OF MAY. 8.30 FOR A 9.00 START. -
'LONG LIVE COMEDY'
THE DOG AND PARROT (UPSTAIRS)
-OPPOSITE THE CENTRE FOR LIFE, 2 MINS FROM CENTRAL STATION.
ONLY £2.

WEDNESDAY 17TH OF MAY.
-ANOTHER TRIP TO MANCHESTER FOR A LOCAL COMPETITION. IF ANYONE'S DRIVING DOWN TO SEE US I CAN GET YOU THE DETAILS / GIVE YOU A LIFT.