Music.

Well, the Gateshead Newcastle Comedy Festival is approaching and our gig there is going to be my comedy highlight of the year, -hopefully. (The pic is our promo shot, which should be on the official website soon.) I've messed around with a lot of musical comedy bits over the year, and I think I'm going to go for a set that's 50/50 music and regular stand up. To that end, I'm going to try and make Friday's gig my first musical outing outside Newcastle - usually it's too much fuss to bring a guitar a long way for a couple of minutes - but if I try all of my music bits together it should be worthwhile- and i'll see what works as well as i remember it.

My latest music bit is a prince inspired bit of wah-wah drriven naughtiness called 'ladies ladies ladies'...

ladies ladies ladies ladies ladies
Im a real big fan of all you ladies
I got ladies wallpaper, I've got a ladies lunch box
I've even got a ladies pencil case.

I even collected every sticker in the panini sticker album of ladies
well, Ok, it was really for the world cup
but I only used stickers of footballers with long hair
and I drew on boobies - so they looked just like...

ladies ladies ladies ladies ladies

(The falsetto is killing me.)

NEXT GIG
-FRIDAY MANCHESTER - SEE www.zumebacomedy.co.uk
-TUESDAY AT THE DOG AND PARROT - IT'S EVERY WEEK NOW, REMEMBER? CHECK THE LINK TO THE LONGLIVECOMEDY.

Back in action! - gig 35.

Whey hey! The work is done, I almost have a masters in Applied Linguistics, and now that's out of the way I can get back to the business of being an amateur comic.

Come down to the Dog and Parrot tonight - I haven't got a thing prepared, but I'm sure there'll be some other people who are. I compered last week, which i suppose was gig 35. It was Ok, but I'm not really a 'relaxed banter with the crowd sort of bloke', but in getting a few bits together I came up with a nice prince / beck song which might be worth keeping. Tune in tomorrow for the Lyrics - and hopefully soon hear it on the podcast, but don't hold your breath!