Hummmm....

Hummmmm indeed. That's how I'm feeling at the moment, a bit hummmmm. I'm very tired currently, so much so that the show we were going to see this afternoon has been given a miss and I've come home to write this blog and have a nap before my show.

So let's get that out the way to start with, my show. It's been going just about okay. I've had three bad shows all of which have annoyed me. Saturday and Sunday were really busy but both times we had technical problems with the big ending. Sunday's show actually was rather good other than that, I enjoyed it a lot and it had Neil and Christine Hamilton in, both of whom shouting out Cox and Sidebottom. I'm doing their show again tomorrow and I'm really looking forward to it. Monday's show was very busy again, the ending work, but two other tricks played up and I felt really off my game. I was thrown at the beginning by a trick not quite working and never really got it back on track till the end of the show. I had the Times in reviewing it so I'm holding out no hope there.

Last night I also went for drinks with Ben, Emily and Amy from my promoters, Kirstin from Australia, Tim Minchin from Comedy with Music and Mark Watson from Comedy with Welsh Accents. That was very nice. I also met up with a fellow magician called Graham who said very flattering things about my show and performed a trick for me which I enjoyed a lot. We also met a few other folk, and a bunch of us ended up at Late and Live. At half 4 I eventually went to bed.

At some point during the evening it was thought to be a good idea for me to have eyeliner put on me, thus making it guyliner, and making me look a little like Tim. Mark Watson said I looked a bit like Bowie, Jason Byrne said it looked a little camp, Josie Long liked it and Tim thought it was very cool. I'm not so certain. I'm thinking about adding it to my show costume, but am not convinced. Look here's a photo to prove it.


Also I took a photo when I came out the shower and realised I couldn't get it off. Posterboy for the emo generation I think.



Another exciting thing happened on Monday. I went to Chocolate Soup with Amy and Emily from my promoters and had a mint chocolate soup.. yum yum.

We then headed back to the Pleasance where we found a shoe shop on the way. Amy wanted to buy some daps / plimsolls to wear. She found some. Emily had a student discount card of 10%. She used that. She ended up buying a pair of shoes for 89p. Yes 89 bloody pence. Madness. I think some children must have died making them for them to be that cheap. This is what they look like.



89p shoes.

Crazy.

Chris x