tonight’s the night!! the fringe – and so our fringe show - starts tonight. we had (for want of another term) a ‘tech run’ on monday night; mark’s our tech nerd, thus is doing lights and sound for the run of the fest. the show format is that one of us will be mc, and the remaining three will perform ‘spots’. so, mc goes for ten, then first spot goes for ten, mc back for three to five, second spot goes for ten, then a break of ten to fifteen. mc back briefly before headline spot of twenty, then we all go back on stage and take a bow... before collapsing on the bar. for the first week i think i will stick to the ten minute spots, the first of which is mine tonight. should be fun – apparently other comedians have been commending us on our format choice – basically running it like a general standup night at any other club - because it’s means we’ve effectively booked ourselves gigs for the run of the festival. i’m interested to find out how i’ll be feeling after it’s all over – i will have to document it all! also, if you come to our fringe show as a result of reading about it on this blog, please come up and say hi after the show... unless i sucked so badly the night you were there that you decide you’d rather leave than be seen conversing with me in public. if that is the case, i will fully understand.
yesterday, i had a run-through of my karaoke song for ‘hello kitty’. oh my gawd. i never realised how high pitched ‘the eye of the tiger’ is. but i managed to get through it without giving myself a hernia or damaging the earballs* of the other participants. i’m looking forward to the whole hello kitty thing – singing karaoke in front of a crowd will surely help get rid of any pesky nerves, i reckon!
*'earballs' - a reference to a soundgrab i caught on the apalling (and thankfully shortlived) reality tv show, 'the resort'. two female contestants were having an argument, and one said to the other something to the effect of 'you should shut your mouth for a change, and open up your earballs'. ah, quality.