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Oct. 2nd, 2006 02:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shark_hatWell, I've signed the contract; unless one of my referees lets slip about that little baby-eating incident, I'll be starting a new job in a small city in the North in a month. Raaaather a lot to do before I leave. Nervous as anything, also worried about finding somewhere to live, also will miss current colleagues, but excited!
More Summary Executions; many fall-over-laughing comments.
Boat trip was fun, down the Thames and back- went past Canary Wharf. Got off the boat and promptly caught the tube to go back there... a new comedy club opened in the Isle of Dogs, close to the wonderfully named Midchute station on the Dockland Light Railway. An interesting place, a community venue in a converted church, in one of the bits of docklands there there are actually still some houses and people and not just giant glass things. It started late because a couple of the comedians had got lost looking for it. Robin Ince compered and was very funny, Howard Read was good, Dan? or Danny? Buckler too, (good thing I wasn't planning to go to Phantom of the Opera), Paul Sinha was not really my cup of tea- more for the manner than the matter- but could see why he'd been nominated for the if.comeddies. Favourite moment was one of those silly unplanned things, where Ince was talking about having funny shaped hands, got compared with an audience member's very small hands, and suddenly a giant hand appears round the stage door (Read's.)
Went to a giant characterless pub in Wimbledon on Saturday. Mostly because of you-decide/no-you-decide syndrome, I think.
Sunday night was brilliant; a benefit gig for the anti-ID card campaign. Compered by Daniel Kitson, who I'd been meaning to see- very scruffy and shambolic. Randomly climbed up one of the light-rig ladders at the side of the stage. Funny. Kevin Eldon was great (in a poet character. "give me some words and I'll work them into an instant poem... Black. Bandicoot, thank you, Lepton... No, it's impossible."), Josie Long was good, it was interesting to see Wil Hodgson. I'm not sure if I've heard of Andrew O'Neill, but he was good, anyway. I think Stewart Lee had dropped out as the headliner, but Dara O'Briain was amazing. It was quite interesting to see who just did their usual stuff, who worked in bits of references to the event, and one guy (apart from Kitson) who was pretty much improvising.
More Summary Executions; many fall-over-laughing comments.
Boat trip was fun, down the Thames and back- went past Canary Wharf. Got off the boat and promptly caught the tube to go back there... a new comedy club opened in the Isle of Dogs, close to the wonderfully named Midchute station on the Dockland Light Railway. An interesting place, a community venue in a converted church, in one of the bits of docklands there there are actually still some houses and people and not just giant glass things. It started late because a couple of the comedians had got lost looking for it. Robin Ince compered and was very funny, Howard Read was good, Dan? or Danny? Buckler too, (good thing I wasn't planning to go to Phantom of the Opera), Paul Sinha was not really my cup of tea- more for the manner than the matter- but could see why he'd been nominated for the if.comeddies. Favourite moment was one of those silly unplanned things, where Ince was talking about having funny shaped hands, got compared with an audience member's very small hands, and suddenly a giant hand appears round the stage door (Read's.)
Went to a giant characterless pub in Wimbledon on Saturday. Mostly because of you-decide/no-you-decide syndrome, I think.
Sunday night was brilliant; a benefit gig for the anti-ID card campaign. Compered by Daniel Kitson, who I'd been meaning to see- very scruffy and shambolic. Randomly climbed up one of the light-rig ladders at the side of the stage. Funny. Kevin Eldon was great (in a poet character. "give me some words and I'll work them into an instant poem... Black. Bandicoot, thank you, Lepton... No, it's impossible."), Josie Long was good, it was interesting to see Wil Hodgson. I'm not sure if I've heard of Andrew O'Neill, but he was good, anyway. I think Stewart Lee had dropped out as the headliner, but Dara O'Briain was amazing. It was quite interesting to see who just did their usual stuff, who worked in bits of references to the event, and one guy (apart from Kitson) who was pretty much improvising.
