I had found myself at
gig 30 so quickly and this is one i was looking forward to very much.
I had visited Glyde
house when i 1st set out on my comedy adventure with a view to starting
a gig there and would have done so had it not been for another comedian having
already got a gig booking there, so as i did not want to step on his toes or
create a bad name for myself i opted to step down my interest and instead
offered support/advice from my perspective to the gig manager David. Thankfully
David who is a very enthusiastic and friendly guy to work with sought to run a
night himself (saving him a few quid i would imagine) and so Bradford comedy
club at Gylde house was born.
It is a lovely room
that holds around 45, David and his business partner John had worked hard to
make the room even better for comedy, they had put a comedy logo in, a stage
curtain which was not functional but gave aesthetic appeal.
When i arrived i was greeted
by David and although it was great to see him again there was bad news. The
Headline act was coming from the North East and was stuck due to the horrific
storm and floods so we were 1 headline down and also another act, a guy who i
was looking forward to meeting again was also a victim to the poor weather.
So there would be
myself and the fabulous Callum Scott along with 2 acts i have never seen before
in Kahn Johnson (Kahn was the 1st guy to welcome me to the comedy
forum but i had not met him in the flesh until tonight) and Jonathon Pelham.
Hosting was Eddie
French who runs the Verve gig, Eddie was the man who took control and attempted
to get a last min replacement for the missing headliner but upon not being able
to do this difficult task he then organised for us all to do longer sets... i
was allowed up to 15 mins but felt i didn’t have enough good stuff for 15 so
opted for 12 which Eddie was helpful setting me at ease doing.
There were 22 in on my
head count which was a nice cosy crowd, Eddie had highlighted a guy that was
regular and likely to heckle thinking he was helping, one for us to look out
for and hopefully ignore!
The regular did not disappoint
as Eddie set about warming the room up with a confident laid back charm
plucking gems of humour from his conversations with the audience. He spent
around 15 mins i think warming the crowd and settling everyone in ready for the
reduced line up to go on and do what they could to make the night a success.
Kahn Johnson was up 1st,
his performance started with an introduction into who Kahn is and this included
the revelation that Kahn is an MS sufferer. He used this to form some great
opening material, i’d love to say more about Kahn’s set but my pre gig nerves
kicked in and i twice had to go to the loo just to compose myself a little.
My turn came around
and i went about my set with a feeling of acceptance, i accept my set is not
what i want to be doing in a years time but i am over the whole its not good
enough thing, i do still think its not good enough but i know it has enough
punch lines that work clichéd or not and i know that while there is not a mass
of originality in style it is an original set to at least accept if i can’t be
proud of it. It has sort been my demon not liking my set but tonight the
feeling of accepting it allowed my to perform it much better i felt than i had
before, there were some dud moments in my 12 mins, mainly as i tried to factor
the new stuff in and somewhat ironically forgot the memory loss bit!
The crowd were lovely
though and i enjoyed myself feeling a real buzz again when i came off like my 1st
few gigs.
After the break Callum
went on and he had an odd situation where the audience didn’t participate in a
bit that had worked seamlessly everywhere else, they seemed to not take to his
go to stuff as much as expected (they did still laugh) but they lapped up his
new stuff as did i laughing out loud at another comic for the 1st
time in a while. He did 15 or so mins and it was typical of a Callum Scott
performance for me, very enjoyable.
Jonathon Pelham
followed as our final act, i have never seen him before and mistook him for
Peter Brush at 1st. Jonathons set was brilliant, his mixture of self
depreciation, sarcasm and intelligence created a set that lifted the laughter
level a decibel... and that was after acts that had done well.
I really enjoyed all 3
of the other acts and Eddie’s final hurrah silencing the regular with a superb quick
witted couple of put downs.
Huge thanks to David
and John, long may comedy live at Glyde house, hopefully i’ll be back in a
years time with more experience to make an even better night, any acts reading
this apply for this gig now!! You’ll really enjoy it.
Next for me Kings
Norton Birmingham this Saturday as my last practice before so you think you’re
funny
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