Brighton

I said that I tend to have a nice time when I go down to Brighton and yesterday was no exception. We had a full room at the Quadrant and everyone had a decent gig. My favourites were Dan Fardell* (a strong writer) and Gary Colman (an impressive club style set), along with Robyn Perkins (a host so affable she can get away with accidentally hitting a woman in the crowd on the knee with a microphone).

I was largely pleased with my part in things, growing into the set as it went along. A new joke regarding my weight loss struggles is continuing to get a decent response, while a couple of ad libs yielded good returns too. I'm trying to work on a bad habit that I currently have of occasionally overrunning. This impacted on the end of my set where I rushed slightly which knocked the rhythm of one of the punchlines. I also ended on my most objectionable piece of material without the follow up which softens the blow. Still, none of that matters a tremendous amount.

I am making more of a habit of listening to recordings of my sets but I need to make some time to sit down and write some notes about performance, what's working and what isn't.


* I blanked Dan on the street in Edinburgh during this year's festival, because I'm terribly socially inept.

EDIT 25/12: I've had to put stand-up comedy on the backburner for the moment due to my new job, where I'm required to work evenings most of the time. I am yet to find a satisfactory resolution to this particular problem.