Y'Know, Comedy and Stuff

I listened back to the "The Wilderness Years" show from Machynlleth today for the first time, a mere two and a half weeks after the festival's conclusion. I was a little bit underwhelmed with the set, but it's possible that I'm being too hard on myself. An audience of 12 in a room with a natural echo isn't conducive to a raucous atmospere and I did feel that I gathered a little bit of momentum towards the end. I sensed that most of the audience enjoyed it aside from one guy on the front row, but it isn't possible to please everyone. I could also hear the rustiness in my voice from a lack of gigging, with far too many errs, umms and y'knows.

I'm always wondering if I could get better laughs and what I need to work on to achieve that. My writing and points of reference can sometimes be a bit obscure and I'm thinking about whether or not I need to write more accessible stuff. Having said that, I've only ever written from the perspective of what I think is funny and I don't want to lose that.

I'm still deliberating whether to continue working on the current show or push forward with a second one. I have a title,  "More Of The Same" and a tentative theme. I have no idea whether I can write a decent quality follow up hour of material for 2018 and consider that to be the main reason why I should do it in order to push myself harder. This show was daunting to put together but I was mostly able to piece together bits from the past few years into a coherent narrative. Starting entirely from scratch is rather daunting, as I'm not really sitting on any other material other than the stuff I decided to cut from the last show. But I spent far too long deliberating on doing a show and now I'd like to make up for lost time.