Eddie Baby!!!
Eddie Izzard is performing in Iceland tonight.
And I'll be attending!
I really can't wait.
He's starting a Scandinavian tour that's closely detailed on his official website, and the first gig is here in Iceland.
I'd been hearing rumours regarding him coming here since late 2004, notably that the certainty would be better determined by how successful Jamie Kennedy's stand-up in December here would be.
But there were somethings awkward in the announcing of the stand-up. First I heard of a definite date was on the community site Hugi.is that appeared in the beginning of February and seemed to be based on rumours. Maybe the one who posted the write-up had read about the stand-up on Eddie Izzard's website, but I did not know of it then - it mentioned he was supposed to perform at this club we have called (drum roll) Broadway, but Broadway's website mentioned nothing about Eddie anywhere.
My friend utlendingurinn decided to stay on alert for any news. We didn't have to wait long, because the next week an article appeared in the Morgunblaðið, Iceland's biggest news paper.
As it stood, sale of ticket's was to begin the Monday after the Wednesday the article was printed, and the venue only had room for 800 people.
800! Wow, they must have been afraid of meagre interest in the comedian.
Though I must admit that I don't hear people talking about Eddie Izzard often, unless they are people I know to take active interest in comedians or people who've found him by chance through other British comedy, like Monty Python.
Thankfully for me though, some Icelandic/United States Start-up named Event.is was having a pre-sale of tickets. I figured out how to participate in that, and soon enough I had reserved tickets for me, my girlfriend, utlendingurinn, handofme, my younger brother, and my girlfriend's best friend.
The next day, my mother heard of the news and beckoned my sister to run to me to tell me, while I was quietly chilling in a short session of Tekken 4. I told them I'd already bought tickets, to which my mother asked "Didn't you buy a ticket for me as well?". I was a bit surprised, but she had liked his stand-up named Dressed to Kill that my girlfriend and I had watched with her weeks before. She told me she'd very much like to go, and it turned out my father was interested too (though possibly only to not be left out), so I went online again and reserved tickets for them.
On the day of the official start of the ticket sale, it was broadcast on the news that it had sold out in less than 8 minutes. Seems Eddie Izzard really is rather popular in this country. The quick sale prompted another stand-up the day after this one, which proceeded to sell out almost instantaneously as well. He's also holding shows in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, all of which sold out in about 10 minutes. They also crammed in extra shows in Norway and Sweden, as can be seen here.
Quite Wondrous, I say!
And I'll be attending!
I really can't wait.
He's starting a Scandinavian tour that's closely detailed on his official website, and the first gig is here in Iceland.
I'd been hearing rumours regarding him coming here since late 2004, notably that the certainty would be better determined by how successful Jamie Kennedy's stand-up in December here would be.
But there were somethings awkward in the announcing of the stand-up. First I heard of a definite date was on the community site Hugi.is that appeared in the beginning of February and seemed to be based on rumours. Maybe the one who posted the write-up had read about the stand-up on Eddie Izzard's website, but I did not know of it then - it mentioned he was supposed to perform at this club we have called (drum roll) Broadway, but Broadway's website mentioned nothing about Eddie anywhere.
My friend utlendingurinn decided to stay on alert for any news. We didn't have to wait long, because the next week an article appeared in the Morgunblaðið, Iceland's biggest news paper.
As it stood, sale of ticket's was to begin the Monday after the Wednesday the article was printed, and the venue only had room for 800 people.
800! Wow, they must have been afraid of meagre interest in the comedian.
Though I must admit that I don't hear people talking about Eddie Izzard often, unless they are people I know to take active interest in comedians or people who've found him by chance through other British comedy, like Monty Python.
Thankfully for me though, some Icelandic/United States Start-up named Event.is was having a pre-sale of tickets. I figured out how to participate in that, and soon enough I had reserved tickets for me, my girlfriend, utlendingurinn, handofme, my younger brother, and my girlfriend's best friend.
The next day, my mother heard of the news and beckoned my sister to run to me to tell me, while I was quietly chilling in a short session of Tekken 4. I told them I'd already bought tickets, to which my mother asked "Didn't you buy a ticket for me as well?". I was a bit surprised, but she had liked his stand-up named Dressed to Kill that my girlfriend and I had watched with her weeks before. She told me she'd very much like to go, and it turned out my father was interested too (though possibly only to not be left out), so I went online again and reserved tickets for them.
On the day of the official start of the ticket sale, it was broadcast on the news that it had sold out in less than 8 minutes. Seems Eddie Izzard really is rather popular in this country. The quick sale prompted another stand-up the day after this one, which proceeded to sell out almost instantaneously as well. He's also holding shows in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, all of which sold out in about 10 minutes. They also crammed in extra shows in Norway and Sweden, as can be seen here.
Quite Wondrous, I say!