They've won.
Hello Everyone,
Greetings from Edinburgh, my show's been up and down and I've decided to pull it because of the venue not being right. People coming in for a drink and talking, shouting at me and generally being disruptive just got too much for me yesterday. I've worked really hard on my show, I'm happy with it, but this isn't the right situation to show it off. I was up in the cafe at the weekend, which was horrid, people coming in and out, buzzing fridges, banging coffee machines and talking staff all made it an unenjoyable exerience (indeed, on Saturday I got into the cafe only to be told that it was "too full" for me to do my show) despite half the people there being there for my show... The show eventually went ahead, and involved much of me dancing from side to side to avoid the staff delivering coffee, it could have been worse, I could have had press in.. What's that? Oh. The Scotsman were there. Hoorah!
Madogs have been nice, I like the staff and the venue, but it's not right for doing a free entry comedy show. It seems like everything has been against me this year, first the venue I'm meant to be in was closed meaning the Fringe brochure is wrong, next when they changed the venue on the website, they changed my days off so that they were different to my flyers (despite numerous emails, they've not corrected it). So I'm going home early (Sunday) hopefully I'll be able to pick up a couple of gigs in the extra week I've got back at home, and the time will be better spent trying to find somewhere to live!
I hate feeling like I'm quitting, but there have only been 4 gigs in 4 years that have made me cry, and two of those were this week. So for my own sanity, I really need to escape.
We're playing Scrabble on Thursday night in the Dome though, hopefully that will be a fitting way to celebrate a Festival which has a special place in my heart.
When I get home I go back to gigging round the country to show people that I'm actually getting quite good at this comedy lark.
See you all soon,
Owen
Greetings from Edinburgh, my show's been up and down and I've decided to pull it because of the venue not being right. People coming in for a drink and talking, shouting at me and generally being disruptive just got too much for me yesterday. I've worked really hard on my show, I'm happy with it, but this isn't the right situation to show it off. I was up in the cafe at the weekend, which was horrid, people coming in and out, buzzing fridges, banging coffee machines and talking staff all made it an unenjoyable exerience (indeed, on Saturday I got into the cafe only to be told that it was "too full" for me to do my show) despite half the people there being there for my show... The show eventually went ahead, and involved much of me dancing from side to side to avoid the staff delivering coffee, it could have been worse, I could have had press in.. What's that? Oh. The Scotsman were there. Hoorah!
Madogs have been nice, I like the staff and the venue, but it's not right for doing a free entry comedy show. It seems like everything has been against me this year, first the venue I'm meant to be in was closed meaning the Fringe brochure is wrong, next when they changed the venue on the website, they changed my days off so that they were different to my flyers (despite numerous emails, they've not corrected it). So I'm going home early (Sunday) hopefully I'll be able to pick up a couple of gigs in the extra week I've got back at home, and the time will be better spent trying to find somewhere to live!
I hate feeling like I'm quitting, but there have only been 4 gigs in 4 years that have made me cry, and two of those were this week. So for my own sanity, I really need to escape.
We're playing Scrabble on Thursday night in the Dome though, hopefully that will be a fitting way to celebrate a Festival which has a special place in my heart.
When I get home I go back to gigging round the country to show people that I'm actually getting quite good at this comedy lark.
See you all soon,
Owen