The Long Overdue Adam Review
Is it wrong to spend some of my student loan on keeping my lj as a paid account? On the grounds that lj makes me happy and me being happy is me working.
Anywho, I owe you a review for Adam Hills!
I had amazing fun, Adam was ridiculously funny, and I was sitting in the front row with my feet up on the tiny little stage. Before we get to the gig, I want to mention the guy who was sitting behind me. You know when someone says something, and you've missed the whole of the rest of the conversation, and it's incredibly funny? This was one of those times. But also, the things he said were incredibly funny...
The first one was with no context at all I heard "...and he was wearing this full on gimp outfit..." It came entirely out of the blue, and I nearly choked on my Jack Daniels! I kept listening to him for a bit and he was explaining about the situation, but it became more involved and dull, so I stopped listening. Then about three minutes later was another one. This time I had been tuning in for a little bit, but the sentence is better heard without the buffer of sense, so... "...and I thought 'how am I going to get thirty drunk witches out of this room?'..." There was a pause, and then he continued "...but the tae kwon do lot were having a party down the hall, and it was all okay, because then there was a battle of Witches vs. Ninjas and they all left." It was marvellous.
Anyway, back to Adam. He was great and spent ages chatting to the audience, and there was a whole soap opera thing he concocted about some people who apparently were there together and didn't know who they all were. The front row (my row) was dubbed 'the myspace generation' as soon as he walked out, then when we protested he changed it to 'the facebook generation'. I wanted to say I was lj, and not to lump me in with the rest, but I was laughing too much.
There was material, not much of which I can remember, but was very funny, I kept creasing up with laughter, and he taught us some dodgy sign language. There were bad jokes, odd things, bits of news and much mocking of the audience. The girl next to me was coughing at one point and he used a phrase that I am now adopting, saying "Cough it up, if it's a brick we'll build a house." He then went off about his dad saying it, and talked about home for a bit. There were a lot more students at his gig than Tim's.
There was talk of Steve Irwin, and some of his stuff on terrorism that I'd seen before, but was still funny, but a lot of the humour came from interaction with us lot. The audience was tiny, and he kept saying how much he liked having such a tiny audience. Also the end of the show was him getting onto a table, deciding that it was too wobbly, climbing onto a chair and deciding that it too was too wobbly, as well as being too tall and too small to dance on and then just standing up on the stage and dancing to Footloose. Some of us (i.e. me and a few other headcases) joined in. In my defense, he did ask us to!
After the gig I asked the staff all over the place if he'd sign a poster for me, and after being told 'I don't think so' over and over I asked a nice young lad who went off to ask him and I waited, and I got the poster signed and said some stuff about Tim and Spicks and Specks and then packed up and hung about for as long as I could.
As I was leaving the gig I got chatting with Charlotte and Liz who were horrified to hear that I was staying in the train station overnight (if word of that gets back to my mother I'll start on a rampage so no chit chatting please) that they took me to a hotel and made me check in. Over the course of our chat Charlotte mentioned Tabi and Chris and so I knew that she was one of the Sunday Morning Crew, and I discovered her to be none other than make_a_move so that was fun! I got to watch Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe and eat pizza in a bed bigger than my one at home.
So I reckon the whole thing was a huge success.
plum.
P.S. This is the first of a few posts I'm putting up today, so sorry if I swamp your flists, but mine hs been unwieldy for some time now.
Oh, and you should know, I wrote this at the weekend.
Anywho, I owe you a review for Adam Hills!
I had amazing fun, Adam was ridiculously funny, and I was sitting in the front row with my feet up on the tiny little stage. Before we get to the gig, I want to mention the guy who was sitting behind me. You know when someone says something, and you've missed the whole of the rest of the conversation, and it's incredibly funny? This was one of those times. But also, the things he said were incredibly funny...
The first one was with no context at all I heard "...and he was wearing this full on gimp outfit..." It came entirely out of the blue, and I nearly choked on my Jack Daniels! I kept listening to him for a bit and he was explaining about the situation, but it became more involved and dull, so I stopped listening. Then about three minutes later was another one. This time I had been tuning in for a little bit, but the sentence is better heard without the buffer of sense, so... "...and I thought 'how am I going to get thirty drunk witches out of this room?'..." There was a pause, and then he continued "...but the tae kwon do lot were having a party down the hall, and it was all okay, because then there was a battle of Witches vs. Ninjas and they all left." It was marvellous.
Anyway, back to Adam. He was great and spent ages chatting to the audience, and there was a whole soap opera thing he concocted about some people who apparently were there together and didn't know who they all were. The front row (my row) was dubbed 'the myspace generation' as soon as he walked out, then when we protested he changed it to 'the facebook generation'. I wanted to say I was lj, and not to lump me in with the rest, but I was laughing too much.
There was material, not much of which I can remember, but was very funny, I kept creasing up with laughter, and he taught us some dodgy sign language. There were bad jokes, odd things, bits of news and much mocking of the audience. The girl next to me was coughing at one point and he used a phrase that I am now adopting, saying "Cough it up, if it's a brick we'll build a house." He then went off about his dad saying it, and talked about home for a bit. There were a lot more students at his gig than Tim's.
There was talk of Steve Irwin, and some of his stuff on terrorism that I'd seen before, but was still funny, but a lot of the humour came from interaction with us lot. The audience was tiny, and he kept saying how much he liked having such a tiny audience. Also the end of the show was him getting onto a table, deciding that it was too wobbly, climbing onto a chair and deciding that it too was too wobbly, as well as being too tall and too small to dance on and then just standing up on the stage and dancing to Footloose. Some of us (i.e. me and a few other headcases) joined in. In my defense, he did ask us to!
After the gig I asked the staff all over the place if he'd sign a poster for me, and after being told 'I don't think so' over and over I asked a nice young lad who went off to ask him and I waited, and I got the poster signed and said some stuff about Tim and Spicks and Specks and then packed up and hung about for as long as I could.
As I was leaving the gig I got chatting with Charlotte and Liz who were horrified to hear that I was staying in the train station overnight (if word of that gets back to my mother I'll start on a rampage so no chit chatting please) that they took me to a hotel and made me check in. Over the course of our chat Charlotte mentioned Tabi and Chris and so I knew that she was one of the Sunday Morning Crew, and I discovered her to be none other than make_a_move so that was fun! I got to watch Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe and eat pizza in a bed bigger than my one at home.
So I reckon the whole thing was a huge success.
plum.
P.S. This is the first of a few posts I'm putting up today, so sorry if I swamp your flists, but mine hs been unwieldy for some time now.
Oh, and you should know, I wrote this at the weekend.