How do.

Saturday morning came and went. Saturday afternoon arrived. I then woke up. Then I started to write this blog, and what you are reading now are my thoughts. What a treat. This bit now is the bit I’ve added on Sunday morning as I didn’t end up writing the whole blog on Saturday due to getting sidetracked. It’s alright though… I’ll continue where I left off.

So one of the things about Edinburgh which appears every year is the rollercoaster cliche, the highs and the lows, the shifts in feeling from ecstatic to awful. On Thursday night I had a rough show, it started very late, the audience were very hot, quiet and it was just hard work and not fun. I felt rubbish, I felt like I need to make lots of changes, I felt like it was all going wrong. Then I sold out on Friday night and had the most fun I’ve had in a long time. A really lovely, warm, friendly, laugh out loud crowd made it a real pleasure to perform. Everything (on the whole) worked and everyone left impressed… or at least I think they did. Same goes for Saturday night which sold out in the early morning. It’s very heartening to see that 4 years of shows are making an impact and people seem to want to come see me now. I’m always deeply flattered, and mean it at the end of shows when I give out badges and say thank you. I’m just full of thanks.

My friends the Bacons have been in town so I’ve been hanging out with them. It resulted in a 5am finish on Saturday/Sunday morning so I’m taking today (Sunday) easy until I go perform in The Hotel later. Richard Bacon very kindly said nice things about my show on 6Music. I took him and his wife to see Colin Haults brilliant show at the Hut.. Richard talked about that on 6music. Within the hour the quote was up on Colin’s posters. AMAZING!

Also Richard bumped into another ex Blue Peter presenter who goes by the name Peter Duncan. He’s doing a show up here, and we couldn’t resist the photo of two former disgraced Blue Peter presenters… all we needed was John Leslie for the hat-trick. As you’ll see this is a post modern shot for twitter of Richard being photoed for his twitter page.

So as I now look at the window and see the sun has hidden away and Edinburgh is back to rain, I will get up from this bed, have some tea and toast and do something with my day. Hope to see you at a show soon.

Chris x

Hiya,

How goes it? I’m fine thanks for asking. Found a lovely little coffee shop round the corner from my flat. They do a rockingly good flat white. I will be going there a lot.

So yesterday was the first show with a pretty busy, if a little quiet crowd. I think it went okay. It certainly wasn’t amazing, but it wasn’t awful. If I had to sum it up, which I will, I’d have said it was fine. Everything worked, and I’m finding my feet in the venue, so it just needs to bed in a bit more. I’ve got a fancy headset mic this year, which makes me think I should be singing Womanizer. I did however forget I had it on yesterday so broke my throat by talking really loudly. Ooops.

My flatmates Ashley and Ross are currently talking about the make up they wear or used to wear. Ashley dyed his hair red yesterday, which this morning when I had a shower made me think someone might have been stabbed. It was his dye though. He’s now just gone to make it blonde. I’ve taken a before photo, I shall soon take an after photo and stick it on here for your viewing pleasure. Annoyingly I missed his show last night due to poor time keeping on my part, but he went to see Ross and Nathans shows and says great things about them. I’m hoping to see them all very soon.

Annoyingly the bloody Pleasance has got all their signs wrong, putting my show on an hour later. This is currently being fixed, but does mean there are no King Dome signs up. Ooops on their behalf.

I’d love to continue writing but alas I have to go get ready for The Hotel which is a Mark Watson show I’m taking part in. It’s very weird, but very cool. Anyway enough about me. How have you been?

Chris x