An exceptional first weekend of Four Play at the Magners’ Glasgow International Comedy Festival…… if I say so myself.
I compered all three nights – I will be compering all of the nights now – and it was really interesting to see the different responses and crowd dynamics on each night.
- Thursday was a lovely intimate gig – 27 people in and a great response to all of the acts.
- Friday was bigger – 36 people – and we had a party of ten who had booked for a 50th birthday; they had booked online that day; they were good fun but hard work ( for me ).
- Saturday – I don’t know how to describe Saturday. If you’ve ever been to Bacchus downstairs you’ll know that 74 people is an overwhelming amount of people for the space.
Really looking forward to going again – can’t wait for Thursday. I did an open spot at Absolute Beginners in Edinburgh last night and I really just went for it; the room was quiet and very cosmopolitan – very Edinburgh – but they were responsive if given a push.
Saw Chris Forbes for the second time in the space of three days and he was excellent again – a really good act. Mr Scoular was also in fine form, confidently working a dead room ( at the start of the evening ).
Before I go, I would like to take this opportunity to thank our Four Play guests this week:
- Stephen Clarkin
- Stuart Mitchell
- Jay Lafferty
- Davey See
- Andy Learmonth
- Rhona McKenzie
The guests have really helped the night along – they’ve all performed brilliantly for us – and I look forward to working with them again. For those anoraks amongst you, Andy Learmonth was booked to do the gig after us in the same room so he didn’t do Four Play but he did turn up and he would have augmented the line-up beautifully had he had the opportunity.
A final word of thanks to the awesome Paul Pirie – Dundonian Master of Mirth – who introduced me to the stage on Saturday night. Paul’s solo show at the MGICF is on Friday 27th March at the Buff Club. Paul’s an outstanding performer, a very funny man, and you should go and see him – if you’ve seen Four Play already, of course!
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