Show 2
Audience – 5
Bucket – £5.50
Walkouts – 0
Fanzines sold – 1
I wake up to find out that riots have broken out in Tottenham. Typical, I’ve been waiting for riots for ages and then they begin while I’m away in Edinburgh. Will they spread to Hackers we'll have to wait and see.
After the heady double digit audience of the first show audience numbers droop for the second show (word must have got out). With two of our audience members being my former colleague Galvo and her friend Ed and a family from Darlington. The gig goes fine but because we’ve got Galvo’s jovial Californian face in the audience it still seems like we’ve got a bit of a crutch and I wonder how well things will go when we don’t have friends in the audience. I’m slightly worried by how the Darlingtons will take the Lumpman Joe ending but the smile at us as they leave and put some money in the bucket. Afterwards we have a buoyant post-gig pint in the Buffs club. Then a slightly dejected Al Cowie comes over and tells me he’s a bit short on numbers for the next gig. Bouyed by a sense of my own self-importance as an am dram impresario I order the rest of my merry band of players into Cowie’s gig.
There are four acts including Cowie as compare. The first act is the guy from Hormones and Homos. He opens his act with the line ‘I know what you’re thinking’ and then reverses our homophobic prejudices before our very eyes. I try and think of a way to do a Cheshire-based variation of this line but come up with nothing. The next act is called Molly Witness and does something about divergent evolution creating lesbian giants. Throughout Al Cowie comparing is excellent, putting the audience at ease and drawing out a charming anecdote from Weaver about masturbating in front of his mother.
The final act is Jay Foreman, he does a great song about how people behave differently when they’re in social situations and they’re alone. We collate our funds and collectively buy two of his CDs.
Afterwards, we resume drinking in the Buff’s club this time with our new friend Grieg from Al Cowie’s audience. He leaves us the following message – ‘hello Fran + Antonia names Grieg. Really enjoyed your show. Add me on FB! Love, peace + unicorns!’ Grieg has a kind of stoner lilt to him that I hear a lot in Edinburgh. He also didn’t even watch or show nor leave a last name to find him on facebook.
In the evening we go see Nick Gibb’s Crumpled Antipodean Dandy show.
Humour – 2.5
Skill – 1.88
Scotchness 1.88
Audience – 2.25
Sexy – 2.5
While waiting for Gibb’s gig to start a guy in front of us disconcertingly solves Rubbix cube after Rubbix cube. Hardman speculates that he’s some kind of speed solver – whatever that is? After a particular Nick Gibb joke about social media the speed solver does the ‘brap, brap, brap’ hand signal to indicate his pleasure. I have never seen this before at a comedy gig and feel that I am becoming increasingly isolated from the UK’s brapping speed-solving rioting youth.
Gib is okay quite laid back. He does the 'balls in the mouth' voice again, which seems to be something that is attracting comedians attentions at the moments. He also talks about the perils of the self-service scanning machines, which is another running theme with comics at this year’s fringe.
Humour 2.50
Skill 1.88
Scotch 0.63
Audience 2.25
Sexy 2.50
Overall 1.95
Afterwards we go to the Cannon’s Gait for midnight comedy but it’s not happening on a Sunday so instead we go to Jenny Ha’s on Hardman’s recommendations. Jenny Ha’s is amazing. Despite most other places being either closed or packed full of people Jenny Ha’s has plentiful tables and order pizzas for 2.50. We play tension tower (the unsanctioned version of Jenga) and play until 2.30. After the Buffs club I predict this will become our second favourite pub in Edinburgh.
Decor 4.06
Atmosphere 3.75
Booze 4.05
Clientele 4.00
Bar staff 4.00
Overall 3.97
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