Unprepared
Day 1/13 of the Edinburgh Fringe
At the end of June, many stars in the sky aligned and I realized that I’d be taking my stand up hour to the Edinburgh fringe festival. Yesterday was my first show for Economics ft. obscure references. I’ve not added the link to get you to buy tickets(plus you can pay what you want at the door anyway), I’ve added it because I’m still unsure all this is real. I look at that link to make sure it is.
Yesterday was Day 1. I write this blog every day in the morning before I go flyer my show. Flyering is a whole different ball game, we’re a small team of 3 and we need to be on our feet, hustling and getting people into our show right before it starts. Our show, I say our, because there is a lovely Director(Hi Will!) and Producer(The Lovely Lucia) who also double up as tech, publicity design, flyering help and all round morale boosters; begins at 11:30 so we flyer for the hour or two before to get people in.
11 people came to our show yesterday, that’s 11 more than I expected. I made a mom and her kid laugh, 3 people in the front row absolutely enjoyed it, and 3 went up and left midway. I’d like to say they were offended, but they might just have been bored.
Impostor effect: There are days, when I literally feel like an impostor because this wasn’t supposed to be my show, this was supposed to be “Stevenage is for Lovers” but when that show had to pull out last minute, I offered to be very spontaneous and fill in. And i say days, but this is only day 1, shit, is it going to be like this everyday now? I’ve only been doing open mics for about a year. And by about a year i mean 5 months. But this was an opportunity I couldn’t miss.
So here I am, at the Lucky flat. With very musical and all round wonderful people, trying very hard to get the wifi password, and trying to guess from context that getting “binned” is slang for getting “sloshed”. How did I become this old to miss slang for getting drunk? Maybe I should talk about it in today’s show. O Deep void that is the internet, will you come?
