And just like that it was the end of the first week. Friday had come and I think everyone in the house is in need of a break, one think I would say is I'm really glad I have Joe and Gary up here with me to help do the show, at no point when things have gone badly have we been on our own, which is good. I had thought Friday could be a quite day but after the surprised success off Thursday we thought it would be good to get out and flyer and hopefully build a big audience. In the morning Me and Oonagh got up and headed over to The Stand, it was my first time this year a the venue and it is easily the best venue at the fringe, it has all the best acts Daniel Kitson, Stewart Lee, Simon Munnery, Bridget Christie etc etc. Tony Law is just brilliantly silly from dance routines involving beach balls to shaggy dog stories about his dying dog, Oonagh described it as "The perfect hangover cure".
After that I took Oonagh on a Micro tour of the city showing her where all the main venues were and then we stopped by the tempting tattie for lunch (easily the best baked potato shop in Edinburgh) and then I met up with Gary and began to flyer we managed to round a rather good audience we had 19 from the start and another 5 walked in towards the end of Joe's set. The crowd were lovely and we filmed tonight's performance, watching the video back I wasn't happy with my performance I was speaking to fast, and wasn't leaving pauses where I normally would, this was largely due to having to compete with the Friday night open mic downstairs, I made a joke about it towards the end and I ended the set with the audience on side. After the show we grabbed some food at Mosque Kitchen which is easily one of my favourite places in Edinburgh.
This week has been hard work, it's also been fun and life changing, it also been really shit at times, I'm not getting enough sleep, and there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to do what I need to do. But ultimately I'm looking forward to the next week. I have a few days off now which is slightly annoying as Saturday crowds are easily the biggest but equally will give me chance to see some other shows.
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