Summary of April 2016 -

In April I focused heavily on the tour. I’ve now got 20+ dates in and I am looking at booking 3 theatres to just over stretch myself that little bit further. I also booked 31 gigs in May (which is now 33). This sounds awesome but it’s over 17 days which means I won’t be sleeping much. But enough about May, this is about April.

April I did the Bath comedy festival and had an awesome time [read my blog about it here OR watch my video about it here]. Also headlined a few places and had some clubs I did in the first quarter of the year come back to me to offer me progression / paid work, which felt pretty bloody awesome.

I had a few paid gigs cancel on me which is a bit annoying, but the amount I am earning from writing and gigs is going up which is promising. 

I was also quite proud I’ve been juggling my day job and gigging pretty well. The amount of organisation which this has taken has been immense (just for one example, I did three gigs in one night after a 9 hour day of work for the first and possibly last time). It is only by sitting down and going through my Today Lists to write this blog I realised how much I’ve been doing (I always feel like I’ve never done enough).

Gig breakdown -

Date	Gig Name	Position	Other info	Daily Blog
1st
2nd	Crack Comedy	Open – Progression	Unpaid
3rd	Angel Comedy	Open – Progression	Unpaid
4th	EP 47 – Ally Wilson – Head of Live at CKP Productions
5th
6th
7th	Backyard Comedy	Open – Progression	Unpaid
8th
9th	Best of the Bath Fringe	Middle	Unpaid
10th	Buddhism & Cats	Solo show	Paid
11th
12th	Ealing Studios	Middle	Unpaid
12th	GnB	Headline first half	Unpaid
12th	Phoenix Artist Club	Preview	Unpaid
13th
14th
15th	Piccadilly Comedy Club	Open – Progression	Unpaid
16th	Piccadilly Comedy Club	Open – Progression	Unpaid
16th	EP48 – David Mulholland – Big Cheese at the Soho Comedy Club
17th
18th	CTRL + Alt + Comedy	Headline	Unpaid
19th
20th	Colchester Preview	Open	Unpaid
21st	Goodenough College	Open	Unpaid (dinner inc)
22nd
23rd
24th	EP49 – The European Comedy Festival Network – Live Q&A
25th
26th
26th
27th	Buddhism & Cats	Solo Show (Kent)	Paid
28th	Eastbourne Uni	Middle Spot	Paid
29th
30th

Future prep -

How many future gigs did you book?	50
How many future podcast guests did you book?	2

Podcasts made / released -

EP 47	Ally Wilson – Head of Live at CKP Productions
EP 48	David Mulholland – Big Cheese at the Soho Comedy Club
EP 49	The European Comedy Festival Network – Live Q&A

Other Projects / Things -

• Send my book off to Amazon for formatting.
• Started booking guests for my new podcast.
• Applied for the Nottingham and Liverpool Fringe Festivals.
• Started work on the “conference” for the podcast (looks like I’ll do it in October).
• Booked my Edinburgh accommodation.
• Gained 12 new emails for the newsletter [join here if you fancy it].
• Purchased business cards to give away at gigs to people who like my jokes [you can see them here].
• Got spotted out and about by a twitter follower which was really flipping lovely. 

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