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 | ||||
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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.
