I have just spent the past two days uploading photos - Holy Mooks!!  Never thought I'd hear myself saying that but yes, that what I've been doing and I am now bored shitless!!

I'm so un technical and have absolutely no desire to be technical in the slightest but I guess I must keep up with everyone else.  So, I took some photos of the show - Well, us setting up at the beginning anyway and I wanted to show them all to you.  I managed to UPLOAD them onto our myspaker site and put them into a slideshow...Very proud of that and I wanted to put them onto here for you all but I can't and it's too technical and I am losing patience with it all...SOOO....I have set up a Flicker account!!  Eh!!  Listen to me.  It's on the right handside of this page and so you can view all our pictures from last weeks show.  I shall be adding to them as the shows go on so check them out from time to time.

Anyway, We had a first show of the year lastTuesday and well...it wasn't one of our best.  I don't know what was wrong with me but I had a case of the January blues and felt very down and depressed about everything and just wasn't looking forward to the show which is unlike me.  Also, Reedy wasn't feeling  amazing and we hadn't rehearsed as much as we normally do because Christmas and New Year got in the way.  We got a great audience in though and the show seemed to go down well but something was bugging me and I've only just managed to work it our now.

GALS!!!

I have got such a stupid bee in my bonnett about girls in comedy and am forever searching for ones that make me laugh and inspire me.  That's part of the reason why I set up this night to get all the gals I like on stage and to showcase their work.  January's show had no girls except me.  Now, i'm not saying the boys were bad - They were great, as I would have expected - but, as my bestie pointed out, it is a largely female audience that attend the show and I am not catering to their needs.  I always said I would set up a night that I want to go to and always refer back to my little Josie Long quote:

'Set up your own clubs if you don't find ones that are doing anything different or exciting to you'

So, I'm back on the hunt for ladies who make me laugh and am getting really excited as there is a run of them coming up at the Hen and Chickens theatre and I can't wait to see them.  Also, in our next show, which is a valentine special, I think I'm going to do a solo piece.  At the moment I am writing such a load of unfunny shit but I guess I simply have to get on with it and try out my new stuff.  In the words of my friend Daniel:

'Those performers who really want to do it will stick it out and realise that you have to develop original ideas and practice them relentlessly to make them work, (even then it sometimes doesn’t work). Comedy is a tough business and it’s a never ending process, you’re constantly learning how to be funny, how to use ideas, how to present characters, and at some point you might just realise that you can’t do it. The audience will soon let you know if you’re funny or not, and unless you are completely nuts, you’ll find out if you can do it or not fairly quickly.'

I am scared and tired and feel very alone and am doubting that I can do it at the moment but I am still plugging away at it...watch this space.

Love
matt's little sister xxx