Never Again...No, Hang On

The first You Owe Me Glue show of 2007 was Saturday night and it was largely a waste of a time. I don’t think we’ve ever went down worse.

Playing to a reasonably full room in Blackfriars the audience had been whipped up into a jovial frenzy and would rather have been shouting ‘Ugly basturt’ at the compere than keeping quiet while we performed.

Having to all sit out on the stage during the set didn’t really help matters. It was obvious during the first sketch that it would be difficult to win the room over. They did pick up for Bertie in sketch 3 and our only new sketch met with a favourable response, but all in all we were met by bemused looks and faint titters.

After we came off Fraser had to listen to an argument between two guys in the front row. One of who thought we ‘could be as funny as Chewin’ the Fat’ while the other declared we were ‘fundamentally not funny’.

Whereas I, on the other hand, had to shout down the headline act, who thought he would begin his set by going on about how weird we were. He failed to hear me, what with being so out his nut on pills that his head was undoubtedly full of Muppets fighting.

Really we would have been as well doing fire-eating or walking across hot coals. It’s a good job we don’t have more of these gigs coming up…aw naw hold on, we have several.

While I’m here I should just mention that tickets for the Comedy Festival shows are now on sale. You can get two for the price of one here.