Rocking Your World in Quite a Gentle Way

Last night Jo and I went to see David O’Doherty at The Stand. O’Doherty is a consistently brilliant, funny and inventive comic who should have a much larger profile than he currently has.

The room was about three quarters full, but there should be no reason why he isn’t selling out venues of this size.

In his traditional checked shirt, Post Office tie, jeans and trainers he kicked off the show with a newly written musical introduction. After declaring it shambolic he got on with playing some tried and tested stuff.

He mixes storytelling with quirky songs, telling tales of squatting on his neighbours’ wireless internet, his friend’s misfortune at being called Paul Daniels and his love of dinosaur facts.

This was the third time we’ve seen him and I think my favourite is still his song of people struggling to cope with technology ‘Sent a Text to the Person the Text was About’.

“I’ve never felt so alive and yet so dead at the same time.”

Here he is playing ‘FAQ of the DOD’.