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May. 17th, 2022 12:51 pmokay, so... since i last posted about james starting gigging again and my immensely fretful efforts to find out about gigs before they sold out... i have in fact managed to nab tickets for FOUR of his upcoming shows. within as many weeks. starting this thursday. XD
(for the record: two of them i found by twitter namesearching; one of them i DID actually get in on time for by virtue of signing up to comedy venue newsletters and getting alerts forwarded to my featurephone; one of them i'd just completed booking after twitter namesearching by the time i got a newsletter alert about it :P)
i should... maybe stop automatically booking in for every gig i hear about him doing that i'm free for now? at least for a bit? XD he is very definitely Back, Babay <3
(i mean, i regret nothing: who knows if i'll even make it to all of them, there's still a goddamn pandemic on; plus, it's a fun mix of venues! one small theatre with allocated seating (FRONT ROW AGAIN, BABAY) and across-the-board Relaxed Performances; one rooftop bar(!) (at least that one will be a little covid-safer); and one of his old haunt comedy clubs that has its own lovely atmosphere/regulars that we attended several livestreams of throughout lockdown times and are genuinely excited to patronise in 3D...)
we watched back one of said early-pando livestreams last night, one from almost exactly two years ago, and it's one where he's going hard on "lockdown is great! i realised all of my stress comes from doing stand-up, and now i can't do it any more! can't wait to come out of lockdown and never do it again!" - and maybe that was the first time we heard him voice sentiments like that, and maybe we thought it was a joke but he certainly doubled down on it in pretty much every livestream/podcast he turned up in after that - and - now here we are, and here he is :D
(i'm not sure how much of the advertised "hecklers welcome" theme will come through in the actual shows, but i STRONGLY suspect that he's trying to do himself some kind of an exposure therapy or something, trying to pre-empt the part he finds stressful - i.e. audiences being dicks - by inviting it, you know, trying to take control of not feeling in control by explicitly "giving up control"... and i am fascinated to see how it plays out... and i also strongly suspect that now that he's invited it, all the audiences will be too polite to do it XD nevertheless i am 100% happy to contribute to his attempts to get himself free - or rather, paid - therapy :P)
(he's also talked on the "oh captain my captain" podcast about not minding audience interruptions when he's doing work-in-progress shows because they're looser, or they're useful feedback, or whatever - it's when he's crafted a tour show to exactly how he wants it and it gets derailed that burns his biscuits - so possibly the whole thing is a red herring for the time being, to be fair)
i've never been to a work-in-progress show before! thursday will be only his... if i've spotted them all/counted right... fifth full WIP hour since his "comeback" began! i get to see how a WIP evolves - if at all - over the course of weeks! my overzealous overanxious efforts eventually paid off! this is going to be a hell of a summer :D
(for the record: two of them i found by twitter namesearching; one of them i DID actually get in on time for by virtue of signing up to comedy venue newsletters and getting alerts forwarded to my featurephone; one of them i'd just completed booking after twitter namesearching by the time i got a newsletter alert about it :P)
i should... maybe stop automatically booking in for every gig i hear about him doing that i'm free for now? at least for a bit? XD he is very definitely Back, Babay <3
(i mean, i regret nothing: who knows if i'll even make it to all of them, there's still a goddamn pandemic on; plus, it's a fun mix of venues! one small theatre with allocated seating (FRONT ROW AGAIN, BABAY) and across-the-board Relaxed Performances; one rooftop bar(!) (at least that one will be a little covid-safer); and one of his old haunt comedy clubs that has its own lovely atmosphere/regulars that we attended several livestreams of throughout lockdown times and are genuinely excited to patronise in 3D...)
we watched back one of said early-pando livestreams last night, one from almost exactly two years ago, and it's one where he's going hard on "lockdown is great! i realised all of my stress comes from doing stand-up, and now i can't do it any more! can't wait to come out of lockdown and never do it again!" - and maybe that was the first time we heard him voice sentiments like that, and maybe we thought it was a joke but he certainly doubled down on it in pretty much every livestream/podcast he turned up in after that - and - now here we are, and here he is :D
(i'm not sure how much of the advertised "hecklers welcome" theme will come through in the actual shows, but i STRONGLY suspect that he's trying to do himself some kind of an exposure therapy or something, trying to pre-empt the part he finds stressful - i.e. audiences being dicks - by inviting it, you know, trying to take control of not feeling in control by explicitly "giving up control"... and i am fascinated to see how it plays out... and i also strongly suspect that now that he's invited it, all the audiences will be too polite to do it XD nevertheless i am 100% happy to contribute to his attempts to get himself free - or rather, paid - therapy :P)
(he's also talked on the "oh captain my captain" podcast about not minding audience interruptions when he's doing work-in-progress shows because they're looser, or they're useful feedback, or whatever - it's when he's crafted a tour show to exactly how he wants it and it gets derailed that burns his biscuits - so possibly the whole thing is a red herring for the time being, to be fair)
i've never been to a work-in-progress show before! thursday will be only his... if i've spotted them all/counted right... fifth full WIP hour since his "comeback" began! i get to see how a WIP evolves - if at all - over the course of weeks! my overzealous overanxious efforts eventually paid off! this is going to be a hell of a summer :D
