so i still ain t done nuffin about getting a new car/van/vehicle. this weekend i am hiring a cute little Fiat. i did llanelli Ffwrnes on friday, theatr felinfach yesterday, and tonight am in whitchurch, shropshire. I think it might have been karma, – when i rushed down to bognor regis a couple of weeks ago the sat nav took me on a crazy country route, i was speeding cos i was late, and ploughed through some pheasants, Pheasants unlike regular birds, seem to be a bit thick when it comes to cars. they don’t get out of the way and, unfortunately, i think i left one dead or dying behind me.

so later that day my car packed in.

In Llanelli i hired two pro cameramen to record my show, and got john, dinah’s husband, to do the sound. i got an audience of 60 plus. the first half i did old stuff whilst explaining to the crowd what i wanted to do, about the recording etc. the first half went great, but the second half – which was the one i was recording – went….okay. for some reason the atmosphere had a kind of tension present. and half way thru a heckler piped up – he was alright, but when another member of the audience told him to shut up he got very upset. i t all made it a little awkward. coupled with that i kept forgetting new jokes, and fluffing a few lines. but, having said that, i hope there will be a good show in there somewhere, maybe with the aid of clever editing. Certainly it should look nice if nothing else.

THis the way i think the recording went: have u seen Raiders of the Lost Ark? in it there’s a stunt involving a large lorry. the lorry’s is blown up and the stunt driver crashes it. It looks good, but you can tell it could have been more spectacular. I heard the stunt man wanted to take it again but Steven Spielburg, the film’s director, said no it looks fine. In the final cut you can see the lorry lean over on to one side, and it wheels around for a few seconds jut on one side, before collapsing. I guess this is more realistic in the end, and does imitate how a real life lorry would actually respond . But in Hollywood it could have looked better, bigger, with wilder moves and crashes. I think maybe my performance on video will resemble closely a real life gig.