I forgot to mention that when I was watching Ahir Shah's "Astrology", I sat down next to and got chatting with this guy. Just thought I would throw that in because he sat in the show quite unashamedly wearing this outfit. He is a performer (not just crazy) in an Improv musical comedy show called "Truly, Medley, Deeply" which I will make sure I see.
After a brief visit back home to pick up the tickets I had left there some 10 hours earlier (I will take all tickets with me for the day from now on, because it is very easy to find things to do to occupy your time which makes it really very easy to not go home at all), I headed back to the Gilded Balloon which was right next to where I had seen the two shows from earlier today to see my first Aussie comic of the show. Damien Clark is an Aussie who has been living in Dublin for the past six years, so you may not know the name. His show "Stand UP" is energetic to say the least, basing it around the day he had a fight with his long-term girlfriend and went to see the movie "UP". This is the most energetic stand-up show I have ever seen. He seems everywhere at once on-stage, with dancing and crash-test-dummy action thrown in, covers a lot of ground with his sharp observations and is very, very funny. At the end of the show, he took this polaroid of himself with the crowd.
After this show was about a half hour wait til the next scheduled show with a short walk (its all very walkable and if you have a wait, there is a bar or pub at every venue. Woo!) On my way there I bumped into Abigoliah Shaumann who I saw perform in Melb, had a quick chat, she told me some more shows to see and I left her to get to her next gig. By this stage it was getting late with the next show starting at 11.40pm meaning that I had been walking around the city for the best part of 12 hours. So yes I was tired and would have quite like to go home to bed but I had paid for this ticket damnit, and I was not going to waste 5 quid. Plus the show was called 88MPH and if it even referred to Back to the Future in the slightest way, I had to see it. This is a sketch show, featuring a group of 5 young performers whose sketches reference from all the stories we have all grown up with - there is a meeting of some Narnia types with Dr Who, an "alternative" Superman origin (if he had landed in Wales, which was probably the best sketch) a tryst between some struggling Disney characters and some Dr. Frankenstein/Igor action and even a couple of songs thrown in - the best of which was about a suicidal Robin Hood, ashamed of his lack of manhood. The cast is obviously quite talented, particularly with accents and dialects but unfortunately the material is not that strong. Most of the sketches go past the point where you "get" the gag without adding anything more to it. With the finale a pretty weak song from the whole ensemble, it ended feeling like a Christian Youth Group talent night. And with all the pop culture references, the only time it referred to BTTF was in the title, so I could have skipped it after all.
Daily Show Count : 4
Total Shows Seen: 5
Tomorrow - Funny Women, Caroline Mabey and Dan Clark.
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