Milky Bars and kittens...

Spoke at last with Jamie today and we won’t be able to rehearse this week but we decide to go along to OOTB on Thursday and to play on at least two of each other’s three songs.

Jamie’s delighted that Andy can play on his date – of course songs will need to be learned...

Listening back to the proposed Soundscapes CD, I decide that cross-fading all the tracks into each other and creating one 50 minute piece is a step too far....

In the evening Anne and I go along to the Assembly Rooms, the largest of the fringe venues I think, to see Dara O’Briain’s stand up show.



It’s very funny indeed – an hour of non-stop chat from this likeable Irishman who has the audience in stitches within minutes of taking the stage. There were too many highlights to mention them all, but his pieces on kittens, having an English child, anti-gay jokes, the Milky Bar Kid and “You Are What You Eat” were stand outs for me.

After the show, a quick drink in the bar which is set up every year in what is really just a dead-end road which runs down the side of the building and then home, chuckling...