Well, it started that way, but thanks to broken trains and a well connected headliner, this became Three Men and a Little Lady.
Another warm full room, albeit with a gobby bunch of students at the front. You wonder if they had ever been let out before.
The 'half' man of the show was Chris Martin, but he got stuck in the pennines and didn't get there until late, so the night was augmented by Stephan Peddie's mate...
Susan Calman was introduced by Al Dawes, and ripped into an unsuspecting crowd with some fine chat, aggressive but still friendly and quickly finding out who the troublemakers were. An incredibly confident performer who bought such presence to the stage that the night almost peaked too early. As a last minute addition, the crowd got excellent value for money.
Susan had to run around the corner to another night she was doing, and Chris was still on a train, so to try and calm the crowd, Al Dawes went back on stage, and reprised some of his show from the previous night. This was augmented by his insistance on throwing himself to the floor. He hobbled off the stage to welcoming cheers for...
A very out of breath Chris Martin charged onto stage, full of anger against the trans-pennine express. Chris is a story teller, calling fancy from all manner of directions and not light on the gags. Fresh from an Edinburgh run, his style and delivery were top class.
Finally, after some more falling over from Al Dawes, on came the big man of north east comedy...
Stephan Peddie eventually made it to the stage through the crowd. Fun and frolics with a dark edge from Steph caused the whole range of responses. The dangerous world of killingworth was opened up for all to see. It was like funny fireworks, with as many oohs and aahs as ha-ha-haa's.
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