The first show after the new year, and it was intimate, but a lot of fun. Sadly due to Pete being away, there are no photo's, but we will sort something out.
Callum opened the show and introduced Dickie Gardner. Dickie has done a number of gigs around student unions, but this was his first one in a 'club' of sorts. You could see his stage presence was good, and it was a nice way to start the show.
After him, 80's Luke - up from Manchester with his dad - treated us to a battery of one liners, backed up with a delightful little vignette of Charles and Camilla, at it like knives. "one's arrived!". Cracking.
The second part had Al Dawes showing off his new (smaller) waistline, and bitching about how he has lost half of his set along with the 4 stone. Tought luck lad. Paul Gerrard once again with more new material took the stage. Though he took a few minutes to warm up, he again had the crowd creased with laughter. Question his confidence if you will, but Paul's writing is excellent.
Callum and Al then gave us the 'Quorn to be Wild' sketch. Written by Pete. It was either going to be a win for Pete, as it fell on it's arse and he didn't have to take the fall, or a win for Callum and Al, as it stormed, and they got to take the credit. Bad luck Pete, it was funny as hell, and the crowd loved it. More sketch work in the future we think.
In the final section, Callum returned with the competition - Novel weight loss techniques, the winner was 'Eat the scales'. Not entirely sure why that got the biggest laugh, but you can't argue with results.
John Whale performed his first ever gig, and as has started to happen of late, the New boys outshone the more experienced guys on the night. A great set of material covering adverts and proverbs, in a style very reminiscent of Dylan Moran.
Finally, another of the Helles Belles troupe - Viv - gave us some poetry and commentary on the dangers of underwear shopping.
A really fun night, and yet again, opportunity for acts to get up on stage, and try what they dare not try elsewhere.
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