21ST MARCH.

Here's a few photo's of some of this week's performers. We'd hoped to get some on stage shots, but the camera battery was too low to use the flash so we had to pose them under lights afterwards. Not very flattering in most cases, though Christian looks cool.
They are; Christian Steele; Lee Teah; Sarah Millican; Tom Mitchell.



Another good show, a slightly smaller crowd than opening night but a great atmosphere. The format changed a little, the 3 regulars compered one section of the show each, trying new material in the links. As for rest of the lineup, it was a pretty stellar one:

Callum warmed up his section with musings based on the weirder stories from 'Metro' free newspaper. Then our first act was Tom Mitchell, who's sometimes seen as part of the 'Belly Rub' sketch group, so he has plenty of experience. He went on to a cool crowd and warmed them up nicely.

Sarah Millican (Our only genuine pofessional) was originally going to headline, but, poor thing was knackered and needed her bed so she went on early. She treated us to some great material and saved some new stuff for last. As usual Sarah asked permission to try the new material and apologised in advance in case it was rubbish. By this time she had the crowd well and truly on her side, the new stuff turned out to be great too, and it was feeling like an event.

Pete brought along his guitar and in his section filled the gaps with reworkings of TV themes and other musical treats. Lee Teah was on next and, despite being still quite new to comedy, already has some great lines in his set.

Catherine Scott (No picture as she slipped away before we snapped her, sorry) came on next, and her style is very relaxed and friendly, which went well with the crowd who were happy to settle in at this stage. She even prompted a friend of Al's in the crowd to say "I thought girls were rubbish at stand-up, but they aren't." Al informs us that from this particular friend this is high praise indeed.

Al MC'd the third section trying out new ideas following his full set last time. His first guest was our very own Callum who relaxed into some great material. Cats Vs Dogs especially found favour with the crowd.

Christian Steele finished the night off for us in style. God bless him he was brilliant. A few bits that I had never seen before, to go with his new hair I suppose. And all his old stuff has been finely tuned - there's not much fat left on the act now, and though he'd stepped into the spot at the last minute he proved a confident headliner.

One funny moment (for us) showed that great minds think alike when Christian did a Particularly good James 'rhyming slang' Blunt song. Bizarrely the song had been similarly parodied last week by Les Paul Marshall - Both swapping 'beautiful' and 'face' for 'hideous' and 'disgrace'. Of course, both had their own style and twist, but even spookier, they both played it on a ukulele! What are the chances of that happening?

Another great night!