5.15pm 'Truckstop', The Zoo Southside, £5.
Rain. All. Day. Miserable. It's supposed to be high summer! My arse. Spend the whole day relaxing with Noni, we are all bundled up in jackets, scarves, hats and hoods. Coffee and tea breaks are long and plentiful, think we had morning tea and afternoon tea! We buy tickets to see a piece of theatre called Truckstop which was originally written in Dutch and has been translated, yet the characters are Dutch but speak English and the music is Dutch. Crazy, amateur theatre. The acter's performances are okay, a little stock standard raise my voice here, double take there, cough, fake cry. The play deals with disability, loneliness, relationships, trust and death. By the end of the play, all 3 characters are dead. Not exactly uplifting, life affirming theatre. The funniest thing was seeing the muck out afterward, I think they were running a bit late which meant they had less time to pack up and they needed to vacate the space so the next lot of performers could set up. They couldn't even wait for the audience to finish clapping before starting to pack up the set with a worried look on their faces, made funnier by one costumed in a fluffy dressing gown and flannelette pyjamas.
23.15 Stephen K. Amos - Weekend Chat Show, Gilded Balloon £5
Go home to dry off and relax before heading back out into the wet night. We have to lineup for this in the rain and the show is running late. This is Amos' blatent attempt at trying to pitch himself as an ace television variety show host and, as much as I love him, he fails. It was plain as day to see he had absolutely no interest in the guests that were on which got painful at the end. He should stick with stand up, that's for sure. Tripod were the house band, solid as always. Guests that I can remember were Faith Brown, kind of like an english Joan Rivers, but with a Dolly Partonesque figure. Her Fringe show is 'Boys in the Buff' and they performed a song from it which did indeed have boys in the buff. It was hilarious seeing Amos trying not to look interested in the bums on stage right in front of him. Next was a reviewer from one of the loal rags. She swore too much and was very brash but did have some good stories. She absolutely panned Christina Davies' stand up show (remember Christina Ballerina from Big Brother 1?) which made briony and I absolutely crack up.
23.15 Stephen K. Amos - Weekend Chat Show, Gilded Balloon £5
Go home to dry off and relax before heading back out into the wet night. We have to lineup for this in the rain and the show is running late. This is Amos' blatent attempt at trying to pitch himself as an ace television variety show host and, as much as I love him, he fails. It was plain as day to see he had absolutely no interest in the guests that were on which got painful at the end. He should stick with stand up, that's for sure. Tripod were the house band, solid as always. Guests that I can remember were Faith Brown, kind of like an english Joan Rivers, but with a Dolly Partonesque figure. Her Fringe show is 'Boys in the Buff' and they performed a song from it which did indeed have boys in the buff. It was hilarious seeing Amos trying not to look interested in the bums on stage right in front of him. Next was a reviewer from one of the loal rags. She swore too much and was very brash but did have some good stories. She absolutely panned Christina Davies' stand up show (remember Christina Ballerina from Big Brother 1?) which made briony and I absolutely crack up.
