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New Teacast and Explaining the Delay to Teacast
New Teacast is up! With the excellentMatt Kirshenover sencha. What you do when you can't make tea, watching doctors watch babies eat little bits of egg, and why terrorism isn't THAT bad.https://itunes.apple.com/…/podc…/tea-with-alice/id789603540…So you may have noticed a glitch in the output of the Teacas...
Appropriate
My favourite things at the moment are the cool secret ways we are building to draw attention to our hierarchies of cultural power so we can pretend we're rejecting them while secretly reinforcing them. Like in a bunch of corporate environments it's noticeably rarer for senior people to ask young women to stay...
Day 19 Edinblog: Final Week
Today I woke up and headed in to do savage at City Cafe. I felt a million times better about this show than the first one, which is a good thing. Then I met up with Suzi Ruffell for a cuppa, and then went and did boring laundry things while thinking about the hurdles to getting another visa in the UK. Then I met up w...
Day 17 and 18 Edinblog: Double Ups
Hallo punks!Okay, I know, this is the second double-up day. It's been incredibly hectic, but I will try to keep it daily from now on!Bad news from home remains steady, but not worse, and that's okay actually. I mean, obviously it's bad, but it's also a salutary reminder that there's life outside Edi...
Day 15 and 16 Edinblog: Home and Away
Wednesday I spent most of the morning in bed trying to kick a bit of overtiredness, then met my friend musicianHannah PCof The Raglins to talk about musical arrangements of comedy words, and then went to my show. Socialised a little bit afterwards and then went home to a delightful surprise present from home.I woke up ...
Day 14 Edinblog: Squintwards
My blog-days are getting a bit loose, in that I'm writing about yesterday now, rather than having come home and written it up in good time. So to clarify, I'm talking about Tuesday 16th August.This is because I ended up doing work for Australian daytime in the wee hours of the morning (Sydney Midday to 6pm, whi...
Day 13 Edinblog: Surprise Monday
Today I woke up feeling a bit the worse for wear - slightly sniffly from not enough sleep (that's a thing that happens to other people too, right?) and with my knee still bruised and sad.But, Edinburgh being the contrarian that it is, turned out an incredibly gloriously blue day, and it was impossible to be mopey.I...
Day 12 Edinblog: Injury.
Today I woke up way too early, given that I didn't get to bed til 4. I woke up to say bye to my excellent friend Victoria, who had come to Edinburgh for the weekend, and was going out on the early (11am is early, okay) train.Then I went and walked up Arthur's Seat, and ended up slipping on a piece of grass that...
Day 11 Edinblog: Sold Out
I woke up this morning and dashed over to Newtown to do a midday spot at the Nightcap, before sitting down to edit some video footage for a project. Then I went and met Tiff Stevenson, to see if any of my helping skills could help her with a nasty pinched nerve. Then I dashed around to some more short spots, bumpin...
Edinblog Day 10 - Doldrums
Today I woke up and did admin for gigs back in Australia, and edited some video. Edinburgh was putting on an excellent show of rain/sun/rain/wind, which sent the non-natives into shelter. I bumped into these fine specimens en route to my show. My head was definitely out of town, which meant that though my show was f...
Edinblog Day 9: Strings
Hallo Punks! Today was a day of lots of different directions. I woke up and went to have breakfast with an Agent, talking about the landscape of comedy here. Then I went to the City Cafe, and had a cup of tea with Jen Carnovale and Tim Renkow, whose parents were in town. It's always nice to talk to parents at the f...
Edinblog Day 8: Black Wednesday
Today I woke up and went over to The Free Sisters to do Jen Carnovale's lineup show.Then I went over the bridge to Newtown.I bought some tea and also shoes (for later). I bumped into Craig Quatermaine in the shoe shop and we had a lovely chat.Then I went down to The Caves to do the Around The World show, before hea...
Day 7 Edinblog
Today was a long day again. I woke up to help a friend through some Edinburgh heartbreak, and then dragged my sleepy brain along to Sameena Zehra's poetry show, Poetry Can F*ck off. They have their banner in the room, rather than out on the street advertising their show, because some adults complained that their ...
Day 6 Edinblog: The Mountain
Today I woke up and had brunch with my friend Yasmin who I used to play Theatresports with back in first year university when I had no idea that I'd end up down this path in life. Her partner Jeff was also there, and he was lovely despite Yas and me dominating the conversation with reminiscences and catchups.Then I...
Day 5 Edinblog: Olympian
Today being the first Sunday of the Fringe I decided I should take a rest day, insofar as I decided I would only do the show that I'm meant to be here doing.I woke up, had breakfast, went for a run and then hung around for a bit before doing my show. Not exactly a blog'sworth of activity, but I decided I should...
Day 4 Edinblog: Overdrive
Today. Was. BUSY.I woke up and then spent some time looking for my SD card which has my most recent podcasts on it, and I seem to have put it somewhere very clever and important.Then I went over the bridge across to Newtown (the beautiful picture above), and did the Poetry Can F*ck Off show at The Stand. Which is to sa...
Day 3 Edinblog: Consolidate
Today I woke up earlier than was entirely wise, and went to meet my friend Alana Zivanovic, who is a jazz singer I met when I did thatTEDx Talk. She contacted me after that particular weird gig and asked if I would talk her through some techniques for on-stage comedy banter as she was about to head off for a Lounge Sin...
Day 2 Edinblog: 4 Aug: Redemption
Oh man! The show! It's back!!!I woke up on the morning of day two... actually that's a lie. I didn't properly sleep after my opening night - being wracked with doubt and also having a few work bits to do in the wee hours of Australian time. So I opened my eyes from a patchwork of naps feeling a bit shaky an...
Day 1 Edinburgh Fringe: 3 August
Today was the first day of the rest of the fringe.I woke up and jittered around all day, torn between working on my show and flyering for my show, and wandering around saying hallo to people and retreating into a podcast bubble with my big headphones on.I walked into the cool home-made chocolate shop where the ladies c...
We're All Going To Die
I have a motto (or do I mean mantra?), which I use sometimes(all mottos should only be for sometimes – that’s my motto). I use it when I’manxious or panicky, because comedy is a fickle mister, and sometimes the ebband flow of opportunity and chance feels like I’ve thrown down years of myeffort on the table for ...
Toxic Politics and a Cocktail of Discourse.
One of the things I’ve noticed recently, with the increasingvitriol on both sides of politics and a surge in popularity of far rightideologies across Europe, the UK, Australia, the US, is how people have begundescribing the actions of ideologically driven killers as arising somehow from a‘toxic’ political landsca...
Survival Instincts
I have a friend who's 6.1 and he lives in a very different world from the world I live in.First, I'm never going to see the top shelf at the video shop.What a wonderland of opportunity taken untimely from me because of my lack of man-height and the fact that there are no video shops left. All those badly produc...
Landedededed
Hallo Punks! I'm landed in London! It's surreal. I'm missing the love and comfort of home, but I have the love and comfort of home, in my twin, whose house I'm crashing in, and in all of the London-friends I have bower-birded into my life over years of throwing my head around the world (the picture abo...
Fever Dreams
The last few days have been a strange floating bubble feeling. All of the joys and stresses of this job packed into 36 hours: a corporate gig entertaining a group of incredibly disparate people at the end of a three day conference (no swearing please, and nothing political, we split along party lines); and writing an ...
Cultural Cringe, Keeping Identities Small
Hi Punks!I am back from New-Zealand and chasing projects in all directions like a rabbit-octopus hybrid. Flying out to the UK next week, and trying to lock some solid things down. Anyway, as happens when you have too many things to do, my brain's been busy cross-pollinating. Here are a few ideas. Eddie Perfect was ...
New Zealand Time Travel
I feel very strange. I'm in NZ at the moment, running Savage like a hot knife through the New Zealand Comedy Festival. It feels like travelling back in time.I mean, New Zealand itself feels like a time or dimension warp, sort of back in time to Australia 15 years ago, but maybe more progressive politically... Every...
Osher Günsberg Sydney Dreaming
Hey PunksI am back in Sydney for a few days, doing my show at the Enmore Theatre. It feels like nothing special until I see the water and then every time I catch a glimpse of it, it feels like home.New podcast for this week is out, with Osher Günsberg. It was a really interesting chat, talking to someone who has so ma...
Process
I've been thinking about how people write shows. Of course I have. But mainly about how I write shows. I thought of a good way to explain it the other day (midway through explaining it. This is a good way to figure things out for me - because how do you know what you're thinking til you've said it). Any...
Interstitial time and a New Teacast ep
Time and space are funny and daunting abstractions. In some ways I ignore both on a regular basis. I don't need to check my emails til later. I don't feel the need to claim a part of the world as my own. Carrying my own little nest with me means I feel pretty relaxed when I travel for gigs or plant myself i...
