Hate
Just to clarify, no, the tickets for my very sketchy Fringe show (and other people’s more fully-formed shows, for that matter) are not yet on sale. Except a few shows at The Stand. I think they’ll go on sale about June 10th, if the last eleven years are anything to go by. Is it fine that I’ve attended eleven Edinburghs in a row? Not really, but very hard to change the past.
When they DO go on sale, it probably is worth buying in advance, because I’ve only got a small room (on purpose, in keepnig with the less-than-polished material I’m planning to foist upon the public) so it could well actually sell out. And you know I wouldn’t say that unless it was true. If anything I’m more likely to get in trouble with my agents by publicly predicting that things WON’T sell. So, yes. Get them quickly-ish. Thank you to everyone who indicated that they’d be up there. I will be contacting people for voluntary involvement in the near future.
Eurovision-wise, I’ve decided to pen some lyrics and get a tune together by blog committee, and then we’ll record a demo some time in the autumn and start gathering support for our entry. Then it will be a matter of recruiting an act good enough to win, but not so credible that they wouldn’t dream of doing Eurovision. I’m thinking Olly Murs from X Factor. OK. This should all be fine.
Today I filmed an Australian show called Between The Lines which is a sports quiz. It’s a new series. I didn’t have the heart to tell them that a sports quiz with me in it is likely to be ditched pretty quickly. They might have said ‘all right then, what if we made it a low-key nerdy quiz drawing on questions texted by members of the general public?’ and we would’ve had to have a further awkward conversation.
Following the Tumblr business last week, here’s one of my occasional reminders of other ways you can catch up with me on the Internet. I do a fortnightly column for the New Statesman. There is now a large archive of them at this address.
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/mark-watson
Any time the blog gets a bit dull, you can have a look at that for a digest of my more magazine-worthy thoughts. If you look at the commenters you’ll see a couple of people who REALLY hate me, and are presumably still mourning the discontinuation of my Yahoo blog where I used to attract the sort of bile you might normally reserve for someone who buried people under his patio. Luckily, they also hate various other comedians, and (on a level they’re perhaps not aware of) also themselves, for not having progressed their lives beyond the miserable stage where you have to go online and write something abusive abuout someone you’ve never met, because that really is as good as your week is going to get.
Have a nice day!
Posted by Rachael on May 19, 2011
I reckon we could get Olly to do it.
Posted by ChrisP on May 17, 2011
I got round to reading the New Statesman article just now, liked it, interesting and all that, but it’s almost worth having a look at just for ‘Spuds’ comments in the box underneath. OK, granted he’s not very nice about our good friend Mark here but that kind of drivel almost deserves a nonsense page of its own! Made me laugh though. I don’t think that guy hates you my any means, they’re just jealous of the limelight.
Posted by Knox on May 16, 2011
as you can see, i’m doing a bit of a rubbish job of *not* reading current blogs, but am still catching up on old ones. i can feel my ‘enter’ clicking finger getting ready to act against my better judgement when your tickets go on sale… i can always give it to my friend that lives in edinburgh if common sense wins out…
a friend brought in a copy of the new statesman the other week, and i read your column about the snooker commentator – brought back warm memories of watching late night snooker with my foster parents, never fully understanding the game, but enjoying it all the same.
Posted by Natalie-Helen on May 16, 2011
Well look.
I might have sort of tentatively decided that Edinburgh this year might be an amazing idea. And pledged some saved money towards to.
Either way I’m going to get a program and start to see who I could give cakes to in return for floor crashing privilages…
I will be there if so.
^_^
Posted by Jen on May 16, 2011
here here…well said…I’m with you on that,if you’ve got nothing nice to say then just keep it shut…grrrr…sorry I’ve had a really tense day….and calm!
Eurovision sounds even more exciting….can’t wait for Edinburgh too…eeeek!Jx
Posted by Josie on May 16, 2011
Our Eurovision song could just be random words strung into an order – most of Europe don’t speak English that well anyway. As long as all the dancers wear pointy hats and we put in someone wearing feathers somewhere, I’m pretty sure we’d win!
Posted by Misha on May 16, 2011
Surely some people with musical TYSIC’s could have a go? That I feel would be fun.
Either that or we should steal Hotel FM from whoever they sang for this year because they were good.
Posted by Ingrid on May 16, 2011
Getting quite excited for this Eurovision idea!
Posted by Cathy (traineeflorist) on May 16, 2011
Back on topic, loving the Eurovision idea, if only it were really possible. Think you should sing it though, having heard your singing live with Tom Basden at the Radio 4 MWMTWSB, I honestly can’t see that you would be any worse than anyone else …
Posted by Cathy (traineeflorist) on May 16, 2011
Totally off subject, thanks for your help with the pilot show tickets, have now had e.mail confirmation
But now have ticketmaster telling me the Oxford Glee club gig I booked tickets for back in February is cancelled. This was the one on 27th June. So rang Glee Oxford and they said no, it’s still on but their website says you’re not appearing in the future or something like that (have you upset them?! don’t answer that!) And ticketmaster site has big red letters CANCELLED against it. Actually it says CANCELED cos they can’t spell. So I’m a tad confused. But I’m happy in the knowledge that now I’ve bored you with it all you may be able to clarify. Don’t worry if not, it’s only down the road, hubby and I can just turn up anyway and wait for you in the theatre. If you haven’t shown by, say, one in the morning, we’ll assume you’re not coming and go home … x
Posted by lisan66 on May 16, 2011
First comment? I don’t actually have anything to suggest :/ But, I do feel that I should add that I only really found out who you were because of the yahoo blog. If it wasn’t for that, I don’t know if I would know who you are, so it was useful for something, even if it was just gaining one fan