And so onto day six of my Fringe run and a pretty nice day in Edinburgh really.

We’ve now managed to get together a daily schedule for our venue, so now when people wander into our venue they can see everything that’s coming up!

Before my show this evening, I was a guest at Matt Duwell’s ‘Stand Up: Edinburgh’ show – showcasing comics with a local connection. I did a ten minute set, mostly of old material, that got a few laughs from the handful of people who made it along.

I’ve given up on the idea of having a flyerer, they seem to be a pain in the arse and have issues with turning up! So flyering by myself again… it started a bit slowly but I managed to pull a decent sized crowd in by the time the show was about to kick off.

The show? Well… it actually started really well… the warm up was great fun as I got to know the 20 strong audience. Over half of the attendees were locals – finally! The remainder of the room made up of English (they get everywhere, yeah!?), a lone Frenchman from Avignon (try not singing “Avalon” when you hear that), a two Canadians and a couple of Americans.

I could tell early on that the Americans were going to be a potential problem: they interrupted me twice whilst trying to explain the UK version of Boston to them…

The show was going alright but our American friends were struggling to keep quiet… it was getting distracting… then the Canadians decided to open a packet of crackers (loudly, sorry, LOUDLY) during one of the tricker stories to deliver: momentum now officially lost.

It didn’t get any better, the Americans were getting louder and even interrupting me mid-story… I’d had enough: the Americans were asked to leave – I’m amazed that I managed to remain polite throughout.

I felt like I limped over the line today – I made a decent start and looked on course for a great finale but ultimately I fell short in the end. I over-ran by two-minutes too.

Sod it, day seven tomorrow and we go again…