Nothing beats Stockholm in the sunshine; the water glistens and the buildings seem to absorb the light creating a golden glow.
Sucking up the diesel and trying to blend in with the beautiful people who were out in force, was yours truly. And with places to go, people to see – I was full fart, to use a Swedishism. As I was busy, I treated myself to the X2000 and stepped onto the platform of Centralen just after ten thirty in the morning. Then tramped my way over to Södermalm to get some flyers for my show up at some of the funkier joints of Gamla Stan and Söder. Less funky (unless you find Heinz spaghetti hoops hip) was The English Shop who were kind enough to clear a big space for my flyer…. apologies to any English speaking yogis, babysitters or netballers whose small ads got shifted.
Then it was off to Östermalm for more postering – again, weirdly, people were unusually kind and friendly… must have been the weather – and a visit to the Playhouse Teater, where I am performing on the 11th October. Had a chat to the technical guy and dropped off a few posters. I spoke to a very theatrical husky voiced actress outside the theatre who had popped out for a fag. Oh the drama, the drama…
Next stop was to look at a pub where my friend Louis is going to start a comedy night soon. Can’t say much more at this point, but I think it will work well.
Then on to meet Bisse for a late lunch and some intensive work on Scene One of the sitcom that we are pitching to SVT next week. Squeezed in a few extra gags and tidied up one of the characters a bit. Very funny indeed… at least we think so – it remains to be seen what SVT think.
Then, well saturated with tea and biscuits, I headed back to the Playhouse to see ‘The Al Pitcher Picture Show’ – There was a huge crowd for the show which was absolutely brilliant. Henrik Elmér who is headlining at my club next week was the support act. He was great of course. A woman in front of me had complete hysterics at some of his references and oddly, another woman a few seats away kept giving her these really disapproving looks as though laughing was not the done thing at a comedy night.
The main show was fantastic and Al lived up to all expectations. Hilarious. Go and see the show if you get the chance. I’d love to see the show again as it is based on photos taken on the day of the show, so it is completely different every time.
After the show, I jumped backstage for a quick chat to Al and to slag off a few UK cities (especially Wolverhampton) then hotfooted it to the station to get the midnight rattler back to Linköping where I duly fell asleep and nearly ended up in Malmö by mistake.
Tags: Comedy, Gigs, plugs, Review, sitcom, Stand Up, Stockholm
