It feels a bit like I’m on the educational fast track. Radio interview at school on Tuesday, then a gig at Linköping University on Wednesday… where will my voyage of learning take me next? An Irish pub in Stockholm, of course… but more of that in a moment.
The gig at the uni was at a place called Baljan, which is in the basement café of C-Huset. I was a little bit reticent about taking on a gig there as it is possibly the worst building to perform in. Acoustically, it is all over the place as Baljan sits at the bottom of a big atrium and is overlooked by three floors. Without going into the physics of acoustics, this means that the sound can behave very unpredicatably… a quiet conversation can be amplified and music through a speaker can float up to the third floor, bypassing the people on the ground floor. The other thing is that it’s a big space..
For the gig to work we needed a big crowd and a decent PA system….And those good old students came up trumps!
Ten minutes before we were supposed to start, the place filled up completely and the PA system was perfect for the space… if a bad workman blames his tools, this was not an option..it was down to us to do a decent gig… and guess what. We did just that….
I kicked off and did about 25 minutes with several spontaneous rounds of applause and much laughter. Then I introduced a new guy called Joel Berglund who although a little nervous, had some incredibly good material. He was also just the right age to hit all the right buttons with the crowd. I’m looking forward to seeing him at the club soon. Then finally, Palle did about 20 minutes and rounded off with his ‘Motherfucking Dad Revenge Tour 2009′ routine, which had the students in stitches.
It was so much fun to play to students who were both sharp and up for some smutty humour (In a nutshell, Bergman and anal sex). Oh to be a student again…..
My education continues tonight at The Liffey in Gamla Stan, at the all English night Laughs At The Liffey. See you there perhaps? I promise to buy a pint for the first person to kiss me on both cheeks and say ‘Bergman and anal sex’
Tags: Comedy, Gigs, Linköping, Stand Up, Stockholm
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