This month the show was packed as it featured Steve Day and Jessica Fostekew, both doing full-length Edinburgh previews, so we got two solid hours of comedy for our £17.00 (for two tickets). Steve Day we've seen before, at an infamous (amongst Funny Farm-goers) gig at the local cricket ground a few years ago, where there was a cricket match on the same day that ran into the evening; I never did learn what the precise problem was, but the fact that the audience for the comedy gig was packed into the bar, preventing the teams from having an after-match tipple, might have been the problem. Anyway, we could hear some raised voices and they took forever to clear off. At thatpoint we got to see Steve Day, who is profoundly deaf, so he missed all the arguments.
His set was based around misheard lyrics in songs, interspersed with stories from his life and a bit of "dad dancing" along to the tracks. Great fun.
The show is called 'Iconic Breath', which – like Steve Day – is based on something misheard, in this case by Jessica's son when he found out about Godzilla's secret power. There are a number of hilarious stories that range from butt dialing the school parents' WhatsApp group to why her son is also the reason behind Jessica's three fingered salute.
It was a fantastic show and I'm looking forward to seeing what Hazel (the remarkably funny compère) has in store for the 20th anniversary of the Funny Farm later this year.
I have the AIR ACE COMPANION mostly done, although I still have a couple of hurdles to jump before I can get a proof. I've been thoroughly distracted by printing problems that have hit MYTEK's launch. I have been assured that progress is being made catching up with the backlog of orders, but I can't quite follow how the orders are being fulfilled. For instance, I ordered proof copies of the next two MYTEK books, separately, one after the other. So they were ordered maybe two minutes apart. Well, I've had volume 4 for some days, but there's still no sign of volume 3.
All I can assume is that the orders that were in the queue when the machinery broke down have been randomly inserted back into the order chain. So someone who ordered a book on the 6th of July may already have their copy, while some of the very first orders processed three days earlier are still waiting to be printed.
As I mentioned above, I'm in the same boat, waiting for orders of my own to arrive before I can get the ball rolling on the next couple of books. There will, however, be a change or two before that happens. I'm thinking that I need to put out another video to explain all this as some folks are still unaware of the problems. Let me just say here that I am on top of them, but I don't have the one answer that everyone wants, which is, when will the books actually ship. I have seen a couple of orders go through in the past week, one of which was my own for the MYTEK proof. The most frustrating thing is that the quality of the books is great. It's just the timeliness of the printing that's the problem.
I'll try to get something together over the weekend to keep everyone updated.
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