So where was I?
The Soho Ho Comedy club was like I said a great little venue, it is in a basement and the building is officially called the Arts Theatre Club. It is located on Frith Street in the heart of Soho and is at street level, just a bright red front door, a bit like Notting Hill.
It is incredibly relaxed, although we had pre booked tickets, the seats were jsut a handful of kitchen stools of varying heights scattered about, almost neatly. The stage in the corner of the room was about 3 inches high and the comedians had to come from behind the bar, through the crowd (100 people in a small room is definately a crowd) and do their thing.
The first comedian and the nights compere was a bloke called Simon Happily, he was gay, he was angry, he abused audience members ineffectively and for no reason, and he was terrible. He was of course on stage in a London comedy club, whereas I am sat at home blogging about how i would like to be and so he deserves credit for that, but I thought he could have done so much better than obvious gay references and innuendos and I was surprised he was the compere.
Next was someone called Nick Doody, and at the time I thought he was really good, but now I dont remeber much about his act, he was middle aged and liked to rant, the sort of comnedy i like, a bit like Rhod Gilbert, but not as polished.
Next was a bizzare act, Henning When, a german stand up. His act was based around the differences in German and English cultures and then he sung a German folk song and explained the lyrics. I had seen him once previoulsy on TV on a "Edinburgh and Beyond" sort of programme, it was hosted by Al Murray, Henning's act was virtually the same on both occassions. He was quite funny but I would not have been surprised to find out he is not actually German and it was just an act. I also had the tune to his folk song in my head for about 4 days after, this annoyed me.
Finally was Will Smith, a posh white bloke, not a hollywood superstar, you can probably guess what his first joke was! He has played the Royal Variety Performance and he was clearly the most experienced, and most comfortable performer and was playing such a venue to try out new material and presumably to get paid! I would recommend checking out his website and if you get the chance check him out live!
Maybe one day someone will be blogging about my performance at Soho Ho, or maybe not!
Wednesday 21 April 2010
Wednesday 14 April 2010
Soho ho
It bugs me how irregular my blog updates are!
I went to London on Saturday for a friends stag and i had a really good time. I dunno if i have mentioned this before but I have 2 very good groups of friends but they dont generally know each other. The first group are my oldest friends who i have known about 16-17 years and are the group i first got drunk with, used to chase girls with and have seen a fair bit of the world with, unforunately as a group we now all live in various parts of the country so dont see each other that often
The other group, i have known well for about 10-12 years and mainly I met them through a shared love of local pubs. Nothing against either group but I kind of like having the 2 seperate groups and whilst i am sure they would all get on great if they mixed, it is nice to have a choice of social options!
Anyway, thats that all cleared up, it was the first group who i went to London with on Saturday.
Having missed the 0955 train, my fault and something I had never done before, we got to London at about 12 and headed by cab to Soho. It was great going in a cab, normally I would get the tube for ease, but I felt like a proper tourist, we went past Buckingham Palace, Traffalger Square and some other places (??) and I really enjoyed seeing them.
After a quick lunch and a few beers (courtesy of the brilliant Samuel Smith) we headed to Urban Golf which is quite a cool place. It is a bit odd because it is in the basement of a very plain looking office building, but once downstairs you soon forget where you are. It is basically a row of large cubicles with a golf simulator in each, so you whack the ball at a projector screen. It has been a few years since I played any sort of golf and i had had a few beers before and during the game but it demonstrated how terrible at golf I am! Awful!
Although rubbish at it, I did enjoy the place but was happy that we only played 2 hours rather than the full 18 holes of St Andrews!
We moved on to a couple more quite "local" sort of pubs which was great considering how busy it was outside, then went for an Indian Tapas meal. I dont like Indian, not even the fact its hot, just dont like the taste, I did have 5 vegetarian dishes though, as i am a bit funny about meat in takeaways, and they were ok, but then I am no expert! If you do happen to be in Soho and like curry however my mates would recommend Imli.
Next stop was Soho Ho Comedy Club, which was really great, as you know i have a great love and admiration for stand up and this was a proper comedy club, tiny, dark and dingy!
There were 4 comedians but I think they deserve another blog post, which I will do, hopefully soon.
Reading this I imagine it is ever so boring if you were not there? Sorry about that!!
I went to London on Saturday for a friends stag and i had a really good time. I dunno if i have mentioned this before but I have 2 very good groups of friends but they dont generally know each other. The first group are my oldest friends who i have known about 16-17 years and are the group i first got drunk with, used to chase girls with and have seen a fair bit of the world with, unforunately as a group we now all live in various parts of the country so dont see each other that often
The other group, i have known well for about 10-12 years and mainly I met them through a shared love of local pubs. Nothing against either group but I kind of like having the 2 seperate groups and whilst i am sure they would all get on great if they mixed, it is nice to have a choice of social options!
Anyway, thats that all cleared up, it was the first group who i went to London with on Saturday.
Having missed the 0955 train, my fault and something I had never done before, we got to London at about 12 and headed by cab to Soho. It was great going in a cab, normally I would get the tube for ease, but I felt like a proper tourist, we went past Buckingham Palace, Traffalger Square and some other places (??) and I really enjoyed seeing them.
After a quick lunch and a few beers (courtesy of the brilliant Samuel Smith) we headed to Urban Golf which is quite a cool place. It is a bit odd because it is in the basement of a very plain looking office building, but once downstairs you soon forget where you are. It is basically a row of large cubicles with a golf simulator in each, so you whack the ball at a projector screen. It has been a few years since I played any sort of golf and i had had a few beers before and during the game but it demonstrated how terrible at golf I am! Awful!
Although rubbish at it, I did enjoy the place but was happy that we only played 2 hours rather than the full 18 holes of St Andrews!
We moved on to a couple more quite "local" sort of pubs which was great considering how busy it was outside, then went for an Indian Tapas meal. I dont like Indian, not even the fact its hot, just dont like the taste, I did have 5 vegetarian dishes though, as i am a bit funny about meat in takeaways, and they were ok, but then I am no expert! If you do happen to be in Soho and like curry however my mates would recommend Imli.
Next stop was Soho Ho Comedy Club, which was really great, as you know i have a great love and admiration for stand up and this was a proper comedy club, tiny, dark and dingy!
There were 4 comedians but I think they deserve another blog post, which I will do, hopefully soon.
Reading this I imagine it is ever so boring if you were not there? Sorry about that!!
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