It’s hard to believe that it’s May already. Two days before the closest General Election for a generation if the press are to be believed and I’ve found myself unable to stop thinking about my local candidates for reasons entriely unrelated to their party politics.
I’ve got George Galloway of the Respect Party touring the area on an open top bus, I can only think of him offering to be ‘the cat’ on Celebrity Big Brother and Jim Fitzpatrick the labour candidate seems to be best known for walking out of a Muslim wedding earlier in the year.
I’ve barely seen any mailshots from the Liberal democrats which suggests maybe they’re not holding out much hope. The same can’t be said for the conservatives who’ve been on a direct mail and billboard frenzy. Ian from Congleton is about 20 ft tall on the Highway, pretty much opposite The Times/Sun offices. Congleton is in Cheshire but I doubt most the people driving toward the Rotherhithe tunnel care that much. I just think, oh I used to live near there.
Some boundary changes mean they’ve got a shout as the nice bits of Wapping and St. Katherine’s dock are now in my area. I shop in that Waitrose, does that mean I’m under some kind of unspoken voting contract?
I had been tracking the direct mail I’d received relating to the election but I have to say it all got too much. So my only comment is this: Neither the Labour or Conservative parties used Royal Mail to send their post, this made me a little bit sad.
That’s probably enough politics and so to some other things from this blog title…
For those of you that knew, cared, loved or hated me for it I now no longer work for a bank…it was interesting and tiring and I bloodly well earned my bonus. That said, I promise it wasn’t me that caused the recession and I also promise my bonus wasn’t that much and that I’m spending it taking my new show to Edinburgh. I will talk a little bit more about what it’s like to have worked for a bank for the last two years in my show. But listen, everyone has been going on about banks for ages and I think most people have had enough so I won’t dwell on it.
In slightly related news it’s now only just over two weeks until Jim Bowes: Obsession gets its first run out at Brighton Fringe Festival to that end here is the flyer that you might see around and about if you’re down there:
I also had an awesome time shooting the music video and new press shots for the show opening – you can hear my jazz cover of Ice Ice Baby on Myspace. Here’s one of the new pictures that Chris Harris took:
The video to Ice Ice Baby (to be known as Jazz Jazz Baby) should be ready soon – I’ll do an extra post when it is along with a full list of credits of everyone that helped out with it.
So I’m going to be spending the next couple of weeks making sure there’s enough of a show to take to Brighton. These will be my first comedy gigs for about 2 years and so the process of putting a show together is being eased greatly by the fact I can NOW EAT CHOCOLATE AGAIN…for some reason I decided to have six months off the stuff (apart from Christmas and Easter), it wasn’t so bad at first but towards the end all I really wanted was a biscuit Boost. I can in no way complain though as I’ll start this new run of shows 2 stone lighter than I started the year. Phew.
Jim x
That is such an awesome track.
Does that mean an album of smooth jazz dance classics is in the offing???
Well, if enough people wanted to hear more I’d love to record them. I’ve got a list