A couple of weeks ago a review for my second night at Brighton Fringe Festival was posted and I’m delighted to say Three Weeks gave me 4/5 (this counts as ‘Very Good’) for the Saturday night performance. This was definitely the best gig I did of the 3 so it’s nice to have had a reviewer in on that night.
Here’s the review:
Dressed in a lab coat, and with the affable demeanour of an over-eager science teacher, Jim Bowes charts his obsessions since the age of five. And ‘charts’ is a highly appropriate word: his time-line is illustrated with bar graphs, flow diagrams and pie charts on a well-crafted and brilliantly applied slide-show. Via Lionel Richie, Vanilla Ice and others, we arrive at the show’s centrepiece: his current obsession, to appear at all twelve of Edinburgh’s festivals. There is the potential, perhaps once he is a little closer to achieving his goal, for Jim’s show to rival Dave Gorman’s fixated autobiographical quests. But until then Jim is sufficiently jocular, and has enough spot-on one-liners, to make this a wonderfully enjoyable hour’s entertainment.
Or you can see the Jim Bowes: Obsession review on Three Weeks – along with many others from Brighton.
Talking of which here I am straight after that gig on the beach with Ruth and our friend Nathan…
The review went live just before I ordered my posters and flyers for Edinburgh so I was able to add a new quote that relates specifically to this year’s show. This made me happy as promoting entirely on old quotes is never cool.
Talking of which it’s now only a week and a half before the long drive North for Edfringe and most people will heading up at the start of next week if they’re doing full runs.
In the last week I’ve been a little bit sad not to be there for the whole time but on balance juggling work and personal commitments makes it hard to write off all of August and as I’ve recently started a new job it wasn’t really an option this year.
The weather in London has been amazing this summer and I can’t help thinking Edinburgh might not be so kind!
My main aims for the festival this year are:
- Enjoy it
- Perform the best I can every day
- Don’t put on a load of weight by eating excessive amounts of fried food (in 2007 I ate a bacon sandwich for breakfast every day of a 27 night run)
- Play to more people
- See lots of other shows
I’ll keep you posted on how I’m doing with my aims and also post reviews of the other shows I see.
So the other main part of going to Edinburgh is doing some previews, I planned 2 London previews the first of which I did at The Old Red Lion in Angel this week. I’d added about 10 minutes of new material since Brighton and as it was my first London gig for 2 ½ years quite a few people were coming.
I’m pleased to say it went really well, not only that, I enjoyed playing the new show a lot, I think the new material holds it together and plugs a gap that was still there in Brighton.
Next Sunday my final London preview is back at Jamboree where I filmed the Jazz Jazz Baby video – I’ll be keeping the show fairly similar for that gig.
I’ll try and post just before heading to Edinburgh, maybe see you there.
Jim x
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