Rob Riley - You Should've Been Here Last Week

[00:00:00] You could count the punters on one hand

[00:00:08] But the street they were completely wrapped

[00:00:12] They were filled up to the gunnold

[00:00:14] They were pewing down the street

[00:00:16] They said you should have been your last week

[00:00:19] I swear, you should have been your last week

[00:00:23] Oh yeah, you should have been your last week Comedy in a van, is that still a thing? Comedy in a van is the umbrella title for all the gigs. Off the rails is just one gig. That's the longest running one. A lot of people seem to think they're all called off the rails because when I first got the receipts done, they said off the rails on them, which everybody's signed for. And that's why it's lots of people who think it's off the rails.

[00:01:40] It's just one actual gig.

[00:01:43] And how long have they been going?

[00:01:44] Oh, just I think we started 2001. here. We got Justin Moore, Toby Foster, Mick Farrow, he was making a spoke to when he said oh get Justin and Toby on at the time they were in a program called Phoenix Knights, younger listeners ask you mum. And as a whole, yeah it's getting tough now really isn't

[00:03:02] it? And I watched him sell 180 tickets in about 12 hours and I thought oh this could went the actual night. Yeah, it was all right. It was all right. I made a lot of classic mistakes. Me compared was probably one. I had too many axons. And that's you see so many people on the first

[00:04:20] night. I think, Oh, we'll get 10 axons. It just why? You know, it's easy. It's expectations. What would you describe as your, what would you describe your typical audience, you know, in terms of class or, you know, social makeup or whatever? What do you think? I don't really think we have, you see, for my gigs, I only actually run for gigs of me on, I can also do is booking for other I think this is any business, is you have to take a step outside and try and look at things objectively from the outside, getting the younger accent and where and how you promote also make a difference to the age of've got stuff there remember, you've got topical stuff. But yeah, I think it is important. The better comedians will be able to play any playable room or any playable audience. Well, one of the things that we've talked into different promoters and they once said

[00:08:20] that the MC should reflect the audience.

[00:08:24] What do you reckon to that?

[00:08:26] No, I wouldn actually, yeah, since lockdown, we had some absolute nut jobs after lockdown. Yeah, we had to throw a couple of people out, which is rare. And in that 40 minutes when they realised they weren't being served again, just as the priest arrived, they all got up and left because they wouldn't give them any more alcohol. But that to me was an absolute shocker. You know, just because in the old day, said, get out, people go, OK, they might have got a roof. But just to sit there and go, no. Yeah. But I mean, obviously, for women, it's a difficult one to deal with. You know, if

[00:11:04] there are men, bouncers might manhandle them, think you might be right about since the pandemic that people, it's a lot bottled up and tension and energy. But also people seem to have forgotten that they are ruining someone else's night. We seem to live in a very me, me, me world at the moment in the last few years.

[00:12:20] I think how much of that is moving socialfield and I'll get people come up to me and I'll go, all right mate, you're in it.

[00:13:40] You remember, you remember when you called me mum was like, oh he's so waffy mate.

[00:13:46] It's a good job for that.

[00:13:47] You can insult people and something there for everyone. You're going to have your favourite. It's like quality street. Some people at the Green Triangle,

[00:15:00] some people don't.

[00:15:01] The whole thing is that if you're right,

[00:15:03] you should have a bill should always have variety on it.

[00:15:05] You know, you should have different shades

[00:15:07] and flavours for everyone. you know, if even if you're a very scripted comic who doesn't interact with the other, there is no fourth wall, you are talking directly to those people and looking into their eyes. So it was, you know, automatically, but we're, like, what would we do care about their reaction? Obviously, everybody's about the same, but we're not really that asked about the riparian.

[00:16:21] Not on an individual basis, we don't care.

[00:16:23] We don't want them to come up individually and score us. then that's a nightmare because you get punters winding up you. Even if it isn't, you've got to redo a lot of marketing and stuff. So you're doing work again. I mean, some of the councils were like four or five months ago. It's not the end of the world. Well, some of the councils once you've got everything on sale and out there and all the images have been done and everything and it's on

[00:17:40] Facebook and on Twitter and on the websites and on sale

[00:17:45] on various ticketing sites that because that can take in, running around in the idiot and then, oh, can I plug this in and can he arrange your red arrows for my past? Why do you get some of these two, if you just told me two days ago, then yeah, I could have had it all started and if you'd have got here a bit earlier, but last minute, no, that's, that's a minute.

[00:19:00] All in the middle acts, keep it tight because in such about progression. I was saying to the omp spot, I went, well, yeah, I wasn't actually out of the gig, I said, but you know, that last one you did wasn't really that great was it. And he went, yeah, but. So everyone's going, wonderful. And then they had to bring the lights up. Then the music started again. Oh, God, it was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Well, we all wanted to do that. So thanks for breaking up your holiday to come and

[00:21:41] talk to us. Thanks very much for having me. All right. See you later.

[00:22:41] So what's the whole Mexican word today? Mexican word is,

[00:22:43] Milliken's Law.

[00:22:45] Oh yes, whereby you're only allowed to gloat over a great gig

[00:22:49] for 24 hours and conversely,

[00:22:51] you're only allowed to wallow in the depths of despair for 24 hours as well.

[00:22:55] After which the slate is wiped clean,

[00:22:58] like a screensaver,

[00:22:59] and then you're on to the next gig.

[00:23:02] You're only allowed to moan about a gig that you died at.

[00:23:05] You've got to get it out your head by the time the fuck up of travelling home has happened, I've missed the train, missed the connection, I'm really late. There's a bunch of twats on the train. All the joy of the gig has completely evaporated to be replaced by anger and frustration at

[00:24:27] having to get home, you know. That is, oh my God. Yeah, at least at least he was honest. No, he's well, thank you for coming. You see, he started off with thank you for coming. And I've got no idea what you were talking about, but thank you for coming. And moved on to that, moved on to some polite racism. discussed quite quickly. And for those of you, once again, we've reached the end of the podcast and that's normal. We'll say if you enjoyed it, check out the other Podomead podcasts that are available. Well, if you watched this on YouTube, like, subscribe, got any comments, make some comments

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