Bad Gigs

Sanjay Patel from Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee has been gigging since 2008.

We've done a lot of weird gigs together over the years so we reminisce on some of those.

I copied the following from his website:

Just a small bit about me. I’ve been performing stand up comedy in NZ since the end of 2008. (I said that already) This has included performing solo shows in 4 NZ International Comedy Festivals and solo shows for the first time in both the Dunedin Fringe Festival & Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2016.

Danny McChrystal is Liverpudlian comedian who was based in New Zealand for several years & performed at the NZ International Comedy Festival a few times. He appeared on the stand up comedy show, AotearoHa & the clip of which can be seen here:

https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/aotearoha-next-big-things-2011/credits

Danny and I gigged together a lot and had some horrendous gigs, which we discuss here

Finally we're back and what a lovely episode to come back with! NZ legendary comedian, Justine Smith share's her bad gig stories. This was actually recorded over a year ago but a last minute, "Your computer has f@#k all memory left" message meant a disastrous cleans of the bloody lap top but I was delighted to find this recently and cannot wait to do more!

This episode is nuts!!

Welcome back to Bad Gigs and in this episode, I chat with musician Scotty McNairn from the band, Nerdlinger.

This is one of my favourite stories ever so have a listen and spread it about

https://www.facebook.com/nerdlinger.punkrock

Something lovely happened recently, I had some performers get in touch with me to share their experience and Broden Tadros was one of them.

He is my first musician/band member and he's in Sydney.

It turns out that we share a similar story which was fun to discuss and embarrassing to remember.

He is also a podcaster and runs https://www.chatswiththemusos.com/

Check out his links to his social media and chats with musos!

Enjoy

This week i'm joined by a fellow Irish comedian living in NZ, Lolsy Byrne.

We're both still locked down in different regions of Auckland so we Zoomed this great chat and cover everything from dog shits to bad gigs!

Lolsy is known for her hilarious comedy and starring on Youtube's Try channel.

Enjoy, share, sellotape it to lamp posts etc 

Welcome to episode 6 with the hilarious Aussie comedian, Lindsay Webb!

We have a great chat about life, getting back to gigging after a long lockdown and of course, bad gigs.

Thanks and welcome to the new listeners.  

If you enjoy these podcasts, please jump on https://www.nzpodcastawards.com/nominate and give our little pod a vote.  We're a small fish in a big pond and at this early stage, any extra attention would be amazing.

Thanks again and enjoy

Part 2 of the 3 hour chat with the legend that is Mistress Viv!  This time we get into the serious topic of PC crowds and how we've had to update our material as the world has changed so much, so fast.  We both share stories of on that topic.

We also have a laugh about getting injured on stage and tough crowds.

Sit back, listen and enjoy

Also, there are a couple of moments where the music jumps in the wrong place... Apologies

What a chat this was! We compared bad gigs for nearly 3 hours to the extent that this interview will be spread out over 2 episodes.  Mistress Viv is the notorious host of the legendary Bitchin' Bingo in New Zealand.  Bitchin' Bingo is a fun, rowdy, usually booze fuelled and filled alternative bingo night, popular in the pubs, hen do's and corporates.  AND corporates is what we chatted about the most.  Awkward, unusual and sometimes horrible gigs in someone's office when everyone would rather be at home.  We also discuss the psychology behind how we deal with gigs like these.

I also talk about the time I think i accidentally did meth...

This is such a fun episode so enjoy!! 

NZ comedian & actor, Tarun Mohanbhai, shares some funny stories of a bad audition where he tried to age himself with talcum powder to get the part, a strange corporate gig that he did with peer Rhys Darby & a crazy gig that we did together when we opened for Jackass in Hamilton, NZ!

Jackass are known for some crazy antics and stunts but we never expected to see a grown man do a poo on stage!

I do some rambling chat at the end as we're back in lockdown in Auckland and I've too much time on my hands.

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