Just back from a glorious weekend cycle-touring in the Lake District and I can confirm that there are some steep old hills to haul a couple of full panniers up. This is balanced by the large number of excellent refueling and re"water"ing venues...
Anwyays, that's by the by. The Brewery Arts Centre was hosting its second free range comedy festival over the weekend, with comedians performing on the hoof and without a roof. Some on felltops, others in fields.
As part of this, Phil Kay was doing a show for cyclists and about cycling at Grizedale Forest.
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It was a basically a 50 minute ride around one of the tarmac'ed tracks in Grizedale, with Phil rolling around in the group telling stories either while we swirled around where space allowed or, more often, when there was room for everyone to stop.
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It was a fun 50 minutes' worth, but Phil admitted he's not sure if the format works. His normal show is much more stream of consciousness, so the breaks necessitated by having to cycle along interrupts his flow. He said he's keen to get it to work because he likes the energy of a cycling audience, so he was coming up with ideas like using radio mics and headphones (he'd abandonned his original megaphone idea because that wasn't going to work on the trail we were on).
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It was a nice change to your average comedy gig though - a different dynamic (the weather helped too) and it will be interesting to see if he can get the format to click.
[I'll try to add some photos, if I can work out how to do it... Failing that, I'll stick them in as links]
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