15.03.09

Scortish Saturday

Posted in Juggling, Reviews at 9:23 am by alby

Day 2 in the Scottish Juggling House.

Slow start as expected of hanging around and getting hair cut and eating a bit.

Rebecca decided to hang round some more so I headed off of my own.  The only odd bit of the walk was when I wandered past some bloke who told me to fuck off as we passed.  Nice.  Friendly people up here.

I’m being harsh, obviously.  The locals at the event seem pretty friendly.  Is this another example of the superiority of jugglers?

Any road.  Got there to meet a few more people including Parit and Dr Alice.  Spent some time passing and then sitting and drinking.  Main problem with this was that the rugby was on in the bar.  This meant that the clientele were loud, obnoxious and boisterous.  Basically subsuming their homoerotic tendencies by hiding them behind a bluff and overtly laddish exterior.  And after yesterday I am more convinced of that now.

More sitting and chatting at the site and then they kicked out for an apparent parade whilst the show was being set up.  I stayed at the gym and helped set-up and sat and watched the tech stuff.

Show:

• Canadian Duncan came on with his ludicrous diabolo skillz.  Smooth and he seemed to be enjoying himself somewhat.  Nicely done.
• Matt DS was up next.  He didn’t know he was in the show until the night before so turned in a last minute not fully rehearsed effort but his devilstick schtick has been honed to be able to manage pretty well despite the lack of expectation to perform.
• Acro duo. (sorry I don’t have their names).  Acrobalancey goodness.
• Mats with his balls.  Actually looked like he was enjoying himself – hurrah!  Up to 7 balls with some very nice tricks and that.
• Donald Grant with his diabolo routine.  Well it’s Donald Grant with his diabolo routine.
• ?Keith.  Dreadlocky poi-monger.  Not my bag but went down well with the locals.
• Sarah! Sarah! Sarah! [just thinking about Bungay...sigh] Baws and rings done with style, tricky stuff too.
• Donald Grant 2 with his short act (as seen as Chocfest).  He’s a funny chap.
• Colin E.  Bless him!  He arrived on Saturday for a day at a convention and ends up as the headline act.  No real rehearsal but never mind.  Excellent club stuff with ball bouncing thrown in.  Very sweet stuff.

Well done to Sarah for getting anything together at all.  It was a short show but considering the hassles she had to get it together I reckon the quality was high enough to be proper impressed rather than simply sympathetic impressed.  Cool job teh Biskupz.

The comperes are worth noting.  I didn’t get their names (something like tea and biscuit) though.  Comedy material with audience included.  They made us laugh and got on with the show when they needed to.  What else could you ask for from a compere?

And then home via food.

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