Introduction from the Festival Co-ordinator Sarah Niblock

So the start of another year heralds another Magners Glasgow International Comedy Festival. Excellent!

Things are well underway on the planning and organizational side of things. This will be the eighth Glasgow Comedy Festival and it’s grown substantially year on year, with 2010 continuing the trend.

Quite a few folk ask if this is a year-round job, and believe me, it certainly is! Planning for this year’s festival began way back at the end of last year’s event.

As soon as the festival is over there’s a review and evaluation reports to be done, then the planning for the next year starts.

Acts are booked, venues are secured, talent is scouted, and links are forged. 2009 saw some great new relations cemented with our colleagues over in New York and we’ve made some brilliant connections with all the top clubs over there such as Carolines, The Gotham and the Comic Strip to name just a few.

Then of course August is occupied by that event along the M8, so we head to the east of the country and check out the great and the good Fringe-goers over there to see who’s on form and who’s up and coming.

As well as work getting underway for our own event, the latter part of the year sees us undertaking the comedy aspects of the Kirkcaldy Comedy Festival and the Merchant City Festival before finalizing our own programme .

By the time that’s all done we’re at this point – January – and only two short months away from the start of what is arguably the biggest event solely dedicated to comedy in Europe!

So, it’s going to be hectic from now until March but we wouldn’t have it any other way.

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Cheerie bye for now….

(you’re looking good by the way, blog reader, have you done something different with your hair? It suits you!)