Performing at the Glasgow Comedy Festival always feels a little bit like coming home for me. I grew up and went to school in Glasgow - Newton Mearns to be precise. I love it when you tell folk from Glasgow you lived in Newton Mearns. “Oh” they say.... “the Mmmmmmmmearns” in a faux posh, slightly camp accent as if to suggest that I spent my childhood riding around on polo ponies while shovelling caviar down my throat. Far from it, my school memories are of having to go cross country running in the snow wearing gym shorts that even the pussy cat dolls would now describe as “a bit too skimpy”.The cold would turn your legs a very unattractive deep purple colour. It took me a while to realise that the cool kids didn’t actually do the cross country run but rather ran out of the school to the bus stop, leapt on the bus to the bakers, sat in the warm bakers for twenty minutes munching on mutton pies and then got the bus back up the hill and ran the last bit back into school. Once I was made aware of this approach to PE I became a big fan of the subject. In fact, to this day mutton pies play a very big part in my health regime.
Find Zoe Lyons online at www.zoelyons.co.uk
Zoe will be performing her show Miss Machismo at Blackfriars Basement on Friday 26th March. Find out more here.
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