Bratchy Guest Blog

I can’t really describe myself as a veteran of many things. Drinking alcohol perhaps? Well, I’ve being doing that in varying amounts for roughly sixteen years, so that might be in with a shout. Masturbation? Well, I’ve been doing that in varying amounts for… oh, you can guess the rest.

But outside of these incredibly worthy (and fun) endeavours, I can’t claim to be experienced enough at anything to be considered worthy of veteran status. I have, however, performed in various capacities at every Glasgow Comedy Festival since its inaugural year, so perhaps I could comfortably be described as an old hand at Weegieland’s biggest festival of fun. (Or uncomfortably, depending on your point of view.)

I’m glad to say I have, since that first year, watched the festival get exponentially bigger and better every year. And every year I have a blast. Like many other west coast based comics, March is easily becoming my favourite month on the comedy calendar. I live in Glasgow, you see, and it’s a city I love, a city that regularly makes me laugh – it’s quite easy to glean material from a short trip down Sauchiehall Street on a Saturday night, observing all the attendant orange-skinned, scantily-clad, pukey carnage. But what’s even better is being able to jump in a taxi and travel to two or three gigs a night to try out said material.

And so the festival is upon us again, in its eighth year, and is indeed bigger and better than ever. I, for one, can’t wait. My show, Beer, Loathing and Lost Wages, has a loose theme, about me being somewhat of a reformed party animal. Like, I got fed up with going out on a Friday night and before I knew it, it’s Sunday afternoon and I’m in a stranger’s house watching Finding Nemo with the volume down. That lifestyle left me skint, and knackered. The comedy festival does as well, but in a good way.

Ah well, as they say, “no sweat for a vet.”

A veteran, that is.

Bratchy will be performing his solo show Beer Loathing and Lost Wages at 8.30pm, Wednesday 24th March at Brel. Find out more here.