Tiernan Douieb Guest Blog

How good is Glasgow? Well take ‘good’ and add six times more ‘good’ and some things and what have you got? Well no concept of maths apparently. But ignoring that, Glasgow, I think Glasgow is pretty damn awesome. I had never actually been there until I went to the festival last year. I know, I know, just where had I been all this time? Well, other places than Glasgow. That’s why I hadn’t been there before. While I’m not blaming Glasgow’s location on anyone, had it been somewhere I’d already been before, then I’d have definitely been there already.

That first trip, despite being on Friday 13th, was anything but unlucky and involved much fun, great audiences, booze, being asked for money by a druggie on Glasgow Green and eating noodles on Sauchiehall Street at 4am. What more could a chap ask for? How about an actual hall full of socks? I have thought about this a lot but I can’t really see how that would help anyone. Then again I have lots of odd socks, so perhaps an international odd sock swap shop on Sauchiehall Street would be brilliant? I shall write a letter to someone important and see what happens.

I return again on the 13th of this month. I can’t help but feel it’s a clever plan to ensure I don’t have a crap time on a supposedly unlucky day. Then I realised that from Glasgow’s point of view, the 13th is the day when that beardy hobbit twat appears to shout about halls full of socks, which seems fairly unlucky really. Just be thankful I haven’t even got started on the lack of royalty in Princes Square or where on earth the host of Art Attack is, on Buchanan Street.

Check out Tiernan Douieb online - and his regular blog - at www.tiernandouieb.co.uk.

Tiernan will be performing his solo show at the Buff Club on Saturday 13th March. Find out more here. He'll also be performing at the Glasgow Kids Comedy Club at the Stand Comedy Club in the afternoon on Saturday 13th March. Click here for more information.