Vikki Stone Guest Blog

I've only actually been to Glasgow once before, so I really am looking forward to getting to know it better when I come for the Comedy Festival in March.

In 2010 I was doing a Scottish mini-tour with a few other comedians, and we were playing Inverness, Edinburgh, Dundee, Findhorn and Aberdeen (not Glasgow curiously). Ahead of the tour I came up a day early on the sleeper (I hated the sleeper; shared a berth with a noisy weirdo) to record an appearance on the now defunct chat show The Hour. I was to be interviewed about the tour, and then sing a little ditty about the then X Factor winner, Joe McElderry. To my delight I was being interviewed by the one and only Michelle McManus, herself a product of the TV talent show mill, who was everything I'd hoped she'd be and more (I shan't  say what though, I wouldn't like to offend!). Needless to say there were some wonderfully prickly questions in our interview. Such fun!

I then got to spend the rest of the day pottering around Glasgow, heading immediately for the Apple store (forgot my charger), and yes Glasgow, you display your Apple products in an exemplary manner, congratulations. If my memory serves me, I think I may also have taken in a Dixon's (to compare prices) and a museum (not in search of a charger).

I can't remember what the museum was called, nor can I find any evidence of having ever visited it. Maybe the good readers of this blog might help me identify it? All I can remember is that it was off a side street, had a rooftop viewing area, possibly an escalator, some nautical exhibits, and a glass front. I think I enjoyed myself, but I can't be sure. I have a terrible memory for tourism. I may have also had a cup of tea somewhere, but again the details escape me. I am aware all this looks a bit like I'm lying about having been to Glasgow, and desperately trying to make up banal detail in absence of facts, but I assure you, it's all true. Ooooh, I remember now, I also had a swim in the Virgin Active somewhere on the outskirts of town.

Anyway, I am very excited about bringing myself and my new show to the Glasgow International Comedy Festival, but I think I need someone to show me around this time! Any volunteers?

Come to Brel on Saturday 31 March to see Vikki Stone: Songs and Jokes. For more information and to book tickets, click here.