NEW STAND-UP SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT x
Howling At The Moon will debut at the Edinburgh Fringe 2025
To the subscribers of the CMB x As You Were newsletter,
I am delighted to announce that I’ll be doing a full-run of my new stand-up show HOWLING AT THE MOON at the Edinburgh Fringe 2025. I’ll be at Monkey Barrel Comedy’s flagship venue MB1 from Monday 28th July to Sunday 24th August at 2100 hours.
I’m buzzing to do my show in such a brilliant room: one of my goals for this year was to do my Fringe show in a room that is purpose built for comedy, after spending a decade performing in rooms that (outside of August) are primarily used as a venue for back-packer karaoke, unpopular university lectures, the storage of garlic powder in floundering meat restaurants, and attic storage of asbestos. MB1 at Monkey Barrel is an 100-seater comedy club that is going to be easy to get to, with comfy seats, and its own bar for you, and green room for me. I’m delighted.
Tickets are on-sale as of today. I recommend getting them sooner rather than later.
This new show is what I’ve been working on in work-in-progress shows at the Glasgow Comedy Festival and the Leicester Comedy Festival. It’s been going really well, other than two at Drygate which were honestly pretty stinking, but I’m choosing to blame that largely on the room being unsuitable, rather than any issue with the material, audience, or performance. (It is this spectacular delusion that allows an otherwise sane artist to exist and persist.)
If you can’t wait until August to see the new show, and would rather see an sneak peak preview, I highly recommend coming to see me do a W.I.P. before then. I’m doing a series of WIPs in the southside of Glasgow with the brilliant Josie Long where we’re tag-teaming up, and I’ll also be doing work-in-progress shows in parts of England, as well as at Monkey Barrel Comedy itself in Edinburgh over the next few months, as well as at Machynlleth Comedy Festival in May! Check my linktree for gigs, if you please. But it’ll definitely be fun and good by August. I solemnly promise.
Thanks to the fantastically talented Jonny Mowat for the design of the poster, and to the incredible photographer Hannah Jay Brooks for risking life and limb to do the press pictures. I can only recommend both as being brilliant to work with.
CMB x As You Were
P.S. I’m currently at the Melbourne Comedy Festival in Australia, and I’m seeing so much great stand-up, and also drinking several hitherto undrank varieties of fizzy juice. I’m drinking things with names like Bundaberg’s Lemon Lime Bitters, Kirk’s Creaming Soda, and Kirk’s Pasito, which is a bit like if Irn-Bru tasted like passion fruit instead of dirty two-pence piece coins.