Janey Godley’s blog

Fringe Rumours

2008-08-27T19:07:15Z

It’s all over for yet another year and the newspapers are still reporting on the ‘down turn’ of the ticket sales and problems with the ticket box office. Even the good old Scottish weather has become a feature in itself. The splashing showers go...

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The Edinburgh Fringe 2008

2008-08-10T18:08:47Z

I have been here now for two weeks and had ONE review! Granted it was a great FOUR star stonking review, but I am annoyed that’s all I am getting so far. The show is selling out well at weekends and that’s really cool with me. Mid-week the numbe...

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I am a comedian

2008-08-09T21:44:14Z

At the Edinburgh Fringe, you do nothing but run about organising tickets, Flyering teams and making sure the box office hasn’t screwed up the tickets YET AGAIN! My show is at Pleasance Dome at 7pm every night and it’s going great. I have had a w...

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Weddings make me think

2008-07-22T19:38:18Z

Ashley and I were watching a wedding in a movie tonight and she asked me about her dad and mine’s wedding preparations. So I told her. It was the summer of 1980 when we decided to get married, we settled on a date in late September. We had alr...

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Things can go wrong and my mammy is a seagull

2008-07-19T18:00:02Z

Friday morning was hell. I woke up to get ready for a photo shoot in Glasgow’s East End (Shettleston actually, my home town) as I had written an article for the Sunday Herald on the forth coming by-election. Whilst washing my hair, I heard Ashle...

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I’m a comedian; get me out of here

2008-07-17T14:26:36Z

Writing a weekly column for a famous Scottish newspaper has its ups and downs. My column gets printed on a Monday and the deadline is Friday afternoon. I love to see my photo and all my words printed in The Scotsman and the novelty of reading it...

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Art? I don’t think so

2008-07-15T16:59:59Z

I went to a small experimental theatre show in Los Angeles many years ago where young students were putting on their ‘work’. There comes a point in everyone’s life where they sit in a studio, theatre or gallery and stare at something that the mi...

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A Strange Confession to Make

2008-07-11T04:10:39Z

I saw a programme today about a young woman who pulls out her hair bit by bit; it is a form of self harm and she has permanently damaged her scalp. It made me shudder to watch because I was a hair puller as a child. I used to lie in bed, pick ou...

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Bella the Dancer

2008-07-08T20:05:07Z

The year was 1981. It was a sunny bright day and Lady Diana Spencer was marrying Prince Charles. My wee dirty old pub was pretty empty, there were not that many Royalists in the Calton in Glasgow so I had the telly switched on and watched the ne...

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Am Back from Lanzarote

2008-07-04T15:56:18Z

I am home and safe. Ashley is slightly burnt, my poor wee girl! She managed on the first day of the holiday to fall over, tits over hair and skint her two knees, then she got her shoulders burnt despite wearing factor 50, and then she had a migr...

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