I'm going into this with an open mind, I promise you I am. After being in Wales and in Bristol at the weekend and doing a Sunday night at a village in the West Midlands called Barford, I embark on Edinburgh tomorrow to try and watch as many acts as I can in 12 hours. I'm going to see Tony Law my old mate from the stand up days and of course we were sparring partners on Does Doug Know in the early noughties (it seems like a fucking lifetime ago now!), after that I'll go where the mood takes me. I'd like to see Addy Van Der Borgh however whoever else I see will depend on what mood I'm in (or how hard it rains in that unforgiving terrain).

Reading the reviews has made me feel a bit pissed off. Addy gets a pasting and apparently Tony does as well whereas fucknuts are being praised to the hilt, previous years this sort of talk could have made me look like a bitter old soak saying that but this year with me not being up there I reckon I can say what I like. The reviewers seem to be obsessed with people being nice and upbeat. The world is on it's arse and yet cutting edge stand up comedians are being praised for being of a happy disposition talking about when they were little and little family foibles. To be honest I could listen to somebody telling me this in a house at new year, I've no need to listen to some priveleged twat telling me this in a small room just off the Royal Mile. Write some jokes you con merchants.

Having said that I'm going with an open mind, come on someone, make me feel good about stand up again.

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