Election Blog 2019 - Or Why I’m voting for Loré Lixenberg!
It’s election time! And across the country, the people of Britain are struggling with which disaster zone not to vote for… It’s a tough decision... I’ve been marching round…
Nov 19 2019
Fan mail, fy fan!
The other day I got some fan mail. I don’t think I’ve ever had any fan mail before, not even fake fan mail from my wife, mother or children. So it was quite exciting to get a piece of fan…
Oct 22 2019
Czech, mate!
A week or so ago I went to Pilsen in the Czech Republic to show our film Big In Sweden at the International Road Movie Festival
It’s taken me a few days to get round to blogging about it because…
Sep 9 2019
Lund Comedy Festival 2019
The Lund Comedy festival came and went, and I was there.
I haven’t been for a couple of years, but the festival has always been a highlight in the calendar. This year I was back, back, back and ready to…
Aug 29 2019
The best venue in town
A couple of Sundays ago stand up comedy in Linköping went underground. Well, into an underground carpark at least.
The original plan was to put the show on with the audience lounging around on picnic blankets outside Stadshuset, sipping white…
Aug 26 2019
On the red carpet
Last week, on Thursday, we had the first public screening of our film Big In Sweden. It was as close to a red carpet event as you can get. There was fizzy water instead of champagne (that’s Sweden, for…
Jul 30 2019
Go East! - The sad demise of L’Orient.
It’s the end of an era. L‘Orient has closed its giant wooden doors for the last time and headed east. I went to the final couple of live events there and amongst the drinking and music there was a sense…
Jul 23 2019
The lift home and its dangers
I did a gig in Nyköping the other day.
I wonder if there is any other job or even hobby which involves so much travel for so little actual ‘doing’. It's nearly always a hell of a long commute for…
Jul 21 2019
Mid-summer malaise
It's raining. It's mid-July. And I remembered that I have a blog. I guess I'm suffering from that mid-summer malaise of the freelancer. This is the point in the summer, usually when the rain is falling hardest, where you realise…
May 21 2019
Sold out at Gamla Linköping
It was a funny old week last week, in more ways that one. I went to see some politicians from the culture department speak about their vision for Linköping’s kulturliv. The event came to me as a bit of a…
Apr 4 2019
Sitcom premiere this Saturday on SVT 1!
It’s a weird feeling. .. But our sitcom is finally going to be broadcast on proper telly. Thinking back, the first time Al and I discussed this idea was probably two and a half years ago in a cafe in…
Feb 13 2019
The Brexit Express comes to Linköping!
Last night the Brexit Express steamrolled to my home town, Linköping. The UK Foreign Office are on a PR offensive trying to reassure businesses, expats and potential tourists that even though the UK is going down the drain at speed…