All Blog Posts Tagged 'up' (22)

That was the Decade that was

We are about to go into 2010, how was the last decade for you? Here are the highlights of my last decade. 2000- I watched the Millennium firework display on a balcony overlooking the Thames in London on the eve of the year 2000 with my daughter Ashley, she was the youngest stand up comic in 1999 and was finishing the year by retiring from stand up- she was 13 years old. I was running a comedy club at Mansions Café Bar in Glasgow’s West End, it was great fun but it closed suddenly due to non pay… Continue

Added by Janey_Godley on December 28, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

About Last Night

I had an awesome wrap party night at the BBC gig, just lovely and my daughter Ashley came along and made me happy. She makes me laugh; she suggested that she buy me a small red duffel coat so that I can run around the river bridges of Glasgow in a ‘Don’t Look Now’ manner. She says I look like a child from behind but have a wee old wrinkly face at the front. What a nice child I gave birth to eh? Last week I met up with my dad who told me to walk him to the bus stop, he then told me “That bus ta… Continue

Added by Janey_Godley on December 12, 2009 at 4:11pm — No Comments

Is it December?

Yes, it truly is December. I know this because everywhere I look is fake snow, bright baubles and scented shopping malls. I do love it though. Husband isn’t a big Christmas fan, he has made it clear the tree can go up, but it mustn’t get in the way of the flat screen telly and it better not flash too much, as that exacerbates his Aspergers Syndrome. I told him that him talking about the happy Christmas tree exacerbates my hormones and makes me feel like taking him straight to punchy town, he t… Continue

Added by Janey_Godley on December 4, 2009 at 1:55pm — No Comments

Don’t let me look back in anger

Things are happening in my life that keep making me look back, its not good news. Recently when I was in London it happened. I immediately recalled the first time I went to London to stay with my pal Finlay. It was 1994; I was hardly doing any comedy and was running my pub at the time. Just the sheer excitement of being away from the pub, husband and my child made me giddy with happiness. Soho looked like the most amazing place in the world; the big bright lights of Piccadilly dazzled me like… Continue

Added by Janey_Godley on November 29, 2009 at 9:25pm — 1 Comment

Mr Pigeon go away

I haven’t had a decent lie in since London. Honestly you would think I had a proper job or something, having to get up early and be places is the very reason I became a comedian. I do nowt! This morning I had to get up and go see the specialist about my ‘bowel’ issue suffice to say I am getting a colonoscopy quite soon which I am sure is sexual to a few hard nosed politicians yet evil to me. I have NEVER found excitement in shoving things up my back bottom, seriously -its exit only- and those… Continue

Added by Janey_Godley on November 24, 2009 at 2:32pm — No Comments

Comedy can be hell

Late blog – I know. Sorry, I was either really busy or asleep in London. The time just flew past and I didn’t quite catch up with myself. And I have been partying a wee bit, I do that in London – I rarely go out in Glasgow and save all the time up and end up staying out at The Groucho Club till 2am, then sleeping in like a fat old dog. My trip here has been really interesting, firstly on arrival in London I decided to call up Gordon Smith who is the boss of the Scottish Football thingy and I a… Continue

Added by Janey_Godley on November 23, 2009 at 12:41pm — No Comments

1000th Blog and still typing

Today I realised that I had written my 1,000 online blog. It all started in 2004 when I wrote a blog to help me get over writers block when I was writing my autobiography. It turns out I loved the blog and can’t quite let it go. It is syndicated to over 170 sites across the World Wide Web, it gained thousands of regular readers, it enjoys over half a million hits a week across the sites its published on. I have made many friends, learned loads about myself, annoyed people and ended up writing fo… Continue

Added by Janey_Godley on October 27, 2009 at 10:39am — No Comments

What’s not to love?

The gigs are all going well, we are near the end of the run, I got Three Five Star reviews, two three stars and one two star, now that’s a show! I have to admit that this show is my favourite one in ages and the most successful as far as future work off the back of it. After my publicity stunt at the McTaggart Lecture, I got heaps of telly people come see me. I stood outside the lecture hall and said “I might have the idea that saves your career” folk gawped at me then I whispered “There are se… Continue

Added by Janey_Godley on August 30, 2009 at 12:50pm — No Comments

Get a Grip Godley!

After the fiasco of having food poisoning and still managing to do my show’s am excited it’s all nearly over…not my life, the fringe! We are on the home run now people! Had some lovely people come to see my show, some Glasgow Celtic players (who I don’t know), Dean Freidman, Jimmy Carr and Roland Gift, his wife Louise and the actress Diane Quick, all lovely! Though Jimmy Carr’s distinctive laugh had me giggling throughout my own show, it really is infectious! The crew from BBC Scotland’s comedy… Continue

Added by Janey_Godley on August 27, 2009 at 6:58am — No Comments

The Night it all went wrong

Just told my pal Monica “I need to write a blog, so you must ignore me” “Easy done” she sniggered. She will suffer for that remark, when I start vomiting again and she has to hold a pot for me to puke in. that’s what friends are for. My illness started on Friday night, I did my show, it was great fun, Monica clapped loudly, Dean Friedman (my lovely friend and musical hero) laughed loudly and we headed out of the venue. Monica and I walked up to the Gilded Balloon loft, I had some tea, Monica ha… Continue

Added by Janey_Godley on August 23, 2009 at 11:29am — No Comments

What A week!

Friday is awesome; I got another FIVE STAR review today and that’s my third they all came from these sources (Scotsgay-one4review- The Mirror) and got named as number four in the top ten comedy blogs in Britain! I am chuffed to bits. During the week, I recorded Just a Minute and Comic Fringes for BBC Radio 4, the comic fringes was a short story I had written and read out to a live audience. The short story is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 3.30pm on 25th August 2009. Hope you like it! Life at the… Continue

Added by Janey_Godley on August 21, 2009 at 1:54pm — No Comments

Yet another late blog

I have been very sleepy lately. This always happens when I am at a festival, I get knackered, and I eat too much or too little and then hunker down in the duvet and snore away my life. Only getting up to perform or go to press things and then slotting my life into units where I can squeeze some more sleep in! I am possibly turning into a hedgehog. Ashley is SO OVER the fringe and spends her nights watching TV on her laptop and making tea for me. She has given up on hanging out with disenchanted… Continue

Added by Janey_Godley on August 15, 2009 at 12:54am — No Comments

You know how late I am don’t you?

When an audience member asks why I haven’t written a blog in days, you know you are a bad blogger. Things are going great, husband is back in Glasgow and life in Edinburgh ticks on and on. Audience numbers are up on last year and as I am in a 175 seater THAT’S a lot of seats to fill! Everyone had a great first weekend, numbers were great and now we are onto the dip in the midweek section and you can see some comedians walking about looking glum. But it is just the midweek slump, especially if y… Continue

Added by Janey_Godley on August 13, 2009 at 6:15am — No Comments

It’s all GO

I am up to my eyes in doing last minute stuff, Ashley is home and that’s great. Dad is basically breaking things in his house and needs me to go up and look at the broken things he has broke, which is always fun. It really is cool getting to spend time with him though, he has stopped swearing too much, he was swearing a lot after mum died and I think he had one big sweary week and got it all out, so its all over. I love my dad. I will miss him when I go to Edinburgh and am slightly worried he wi… Continue

Added by Janey_Godley on August 2, 2009 at 5:08pm — No Comments

The Fringe is almost upon me

I have paid the cash, booked the flat, got the posters made, seen my mug in the brochure and have a cracking show ready to blurt out onstage. What more do I need? Oh, yes, to move to Edinburgh for a month. Husband is not going; he is staying in the flat in Glasgow as he is eternally bored of Edinburgh and hates me saying “Darling” too many times in one day. He also cannot abide the flood of drama students who ‘black up, dress as vampires/slaves/scary ghouls and walk about with a empty box, two… Continue

Added by Janey_Godley on July 29, 2009 at 5:06am — 1 Comment

The Art of Sound

Humming can be like chanting, an almost unconscious form of meditation. With lips pressed together, sound vibrating on the tender skin, the head becomes filled with resonance, and there is a sense of echoing amid the canyons of cavities within the skull. Images and colors come, floating on the notes. I remember reading the autobiography of Nina Simone and how she wrote that, after a performance, sometimes she would be awake for hours, lying in her bed, the songs still reverberating in her brain.… Continue

Added by Stephen Mead on July 19, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Janey Godley “Godley's World” Promo

A teaser for Janey Godley’s, Edinburgh Fringe show "Godley's World" 2009. More details on http://www.janeygodley.com Continue

Added by Janey_Godley on May 31, 2009 at 10:40am — No Comments

JANEY GODLEY - GODLEY’S WORLD - Edinburgh 2009

Janey Godley’s Edinburgh Fringe Ad 2009

Checkout my new ad for the Edinburgh Fringe 2009, I would love to hear your opinion. Thanks Janey Godley Continue

Added by Janey_Godley on April 16, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

How To Write A Good Masters Dissertation?

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Added by suzzane donald on March 24, 2009 at 2:24am — No Comments