Obie The Comedian

Thank you everybody for the support on my Crowdfunding project to fund my three week run at the Melbourne Comedy festival. I’ve had.

I’ve raised 25% of my target so far with just over a month to go.

Id like to thank all the people so far who have helped. All backers get something for backing me. So far I’ve given out 12 copies of my live show from the State Bar in September last year, and 14 tickets to my solo show at the Glasgow Comedy festival on the 16th March ( Yes that was an indirect plug). You can find out more at the end of this post.

Here are the people I’d like to thank for their funding so far. Much appreciated.

Stephen Lyall who has been brilliant and invited me along to two of his business networking groups to do some stand up. Stephen is a great guy. He runs two brilliant companies, and has a crunchies addiction. He runs a great company that helps small businesses.  He recently took John Higgins on as the face of his company. Here’s his two websites.  negoriatenow and Businessgrowthnow

Chris Dinwoody. The best close up magician in Scotland. Book him for a party a wedding or anything else. He will mess with your head. Heres the link to his sight.  topclassmagic.

David Heffron, A fellow comedian performing at the Glasgow Comedy festival on the 23rd March.  Find out more here.

Andrew J Campbell,  A bloke from Paisley with a beard who works with some bus and coach company I think.

David Fowler, another bloke who works on the buses. I think he might know Andrew. Thanks guys.

Stuart Westwood, A brilliant photographer. He even managed to make me look respectable. Have a look at his awesome photography here.

Cathy Westwood, Cathy is the woman who has to look after Stuart Westwood. Well done Cathy you are a trouper

Billy Watson, All the way from Turkey. A great bloke who also does a bit of Stand up. Ill put his website up when he has updated it.

Katy McColl, a great girl who help run a monthly success group in Glasgow. I go to this every month and its great. These girls are inspirational. Add yourself to their group on Facebook. Here.

Paul Lunny,

Lee Kayne, Works with a pharmacy. Also a member of the monthly success group. He has just qualified as an NLP practitioner. Good bloke. Birthday on the 21st of February. Ask me how I know that

Richard Davies, Good lad who I worked with in my last job in a warehouse in Cumbernauld,

Daniel Petherbridge, A new Comedian on the circuit. Watch out for this guy.

Marnie Mulholland, A lovely girl from Glasgow somewhere. I met her through a personal development workshop. She is also a biker. Hert one flaw is that she is shite at words with friends on facebook.

Thank to you all. I really appreciate it. Here’s the link for my project. Have a look to see what rewards you can have for backing me.

Oh I nearly forgot. I’m previewing my Melbourne show at the Glasgow Comedy Festival in the State Bar on Friday the 16th of March.

More details and booking info here. OBIE: MIND CONTROL.

Hello everybody.  Hows it going.  This last few months has been like a bit mental. I took redundancy from my day job in July. Some may think being made redundant is a bad thing. Its the best thing that’s happened to me in a while.

After leaving in July I had a month of not doing much. I needed the break. My day job was mind numbing. I needed a month to feel normal again.

Then in August it was the Edinburgh festival. I love Edinburgh. I didn’t do a solo show this time around. I did a show with a Geordie comedian called Dan Willis called Jocks and Geordies. It was me and him with some other Jocks and Geordies.  This was a great wee holiday for me. The show sells itself so didn’t have to do much.

October I set up my first memory training workshop. I have learned some great techniques to improve my memory so I decided to run a workshop teaching people how to do this.

The comedy is been going great so far. I’m getting some great gigs in great venues. I have now been invited to do a three weeks run at the Melbourne Comedy festival. Woohoo. The only slight problem I have with that is that my redundancy money has run dry. AAAgh.

So I’m on a fund raising mission to get there. It’s too much of a big opportunity to miss. I got in contact with Creative Scotland they helped me set up a crowd funding page.  This is a great concept. People get to sponsor me to help me get to Melbourne and they also get great rewards in return. e.g A Comedy live comedy show for you in any venue. Even your house . Have a look bellow for more details.  Getting to Australia would be a giant leap for my career.

Hi every one. I’m copying Louis CK and putting my latest video online for instant download. The show was filmed at the State Bar in Glasgow. Scotland’s longest running comedy club. Its one of the friendliest most intimate gigs around.

Grab this download now. Help me pay my mortgage

Here’s the link.

This Friday I’m performing a solo show in Glasgow at The State Bar on Holland St. It would bhe great to see you there.

I’m just back from the Edinburgh festival 2011. What a great year. This is the first time in five years I haven’t done a solo show. I did however do “Jocks and Geordies” with Dan Willis. It was a relaxing year. Here are my highlight in no particular order.

• Terry Alderton: I seen Terry on the night before my gig started. He was outstanding. Now one of my favorite  comedians. Go and see him if you get the chance. He has loads of stuff going on in his head, and you get to meet all the voices in his head.
• Doing 15 second Sketches for  BBC3. Me and Dan Willis who did Jocks and Geordies spent the past two weeks doing daft sketches in a small booth owned by the BBC. It was great fun. Some of them were shite, but there was some great ones there. Here is one they put on the site.
• Puppy juggling: Our best gig of the festival involved a puppy called Ruby. The gig was rammed, all the comedians on were storming it. THen just before I went on a comedian from another show turned up with a puppy. I started my gig by taking the puppy on stage and saying I was going to start with some puppy juggling. I didn’t of course. The gig went great. The Dan came on at the end, and said if the audience weren’t generous with the collection then Obie was going to kill the puppy. What a laugh. Best gig ever in all of history.
• Michael Winslow: On the night after the festival finished I went to see the guy from police academy who did the noises doing a show. This guy was amazing. He did noises from seep sea diving, star wars and Jimmy Hendrix on the guitar. Absolutely outstanding. Talented bastard. I want to learn his skill.
• Melbourne Comedy festival: I met a great contact that can help me get into the Melbourne comedy festival next year. Great bloke who loves a bevvie.
• I had an agent come to see me: I got in contact with an agent who does gigs around Scotland. They like my stuff so I should be getting some gigs from them soon.

Thats all the highlights I can think of now.  There was so lowlights apart from the rain.

Ill update more when I think of them.

Obie.