Wow!!! wowowowwowowow.
I've just come back from seeing Danny live! All the waiting was finally over.
The crowd was surprisingly small, which was great from my point of view, because our table was only about 5 metres away from the stage. He took a little while to warm up, but was absolutely hilarious, of course. Because most of his material that I have seen in the past I thought was quite old, I thought he would have a lot of new stuff, but it turned out that I had seen the majority of it before. Still completely worth seeing live though.
He eventually got to the obligatory Australian jokes, which, personally, I think are actually quite flattering, and he asks "Is anyone in the audience from Australia?" Yay!!! James and Kacee pointed me out and I put up my hand. He asked my name and why I was in Sheffield and when I told him I was studying he asked what, and when I told him linguistics he obviously had no jokes lined up for it whatsoever, and merely said "That must be nice" haha. He asked where I was from, and I replied "Perth, the place where you didn't go last time you were in Australia" HA! My first heckle. He said "Oh we have a fan here tonight". And he continued on with the show, every now and then referring to me for agreement on some point about Australians and Australia. All of which were true.
My American friend thoroughly THOROUGHLY enjoyed the orchestra/bagpipes routine. He was quite literally in tears.
After the show I went and had a chat to him, and took this
( photos of us...Collapse )And that was my sublimely happy night! I would gladly go and see him again.