Well.

I’m switching sides.

Steve 4 Frazer from here on out!

We have an AI soundtracked ad for a gym chain here in Belgium, and it sound astonishingly poor. Like, not technically fit for broadcast levels of poor. And no-one can fix it because it’s an impression of an advert, not a master mixed set of individual tracks…

Add shots for ‘drill’, ‘down’, and ‘into’ and you could very well be unconscious before a round is scored…

Loved it, been chatting about it in the pub. They didn’t know anything beyond ‘Greek myth’ and ‘a Girls Aloud’ so the musical style and everything really took them by surprise. They absolutely loved the moment where the stage changed during Wait For Me.

Me. Definitely me. As soon as I’ve recovered from this weekend.

Me.

It is SO good, I caught it a few weeks into its run and loved it. Layton absolutely deserved his Olivier!

Awww, and you just started popping up for me as a suggested friend…

Aaaaaah, I didn’t realise there was a tour. I hope you both have a great time, it’s a show I’ve got a lot of love for.

This time, it’s for an Andy Zaltzman WIP, making it the second time this year that my friend Sean and I have travelled from Belgium to London to see the Zaltz. Technically it’s the same show - Andy is working new material for his Zaltzgeist tour extension.

Are… are you in London?

I expected to see flags and pseudo patriotic bullshit leveraging Remembrance Day. I wasn’t expecting to encounter this so directly. I get to exist in the privilege bubble of being white and male and living abroad. I really didn’t anticipate encountering this so openly and so quickly today.

Friend goes to the gents. One flagshagger there, phone out, composing a voice note or doing speech to text, mid-piss, talking about ‘showing immigrants what they’ve done to our country’.

Middle-aged leader (most were either ancient gammon or barely out of school and indoctrinated) is talking about forcing the police to do things regarding immigrants at, presumably, some kind of shitty racist demonstration.

They start congregating, all in pseudo Temu military-style black gear, plenty of b&w union flag patches on arms. Of course, they take the tables next to us.

Cape man turns around, wearing a full ‘stop the boats’ t-shirt.