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Hello and welcome to the show. podcast. that we're not allowed to name. I don't think that's working so used to my to doing that

Mark thank you for coming oh that's all right I'm going to spend the rest of this

facing you in a slightly unnerving.

Yeah, the whole layout of the room is sort of odd as well, isn't it?

Sort of gladiatorial.

Yeah, well, we could do it naked in the middle if you want.

I thought you'd never ask.

Yeah, maybe we're closed like that.

So let's start with talking about your show last night.

So you did effectively a preview of a show in front of about 250 people.

Yeah, it was, I mean, quite a lot of people at the festival do do,

a show that's label work in progress.

For me, it was literally the first stamp at a new show although I'd tried bits of it before but

because of the public's enthusiasm for this festival I ended up with a bigger crowd for essentially

a warm-up show than I'd normally get for an actual show.

So I began that, it sounds like a con uncharitable thing to do, but I began by saying,

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