16/07/2025
I thought last weeks Rats was going to lost to the sands of time but with four days notice we were offered a venue and I'm determined to honour this series and the poor acts who've been promised a place in the life changing final, not that I can remember who any of them were (please get in touch if you went through to the final at a heat)
Russel our faithful sound man had taken his first Rats off in three years, being Russell he hadn't left us any instructions and had turned his phone off which meant that the whole first half of the show, which famously I've invested over £10,000 pounds in to stream was being broadcast in total silence.
This was a show of two halves. Half one an audience of four, one of whom mistakenly asked me to charge her phone pre show which I had left on stage thus keeping her prisoner. She did return for the second half so can only assume she was suffering from Stockholm syndrome. Half two, fifteen 70 year old Irish women who were in London for the a 70th birthday party walked in.
Our stage manager who had rang me at 4pm that afternoon had told me he was en route and by 9pm he had still not arrived meaning we were unable to monetise our Gaelic grannys so had to sit through their incessant heckling for free.Will our stream have any sound? Will our stage manager have showed up by this weeks show, will we get kicked out of another venue before the end of the run? Stay tuned.....
