Rhod Gilbert

A month back I meant to blog about Rhod Gilbert’s Edinburgh Preview show we watched in a small venue in Eastwood. The venue was that small, it could possibly only hold 60 people, and we were within touching distance of the great man.

For those of you who don’t know, Rhod is an up and coming Welsh comedian, who last year was one of the highlights of the Edinburgh Festival with his show, Rhod Gilbert and the Prize Winning Mince Pie. A show Clair and myself went to see in Nottingham in March. Rhod stood up for over three hours telling about his experience of a Mince Pie in a shop in Knutsford Service Station, and his quest to find out why it was an award winning Mince Pie. He also was a great success at the Royal Variety Performance.

Well this years show is a follow up to last years, entitled Rhod Gilbert and the cat that looked like Nicholas Lyndhurst. Why its called that, I won’t say, you’ll have to see the show.

Well in a small venue in Eastwood, Rhod tested out his new materlal for his show, and cooly as you liked afterwards chatted with the audience asking for feedback about his performance. Absolutely brilliant.

We were going to watch the DVD recording of last years show in June, however it would have been too hard to get to London on time. The DVD is out in November, I definitely recommend it.