Bad Gigs

Alan McElroy

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Who doesn't love a complete disastrous bombing on stage?!?! Well... The performer! As a comedian, I've had good gigs and bad gigs but the good gigs don't make a funny story. The diabolical ones do! In this podcast, I will chat with several performers and have a laugh about some of their worst gigs and discuss the performer's mental ability to recover and carry on @al_mcelroy facebook.com/ComedianAlanMcElroy

05/01/2025

The World Is !@#$%*! Episode 26 - Hatey Perry

The lads are back! Tired, mid comedy fest and depressed,Alan & David power through. But the most important thing that happened is Katy Perry killed a plant, brought it to space for a few mins, let it see his family as he dies, then kisses the earth that produced the dead flower

35 min
06/10/2024

Bad Gigs Episode 12 with Sanjay Patel

Sanjay Patel from Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee has been gigging since 2008. We've done a lot of weird gigs together over the years so we reminisce on some of those. I copied the following from his website: Just a small bit about me. I’ve been performing stand up comedy in NZ since the end of 2008. (I said that already) This has included performing solo shows in 4 NZ International Comedy Festivals and solo shows for the first time in both the Dunedin Fringe Festival & Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2016.

48 min
12/10/2023

Bad Gigs Episode 11 with Danny McChrystal

Danny McChrystal is Liverpudlian comedian who was based in New Zealand for several years & performed at the NZ International Comedy Festival a few times. He appeared on the stand up comedy show, AotearoHa & the clip of which can be seen here: https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/aotearoha-next-big-things-2011/credits Danny and I gigged together a lot and had some horrendous gigs, which we discuss here

1h 6m
07/07/2023

Bad Gigs Episode 10 with Justine Smith

Finally we're back and what a lovely episode to come back with! NZ legendary comedian, Justine Smith share's her bad gig stories. This was actually recorded over a year ago but a last minute, "Your computer has f@#k all memory left" message meant a disastrous cleans of the bloody lap top but I was delighted to find this recently and cannot wait to do more!

41 min
12/11/2021

Bad Gigs Episode 9 with Scotty McNairn

This episode is nuts!! Welcome back to Bad Gigs and in this episode, I chat with musician Scotty McNairn from the band, Nerdlinger. This is one of my favourite stories ever so have a listen and spread it about https://www.facebook.com/nerdlinger.punkrock

36 min
11/27/2021

Bad Gigs Episode 8 with Broden Tadros

Something lovely happened recently, I had some performers get in touch with me to share their experience and Broden Tadros was one of them. He is my first musician/band member and he's in Sydney. It turns out that we share a similar story which was fun to discuss and embarrassing to remember. He is also a podcaster and runs https://www.chatswiththemusos.com/ Check out his links to his social media and chats with musos! Enjoy

37 min
11/09/2021

Bad Gigs Episode 7 with Lolsy Byrne

This week i'm joined by a fellow Irish comedian living in NZ, Lolsy Byrne. We're both still locked down in different regions of Auckland so we Zoomed this great chat and cover everything from dog s***s to bad gigs! Lolsy is known for her hilarious comedy and starring on Youtube's Try channel. Enjoy, share, sellotape it to lamp posts etc

1h 2m
11/01/2021

Bad Gigs Episode 6 with Lindsay Webb

Welcome to episode 6 with the hilarious Aussie comedian, Lindsay Webb! We have a great chat about life, getting back to gigging after a long lockdown and of course, bad gigs. Thanks and welcome to the new listeners. If you enjoy these podcasts, please jump on https://www.nzpodcastawards.com/nominate and give our little pod a vote. We're a small fish in a big pond and at this early stage, any extra attention would be amazing. Thanks again and enjoy

35 min

Who doesn't love a complete disastrous bombing on stage?!?! Well... The performer! As a comedian, I've had good gigs and bad gigs but the good gigs don't make a funny story. The diabolical ones do! In this podcast, I will chat with several performers and have a laugh about some of their worst gigs and discuss the performer's mental ability to recover and carry on @al_mcelroy facebook.com/ComedianAlanMcElroy

Creator

Alan McElroy
Years Active

2021 - 2025
Episodes

13
Rating

Explicit
Copyright

© Alan McElroy
Show Website

Bad Gigs