Stand-up Christopher Macarthur-Boyd takes in Brighton on debut tour

Christopher Macarthur-Boyd heads out on his debut headline stand-up tour Scary Times including a number of south-coast dates.

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00:00Good morning, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor for Sussex Newspapers. Now, lovely

00:06this morning to be speaking to Christopher MacArthur-Boyd on his debut tour, his debut

00:11stand-up tour, the first tour with your name above the door, as you say. And this has been,

00:16I should say, you're coming to Brighton and Southampton in our area. This has been a while

00:22in the making, hasn't it? You've been in the business for a little while. How come it's

00:26happening now? What's the determining factor in that respect? Yeah, I suppose being able

00:32to tour on your own bikes is a matter of profile. And I was kind of toiling away on the comedy

00:39club circuit for a long time. And then I opened for Frankie Boyle on his tour. And I opened

00:47for Suzie McCabe on her tour. And then me and Frankie and Suzie started a podcast called

00:52Here Comes the Guillotine. And that's been doing really well. And I guess hopefully we're

01:00just thinking if people listen to that, they may come see me do stand-up. So it's been

01:05a wild ride so far. I've done a fringe run last year of the show, and then one date in

01:13Glasgow in a small venue, and then five dates this year in England at the start of the year.

01:18And now the proper tour's starting. This is the proper life. And that must feel super

01:22exciting but nerve-wracking too. I'm absolutely... I don't know, sometimes I find it quite difficult

01:31to know what my body's telling me. Do you know what I mean? You just have to keep going,

01:37don't you? But you've been the support plenty of times, haven't you? But now you have a

01:42support. Yeah, yeah. I've opened for people now. My pal Roscoe's my opening act, and I

01:47was the best man at his wedding, so I'm really looking forward to just being on the road

01:51with him and spending some time with him and winding each other up. The show is called

01:55Scary Times. What is it that's scaring you? Why are these times scary? Yeah, I think everybody's

02:03kind of scared just now because it seems as if everybody's quality of life's getting a

02:09little bit poorer as the cost of living goes up. But then there's also just the human condition,

02:16so it's kind of hard to balance the scariness of cost of living, you know, butter costing £7.50

02:26sometimes, versus the human condition of, you know, it's agony to be alive sometimes.

02:34You're throwing into all this, you're far too young for it, but you're throwing into all this

02:38a bit of nostalgia too, aren't you? There's a wee bit of nostalgia about top men and

02:45Woolworths and Peck and Mix. Calling it Scary Times and saying it's about the cost of living

02:54crisis and the human condition makes it sound really highfalutin. It's just an hour of kind

02:57of funny stories and jokes. I will clarify that for anybody who's listening. It's not so,

03:03it functions as a stand-up show. I love stand-up, so yeah. Fantastic, good. Well, good luck with the

03:09rest of the tour. Christopher, you're coming to Brighton and Southampton in our area. Hope

03:14it all goes brilliantly. Lovely to speak to you. Thank you. Thank you so much, Phil. I really

03:19appreciate it.