Comedian Huge Davies brings Album 4 My Ancestors (DEAD)  to Portsmouth - video Dailymotion

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Comedian Huge Davies will be bringing his debut tour Album 4 My Ancestors (DEAD) to  The Lens Studio, Portsmouth Guildhall on April 19 (tickets on www.hugedavies.com).

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00:00Good afternoon. My name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. Lovely this

00:06morning to speak to Hugh Davies. And Hugh, you are heading towards Portsmouth on your

00:11debut tour. Now the debut tour, in a way, has been a long time coming. You wanted to

00:15wait until you felt it was absolutely the right time to tour. But you're loving this

00:19debut tour. You're saying that you want the audiences to be good, the shows to be fulfilling,

00:24and that's certainly happening.

00:26Yeah, they're a lot of fun. The way that I've written the show is which kind of every single

00:30show is different as well. So I think it's really important when you're doing like a

00:35long tour that you need to feel different every time and you're making something new

00:42and unique for the audience that are there. So every show that I do, whenever someone

00:48comes up to me or messages me and says they had a really good time at the show, if I ask

00:52them which show it was, I'll know exactly which one it was, because every single one

00:55is different. And it relies a lot on the audience. And yeah, that's something I've really been

01:02implementing.

01:02Not just a blur when you get off stage afterwards.

01:05No, no, they're all really different.

01:07Distinct in your mind.

01:08Sometimes people now, like people have seen the show before and come back to the tour

01:13on a different place. And if I don't necessarily remember the place, but if they say what happened

01:19in the show, they can go, oh, that was a really fun one. Or that was not such a fun

01:24one. But yeah, I always have a very vivid memory of every single show that I've ever

01:29done. And we're getting into the point where it's almost getting into like 60, 70 shows.

01:34So I remember every single one.

01:35And we're talking about the timing being right for the tour. You've been doing this coming

01:39out for 10 years, but this is the first tour. Why now for that tour?

01:44It's just I felt like I wanted to do a tour. You can't really explain these things. I

01:49think that I think I got to a place in which I wanted to meet my own audience. I've been

01:56doing a lot of different kind of projects over the years, and you never really know

02:02who it's reaching. You can sort of see numbers on social media or whatever it is, or viewing

02:08figures or producers telling you how well something is going. But you never really can

02:12see. And it's really cool to meet all the different sorts of people who would come to

02:17a show like that. And the pressure does feel off. Because people have come to see you,

02:21they're not come to see a lineup of comedians, or you the comedian that you're supporting,

02:25they've come to see you and it feels very rewarding.

02:27And you've got a cracking title for this album, My Ancestors, Brackets Dead and your

02:34ancestors, your close friends and families, you call them include ET and Uncle Joe from

02:39Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

02:41Yeah, it's a family show for a family crowd. Yeah, it's a, it's

02:47How do you justify these people as ancestors then?

02:50Well, you know, they're in the scriptures, you've got to consult the scriptures. I've

02:55checked the scriptures and you know, my family tree looks insane. And I'm not going to judge.

03:00I accept my family tree, I accept my family, this is my blood.

03:03It's the interrelatedness of being, isn't it?

03:06Yes, it's about it's about acceptance. Ultimately, you know, this is show about acceptance. It's

03:11not a very funny show. It's a show. It's a it's a show about accepting your your ancestors,

03:16no matter who they are, no matter if they're Batman, or the all six from the six friends

03:20from friends. You know, these are all is a beautiful family tree. And I'm proud to be

03:25playing songs that they've given to me.

03:29Good luck with the remainder of the tour.

03:31Thanks very much, Phil.

03:33Love to speak to you. Thank you.

Comedian Huge Davies brings Album 4 My Ancestors (DEAD) to Portsmouth

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