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‘Alun Cochrane will always be a daydreamer, in particular concocting schemes to
assassinate animals… his amiable stage-manner has been honed to near-perfection
[and] allied to some top-notch material’ **** List
Other things Alun does that may lead to (possibly less silly) stand-up material
include eating, sleeping, driving, being a son, father, brother, boyfriend,
friend, mortgage-holder, clothes-wearer, car-owner, radio-listener,
train-traveller, door-opener (and closer), alcohol-consumer, hangover-sufferer,
newspaper flicker-through-er, occasional football watcher, and general liver of
life, in short; he gets material from anywhere he wanders in mind or body.
He does some observational comedy,
‘A lot of people do observational comedy but you need a Jerry Seinfeld kind of
eye for the details of life combined with a warm enough personality to pull the
audience into your world to be really good at it. Alun has both of these
essential qualities in spades.’ ***** Mirror
And he often tells stories.
‘A master storyteller, holding the audience before dropping an exploding but
simple punchline’ Metro
On Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow (BBC1) he devoted most of his set to
retelling the tale of a train journey on which a man ate a peach and drank a can
of Redbull. Some of his other stories have more things happen in them.
He’s made several TV appearances on 8 out of Ten Cats and Mock The Week, whilst
on the airwaves 2009 has seen (or is it heard?) his first foray into breakfast
show broadcasting for XFM Manchester.
He popped up mocking himself on Radio Four on 4 Stands Up and mocking the
housing market on The Now Show.
In this the new age of austerity is the down-to-earth but nonetheless
imaginative daydreaming of a Scottish Yorkshireman (who drives a Skoda on tour)
exactly what people need?
After this show plays the Edinburgh festival (at night) he’s going to the Lake
District to stay in a Yurt (it’s a special tent) then in September he’s off on
tour (in his Skoda).
For more information on Alun Cochrane visit
www.aluncochrane.com