Comedy improv from The Noise Next Door tour
Comedy improv group The Noise Next Door are offering The Comedy Lock-in at Komedia, Brighton on March 9.
Tom Livingstone, from the group, is delighted to be back on the road.
“This is our biggest tour for a while but I think actually technically we are still on the rearranged 2020 tour. I think one of the venues has actually been rearranged for the fourth time now.
“We had just started this tour when the pandemic hit. We had done the first four dates, I think, when everything started shutting down and we all know what happened next. So we have been waiting for this for a long time. Obviously the pandemic was really tough on everybody and we just did what we could to keep going. We ended up doing shows online, not in the first lockdown but in the second and third lockdowns and right up to the 18th lockdown or whatever it was. When we were able to get together to do the shows, we did them and we took suggestions from the public on Zoom and it worked well.
“It was quite a shift for us but we just focused on making sure that we enjoyed ourselves and laughed at each other and made sure that we had fun. And somehow we managed to make it through.
“We also managed to develop some interesting things. We’ve developed some things that we would not have done if we had just carried on with the live performances and if there had not been a lockdown. I mean just little things. I think you can notice more about your own personal performance when you haven’t got an audience. It’s easier to think about how you are doing what you’re doing and why you are doing what you’re doing so in some ways perhaps there have been benefits to it.
“Of course, we would all rather it that hadn’t happened but the online stuff was a good opportunity in some ways.”