Ashley Storrie supported. She's a bit like a young hybrid of Kevin Bridges and Sarah Millican and funny with it. Performing at THE Glasgow Pavilion was a big step up for her but she handled it superbly, the only sign of nerves being the regular checking of her watch. The home crowd loved her.
I was disappointed by Katherine. I expected the Acid Queen, displaying a biting wit in the style of Joan Rivers. Instead, she was warm and inclusive, presenting some well-crafted comedy about her life and daughter and some material about her perspective on the world. Her claws were razor-sharp but little used. I had heard some of the lines before from her telly work too, which always takes the shine off.
It wasn't that it wasn't funny. The females in the audience lapped it up like kittens mewing for their mother's teat. In fact, their howls of laughter was a little off-putting due to the disparity in my ears between the laugh delivered and their OTT reaction.
She is sharp, her vocal work outstanding, her call-backs clever but belly laughs were rare for me. It felt tame like she was holding back from the gut-busting laughs she is capable of. Maybe she is just getting tired as the tour is nearly finished. Or more likely she just wasn't for me.
And on those grounds, Sarah Pascoe is still my favourite female comedian.
