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A review from 5D Music & Theatre writer Maria Robertson.
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This was my third time seeing Gary Meikle, and my second that he was supported by Weegie Hink Ae That. The support guys are three Glaswegians with a guitar. They sing songs and do little funny skits wearing shell suits and goofy smiles. This time they had the addition of a song about the size of seagulls in Aberdeen which is hilarious to anyone who has met the massive birds around here. My companion struggled with the accents, not being Scottish herself, but said she understood 75% of it and was laughing merrily anyway.
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Gary has called his tour 2.5 and the blurb for the show says this is because it’s almost his third tour, but actually he told us during the show that it’s in tribute to, or sticking his fingers up to, a reviewer who only gave him a rating of 2.5 sometime ago. Now he’s found out that the reviewer was a failed comedian whilst Gary is touring the world making people laugh as far away as Australia and Thailand. I don’t give ratings but I definitely think he deserves more than 2.5 it must be said! He is not everyone’s cup of tea, a lot of his jokes are very crude, his language is… shall we say very Glaswegian: he loves the f-word. I discovered him from his ranting videos on Facebook and then he came to local comedy venue Breakneck Comedy. One of the earlier videos that I saw was about dick pics, and how ridiculous they are, it had me absolutely creased up laughing. I totally agreed with everything he said about them.
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A lot of Gary’s comedy is based around his life, he’s a single grandfather, and his daughter Ainsley is now in a lesbian relationship. He tells various stories about his Mum, or his gorgeous little granddaughter Gracie who sometimes appears in his videos. Ainsley is his manager now and books his tours, including all the dates in America when he went over recently. It’s safe to say that his girls are his life, they are also very good fodder for jokes it would seem, especially Gracie and her massive poos but that’s all I’ll say about that subject!
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Space spunk was another topic covered in this show and impregnating female astronauts. This one has totally stuck in my head and I am tempted to check the internet to validate what he told us. There were several things he told us to Google over the evening – and some that he assured us we should trust his “research” and not search for ourselves! He is absolutely hilarious, the story about being in an airplane toilet with Gracie was almost as funny as wanking in space. Gary is definitely not politically correct or for the easily offended.
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For this tour he is doing meet and greet before the show, and in the interval. You can pay a pound to get a selfie with him which goes to local food banks and all the money raised he is matching out of his own pocket. This is a great initiative and just another indication of what a genuine caring guy he is. Gary always watches out for the underdog having grown up in a care home himself. It’s great to see the progress of someone who started by doing some funny videos on the internet and is now grown his comedic career to the extent that he has won awards and toured abroad. He does not use agents or PR people, he’s a “self-made man” as the phrase goes – all power to him for that!
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Just wish I could have been a “fly on the wall” in the car back to Glasgow as they all travelled together. Dazza, another internet sensation with his Does It Fry videos, was there filming the show, so it would have been quite a car load with the five of them!
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Further information: https://www.garymeikle.com/ and https://weegiehinkaethat.co.uk/
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Maria Robertson is the Chief Music & Theatre Writer for the 5D Pop Culture Website and provides reviews & coverage of local Aberdeen music & theatre gigs. She’s an experienced writer for numerous sources and is a self-confessed live gig addict ever since seeing The Counting Crows at the Barrowlands in 1994.
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