I'm pretty lucky to work on both 'CSI: NY' and 'Supernatural.' Not bad gigs!
My grandfather, Arthur Baskerville, he played and still plays a little bit piano and trombone, and so when I was a kid, I always heard jazz around the house, but I also went to his gigs, whether it be a Saturday brunch in my hometown Columbus, Ohio. We'd go and hear him play with some of the local musicians.
I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
Comics are regularly asked to perform for impossible rooms. They're called 'hell gigs.'
At a festival, a lot of people came to see other artists, so you have to put on a signature set and performance: 'This is what I do, this is why I'm here.' At solo gigs, I'm a DJ - I'll play two-and-a-half hours, and not just my own music, also my favorite songs by other artists.
I went to see Billy Connolly do two hours with no break at the Apollo, with Parkinson's disease, during the winter, and it was one of the most important gigs I have seen in my life.
I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.
Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.
One of my least favourite gigs was a festival. There weren't many people there and they were all talking.
I get nervous about gigs sometimes, but not with records - I always get excited.
