Last Saturday afternoon I appeared as headliner at the final “Word With The Bird” all-ages show, hosted and produced by Mark Tournoff.

I’d not met Mark before, but he seems a most well connected man. I bemusedly shared a video promoting our show from local MP Sian Berry, before discovering that Kim Fuller, who wrote Spiceworld: The Movie, was behind one of the sketches being performed.

The set-up is a chat show format, where each act is interviewed by Mark and Joseph, the eponymous bird, before doing their material. For me, this was tremendously exciting. I have interviewed many people over the years, and it was nice if surreal to have the questioning shoe on the other foot.

Also, it felt like I was on some 1980s chat show, with Mark playing some kind of combination of Terry Wogan and Rod Hull & Emu, though he shut down my suggestion that Joseph had bit me very quickly indeed.

As the last act at the last Word with the Bird of the season, my theme was endings. For this, I thought death – goths – and breakups. And so performed With Goth On Their Side and Doris Wu.

During the hmhb number I was able to show the audience a pint of snakebite and black, so show them what one was.

The sketches and other guest acts were very enjoyable, and my songs went down delightfully, as far as I can tell. I recorded my set for my own research purposes, and it sounds good. I know comedians record their own stuff all the time. But I think I’ll only ever have the gumption to listen back when I know something has gone well.