Hi, I'm Imajim for Waffle TV sponsored by West Bay and I'm here with Canadian and spoken word poet Rob Alton. Hello, how are you? Hello, I'm Ok thank you, how are you? Very good, thanks. So this is your fourth year on the fridge, yes? Yes. Yeah it is. And how's it gone so far with coming to the end? It's been really good this year so far, I think it's been different like when I first started doing my run, there was people who come to like last year's show, come and then people look at the new, they're coming along and then there's the fridge is going along, the audience has changed so I've got a couple of our reviews and clips up. Oh no, we'll just keep going. So now the audience has changed here, we might have to move here. Do you find the audience is getting better? Do you are more well-made? Well no the thing is is that if you get what I find is if you get a couple of reviews that say I'll go and see this and people kind of come with their arms folded like come on. It's a team here. Yeah which is a bit more difficult than people just kind of coming on a whim and going all that sounds I'll take a moment on that, it's about the sky or yellow or whatever. Yeah so why have you chosen to write about the lovely sky? Well I just want to write about things that I like, no like the sky and I like to call it yellow yeah and I yeah it's very simple, very simple, very simple, I would say yeah I'll write over the whole book. Yeah I'll write this. Top one, top 10. So am I right in saying that you gave a book of careers selling paint brushes? Yeah, I did that. You've been doing your research. Oh I have, well over that. You're a wicked people. Yeah right. Yeah you still worked in an art shop selling art spots because I really like painting. Now you're painting for? Yeah I do actually, yeah. Well try. I don't know, not according to a review I've got yesterday. But yeah you will see. So do you find that you're a poet or a comedian first or do they just go hand in hand? I think I'm just I would like to say I'm a writer. Yeah. And then I stand up and say what I've written and I do poetry nights and do comedy nights. Sometimes it was weird because I won that day joke at a fringe which was great to win it. But I had a lot of people asking your questions about how to write good jokes and things like that. And I've got no idea. I just. You're the TV-man. No, yeah. Yeah. And you'll pull me a festival later this year. Yes I am. For that? I'm very excited yeah. I can't wait. I love festivals. And yeah, Scroobe's PIP has got me on there. Yeah, he's been so good. I hope it will of course be his festival like he came to the show. And liked it. And that was like on the back of four of Dale or something. And he's playing the like Pacto as is at the Pleasant's. So I think people say what's he going to see and then he kind of wants me in my direction. He's been brilliant. Yeah, really amazing. And no, it's been. It's been really good. I enjoy it. I just like forming and standing up and trying to save my peace. And I got this I got a review yesterday where this guy was like, oh what a missed opportunity. You should have done this. I'm like well, I'd like to see your show about the sky by me. And then I could maybe review it. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. But you do also write poetry. Do you find that it's different when you sit down and think okay, this is going to get published. I'm going to say this. Or do you just write and then see where it goes? It's definitely, I used to work in advertising, right? And I just like having ideas and sometimes the ideas come I have like a little clip of something and then make it into a longer thing. Or sometimes it only stays at four lines. I do, yeah, I like reading poetry. I like writing poetry and I don't know. And yeah, I like it. I like standing up and commenting on some doing some poems and seeing how it goes. So I hope you don't think you can have some douchebag. Could I ask you to tell your joke that's one best joke? It's a pretty good joke. Yeah. Did you think of douchebag? No. Okay. Jolly to do it. Yes please. Into the camera. I heard a rumor that Cambery's a release in the Oriental chocolate bar. Could be a Chinese whisper. Furnm-ch! Excellent. Very well done. Thank you so much. That's an absolute pleasure. I hope the rest of the fridge goes really well with you. It's been a pleasure to talk to you. Yeah, you too. Thanks very much, yeah. I feel with Rob Boughton. I'm the image in full-off TV.