WHEN I was a little girl I dreamed of many things.

 

I wanted to be SheRa Princess of Power, I wanted to marry Morten Harket from Aha and I wanted to stand up on a stage and perform.

Apparently I wanted to perform so badly that one day when my mum went to pick me up from Garrowhill nursery the teacher asked to have a word with my mother about her unruly three-year-old.

You see earlier that day she had been reading the story of Tarzan to all the boys and girls when all of a sudden I marched up onto the stage of the old church hall we were in and started belting out, "Down in the jungle where nobody knows there's a big fat mama washing her clothes with a rub a tub here and a rub a tub there that's the way she washes her clothes."

The nursery teacher then spent a good five minutes trying to remove me from the stage but like a true pro I remained undeterred and firmly put.

My mother apologised and gave me such a telling off when we got outside but all I could offer as a defence was "but mummy they were all clapping and cheering for me?"

To be fair it wasn't the last time I was physically removed from a stage, years later in Dublin I had been a guest on RTE's The Late Late Show and ended up in a private members club where U2 front man Bono was also in attendance.

I was so drunk that I mistook the live music for a karaoke and went up uninvited on to the stage and tried to start singing the Oleta Adams hit Get Here very badly and wildly out of key.

The last thing I remember was Bono putting his fingers in his ears as I was carted out of the VIP section by two big burly bouncers, granted not my finest hour.

Things were very different however, on Tuesday night in the Kings Theatre in Glasgow.

I stood backstage at 7.28pm trying in vain to stop my body from shaking uncontrollably as I waited for the curtain to go on my very own one woman show.

I couldn't believe that somehow I'd made it to this point in my life and that a packed audience were waiting out there just to see me perform.

It was undoubtedly one of the best nights of my entire life and something I will never forget as long as I live.

It wouldn't have been possible though without so many people believing in me and supporting me.

Thank you so much to Tommy Sheppard, Sarah, Stuart and all the team at the Glasgow Comedy Festival for giving me this incredible opportunity.

Thank you to Stephen Martin and all the staff and crew at The Kings Theatre.

Thank you to my wonderfully talented friend comedian Bruce Devlin for writing it.

Thank you to my musical directors Tommy Chambers and Jen Phee for creating an unbelievable sound on the night with a world class band and the Soundsational Choir.

And thank you, thank you to each and every person who came along to see the show.

I can't tell you how grateful and lucky I am to have such wonderful people in my life supporting me and I promise never to forget that.

If only I could go back and tell that wee three-year-old girl belting her heart out on that church hall stage of what lay ahead of her, and more importantly tell that teacher who had a giant hook at the side of the stage with my name on it.

Thank you xxx

Don't forget there are still lots of fantastic shows happening all over the city during the Glasgow Comedy festival.

The lovely and very talented Susie McCabe will be performing her hilarious show, The drugs Don't Work, on Thursday March 26 at the Stand Comedy Club.

Also performing on Thursday is my comedy idol Dorothy Paul at the Kings Theatre.

Dorothy had said this will be her last show but I sincerely hope that's not the case.

For more information just log onto www.glasgowcomedyfestival.com