You don’t have to like the band Radiohead to be a part of Willis’ comic journey, as he says during the show, if his whole routine was about Tom Yorke and Co. it might be a bit depressing.

Willis takes you through a series of his life experiences, punctuated with short grabs of music that serve as start and end points for the stories. He uses a whiteboard with illustrated butcher’s paper, turning the pages over to introduce the next song or chapter. Remember what song was playing when you had your first kiss or broke up with your partner? You get the general idea behind the show, but is it funny? For most of this one, it was. Willis is an experienced comedian and delivers a well-rehearsed, quick fired set that involves the audience at various points to break up the show with some short grabs of improvisation.

Willis tells us his show usually runs for a couple of hours, but he had to cut it down for the Festival. Venue time constraints on the night made that last 15-20 minutes a bit rushed, as he looked to round out the performance on a high. But he still managed to pull it off. There were a lot of pages left on the butcher’s paper that we didn’t see, and that’s a shame because it felt like Willis was just warming up.