Bright Club Third Edition: 1st March 2012

Hello readers! This is how Bright Club - The Third Edition went down:

Bright Club organiser Claire Hoyda welcomed the crowd to another sell out show and introduced compere, Sian Bevan, MA (that's a Masters in Creative Writing, by the way.... postgrads FTW!)

First up was historian Struan Logan who shared stories about his favourite historical figure, Teddy Roosevelt: a man so cool, he makes Chuck Norris look like a pansy.

Virologist Richard McGonigle turned up the heat with tales of love and phallic microscopes!

Lewis Roy’s specialist subject was post-apocalyptic literature: did you know that the dementors in the fourth Harry Potter book were actually a metaphor for nuclear war?

After the break we had a bit of a break from the humanities and science with musical act, Jay Bharaj whose hit "Pub grub" rang true with more than a few audience members.

Alistair Gemmell, the particle physicist had a "smashing" time discussing his work at the large Hadron Collider!

Alison Eales, self-proclaimed BeeGeeologist gave us a lesson in disco. Did you know The Beegees wrote "Islands in the stream"? Mind blown.

Jamie Gallagher is a hot chemical physicist - literally! Jamie discussed his research into crystals which convert heat into electricity... and proved that radiation poisoning can actually be quite fun (?!).

I want to finish by saying a big thank you to all those who came along, to all the organisers for making the night happen and to Iain Hepburn who filmed all the sets - relive the night here on youtube!

Bright Club is back on March 26^th at The Stand as part of Glasgow International Comedy Festival, hosted by Gallus Glaswegian, Raymond Mearns. See you then!