Promising a set more memorable than your wedding, Josh Glanc (rhymes with romance) opens his hour performing a ballad about love at first breath test, then wraps things up and leaves the stage. He will re-enter and exit several more times in a show that hymns the pleasure of being so “in the zone” that you lose track of time. You’re certainly never clock-watching as the crop top-clad, bushy-moustached Australian oddball sprays us with a silly string of songs and thumbnail sketches.
The Family Man title may suggest autobiography, but don’t expect too much personal backstory in a show – nominated for the Edinburgh comedy award – that is reluctant to sustain a theme. Glanc’s opening number is reprised with new, equally unlikely meet-cute scenarios (none quite as funny as the first) and he crosses generations with an affecting song about an old man, then swivels his flat cap to become a young one. It momentarily proposes, yet does not deliver, a deeper contrast between the two because Glanc is swiftly on to the next bit.
