My show last week had a pretty simple set up, but I’m still packing a lot more stuff than I need.
I’m trying to have less “emergency” material. Sure having a trick or two in the case is a good idea, but having an extra 20-30 minutes of material is overkill for a show where I’m not really expected to do that much extra time as there are other acts on the bill and I wouldn’t be asked to fill their time if something happened to them. I may be asked to do a show in someone else’s time slot, but that doesn’t require me to have new or different material than my show would normally have.
The lighter I can travel, or the less cluttered my stage set up is, the better!
-Louie