RUNNING away to Asia and getting in to all sorts of scrapes gave comedian Eleanor Conway the basis for a hit show entitled Walk Of Shame.

From its first outing on the edges of the Fringe it went down a storm, and Eleanor was invited back to perform again at the famous Edinburgh Comedy Club.

“It was beautiful to be invited. The show blew up. It is raw, funny and dark. It is about me getting sober, it is the extremes of things in my life;drinking, drugs, mad tales of my life around the world,” Eleanor said.

The first time she went to Asia she was in her 20s, she went with a man she had just met. Addiction set in amid the partying.

Six years later she returned and a week after becoming sober found herself hosting the William’s Green stage at Glastonbury.

“Can you imagine being in front of thousands of people and only one week sober? I loved it,’’ she said.

Eleanor’s roots are in music rather than comedy. She studied at the Leeds College of Music and then worked for the Ministry of Sound as a presenter for its online content including interviewing fans and acts.

“I won a national competition with Virgin to become their ‘round the world reporter’ for a year. That was a great job, reporting on all the big festivals from all over the world,’’ she said.

Eleanor’s first gig in comedy was with the radio presenter Kate Garroway. “Funnily enough I saw her on TV today,’’ said Eleanor. “I did a chat show in 2011 called Time of the Month, and then went on to do Comedy Rumble, which was an interactive head to head chat show late into the night and full of debauchery. My life has been a roller coaster.’’

The comedian has also appeared at the famous Comedy Store and runs her own agency Oxygen Entertainment.

She says she is definitely not a disciplined writer and often writes on stage as the idea comes into her head.

“I have to do a lot of reacting on stage, especially this last tour when there were a lot of drunk, middle-aged women talking in the front row,’’ she said. “I had to throw some of them out!’’Her last tour was in Australasia - 100 gigs in 10 countries. She said the show raised a few eyebrows in places such as Manilla and Adelaide. “Someone told me that Adelaide has the highest number of churches in the world. I now believe it!’’

Far from putting her feet up for a rest, the comic is currently working on her new show, Modern Addict, and gearing up for her UK tour when she will be making the Walk of Shame into Swindon’s Arts Centre, Devizes Road, Old Town on April 5. Tickets are £14.50 from 01793 524481 or visit www.swindontheatres.com - Flicky Harrison