Category: Festivals

Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2019: Look Up

Ruth Cockburn explained from the beginning why her show at the Beehive Inn was called LOOK UP.  “It is an attempt to get everyone to stop looking at their phones, to look around them what’s going on.” She then evidenced…

Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2019: Loki

DARREN MCGARVEY has endured a stratospheric rise to fame.  In 2018, the book he wrote, ‘Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain’s Underclass’ was awarded the Orwell book prize for political writing.  In it he embarks the reader on a…

Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2019: Yuriko Kotani

As someone who has attempted to learn a foreign language and then felt far too shy to use any of it in its country of origin, I greatly admire foreign speakers.  Someone who is prepared to get on a stage…

McLuckie’s Line

It’s always a treat to visit the seaside areas of Edinburgh, Portobello and Musselburgh.  Last night I was able to extend a trip to Musselburgh to the fine Brunton Theatre, where I viewed the play McLUCKIES LINE. This is a…

National Museum of Flight: The Wheels & Wings Show

If you are looking for a fantastic day out which will be sure to appeal to all the family, I strongly recommend you take a look at THE WHEELS AND WINGS SHOW, which is taking place at the NATIONAL MUSEUM…

Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018: Nick Page

Nick Page stresses quite early on that its very hard for him to sympathise with the worlds current problems because he’s white, middle class, middle aged, living in middle England.  Correction, he’s white, middle class, middle aged, living in middle…

The Argentinean Is Back! Edinburgh Fringe Comedy

The fringe is in full swing… It’s a good, strike that, great sign when the queue for a PBH free fringe event winds up the hall, out the door and up the road.The Banshee Labyrinth was packed, people lined the…

Edinburgh Foodies Festival begins our Fringe!

Classic Edinburgh weather (glorious sun then gale force winds and torrential rain then glorious sun…) forme the back drop for the annual Foodie’s Festival trip to Edinburgh situated in the gorgeous surroundings of Inverleith Park. The first happy hour was…

Gin Festival fizzes at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange

  What better way to spend a wet, windy early autumn Edinburgh evening than in the grand space of the Corn Exchange for the Gin Festival! On arrival we were met with cheery, well informed hosts who provided each visitor with a…