If you are visiting the Scottish National Portrait Gallery the first thing to do is just examine how beautiful the building actually is. Proudly sitting on the corner of York Place and Queen Street it is a rich gothic tapestry…
You may have heard of Jonny Awsum. If you watch Britain’s Got Talent almost certainly you will have. His audition on the show has now been watched by 1.3 million viewers on YouTube. If you are not a fan of…
Phill Jupitus is a talented guy. He first came to public prominence under the guise of Porky the Poet, reading his own radical punk poetry on the burgeoning indie music scene in the mid-eighties. He is best known as a…
If you are looking to kick-start an evening of Fringe festivities that will banish the cobwebs and revive you in preparation for another night of revelry I can think of no better alternative than going along to see comedy music…
Our man in Havana is a fast paced farce in the best of traditions, created by a young theatre company entitled Spies Like Us. Set in Cuba during the cold War era a struggling English vacuum cleaner salesman seizes on…
There is a very fine music hall tradition centring around the Industrial Revolution towns in Northern England dating back a couple of hundred years that spurned a whole division of rather unique and quirky stage acts which have baffled many…
Bernie Keith from minute one on stage is an instantly likeable, friendly chap who clearly has a unique way of bonding with all sectors of society. That’s the impression I obtained immediately as I scanned the room looking at the…
Alexei Sayle was a comedy revolutionary, it is nearly 40 years since he and the first wave of alternative comedians such as Rik Mayall, the Allens, Tony and Keith et al hit a nation’s consciousness and dragged comedy, with its…
It was a large boisterous crowd that gathered to see Mothers Ruin: A Cabaret about gin. And it wasn’t just the complimentary glass of Australian gin that was creating a full house this evening, the audience were aware of the…
The Granary comedy night is a hidden gem of the Edinburgh/Leith comedy listings and deserves to be seen by a larger audience for several reasons. In July, the proceeds were for the charity The Diana Award and a good turnout…