Tag: Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017

Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017: Jonny Awsum

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…

Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017: Phill Jupitus

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…

Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017: Jonny & The Baptists

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…

Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Our Man In Havana

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…

Edinburgh Fringe Festival: John Shuttleworth

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…

Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Alexei Sayle

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…

Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017: Mother’s Ruin

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…