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The Best Of The Fringe Podcast: Four Poofs and a Piano

July 3rd, 2009

Best of the Fringe, 2009 Edition #1 (MP3 14.6 mb 15 minutes 48 seconds)
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Our first interview from the archives are three singers who, with a fourth member who was lost around Leith Docks on the day, make up the house band on Friday night with Jonathan Ross… it’s Four Poofs and a Piano.

It goes without saying that you won’t be able to buy any tickets for their 2006 show and still see them, but consider this and the rest of the “Best of” shows airing each Friday in July as a limbering up exercise before all the fun of the Fringe festival starting Friday August 7th.

The Best of the Fringe Podcast, 2009 Edition #1

Four Poofs and a Piano
Strictly Neurotic
www.4poofsandapiano.com

First broadcast August 16th 2006.

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Showcasing The Best Of The Fringe Podcasts During July

July 2nd, 2009

With just over a month to go until the 2009 Edinburgh Festival Fringe starts (official dates this year are 7th August to the 31st August), and the Edinburgh Fringe Podcast will be here for the fifth year of the daily show from the Arts Capital of the world.

During July in the run up to the Fringe, the Fringe Podcast is going to look back at some of the many classic interviews from our archives. Every Friday for the next five weeks, I’ll introduce one of the many guests we’ve had on the show as an appetiser for the marathon that is the Fringe!

The first Best of the Fringe Podcasts will be posted this Friday lunchtime (3rd July).

To make sure you never miss a podcast, you can subscribe to the Fringe Podcast in iTunes, or copy the RSS File into your favourite RSS application.

The Edinburgh Fringe 2008 Show #24 - The Stage Awards for Acting Excellence

August 25th, 2008

The Edinburgh Fringe 2008 Show #24 (MP3 57 mb, 1 hour 2 minutes 14 seconds)
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Time for the final show in a rather more roller-coaster month than normal for the Edinburgh Fringe. No matter what gets thrown at Scotland’s capital, the show always carries on.

Charlie Wood, director at the Underbelly venues, talks about the Fringe and its impact on Edinburgh in the today’s show as well as the ticketing ‘fun’ and his appointment to the board of The Fringe Society. Before that though the announcement of the winners of The Stage’s Awards for Acting Excellence, and I speak to some of the nominees (Karen Dunbar and Cameron Stewart).

The Fringe may be drawing to a close, but the moment has been prepared for…

The Edinburgh Fringe 2008 Show #24

Brian Atwood
Editor, The Stage

Karen Dunbar - A Drunk Woman Looks At A Thistle
Assembly Rooms

Cameron Stewart - My Grandfather’s Great War
Underbelly

Charlie Wood
Director, The Underbelly

And the awards for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Group and Best Ensemble

…see you all next year!

The Edinburgh Fringe 2008 Show #23 - Never a Cross Word

August 23rd, 2008

The Edinburgh Fringe 2008 Show #23 (MP3 38.3 mb, 41 minutes 50 seconds)
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It’s the last weekend of the Fringe, and everything really comes alive for this Saturday night, which will be for many performers the biggest night at the Fringe. It’s also the time that many performers start to loosen up and do the occassionaly wild thing (reports that a topless Ed Byrne crashed into Jason Byrne’s shows will need photos… please), so no matter where you are tonight in Edinburgh, it should be a fun one.

And Axis of Awesome are fun! The Australlian musical trio have been packing audiences in at the Gilded Balloon with their Comback show, and one of my favourite tracks from there is on today’s show. Tom Allen (it’s really not Tom O’Connor) and I discuss how to do the perfect interview on radio (or a podcast) while Dan McKee looks back at previous Fringes and where the Fringe is now with Sowerby and Luff.

The Edinburgh Fringe 2008 Show #23

Axis of Awesome - Comeback Spectacular
Gilded Balloon Teviot

Tom Allen - A Voyage Round My Mother
Gilded Balloon Teviot

Dan McKee - Sad Frankie
The Dragonfly

Scotsman Fringe First (Week 3) Winners
Once And For All We’re Going To Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up And Listen
Slick
Crocosmia
The Idiot Colony
In Conflict

Dave’s ‘Best Joke at the Fringe’
Zoe Lyons
Andrew Lawrence
Tim Vine

Malcolm Hardee Award for 2007
Edward Azcel

Carol Tambor Award
Ella Hickson’s Eight