The story is well known thanks to the book, the movie, the poster and an unscripted I’m walking here from Dustin Hoffman. Add to that the knowledge of the Director John Clancy and the writer Tim Fountain, my expectations were stacked up.
I wasn’t even in a particularly good mood and the initial country tunes didn’t [...]

Tired variations of: xenophobia, mysogyny, onanism and homophobia.
Gaye Belle

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It’s all go, as the end of week twoapproaches. But that doesn’t mean I ca’t find some of the best acts and interviews to go through from Edinburgh…
The Edinburgh Fringe 2006 Show - #13
Lick and Chew - The [...]

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Time for another show - and I’m in the middle of unpacking and sorting out the broadband after moving house, so I’ll leave you in the capable hands of three of the poofs from Jonathan Ross, and the velvet [...]

Featuring Janey Godley, Sue Perkins and Chris Cox.

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Okay, today’s show is made up of the weird - Reggie Watts is a musician with one downright crazy instrument - his voice on loopback. Except he improvises it. And Andrew Stanley (along with Damian Clark) have no idea [...]

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Week two is here, and it feels like the podcast has been going on forever, yet we’re not even at the half way mark (that will be the start of Wednesday’s show). So there’s still a lot of shows, [...]

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It’s the weekend! Fringe Sunday tomorrow on the meadows, and of course the return of the Sunday Supplement here at the Edinburgh Fringe Show. I’ll be spending most of tomorrow catching up on the interviews and updating the diary [...]

You get to the gallery and the first impression is of a quiet and nice neighbourhood. Then you enter. Up to the first floor you are immediately hit by the bright, lively and simplistic paintings of Leif Sylvester, a Danish painter and all round artist. It is indeed a very fitting exhibition for a festival, [...]

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Coming up to the weekend, the Edinburgh Fringe Podcast brings insightful political comedy (for about 5 seconds over the opening theme), oe of the internets biggest buzzwords (blogging), and the scattershot humour of two of the last Perrier 2005 [...]