Edinburgh
Edinburgh Fringe: Alfie Moore/Eddie Pepitone/Claudia O'DohertyWednesday, 22 August 2012
Alfie Moore: I Predicted a Riot, Pleasance Courtyard **** There can't be many serving police officers doing stand-up comedy at the Fringe, so that makes Alfie Moore an unusual beast. Actually he's a one-off, a wonderfully engaging bloke in a... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe: I, Tommy/Josie Long/WitTankTuesday, 21 August 2012
I, Tommy, Gilded Balloon **** Everybody will be familiar with Tommy Sheridan's story, and not necessarily because they closely follow Scottish politics at their most internecine. Rather because the Glaswegian socialist went from being barely a... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe: Jigsy/Pappy's/Joe LycettSunday, 19 August 2012
Jigsy, Assembly Rooms **** Les Dennis may have started his career as a comic, and then as a presenter of cheesy, family-friendly television game shows, but of late he has been plying his trade as a very decent actor. And so it proves again in... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe: Magnus BetnerSaturday, 18 August 2012
Magnus Betner, Assembly Rooms **** Here is the news: dismemberment, suicide bombers, industrial-strength Japanese porn, paedophilia and the descent of Julian Assange from hero to zero. The son of a priest and a superstar in his homeland,... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe: Liam Mullone/Sarah Kendall/Iszi LawrenceFriday, 17 August 2012
Liam Mullone: A Land Fit For Fuckwits, Stand 4 **** Liam Mullone might perform his hour of clever, quietly simmering stand-up flanked by a faithful toy raccoon called Mr Eek, but there’s nothing fluffy about his material. Mullone targets... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe: Mies Julie/Loretta Maine/Foil, Arms and HogThursday, 16 August 2012
Mies Julie, Assembly Hall **** Miss Julie is pretty full-on at the best of times but in Yael Farber’s striking new version, Strindberg’s themes of class and gender are given a shocking modern makeover. In transposing the action to present-day... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe: Flap!, The Famous SpiegeltentTuesday, 14 August 2012
Towards the end of a ridiculously easy and enjoyable hour spent in their company, Flap!’s singer and ukulele player Jess Guille described “Rock in Space” as “jazz-folk-disco” – and, you know, it kind of was. A bawdy, slap-happy five-piece from... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe: Rosie WilbySunday, 12 August 2012
Rosie Wilby: How (Not) to Make it in Britpop, Bongo Club *** In the 1990s Rosie Wilby was lurking on the outer edges of Britpop with her band Wilby, whose giddy career highlights included opening for Tony Hadley (he evacuated the entire room... Read more... |
Edinburgh Art Festival: From Symbolists to ColouristsWednesday, 08 August 2012
East coast haar seeping into sun-drenched streets – familiar Edinburgh monuments disappearing dreamlike under blankets of mist, vibrant colour draining from the landscape as the city transformed into its more usual symphony in grey. The dramatic... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe: Camille O'Sullivan/The Road That Wasn't ThereMonday, 06 August 2012
Camille O'Sullivan: Changeling, Assembly Rooms *****The Assembly Rooms may have reopened for this year's Fringe following a very swanky refurb, but someone obviously forgot to put sufficient thought into the practicalities of getting people in... Read more... |
Scottish Jazz Awards 2012 winnersFriday, 20 July 2012The winners of the Scottish Jazz Awards 2012 were announced last night at a ceremony in the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh.Presented by the Scottish Jazz Federation and Jazz International, the event was hosted by Ian Shaw.The winners:Album of the YearKARMA... Read more... |
CD: Meursault - Something for the WeakenedThursday, 12 July 2012
The first thing that strikes you is the voice. At once coarse and warm, like the creak of the stairs of your childhood home as it settles in at night, Meursault’s Neil Pennycook sounds like a man with more than a few stories to tell. Of course it... Read more... |
