There’s a lot to love in Rich Hall’s gravelly voice and deadpan delivery. If you’re not familiar with the comedian you might be forgiven for wondering what you’ve let yourself in for as you take a seat in the Speigeltent Palazzo and spy a guitar on stage. Hall enters looking not that far removed from […]
Review of the Piff the Magic Dragon Show, Fringe 2013
I think this is my third year watching Magic Dragons at the Edinburgh Fringe. Piff has a certain style that would, at a glance, suggest it would be easy to second guess the magician and workout where he’s going with the trick. It’s a trick. This year there are extra catches and surprises that’ll catch […]
Review of Rich Hall’s Hoedown, Fringe 2013
I’m a fan of Rich Hall’s dry, somewhat dark and straight up humour. I leapt at the chance to see him in the Hoedown in the Spiegeltent Palazoo. This is a comfortable but close venue. You don’t often get the chance to get this close to the big names in the Festival. I was gobsmacked […]
Review of Omid Djalili Live, Fringe 2013
If you type [Iranian Comedian] into a search engine the chances are high that Omid Djalili will pop up top of the list. When Omid asked the audience where they were from a shout from the balcony in the Music Hall in the Assembly Rooms replied, “Lebanon, we came all this way just to see […]
Review of Festival of the Spoken Nerd, Fringe 2013
For the second year in the row Festival of the Spoken Nerd has been one of my favourites. Presented by the impressive trio of Matt Parker, Helen Arney and Steve Mould the FOTSN takes the audience through some impressive and hilarious science. We had fire tornadoes. We had demos that used flying beads to illustrate […]
Review of Domestic Science, Fringe 2013
Domestic Science is a free show from Helen Arney and Rob Wells that explores every day science. I was there last year and the 2013 is very similar but enjoys perhaps some more spit and polish. It’s also fair to say that last year Rob didn’t get me up on the small stage, pretend to […]
Review of Paul Merton’s Impro Chums, Fringe 2013
It’s the same thumbnail of Impro Chums from Edinburgh Reviews’ 2012 look at the show but the line-up was different when this blogger attended the penultimate 2013 show. We had Paul Merton, of course, Suki Webster, Richard Vranch, Lee Simpson and Steve Steen. Mr Steen was new to me and he was very funny. I […]
Review of Slightly Fat Features, Fringe 2013
I’d had Slightly Fat Features described to me as both “cabaret” and as “variety” before I went – so I had no idea what to expect. I’ve seen the show now and I’m still not sure how to describe it. This is a kid friendly show, providing the kids aren’t wimps and is signed. In […]