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Review of Festival of the Spoken Nerd, Fringe 2013

August 17, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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

August 17, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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 Domestic Science, Fringe 2012

August 13, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I enjoyed Domestic Science even though, for a short while, I had a hairy man wiggle his butt in my face. Don’t worry; he was fully closed, it didn’t last long and he was pretending to be the sun. It all makes sense. Domestic Science down in the basement of The Canon’s Gait in the […]

Review of the Festival of the Spoken Nerd, Fringe 2012

August 7, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 7 Comments

The Festival of the Spoken Nerd was supposed to end tonight but it has been extended by two nights. If you are very quick and very lucky you might be able to grab a ticket for the remaining shows. This is a show worth catching. It’s worth fighting for a ticket. Fire and biscuits. Doctor […]

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