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Edinburgh feastival

Four

10:58 / 05.08.04

Does anyone have any recomendations for anything good at this years edingburgh feastival?

Grey Area

11:37 / 05.08.04

You could always support your fellow 'Lithers.

pointless and uncalled for

11:44 / 05.08.04

A feastival, now that is an idea. I should have one of those.

Morlock - groupie for hire

12:42 / 05.08.04

Everyone should have one of those.

Saw a preview of this a few weeks back. Damn good.

Four

13:46 / 05.08.04

I just checked that out, it looks good in the right hands. Pretty dangerous stuff though, imagining what Bill would say is gonna piss people off.

"I think what God meant to say....."

13:59 / 05.08.04

If you like musical humour with sparkling wit and topicality, then (apart from rushing to Beauty and the Bitch) you might like Topping and Butch. They're good (or at least, nowhere as bad as their publicity photo). Flanders and Swann with fisting. They're doing a couple of shows - the afternoon one, I suspect, is cheaper than the evening.

Morlock - groupie for hire

14:44 / 05.08.04

...imagining what Bill would say is gonna piss people off

Sure, always a chance of that. Then again, Hicks himself wasn't exactly shy.
But the show is perfectly honest about what it is doing, and ultimately tries to turn shameless plagiarism into something worthy. You'll have to decide for yourself if it manages to do so.

"Come back Bill, tell us what to think...!"

Rev. Orr

15:40 / 05.08.04

(Whisky says)

Cheers for bigging us up, Grey Area! And thanks for teh tip re Topping and Butch (who do, in fact, have an awful poster) - I might slink along to see them one of these nights ...

bjacques

15:39 / 06.08.04

Catching the plane in a few hours. I'm gonna miss "Wicker Woman" because it's later in the month than I'm there, so somebody please check it out. I like the title. There's also "My Life As A 10 Year Old Boy," by Nancy Cartwright, who is/was the voice of Bart Simpson.

if yer in the neighborhood, giz a ring or sms at 31 6 5231 7354. I'm there 'til Wendesday noon.

bjacques

10:46 / 07.08.04

If nobody this year is doing a piss-take of the Da Vinci Code, some of which takes place locally at Rosslyn Chapel (burial place of a Templar), it's an opportunity tragically lost.

Jack Vincennes

16:18 / 07.08.04

I'm going to the Tiger Lillies' Punch And Judy show on Wednesday, since an admin error today gave me extremely cheap tickets. Will no doubt post here about it, but I enjoyed their Shockheaded Peter so I have high hopes for this one!

invisible_al

15:32 / 08.08.04

A friend of mine is directing 'Emily and the Jabberwock' at the Bedlam, 9th-21st of September with previews on the 5/6th of August.
It might be good, she was bending her back mounted Jabberwock into shape and threatening cast memebers with powertools last time I spoke to her.

bjacques

19:38 / 08.08.04

Hmm, two full days and only two shows so far...but they've both been great. Anothe reason to come to Edinburgh...THE PUBS ARE OPEN TO 1AM!!!!!!!

Yesterday afternoon I saw Glyn Maxwell in "The Best Man," a monologue that is the Best Man's speech you will sacrifice your children to Hastur never to hear in real life. But on a stage, it's great. The venue, Underbelly, is alone worth the trip.

Last night I saw Postmodernism, Comedy and Me which delivered as advertised. Hey, if the Fibonaccis could write a song called "Anti-Oedipus"...funny stories that explain post-modernism better than a stack of books by Cult Stud mavens could, or so we lazy bastards would like to believe. The venue is a goth-ish pub called Holyrood Tavern that Sabrina and her friends have rented out for the duration. Beer's good and sorta cheap.

Jack Vincennes

09:09 / 13.08.04

bjacques -the Spiegeltent (sp?) in George Square is open til unholy hours. We left at half two and they didn't look to be winding down particularly.

The Tiger Lillies rocked. Utterly, utterly horrible (an inflatable puppet gives birth onstage. There is afterbirth.) and some of the best songs I've heard of theirs -if anyone saw their Shockheaded Peter, I thought that Punch & Judy was better. So that's well worth going to see provided you don't have an aversion to accordions or very shrill falsettos...

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