5 Questions

5 Questions - Ricardo Garcia

19 Aug 2010

One of the busiest men on the Fringe, Ricardo Garcia takes time out from his many performances to tell us about his interactive show, A Compas Flamenco. 5 things you love most about flamenco? I love the fact that it is the art of the people – not a…

5 Questions - Kate V Robertson

19 Aug 2010

Glasgow-based artist Kate V Robertson, whose work is on display at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop as part of the Magazine 10 showcase, tackles our Q & A

5 Questions - Xplicit

13 Aug 2010

Xplict are Scotland’s prime purveyors of hard drum & bass and they don’t disappoint with their Festival date as they are joined by Shy FX, who helped to transform early hardcore into the drum & bass we know today with tracks such as ‘Jungle…

5 Questions - Patrick Monahan

12 Aug 2010

Comedian Patrick Monahan (winner of the longest kids show title award) takes a break from Stories and Tales for Kids Who Can Run Faster Than Snails to answer our 5 Questions.

5 Questions - Barockestra

12 Aug 2010

It started off as an idea for an album, now 14 years later rocker Steve Grant and Emmerdale’s Deena Payne have formed a troupe of rock musicians, opera singers and classical dancers to bring Barockestra to life – think Mozart playing an electric guitar…

5 Questions - Rhod Gilbert

12 Aug 2010

Rhod Gilbert is popping our way for a week of The Cat That Looked Like Nicholas Lyndhurst.

Kids show Tall Storrie & Wee Godley at this year's Fringe

The Glasgow comedy queen Jane Godley answer 5 questions

30 Jul 2010

Glasgow comedy queen Janey Godley has pushed all her blue material aside to team up with daughter Ashley Storrie for their kids show Tall Storrie & Wee Godley. She tells us why we should go along. Give five reasons why people should come and see…

5 questions: Kids show Tall Storrie and Wee Godley

Mother and daughter duo Ashley Storrie and Janey Godley

29 Jul 2010

Glasgow comedy queen Janey Godley has pushed all her blue material aside to team up with daughter Ashley Storrie for their kids show Tall Storrie & Wee Godley. She tells us why we should go along. Give five reasons why people should come and see…

5 Questions: Terry Alderton

Terry Alderton once played in goals for Southend FC before turning to comedy. There’s nothing in our

26 Aug 2009

What five words best describes your show this year? No format, just full on. Can you name a comic who should be more famous than they are now why? Me. What bugs or delights you most about Edinburgh in August? The weather bugs me; it…

5 Questions - Kenny Young and the Eggplants

Fresh from the Big Apple, Kenny Young and the Eggplants wax lyrical about punk, flyerers and chips a

18 Aug 2009

5 words you’d use to describe your show Really fun weird pop songs. 4 shows you’re looking forward to during August The Eggplants have been in a recording studio in New York City all Summer, and I have not seen the Fringe Programme yet! But…

5 Questions: Donald Reid

Director of the Festival of Spirituality and Peace

7 Aug 2009

Five events you’re most looking forward to at this year’s Festival The Root of All Evil? with Vincent Cable MP and Nic Marks, Chopin Recital by Aleksander Kudajczyk, Yathra (Journey) by Ragamala Dance, Rendition Monologues by iceandfire theatre…

5 Questions: The Bang Bang Club

6 Aug 2009

5 words to describe the Bang Bang Club experience? Fast, furious, educated, dumb and contradictory. 4 things you love about the DJs/acts/bands on the bill Hand-picked, custom-built for the dead of night, hardcore, eclectic. 3 things you love…

5 Questions: Doc Austin

30 Jul 2009

Charged with making science funny, Doc Austin tells us why we should check out his Fringe show, Doctor Austin & Doug Safety’s Time-Tastical Time Tale

5 Questions: Zoe Lyons

28 Jul 2009

Last August, Zoe Lyons won an award for telling the best joke of the Fringe. Here, she gives our Q&A more short, yet funny shrift What five words best describe your show this year? Tasty buffoonery, fragrant cheeky swagger. Which comic should…

5 Questions - Rick Lau

Internationally-renowned cabaret artiste Rick Lau on his musical My Queer Valentine

21 Jul 2009

Internationally-renowned cabaret artiste Rick Lau recently wowed audiences in Hong Kong with his musical homage to misfits everywhere, My Queer Valentine. He stops off on the road to global superstardom to tackle our Q&A

5 Questions - Irvine Welsh

21 Aug 2008

Give us five words to describe Crime? Crime is an existential thriller. Which authors should be more famous than they are now? I used to say Ron Butlin, but I think that’s changing now. I think Doug Johnstone will soon be very famous. If I have…

5 Questions - John Wheeler

21 Aug 2008

What five words best describe your stand-up show? Only the truth is funny. Which comics should be more famous than they are now? Just Jamie Kilstein. Here is a man that is not only funny but also likes ale. Can you tell me one strange thing…

5 Questions - Krishma Bachoo

14 Aug 2008

5 words to describe the Obscene vs Volume experience? Friendly, anything goes, genre-less, bass-fuelled, mayhem. 4 things you love about the DJs/acts on the bill? Everyone is playing for free for Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre’s & Myeloma UK. MC…

5 Questions - Rhona Cameron

14 Aug 2008

Rhona Cameron came for a full run last year, and this time around she's teasing us with just the one week of shows. Here she messes around, in the spirit it was intended, with our penetrating Q&A

5 Questions - Koko the Crocodile

14 Aug 2008

African folktales, sing-a-long songs and a poorly crocodile all feature in Mara Menzies' show, Koko the Crocodile. But right now, she's answering our five questions.

5 Questions - Spam the Musical

14 Aug 2008

5 words to describe SPAM the Musical Viral, punk, trojan, fabulous & fucked up. 4 places we might be able to catch it Where you least expect it. Or www.spamthemusical.com, if you’re lazy. 3 other EAF exhibitions you’re looking forward to…

5 Questions - Ruth Janssen

14 Aug 2008

As Scottish Dance Theatre lights up the Fringe with its superb double-bill of dynamic contemporary works, dancer Ruth Janssen faces the music.

5 Questions - Grzegorz Jarzyna

14 Aug 2008

5 words to describe your production of 4.48 Psychosis Genuine, sad, dark, without applause. 4 words to describe the work of playwright Sarah Kane Honesty, pain, black snow. 3 shows you’re looking forward to seeing in Edinburgh this August…

5 Questions - Leon Conrad

7 Aug 2008

5 things you think good children’s theatre should do: Make it magical – make it funny – make it witty – make it fun; and make it pretty difficult for people not to lose themselves in the story. 4 reasons why people should come to Aesop The Storyteller…

5 Questions - Rosie Kay

7 Aug 2008

5 biggest influences as a choreographer: Charlie Chaplin and Fred Astaire films. Artist Otto Dix and the Weimar Republic period of German history. Merce Cunningham. Pina Bausch. My old history teacher, Philip MacKenzie, at the Royal High School. 4…