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21 Aug 2008
Hegley strides the stage like a sexy English teacher berating an audience of children and adults alike and urging us to join in at key points. Hegley doesn't disappoint with a show (loosely) working through the alphabet and employing animal themes as…
11 Aug 2008
Midday in stone premises with festival regular. Poems sung, drawn and sauntered. With token hamster and fig roll fun.
23 Aug 2007
Taking turns to play stern, deadpan schoolmaster and playful kid, poet-comedian Hegley rhymes and sings his way through a beautifully quirky set. Deceptively innocent wordplay on the daft and surreal – zebras, his Folies Bergere dancer grandma and a…
8 May 2008
As part of comedy group The Popticians, he recorded two sessions for John Peel in 1984. Being a spectacle-wearer has been one of Hegley’s long-term points of reference. Do not get him started on contact lenses. He went off to France to revisit the place…
18 Jun 2007
Susan Calman The comic behind the Calmanator shows gives us four chances to see her do her thing this fortnight. She’s going to be big one day. In stature, that is, not in height. The Stand, Edinburgh, Thu 21, Wed 27 Jun, Tue 3 Jul; the Stand, Glasgow…
(Photo: © Marianne Mitchelson) Janet Paisley In a swift shift of career gear, this Falkirk-based poet and playwright brings us her debut novel with White Rose Rebel, a Scottish romance set in Jacobite times. Waterstone’s, Glasgow, Thu 5 Jul.
1 Sep 2006
Robert Harris The former TV news reporter, current brother-in-law to Nick Hornby and author of bestselling romps such as Fatherland, Enigma and Archangel returns with Imperium, the first of his Roman saga trilogy. Borders Books, Glasgow, Thu 7 Sep.
John Hegley Everyone’s favourite lyrical lad from Luton returns to please his west coast fans after having a bonzer time in Edinburgh this August with his Uncut Confetti malarkey. You don’t have to be keen on potatoes, dogs and spectacles to get the…
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