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Sweet Baboo - King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow, Tue 7 May 2013
15 May 2013
Charming set combines lyrical originality with self-deprecating humour
‘I go dancing and chancing my luck with all those girls - that’s why I’m bound for hell’, sings Stephen Black, aka Welshman Sweet Baboo, on catchy 2010 single ‘I’m a Dancer’. To look at this freckly face, rabbit-in-the-headlights expression and guitar…
Blipfoto: The photo blogging site that went global
8 Nov 2012
How photographer and designer Joe Tree’s own daily photo blog became a global phenomenon
What started as Edinburgh photographer and designer Joe Tree’s own daily photo blog has become - almost by accident - a global phenomenon, with users in over 160 countries who have uploaded two million pictures and counting. Tree started Blipfoto as…
Scottish galleries and artworks outside the cities
30 Oct 2012
Including Little Sparta, Taigh Chearsabhagh, Deveron Arts and more
Pier Arts Centre, Orkney. On his native isles’ proliferation of artists, Orcadian writer George Mackay Brown once wrote, ‘I am sure that good art springs from... fruitful contact with the elements.’ The Pier, set up to provide a home for the collection…
Dirty Projectors - The Arches, Glasgow, Mon 15 Oct
17 Oct 2012
The alt. indie sextet show moments of greatness but are guilty of repetition
Dirty Projectors can be quite hard to get your head around. It’s not so much about the immediately apparent awkwardness of their sound, which blends abrupt changes of time signature and raw atonality with jangling guitars and the occasional surprise of…
Efterklang - Piramida
7 Sep 2012
Homespun yet grand release from the Danish alt.folk group
The latest offering from the Danish orchestra-botherers comes wrapped up in a rich mythology: Piramida (also known as Piramiden) is an abandoned Russian mining settlement half way between the northern tip of Norway and the North Pole. The ghost town so…
Josie Long - Romance and Adventure
22 Aug 2012
New found cynicism provides counterpoint to bubbliness and irrepressible daft voices
Josie Long has turned 30, and it’s changed her – if her last show was full of wide-eyed idealism and exhortations to activism, she’s now become fully acquainted with disillusionment. And not just the kind when everything’s wrong and you don’t know what…
Miriam Margolyes - Dickens' Women
22 Aug 2012
Appealing biographical show in the company of a true pro
Yelling with that unmistakeable voice and accompanied by the oh-so-refined tinkly piano of Benjamin Lee, Miriam Margolyes staggers onto the stage in the person of sozzled layer-out of the dead Mrs Gamp, from Martin Chuzzlewit. It’s a charming, gentle…
Andrew Ryan - Ryanopoly
21 Aug 2012
Uneasy, nervous act fails to break the banks
Having worked in a bank, Andrew Ryan knows all the tricks in the book of Getting Your Money, and he knows how to get the humour out of them, too. Many of the funniest moments in this show are borne of his playful sending-up of the rigid application of…
Grizzly Bear - Shields
21 Aug 2012
Same as before, but with less oomph, more fuzz and fewer tunes
If you know the woozy psych-indie sound of Grizzly Bear’s Yellow House and Veckatimest albums, and can imagine it with less oomph, more fuzz and fewer tunes, you’ve got Shields pegged. The same sounds resurface again and again: the shimmering strings…
Meine faire Dame - ein Sprachlabor
16 Aug 2012
Radical reimagining of Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady gives much food for thought
Sitting down in the audience for Swiss director Christoph Marthaler's Meine faire Dame is something akin to entering a conversation class in a language you have no knowledge of. At first, it's completely baffling and you doubt you'll ever make sense of…
Mr Braithwaite Has a New Boy
14 Aug 2012
Decent performances can’t redeem predictable Aussie farce
With this new comedy by Steven Dawson (who also directs and designs it), Melbourne’s LGBT-focused theatre company Out Cast Theatre plays lazily to the crowd, favouring lashings of none-too-subtle and none-too-imaginative cheap smut and broadly-drawn…
Death Boogie
10 Aug 2012
Political hip hop poetry musical is all sound and fury
Death Boogie is a political hip hop musical, performed by a dancing poet-rapper rhyming over his own beatbox loops, a double bass player and violinist, all against a backdrop of comic-strip visuals peppered with WHOAs, BIFFs and BOOYAKASHs. Sound like a…
Belt Up Theatre’s A Little Princess
9 Aug 2012
Unengaging adaptation of a timeworn classic
Young York company Belt Up Theatre have been the toast of the Fringe in recent years for their immersive, intensive renditions of stories new and old, but it feels like things have gone off the boil slightly with this staging of Frances Hodgson…
Petya and the Wolf
7 Aug 2012
Childlike in chaotic naiivety but enough depth to entertain all
Two Russian actors present this idiosyncratic physical retelling of the familiar tale of how Peter outsmarts the hungry wolf, soundtracked by a recording of the Prokofiev score with English narration. Although the story is simple enough for all ages to…
Eat $hit: How Our Waste Can Save the World
7 Aug 2012
A(n extremely odd) musical with an infectious message
The Poop Project are here to talk to you about your poo – loudly, clearly, and with songs and jazz hands. And if you’re the squeamish sort, it’s even more imperative that you listen. Let’s be straight: the five performers in this show aren’t the…
Meat
7 Aug 2012
Solid black comedy that explores the danger of privilege
An exclusive dining society, an intricate and arcane set of rules, and a fabulously deranged ringleader – these are the main ingredients in the meal served up by the St Andrews students calling themselves ‘The Catherine’s Club’. Playing on an endless…
Markus Birdman: Love, Life and Death
7 Aug 2012
Sentiment without the sugar in contemplative comedy piece
Nope, it’s not just a keeping-his-options open title scribbled down on the Fringe application form in March – Markus Birdman really is here to address the big things in life and what comes next. As well he might: having turned 40 and suffered an…
Would Be Nice Though...
6 Aug 2012
Interactive show that skewers the job interviews process
Ever been to a job interview, looked around, and thought, ‘If this is the competition, God help me if I’m not in with a chance?’ Such thoughts may pass through your mind as you enter a real George Street office and are ushered through various stages of…
Chapel Street
6 Aug 2012
Snappy double monologue delivered with panache
This exuberant new piece by Luke Barnes plays as two monologues: a boy and a girl stand side-by-side, the narrative snapping breathlessly back and forth between them as their worlds draw closer and closer and ultimately collide in the messy climax to a…
Craig Hill: Jock's Trap
5 Aug 2012
Bitchy banter and camp cruelty
Craig Hill either is your bag or he isn’t. If, in the first spoken line of the show -- after the thrusting Madonna dance routine – you’re laughing uproariously at the mere implication of the word bum (as a verb), then you’re in the former camp. If not…
Michael Mittermeier: A German on Safari
5 Aug 2012
Eddie Izzard's German protege is in desperate need of fresh material
The omens were good for Michael Mittermeier. Accompanied by Eddie Izzard’s endorsement, the German has toured widely in the Anglophone world and his publicity shots contain no lederhosen or sausages. It’s a shame, then, that Mittermeier’s set is as…
I'm High on Life: What Are You On?
5 Aug 2012
Charming but uncertain storytelling from Bonnie Davies
‘This is not a stand-up show,’ says Bonnie Davies, and she’s right. Rather, Davies presents an hour of anecdotes about her childhood as the daughter of two youth workers who kept a more or less open house for all the waifs, strays and drug-dealing teens…
Meursault, Rob St John and Jill O’Sullivan & Jenny Reeve - Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, Sat 7 Jul 2012
28 Jul 2012
Triumphant performance more than delivering on high hopes of hometown crowd
Some album launches can be rather flat affairs – people don’t know the songs, the band are nervous, and it can all feel a bit dutiful. But this packed-out show heralding the arrival of album number three for Meursault couldn’t have been further from…
Jessie Cave gets family involved in Edinburgh Fringe debut Bookworm
25 Jul 2012
Lavendar Brown from Harry Potter in 'prop-heavy, slightly strange' debut
Summing up the life stories of put-upon younger siblings everywhere, Jessie Cave says of her upcoming Fringe debut: ‘it’s definitely a one-woman show, but my little sister’s in it...’ Luckily, 14-year-old Bebe is a willing participant and an emerging…
Wojtek the Bear bound for success at Fringe 2012
24 Jul 2012
How the Polish/Syrian/Persian bear became an international phenomenon
Laura Ennor discovers how the real-life tale of a Persian bear who fought in World War II and lived out his days in Edinburgh Zoo has become an international phenomenon For all that the theatre is a showcase for the power of the imagination, sometimes…
