Edinburgh Festivals

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Into The Hoods

1 Aug 2007

One of the undisputed hits of last year’s Fringe is making a welcome return to Edinburgh.

Naked Portrait

1 Aug 2007

In contrast with the ‘nude’ figure in western art history, the naked portrait still manages to present a sometimes shocking and raw view of the sitter’s personality that reaches beyond their public façade.

Stonewall

9 Aug 2007

Doubtless huge progress has been made regarding gay rights in recent decades but there are still reports of gay people being persecuted across the world.

Simon Amstell

21 Aug 2006

Too many comedians blame their audience when gigs don’t dazzle and, while I genuinely sympathise, that doesn’t strike me as laudable professional conduct. But Simon Amstell really seems to have a problem with his punters. Because there’s quite a young…

Ballerina Who Loves a B-Boy

Ballerina Who Loves a B-Boy

16 Aug 2007

Although it’s been crammed into a hotel function room better suited to the cringey frugging of a wedding disco, this gleeful little production is the most assured and exuberant of the cluster of Korean breakdance shows infesting the Fringe this…

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Popular events

Seasick Steve
Date	Location
Vagrant American bluesman accompanying himself on a two-stringed guitar and a wooden box, playing tracks from his new album 'I Started Out With Nothing And I've Still Got Most Of It Left.
21 Oct 7.30	Barrowland, Glasgow
23 Oct 7.30	Music Hall, Aberdeen
25 Oct 7.30	Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

Kaiser Chiefs
Date	Location
Over-14s show. The mighty Kaisers tour their new album 'Off With Their Heads' offering more of their trademark roudy anthems and catchy indie rock nuggets.
17 Oct 7.00	Barrowland, Glasgow
27 Feb 7.30	AECC, Aberdeen

Richard Hamilton: Protest Pictures
Date	Location
Retrospective giving an (incomplete) idea of just how influential the great British pop artist has been. His critiques of the way mass media communicates politics might now seem commonplace, but this is a good reminder of just who pioneered those techniques in the first place.
31 Jul–12 Oct, not Mondays 10.00am–5.30	Royal Botanic Garden (Inverleith House), Edinburgh

Tina C
Date	Location
Hold on to your holster, Miss Tina C is back with her fabulousness to entertain the troops with songs from her latest album 'Tick My Box'. With support from Edinburgh's LGBT choir Loud & Proud. 'Part of Glasgay!'
2 Nov 8.00	Òran Mór, Glasgow

Graeme Stephen Sextet
Date	Location
Infiltrating Celtic music with totally new rhythms and sounds, Aberdeen-born guitarist Stephen's band combines some leading musicians from the folk and jazz worlds.
11 Dec 8.00	Blue Lamp, Aberdeen

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