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August 31, 2005
Got an email from Gemma with some funny excerpts from the fringe, not sure where to attribute it to. Here are my favourites:My dad is Irish and my mum is Iranian, which meant that we spent most of our family...
August 09, 2005
I've been back in Edinburgh for a little more than 24 hours now and have so far been to Phat Cave at the Gilded Balloon, Robin Ince's Book Club, Adam Buxtom's I, Pavel and the recording for Scottish TV /...
August 18, 2004
I emailed a ton of people the other day to see who was up for Todd Barry at the Assembly Rooms tonight. I thought that as the show started at 23:50 and some people like to sleep at night the...
August 15, 2004
Went to see 'Rob Deering - the Movie' last night at the Smirnoff Underbelly (Cowgate) with a friend from home. Now, the 'underbelly' is an amazing warren of a place underneath, I think, the central public library. Everywhere you turn...
August 11, 2004
Having mentioned previously that the first four performances of 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' had been cancelled, it was with some reserve that I ventured along to the Assembly Rooms this afternoon. I half expected that the show would...
August 09, 2004
Managed to pick up a few late tickets for the comedian Ed Byrne on Saturday Night at the Assembly Rooms. Not being over familiar with him beforehand meant that we really had no idea what to expect, tho' I did...
August 07, 2004
The much talked about 'One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest' starring Christian Slater has been cancelled for three more performances. The cancelled shows are due to Slater having a 'secondary illness' after the chickenpox which saw Friday's opening night cancelled....
June 14, 2004
The 58th Edinburgh Festival Fringe Programme is out which provides details of the 1695 fringe events taking place in Edinburgh between the 8th and 30th of August featuring 25,000 performers in 236 venues. The programme is searchable online. The back...
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