Reflections on the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival 2011

With a choice of over 50 shows spread over 10 days, all I can give is just a flavour of the Festival based on the 7 shows I managed to see. Virtually every form of jazz was available from … Read More

Pushkart Derby:- P in the Bay III 23 July 2011

Okay something was wrong from the start. It was an outside gig of marathon proportions being staged in Scotlandand it wasn’t raining. Not only was it dry, it was warm and sunny throughout even hot at times and that was … Read More

Oh What A Night -Beyond The Barricade – Dunfermline Alhambra Theatre 25 June

For what started off as a one-off collaboration for a charity performance the ‘Beyond The Barricade’ phenomena has really grown in as much that twelve years later the show devised by David Fawcett and Andy Reiss is still packing them … Read More

Scottish final of AmusedMoose LaughOff 2011 at the Bongo Club, Edinburgh 5 June

The Amused Moose organisation have been running this competition for quite a while now culminating in the Grand Final that is held during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival each August. Quite a number of now mega names have come through these … Read More

Thriller Live

There are those like me, who though they accept that Michael Jackson did create quite a number of classic tracks back in the day, do not totally understand the fanatical support that he garnered from those spread around the four … Read More

Kim Shepherd Tiffany Lounge Dunfermline Wed 15 June

As it says on the poster above Dunfermline’s own Kim Shepherd, a young actress and singer extrordinaire is performing for her public at Dunfermline’s Carnegie Hall in their Tiffany lounge.

Tickets are going to be hard to come by … Read More

Ed Byrne – Crowd Pleaser – 27 April

Those of you who regularly follow our site may recall that back in the end of October last year I didn’t review Ed Byrne when he appeared at the Edinburgh Stand as part of his Warming up in the Cold … Read More

Comedy Bites :- Friday 6 May

Following on the undoubted success of this venture, Abby Shovlin and her team have put togetehr another excellent package for Friday 6 May. As well as a two course meal prepared by quality chefs, the comedy features two of the funniest … Read More

Lenny Henry: – From Cradle to Rave

Lenny Henry is an institution in the British entertainment industry. I first saw him as a teenager on ‘New Faces’ talent programme and later as one of the mainstays in the iconic Saturday morning show Tiswas and also as one … Read More

Why Not? Musical Theatre Company presents The Rhythm of Life

Okay, let’s get confession time out of the way first. I normally do not go to see Youth Theatre productions. Why? Well generally there are not enough quality voices to sustain a production, often the stage is packed solid with kids … Read More