Gavin and Gavin in Colonic Irrigation for our souls

The Gavin sisters, Lorretta and Sharon have been playing Edinburgh for a few years now, but they wanted to go back further so undertook some regression therapy as to what they did in ‘past lives’ and this regression formed the … Read More

Freestyle Love Supreme

I don’t know what I thought I’d see with this show, but it certainly wasn’t what I’d expected. If I’d been told I was going to see six American rappers called Love Style, I probably not have gone, being somewhat … Read More

The Fred MacAulay Show

Fred McAuley is somewhat of a Scottish Institution. He is multi talented, being a stand up, a TV presenter and hosts a daily radio show on BBC Radio Scotland.

I first saw him at the Fringe I suppose 12 years … Read More

Fiona O’Laughlin

Aussie Sheila Fiona O’Loughlin introduces herself as the most uncool comedian on the Fringe being over forty, married and a mother of five.

Uncool maybe, but she is certainly funny with numerous stories based mostly on her extended family and … Read More

Faultless and Torrance Take Their Faces Off

Judith Faultless and Alys Torrance are a pair of comediennes who we previously saw in 2003 in the much acclaimed The Flirt Lab. They have impressive cv’s including radio and television, not to mention their work on the comedy circuit … Read More

Russell Howard – Skylarking

Russell Howard first came to our attention during the Pleasance Press Launch in 2004, we then saw him at The Stand Comedy Club. On the strength of these two snippets I went to see his full show ‘Skylarking’. Both … Read More

Tim Minchin – Darkside

Tim Minchin is very Australian (and very proud of it), multi-talented and immensely funny. His act is a cocktail of comedy songs, stand up, with a twist of poetry thrown in for good measure. He can be manic but … Read More

Sally Swallows & The Rise of Londinian

Billed as the Uk’s darkest and nastiest comedy -horror sketch show, I suppose it maybe has reached it’s aims. I found it nasty, the script horrible and the jokes and running gags generally poor. I was not alone, the … Read More

Tommy Tiernan – Loose

Thanks to Nicky for this review. At the start of Loose you see a large painting piece by piece which was painted by Tommy to represent what society would look like if he was in charge. Ultimately it was chaotic and larger … Read More

Scotland 4  Australia 1

No it’s not a football result, as if. What it is is a show case of four Scottish comedians Keir  McAllister, Peter Aitchison, Austin Low and Paul Pirie together with one Aussie, Kieron Butler, who do a showcase of … Read More