Posts Tagged ‘Edinburgh’
Fringe Review: Juliet Cowan – F*ck Off and Leave Me Alone
Richard Bath heads to Juliet Cowan’s comedy debut which delivers a part teenage confessional, part middle-aged rallying cry. ★★ You know you’ve attained true Marmite status when roughly quarter of the small audience leave longs before your final climax (and there’s a LOT of chat about climaxing in this show) yet the whole of the…
Read MoreFringe Review: Shitty Mozart
Richard Bath finds proof that ‘just because you can, it doesn’t mean you should’ at this one man show. ★★ The premise of this show is that Mozart was cloned, but that because the boffins used one of Amadeus’s pubes, the sub-optimal result was a replica with next to no musical talent. This one-man multimedia concerto was…
Read MoreFringe Review: Adults Only Magic Show
Richard Bath heads out for an adults-only night of magic and comedy. ★★★★ Short version: I really enjoyed this, and it was comfortably the best thing I saw in the opening couple of days of the Fringe. It didn’t start promisingly with amusing but dick-obsessed compere Magnus ‘Danger’ Magnus delivering some smutty innuendo that would…
Read MoreBar + Block’s Mexican-Inspired Menu, Edinburgh
Located on Edinburgh’s Princes Street, Bar + Block is a steakhouse in a prime location. I have passed it a hundred times on the high street, usually in a rush to avoid the crowds and get my errands finished before my patience expires. However, my eyes always linger as I speed past, so I was…
Read MoreMànran kick off the takeover of Edinburgh Mound throughout the Fringe Festival
Trad supergroup Mànran has kicked off the takeover of Edinburgh’s Mound throughout the Fringe Festival. Hundreds of Scots piled onto the Mound on 1 August as they enjoyed an hour-long set from the Scottish group. The award-winning seven-piece band has been at the heart of the scene for over a decade and are recognised as…
Read MoreNew Reekie: Visitors gather at Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden for whiff of world’s smelliest corpse flower
Thousands of horticulture enthusiasts are set to gather at Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden to catch a whiff of a rare smelly plant known as the corpse flower. The titan arum plant, said to be the ‘world’s smelliest’ burst into bloom on Wednesday night and will emit its smell of rotting flesh for several days. The…
Read MoreTake a voyage of discovery with Glasgow Boy Sir John Lavery
His travels took him from Belfast to Scotland and New York, via Paris and Morocco. But Glasgow Boy Sir John Lavery never travelled without his painting kit. The latest exhibition of his work at the National Galleries of Scotland explores his incredible adventures through 90 portraits and impressionistic landscapes. The glamour of a lost era…
Read MoreEdinburgh Festival Fringe: 5 shows to see this year
Looking for something to see at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year, but not sure where to start? We take a look at five shows you should add to your list. Jack Docherty in The Chief – No Apologies 2 – 15 August, 8pm. Gilded Balloon Patter House. Calling all sitcom fanatics to grab their…
Read MoreStory of Vietnam War children part of operation babylift premieres at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Fifty years ago during the Vietnam War, thousands of babies and young children were flown out of Vietnam to new homes across the western world, many of them packed in boxes. Some of these children were not orphans at all, but young children tragically separated from their families in a war zone. They crossed oceans…
Read MoreSearch on for Scotland’s biggest craft beer fan for honorary chief taster role at microbrewery
Are you Scotland’s biggest craft beer fan? One of Scotland’s leading craft microbreweries has launched a nationwide search to appoint an honorary chief taster to help develop its new summer beer range. Cold Town Brewery, in Edinburgh, is on the lookout for Scotland’s biggest craft beer fan to put their taste buds to the ultimate…
Read More