✭✭✭✭ Most familiar for playing the title role in ‘I Daniel Blake’, Dave Johns is less well known for being a stand-up comedian, in spite of doing it for much of the last 40 years. On his opening night in Edinburgh he ably demonstrated why it shouldn’t have taken a Ken Loach film to bring […]
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Securing safe passage to the metaverse economy
TECH TALK: BILL MAGEE says the next wave of technology presents some old problems For some it’s innocent online fun that passes a few hours. Tethered to augmented reality (AR) glasses and virtual reality (VR) headsets, interacting in a 3D social/entertainment digital playground that usually means frantically waving one’s arms about. To the more commercially […]
Review: Tim Key – Mulberry
✭✭✭✭✭ Tim Key had the showbiz world at his feet, about to appear on Pointless Celebrities and also lined up for the part of a paedophile in an episode of Vera. And then the country went into lockdown, and now two years later he’s back playing student union gigs wearing a tracksuit. Welcome to the […]
Pop-ups give stores a new lease of life
Struggling high streets are getting a surprising boost from an unlikely source – online retailers – as hybrid shopping takes off, writes JULENA DRUMI Online retail is widely viewed as the nemesis of the high street, the invisible trader knocking the heart, soul and commercial vitality out of our towns and cities. However, a new […]
Byrne and Bishop to play brain tumour gig
Festival news: Jason Byrne, John Bishop, Jessica Fostekew, Rhys Nicholson, Michael Akadiri, Phil Wang and Maisie Adam are confirmed to appear in this year’s Big Brain Tumour Benefit. Taking place at Underbelly’s biggest venue – the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, McEwan Hall – the entire box office income is going to The Brain Tumour Charity, the […]