Film Festival: Television viewers will be familiar with the powerful drama Three Girls about the grooming scandal in Rochdale. The three-part series received warm reviews and gave a further boost to the credentials of its Glasgow-born writer Nicole Taylor. She has now been signed up by the Edinburgh International Film Festival as EIFF Screenwriter-in-Residence. The […]
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Hour of joy as Cotton is Cash re-born
Fringe Review – A Boy Named Cash (rating: 5/5) There are some acts we all wished we had seen. For me, Johnny Cash is one of them. Well, I reckon I can just about tick that box after seeing Monty Cotton. The young man from Perth, Australia, is said to have “woken one day in […]
Edinburgh Festival in photographs
A collection of images by Daily Business editor and photographer Terry Murden capture the variety and colour of the Edinburgh Festival and will be regularly updated here. All images are copyright of the photographer and DB Media Services (mediaservices@dailybusinessgroup.co.uk).
Vlad’s tips to the best comedy at the Fringe
Double Scottish comedy award winning comedian Vladimir McTavish recommends the top comedy shows MICHAEL REDMOND: I WROTE A JOKE IN 1987 Gilded Balloon Teviot, Bristo Suare 6.30pm Legendary Irish stand-up Michael Redmond is probably best known as Father Stone from Channel 4’s Father Ted. For the past thirty-odd years, he has been one of the most […]
Coles well versed in putting passion into poetry
Fringe Review – Man and Boy (rating: 4/5) So what makes a successful financial journalist up sticks from the City of London and decamp to Edinburgh for the month of August? Could it be the creation of one of Europe’s largest fund management powerhouses? RBS delivering its first profits for a number of years? Hitting […]