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 […]
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Review: Hal Cruttenden – It’s Best You Hear It From Me
✭✭✭✭ One of several ‘work-in-progress’ shows that premiered at the Fringe-lite festival last year, It’s Best You Hear It From Me returns as the finished product this year. The main changes aren’t the result of audience feedback – last year’s show could easily have gone on the road with no alterations – but instead come […]
Review: Charlie Williams – Eh up, Me Old Flowers
✭✭ Billed as the Charlie Williams Story, this is the story of the first black comedian to become a household name in the UK. Sadly, caught between being a This is Your Life style biography and an attempt to view 1970s comedy through a 2020s lens, it fails to deliver. We see him visited by someone from […]
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 […]