Fringe review – Jo Caulfield: Older. Wiser. Smarter. Meaner (rating: 4/5) A comedy stalwart of the Fringe, Caulfield has been treading the stand-up scene here since 2001 and kept coming back even after that first season when she saw a guy urinating on her pristine fringe poster. Indeed she loves Edinburgh so much she moved […]
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Hill serves up delightful menu of comic genres
Fringe review – Bec Hill, Out of Order (rating: 5/5) This is deconstructed comedy in which Hill offers the audience a menu from a board on stage and they choose the order of the gags. Hill who hails from Adelaide is a fairly fresh face on the stand-up scene. Her previous credits include Dara O’Briain’s […]
Carlowrie puts on a show for party guests
Wine, whisky and song: A summer garden party for guests took place at Carlowrie Castle near Kirkliston. Guests were invited to view the the castle, gardens and 32 acre estate and treated to a grand barbecue ‘fit for a King’ with a menu created by executive chef Jonathan Greer. There was live music, afternoon tea, cocktails, […]
Starship’s anarchic hour of sci-fi nonsense
Fringe Review – The Starship Osiris (rating: 4/5) Riotous, yes. Almost anarchic. Was there a script for this? Of course there was, though the cast does almost convince you that their falling out over missed lines and one character’s unhappiness at even being in Edinburgh is genuine. The roars of laughter from a mainly student-aged […]
Interview: David Ferguson, Nucleus
Fostering the fintech challenge: It’s been a life lived by numbers and in David Ferguson’s case the one that matters just now is the £13 billion in assets his company is administering. He raises his eyebrows and scratches the back of his head as if disbelieving the growth achieved by Nucleus which launched amid some scepticism […]