Tag Archive | "Edinburgh Festival Fringe"

Windows on the Fringe

Thursday, August 25, 2011

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I spotted this art installation by Astrid Jaekel on my wanderings around the massive cultural explosion that is the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe recently, the artworks placed into a series of windows in a building at the top of the curving descent of Victoria Street which leads down from George IV Bridge to the Grassmarket [...]

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Norman Lovett in FP Edinburgh today

Saturday, August 28, 2010

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It’s the last weekend of the madness that is the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this weekend and as part of the fun Norman Lovett, in town with his own show, lol, which runs until the 30th of August, is going to come in to do a signing in the Edinburgh Forbidden Planet on Southbridge, just a [...]

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Norman Lovett in Edinburgh

Thursday, August 12, 2010

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Norman Lovett has appeared in many things but will always be loved by SF fans for playing Holly, the once all-knowing AI on Red Dwarf, now sadly subject to computer senility after several million years. Norman has also had a very long career as a stand-up and while he’s in an absolutely heaving Edinburgh for [...]

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Bikin’ Batman!

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

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Forget Grant Morrison’s long, convoluted death and rebirth of Batman, now the truth can be revealed: the Dark Knight is actually on a motorbiking holiday in Scotland, taking in a bit of the world’s biggest arts festival in Edinburgh on the way: (pic of Edinburgh Fringe Cavalcade from my Flickr, click for the larger version) [...]

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Dancing at the Zombie Zoo

Monday, August 9, 2010

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Ahead of yesterday afternoon’s signing for Dr Dale’s Zombie Dictionary, which coincides with the show version of How To Survive a Zombie Apocalypse at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this month (at the Zoo Southside, details on the official site), we had an invasion of the walking dead at the Edinburgh Forbidden Planet (pics from my [...]

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Which superhero would you be?

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

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As mentioned the other day Kevin F Sutherland is in Edinburgh holding comics masterclasses (see here) and also taking part in the Fringe with the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre; here’s a wee clip of them in action, asking which super power they’d like to receive in the time honoured genre tradition of a dreadful [...]

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Kevin Sutherland’s Comic Art Masterclasses in Edinburgh

Monday, August 10, 2009

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Comics artist, Beano contributor and footwear obsessed performer Kevin F Sutherland is back in Edinburgh once more with the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre (themselves no stranger to various comic cons). And while he’s here Kev is also running a series of comics masterclasses in a number of libraries around Edinburgh during August: Tuesday 11th [...]

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Amanda Palmer at FPI Edinburgh

Thursday, August 6, 2009

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You might remember recently I mentioned that Amanda Palmer would be performing a gig in Edinburgh (in the HMV Picture House on Lothian Road, August 22nd) and is threatening all sorts of other sneaky performances during the annual madness of the Edinburgh Festival this month (will no-one think of the children???). I’m also delighted to [...]

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