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Njambi McGrath
First published in On the Mic - Thursday, June 29th, 2023Title of Show: Njambi McGrath: OutKast Venue: Gilded Balloon – Turret Time: 3:00pm Dates: 5th – 28th August (except 14th August) Photograph: Steve Ullathorne Links: Profile and Social Media Tell me about your 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. As a kid, I was an outcast. I had no natural allies. Sandwiched between 2 older sisters who were inseparable […]
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MC Hammersmith
First published in On the Mic - Wednesday, June 28th, 2023Title of Show: MC Hammersmith: Straight Outta Brompton Venue: Monkey Barrel 1 Time: 12:30pm Dates: 2nd – 27th August (except 8th, 15th & 22nd August) Photograph: David Wilkinson Links: Profile and Social Media Tell me about your 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. The show is an entire hour of improvised hip hop comedy based on audience suggestions. […]
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Stewart Lee
First published in On the Mic - Sunday, July 31st, 2022Show: Stewart Lee: Snowflake Venue: The Stand’s New Town Theatre, Grand Hall Time: 1.50pm Dates: 3rd – 28th Aug (not 15th or 16th Aug) Show: Stewart Lee: Basic Lee (Work In Progress) Venue: The Stand One Time: 10am Dates: 3rd – 28th Aug (not 15th or 16th) Photographer: Steve Ullathorne Links: Stewart Lee’s profile Further Tour Dates Hi Stew. Tell me […]
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Paul Sinha
First published in On the Mic - Sunday, July 31st, 2022Show: Paul Sinha: One Sinha Lifetime Venue The Stand’s New Town Theatre Time: 4.40pm Dates: 4th – 28th (not 15th) Links: Profile and Social Media Hi Paul. Please tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, One Sinha Lifetime (genuinely brilliant title by the way). This year’s show is an affectionate look at […]
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Arthur Smith
First published in On the Mic - Sunday, July 31st, 2022Show: Arthur Smith: My 75 years at the Edinburgh Fringe Venue Pleasance Cabaret Bar Time: 2.40pm Dates: 5th – 14th Aug Photographer: Steve Ullathorne Links: Profile and Social Media Please tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, It’s my love letter to the playground of the imagination […]
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Sophie Duker
First published in On the Mic - Sunday, July 31st, 2022Show: Sophie Duker: Hag Venue Pleasance Courtyard – Beside Time: 7.30pm Dates: 3rd to 28th August (not 17th) Photographer: Sarah Harry Isaacs Links: Profile and Social Media Hi Sophie. Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Hag Hag is SO much better than anything else I’ve ever done, including the […]
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Lee Ridley
First published in On the Mic - Sunday, July 31st, 2022Performer: Lee Ridley Show: Lost Voice Guy: Cerebral LOLsy Venue Gilded Balloon – Auditorium Time: 6.30pm Dates: 15th – 28th August Photographer: Steve Ullathorne Links: Profile and Social Media Hi Lee. Please tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Lost Voice Guy: Cerebral LOLsy My show is called Cerebral LOLsy. And yes, I did take the rest […]
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Fascinating Aïda
First published in On the Mic - Sunday, July 31st, 2022Show: Fascinating Aïda Venue Assembly George Square, Gordon Aikman Theatre Time: 6pm Dates: 3rd – 27th Aug (not 14th or 15th) Photographer: Johnny Boylan Links: Fascinating Aïda profile Hi Dillie Keane! Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Fascinating Aïda. It’s a distillation of the […]
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Hal Cruttenden
First published in On the Mic - Sunday, July 31st, 2022Title of Show: Hal Cruttenden: It’s Best You Hear It From Me Venue: Pleasance Courtyard – Two Time: 8.10pm Dates: 3rd – 28th August (except 16th) Photographer: Matt Crockett Links: Profile and Social Media Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. Well, I was struggling to find a strong theme to my show but […]
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Paul Foot
First published in On the Mic - Sunday, July 31st, 2022Show: Paul Foot: Swan Power Venue Underbelly Cowgate Time: 7.20pm Dates: 4th – 28th Aug (not 16th) Photographer: Steve Ullathorne Links: Profile & Social Media Please tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Swan Power. This year, I have packed my show with humour, including a potential solution to […]
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Lucy Porter
First published in On the Mic - Sunday, July 31st, 2022Show: Lucy Porter: Wake-Up Call Venue Pleasance Courtyard – Pleasance Fourth Time: 5.20pm Dates: 3rd – 20th August (not 15th) Photographer Steve Ullathorne Links: Lucy’s Profile and Social Media Hi Lucy! Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Wake-Up Call. To be perfectly honest, I chose the title Wake-Up Call because I […]
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Tim Vine
First published in On the Mic - Sunday, July 31st, 2022Show Time Vine: Breeeep! Venue: Pleasance Courtyard Time: 6pm Dates: 3rd-28th August (not 7, 15, 22) Photographer: Andy Robinson PhotoFarm Links Profile and Social Media Hi Tim. Please tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. The show is called Breeeep! I’m pretty sure no one else has got a show called Breeeep! It was […]
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Clive Anderson
First published in On the Mic - Sunday, July 31st, 2022Show: Clive Anderson’s My Seven Wonders Venue Assembly George Square Time: 4.45pm Dates: 6th – 28th August (not 16th) Photographer: Links: Clive’s Profile Hi Clive. Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Clive Anderson’s My Seven Wonders. It’s an on-stage version of my podcast My Seven Wonders (About 30 episodes available […]
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Shazia Mirza
First published in On the Mic - Sunday, July 31st, 2022Show: Shazia Mirza: Coconut Venue: Gilded Balloon, Patter House Time: 19:40 Dates: 3rd-28th August (not 16th) Photographer: Idil Sukan Links: Profile and Social Media Please tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show? My show is called ‘Coconut’. I was meant to start the tour in March 2020 but then the pandemic happened […]
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Tony Law
First published in On the Mic - Sunday, July 31st, 2022Show: Tony Law: A Now Begin in Again Venue Monkey Barrel 3 Time: Noon Dates: 3rd – 28th August (except 11th, 16th) Photographer: Storm Davison Links: Profile and Social Media Hi Tony! Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, A Now Begin in Again. A lot of shouting and stooging about. Stupid […]
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Flo & Joan
First published in On the Mic - Sunday, July 31st, 2022Show: Flo & Joan: Sweet Release Venue: Assembly, Roxy Central Time: 8.10pm Dates: 3rd – 28th August (not 16th) Photographer: Matt Crockett Links: Website Twitter Facebook Instagram Tickets Hi Flo and Joan! Please tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Sweet Release. Hello. Sweet Release is a brand new hour of songs and […]
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Dixie Longate
First published in On the Mic - Sunday, July 31st, 2022Show: Dixie Longate’s Happy Hour Venue Assembly Rooms, Bijou Time: 7pm Dates: 4th – 27th Aug (not 15th) Links: Profile and Social Media Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Dixie Longate’s Happy Hour. This has been one heck of a crazy couple of years we have had. Between […]
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Seymour Mace
First published in On the Mic - Sunday, July 31st, 2022Show: Seymour Mace Presents Captain Winky’s F*ck Off Olympics Venue The Stand Comedy Club Time: 11.45am Dates: 4th – 28th August (not 15th) Photographer: Neil Ferry Links: Profile and Social Media Hi Seymour. Please tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Seymour Mace Presents Captain Winky’s F*ck Off Olympics. I usually have loads […]
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Jamie MacDonald
First published in On the Mic - Sunday, July 31st, 2022Show: Jamie MacDonald: Reasonably Adjusted Venue Gilded Balloon – Sportsmans Time: 7.45pm Dates: 3rd – 29th August Photographer: Mihaela Betlavich Links: Profile and Social Media Hi Jamie. Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Reasonably Adjusted. No problem. The New York Times, America’s answer to the Daily Record ran a poll: What’s the worst thing that […]
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Anna Morris
First published in On the Mic - Sunday, July 31st, 2022Show: Anna Morris: Kid-Life Crisis Venue: Laughing Horse @ The Counting House Time: 2.45pm Dates: 4th – 21st August (not 10th, 17th) Photographer: Karla Goweltt Links: Profile and Social Media Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Kid-Life Crisis. It’s the live version of my BBC Radio 4 stand-up special, which I wrote and […]
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Joz Norris
First published in On the Mic - Sunday, July 31st, 2022Show: Joz Norris: Blink Venue Pleasance Dome Time: 8.20pm Dates: 3rd – 29th August (except 16th) Photographer: Miranda Holms Links: Social Media and Profile Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Blink. Blink is actually, unbelievably, the greatest magic show of all time. I know that might come […]
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Njambi McGrath
First published in On the Mic - Sunday, July 31st, 2022Title of Show: Njambi McGrath: Black Black Venue: Pleasance Courtyard – Baby Grand Time: 5:50pm Dates: 5th – 28th August (except 15th August) Photograph: Steve Ullathorne Links: Profile and Social Media Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. My show is called Black Black. The title came from my English mother in-law who upon discovering I […]
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SHELF
First published in On the Mic - Sunday, July 31st, 2022Show: Shelf: Hair Venue Pleasance Courtyard – Bunker 3 Time: 7.15pm Dates: 3-28th August (not 17th) Photographer: Corinne Cumming Hi Rachel and Ruby. Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Honeysuckle Island. Honeysuckle Island is a pensive, bittersweet piece about lost love, with an original score performed by a chamber […]
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Eh Up Me Old Flowers!
First published in On the Mic - Sunday, July 31st, 2022Show: Eh Up Me Old Flowers! The Charlie Williams Story Writer: Chris England Actor: Tony Marshall Venue: Pleasance Courtyard Time: 3:10pm Dates: 8th – 29th August (not 15th) Photographer: Simon Sprackling Links: Instagram Twitter Website Facebook YouTube Please tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show Eh Up, Me Old Flowers! is a play about the comedian […]
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Simon Fanshawe
First published in On the Mic - Sunday, July 31st, 2022Show: Simon Fanshawe: The Power of Difference Venue: Assembly Bijou in George Street, EH2 2LR Time: 2.30pm Dates: 19th -23rd August Links: Twitter Facebook Website Tickets In this broadly biographical performance, Simon looks back at his career and childhood using razor-sharp wit and personal stories to explore, hand in hand with his […]
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