Sat 28 August 2010
Third time lucky for Kane
28/08/2010 … Russell Kane has won this year’s Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award – on his third time of being nominated.
Stewart Lee wins an Edinburgh award
(But no, not the Foster's one)
28/08/2010 … Bo Burnham, Stewart Lee and Arthur Smith have all won alternative awards at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Adam Vincent: Vital Signs
28/08/2010 … I’m wary of describing Adam Vincent’s worldview as jaundiced, because his simmering rage turns out to be that of the avowed romantic and frustrated idealist.
Tommy Tiernan: Crooked Man [Edinburgh 2010]
28/08/2010 … Tommy Tiernan takes to the stage in a smart grey suit – but that’s where the conventional aspects of this performance begin and end.
Phil Nichol: Welcome To Crazytown
28/08/2010 … Phil Nichol’s evocative recreation of a 1974 Baltimore jazz cellar is so authentic that you’d swear the low-ceilinged Stand was blanketed in fug of cigarette…
Lach: The Day I Went Insane
28/08/2010 … Lach is a big deal in the New York singer-songwriter movement, responsible for the city’s longest-running open mic comedy and music night Antihoot – a format…
Kissing The Goldfish
28/08/2010 … ‘Brilliant lyrics’ the Daily Express said of Kissing The Goldfish – praise they proudly include in their progamme blurb.