The Edinburgh Blog

Review of the late night comedy show at The Stand, The Honourable Men of Art, with Daniel Kitson and friends at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2008.

Monday night saw the visit of Teesside’s favourite sons, Maximo Park and their seemingly endless supply of high tempo tunes to Edinburgh’s Corn Exchange. It’s not the world’s best venue and history has shown it can be beset by sound problems, which needless to say reared their ugly heads at the start of Maximo […]

Mortal Engine, at the Edinburgh Playhouse, for the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) reviewed by The Edinburgh Blog.

Review of Chuck Palahniuk’s talk at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2008. Chuck Palahniuk was launching his new book - Snuff.

Review of Stephen K Amos’ ‘Find The Funny’ stand-up comedy show at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2008.

Review of Dan Nightingale’s solo show, ‘Geronimo’, performed at the Delhi Belly venue for Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2008.

A visit to The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art to see Tracey Emin: 20 years. This is the premiere of Tracey Emin’s first retrospective.

The 500 folk inside the Edinburgh Book Festival’s main theatre broke into applause when the mystery guest was announced as Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Ian Rankin was to interview him. 2008 is the 25th anniversary of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Even though the weather didn’t play its part, the festival’s director, […]

Frog Man review from the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Mick Martin’s Frog Man is an entertaining and dark humoured play on at The Zoo venue until 25th August.

Review of Surviving Spike, the play starring Michael Barrymore and Jill Halfpenny, at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.