Edinburgh Fringe Reviews: Amsterdam
Amsterdam *** (Three Stars)
Jahmar Ngozi, Solomon Adams and Danielle Allen. theSpace @ Jury’s Inn. August 17th. 8.05 PM. £8 (£5 concessions).
Amsterdam is unlike any other show I have seen at the Fringe this year. For one, it incorporates both music and improvisation, but perhaps more importantly the style of its delivery is completely different to most shows billed as spoken word. Ngozi a...
6th September 2018
Luke Wright's Essex Lion prowls the sad-eyed lowlands
The cheery, beer-swilllng, rightwing politician Nigel Farage is attracting a lot of attention at the Edinburgh Fringe. Earlier on Wednesday comedian Matt Forde made a case for giving Farage his due as a character that enlivens the political scene. Later in the day Luke Wright, in his witty, poign...
25th August 2013
Phill Jupitus the poet? Worth a listen. But don't give up the day job, Phill
Did you know that Phill Jupitus – yes, the Phill Jupitus from Never Mind the Buzzcocks - is a performance poet? He’s also friends with Kate Tempest, and thinks her award-winning show Brand New Anci...
25th August 2013
Dim the lights, bedeck in red: female poets illuminate the Labyrinth
As Fringe venues go The Banshee Labyrinth has got to be one of the strangest in the whole of Edinburgh. It’s not so much the dinginess, the walls covered in posters or the vague smell of wet brick...
25th August 2013
After midnight: when the Tongue Fu band start playing
I last visited the Edinburgh Fringe 10 years ago, and in a sense, nothing has changed. We’ve still found ourselves in a flat in a nondescript tenement, up more than 60 stairs, owing to a booking ma...
25th August 2013
