With more than 1,500 shows already revealed for this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, we’ve taken a look at some of the famous faces you can see on stage this August. Fringe favourites including David O’Doherty, Jason Byrne, Reginald D Hunter and Paul Merton will be joined by other ‘well-kent’ faces from comedy including Adam Hills, Nish Kumar, Dara O’Briain and Sara Pascoe. Joining these famous stand-ups at the Fringe in August will be ventriloquist Nina Conti, politician Mhari Black, TV star...
ASHLAND, Ore.- The Oregon Fringe Festival kicked off the afternoon of April 24th. Every year, Southern Oregon University produces the Oregon Fringe Festival. Russell Copley, Director of the festival, says the fest is a multi-day event featuring artists expressing the creative spirit through different types of displays. According to George Butterick and Maryellen McGinnis, Theater […]
Ronnie Neville is either a genius or a lunatic. Watch Irish Storytelling, and you decide! Award-winning comedian and viral breakout star Ronnie Neville’s journey has taken him from Cork to Edinburgh via New York, Perth, and Melbourne. Sharing tales from the bogs and streets of Ireland, watered and grown on the floorboards of Irish pubs, he shares the ‘craic’ with his own unique passion, flair, and charm. Irish Storytelling was one of the highest-selling shows at this year’s Perth Fringe,...
Local Living: Events in the Midlands to enjoy during this Springtime!
The gates for Edinburgh’s Terminal V Festival opened at midday yesterday, marking the milestone 10th edition of the biggest electronic music festival in the country. Thousands of electronic music lovers from all corners of the globe arrived at The Royal Highland Centre in Edinburgh ready for a weekend of epic music across five stages, four of which are freshly redesigned, and cutting edge production. The dancing continued all day on Saturday, April 13, with revellers raving until 11pm last...
Terminal V Festival continued for the second and final day of its milestone tenth edition on Sunday, as thousands of music lovers from around the world returned to Edinburgh and brought the weekend to an incredible close. Terminal V has grown from a single room warehouse event with only 2500 people in attendance in 2017, to now bring over 15,000 music fans to Terminal V Halloween and 40,000 at the ever expanding Terminal V Festival, which took place at the weekend at The Royal Highland Centre....
The Edinburgh Seafood Festival is returning to the city next month – and among the dishes visitors can sample is a crab and prawn roll courtesy of Gordon Ramsay Street Burger. The festival, which runs from Saturday 4th to Monday 6th May, in association with our sister paper The Scotsman, will see St James Quarter will be transformed into a seafood lover's paradise. With a plethora of exciting activities and delicious food options, this year's event promises to be one of the best yet. It will...
A one-man Edinburgh Festival Fringe show by a Fife comedian about him being stalked by a woman has become a hit comedy drama Netflix series. Baby Reindeer was released on Netflix this week, starring writer, actor and comedian Richard Gadd from Wormit in Fife, who created the show and performed it at the world’s biggest arts festival in 2019. While in his 20s, he was stalked by a woman, and he decided to turn this dark experience into the one-man Fringe show which has now become a hit television...
A new Edinburgh craft beer festival is set to launch next month in the Grassmarket, celebrating the diverse range of local breweries in the capital. The inaugural Grassmarket Craft Beer Festival will be hosted by Edinburgh microbrewery and bar Cold Town House will host and feature around 10 local brewers including Barney’s, Campervan Brewery, Cold Town House and Stewart Brewing. Chris Queen, organiser of the festival said: "The Grassmarket Craft Beer Festival represents a celebration of...
Matt 'Shirvo' Shirvington and Monique Wright were left gobsmacked on Friday morning when they were confronted with a bizarre comedian on live TV.
The 25-year-old vessel was hired by the Scottish Government in 2022 to house more than 1,000 Ukrainian refugees and remained docked in Glasgow until last year.
Located in the Newhaven area, it ranked 8th overall for slowest in whole of the UK in a study from Broadband Genie With their online connections down to a snail’s pace, it would take the residents of Hawthornvale over 15 hours to download ‘Avengers: Endgame’. Despite their sluggish Wi-Fi, residents in all of Edinburgh’s slowest streets could upgrade to superfast broadband of at least 30MB. Broadband Genie is calling on households to check their internet and contact their provider if they aren’t...