Category: Review
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Edinburgh 2012 Reviews
I’ve just returned from four glorious days in sunny Edinburgh (it seems wrong to say…), basking in comedic and theatrical genius with the odd road bump along the way. Last year I reviewed in depth everything I saw. However this year it wasn’t possible for 3 reasons. 1# I was there with my girlfriend who…
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Review: Essentials M8 Microphone
To specialise or not to specialise that is the question. Some companies are dedicated to certain types of equipment, they become synonymous with them. Think Shure and Sennheiser for Microphones, Gibson and Fender for electric guitars, Marshall and amps, Korg’s synthesizers and Ernie Ball strings. Some companies find a product that fits with them like butter…
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Comedy Review: Jon Richardson
For someone who claims to be a “bit of a penis”, “a dick” and an all round nasty person Jon Richardson is, it should be said, a comedian who audiences instinctively warm to. He has a charm, a turn of phrase and a vulnerability which allows him to say the most horrendous (yet…
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Review: Farida J-16ENS Guitar
No one likes to admit that they’re average. In pub conversations, on clubbing nights out, on dates, holidays, during meals in posh restaurants, when with family or friends, work colleagues or mortal enemies we avoid, flee and deny the existence of “average”. Rather be exceptional – bad or good – than languish in the middle, devoid of…
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Game Review: Battlefield 3
I have always been a sports game sort of guy. Sensible Soccer, through every version of Fifa via a brief excursion to Pro Evo, a momentary glance at Brian Lara with a hint of Top Spin and an ill fated visit to the Winter Olympics on the original Playstation. I’d never even played a first-person…
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Review: On The Edge
For frequent readers of this blog (which mostly seems to be Unity Theatre staff and my sister… There will be a post about pizza at some point…) you’ll know I had a show on at The Lantern Theatre a few weeks ago! It was nice to see my work onstage with a fresh perspective! I…
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Game Review: Fifa 12
I hate to say it, but I’m here now, and, well, I have a problem, an addiction. I don’t like confessing it, maybe it’s churlish, pathetic, maybe it isn’t, I don’t know. All I know if it’s here to stay and there’s no escape. I’m addicted to losing. It started in the late 90s with…
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Comedy Review: Andrew Bird’s Village Fete
Edinburgh Festival 2011 The measure of success for any performer should be their ability to effect an audience, manipulate them and create an experience that is unique but also managed with intent and conviction. Andrew Bird works hard from the start to get his audience on his side an succeeds epically. There are few comedians I…
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Comedy Review: The Axis Of Awesome
Edinburgh Festival 2011 One of the great things about the festival is the contrast in performances, styles, venues and atmospheres. Surely there are few other places where you can go from an underground basement room with six other people watching a Geordie comedian flogging his comedy heart and soul out for little noticeable effect to…
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Comedy Review: Bridget Christie
Edinburgh Festival 2011 – Housewife Surrealist I was standing, as is my will to do, yesterday at the Virgin half-price ticket desk looking for festival bargains while tirelessly trying to avoid the endless repeats of Puppetry of the Penis, Titanic 2 and the many many productions of some second rate Sarah Kane show by undersexed…
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Film Review: The Guard
Sometimes as you get to the end of a long week at work, mentally exhausted, desperate to leave the reality of working life behind as you head into the weekend, tired of tension and stress you need to relax, sit back and laugh. I found myself at the end of a very long week in…
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Film Review: JCVD
Some actors are born great, some acquire greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. However for some the road is less easily trodden, they glimpse greatness, come crashing down, appear in Streetfighter the movie (alongside Kylie) before being seemingly cast away on the scrapheap of actors who we laugh at for their previous errors.…