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10 August 2015
Sarah Callaghan: Elephant
How emotionally tender and conscientious can a stand-up comedy gig get without addressing death? Go and see Callaghan and you'll find out.
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10 August 2015
In Cahoots: Two White Guys
I told you last year they were too good not to be making money from their time at the Fringe, and I was right. Their work is going in the right direction.
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10 August 2015
Stephen Bailey: Should’ve Been A Popstar
Bailey's routine exuded such a level of energy, that would raise up even the dullest of demeanours.
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9 August 2015
Heartbeats & Algorithms
A one-woman show tells the audience a story about the implications of a world in which technology can pre-empt our decisions based on our digital fingerprint.
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9 August 2015
Jonny Awsum: Everything Is Awsum
Awsum upped the ante with the stakes of ridiculousness in his show this year. The laughs he got in the packed out, sweltering venue were some of the loudest I'd heard yet.
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8 August 2015
Natasha Noman: Noman’s Land
I was intrigued about going to see Noman's Land. Intrigued about how a former journalist in Pakistan was now in the business of giving a one-woman show.
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8 August 2015
Kevin Day: Hairline
Hairline opened with the most original start to a routine – slick and funny with the right level of ridiculousness.
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7 August 2015
The Wonderful Life of Lieven Scheire
The Wonderful Life is a routine made by and for geeks. A lover of geekery comes into his own as Lieven Scheire.
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7 August 2015
Hampstead Murder Mystery
I went to see the Hampstead Murder Mystery at the behest of Jo. I'm glad she asked me to.
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6 August 2015
Will Durst: BoomeRaging from LSD to OMG
Will Durst's show is filled with original observations about the humorous aspects of the baby boomer generation's way of life.
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6 August 2015
How well do foreign films travel?
Foreign film is always different because the way in which different cultures and people make films differ wildly.
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3 August 2015
JP Cooper on the Obelisk Stage
I finally got to see JP Cooper live and see if he was as practically perfect in person as his recorded music.
Comment posted on 20 June 2018
Yeah it's massively problematic and really irks me. While the body and identity politics are worth heeding - specifically that ITV have defended their position by saying that physical appearance is NOT a criterion on which contestants, which is incredibly difficult to believe - my issue with it is more overarching and something that Iain Stirling, the voice presenter, has addressed somewhat when he said Love Island is seen to 'dumb down' the nation. As opposed to dumbing down, I think it serves as an overwhelming indictment of the superficiality of modernity. It takes love and sex and places it on an economistic platform without regard for how the men and women - who are wildly segregated, be it by choice or not - take the experience differently. It is, however, heartening (if that's the right word) to see the viewing public rally against the more problematic (at the very least) behaviour. Prime of which is throwing camaraderie out of the window for self-serving sex and ill excuses for emotional infatuation. I have watched this season to fathom out the appeal and I've moved away from my previous allegation that it's as close as you can get to porn on primetime television and towards the view that its issues are, ironically, more complex. There's also the argument that bad television has value, something you can switch your mind off to watch, but I think the spectatorial appeal around Love Island is much more sordid than that.