Edinburgh

Hello. Are you there? Ah, good. You see, a lot of Ireland’s finest comic talent has migrated to Edinburgh for the month leaving us Hibernian schmucks with a dearth of laughs. The digest reflects this as I’ve been forced to enact a Comedy…

In Episode Ten, recorded live at the Vodafone Comedy Festival – comedian David O’Doherty sits down with Alison for a chat. Eventually. He has to hump the mic first. David reveals he shares a deep connection with Christina Aguilera,…

In Episode Seven - Alison struggles to remember the name of Sofie’s award-winning Edinburgh show, we find out what Denmark is and learn that everyone can afford Deliveroo.…

“I have an arts degree, I’m trained for nothing!” - Friedrich Nietzsche, probably. I could describe to you the convoluted series of half-thought out decisions that ultimately led to my unemployment but they are incredibly tedious, and…

William Brodie was born into one of the most respectable families of 18th century Edinburgh, but to say he wound up the black sheep of that family would be a gross understatement. Both of his grandfathers were lawyers, while his father…

NaNoSessionMo This weekend at the Nine Worlds Geek Fest, science fiction fans will team up to create the novel of the decade in just over an hour.  OK, perhaps not the novel of the decade, but certainly a novel worth blogging about.…

Karl Spain is our guest on this episode of The HeadStuff Podcast. I'm joined by my long-time friend Mikey Fleming as co-host. We both met Karl Spain for the first time in about 2004, or 2005, when he was the M.C. of a regular comedy club…