Gemma Goggin: Get Laid or Die Trying
29/08/2010 … We’re four decades on from the women’s liberation movement, but negative attitudes towards women and our sexuality still abound.
2010 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Sun 29 August 2010
Sat 28 August 2010
Adam Vincent: Vital Signs
28/08/2010 … I’m wary of describing Adam Vincent’s worldview as jaundiced, because his simmering rage turns out to be that of the avowed romantic and frustrated idealist.
Tommy Tiernan: Crooked Man [Edinburgh 2010]
28/08/2010 … Tommy Tiernan takes to the stage in a smart grey suit – but that’s where the conventional aspects of this performance begin and end.
Phil Nichol: Welcome To Crazytown
28/08/2010 … Phil Nichol’s evocative recreation of a 1974 Baltimore jazz cellar is so authentic that you’d swear the low-ceilinged Stand was blanketed in fug of cigarette…
Lach: The Day I Went Insane
28/08/2010 … Lach is a big deal in the New York singer-songwriter movement, responsible for the city’s longest-running open mic comedy and music night Antihoot – a format…
Kissing The Goldfish
28/08/2010 … ‘Brilliant lyrics’ the Daily Express said of Kissing The Goldfish – praise they proudly include in their progamme blurb.
Janey Godley: The Godley Hour
28/08/2010 … As a working-class woman from Glasgow’s East End, Janey Godley claims she’s an ethnic minority at Scotland’s international arts festival.
Simon Munnery: Self-employed
28/08/2010 … As if testifying to Simon Munnery's enduring status as a comedian's comedian this well-attended afternoon show numbers among its audience Phil Jupitus and Jimmy…