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Fiona Shepherd August 15th, 2014 by Mister Kipper

Fiona Shepherd is rock and pop reviewer for The Scotsman, but they let her write about comedy too because everyone is multitasking at Scotsman Towers these days. Jay Richardson makes sandwiches in the canteen. Joyce Macmillan maintains the drawbridge and the boiling oil. And anyway, comedy was once going to be the new rock n’ […]

Martin Walker July 21st, 2014 by Becky Walker's Panda

We hope that Martin Walker will pull his finger out now that he’s editor of Broadway Baby. At ScotsGay last year it never seemed as if he took a punt on anything very much – most of what he saw was couched in terms such as “this is always good,” “brilliant as usual” etc. You […]

Malcolm Jack July 17th, 2014 by Vince Guttering

Malcolm Jack isn’t impressed by much, and he wants us to know it. His adjectives all flow from the seen-it-all, done-it-all, yadda-yadda school of journalism.  Of Gemma Whelan’s Chastity Butterworth & The Spanish Hamster he writes that something like this turns up at the Fringe “pretty much every year in one form or another”. Gareth […]

Jonathan Mayo July 17th, 2014 by Edmund Rumania

You know that thing they do in shit daytime telly where they get hold of a theme and shake it to death like a cat with a sparrow? Like when a retired Sergeant-Major buys a house on Homes Under The Hammer, they’ll ask whether he’ll be marching into a renovation or doing an about-turn on […]

Andrew Currums July 15th, 2014 by Jemyma C. Noevil

Andrew Currums is a difficult reviewer to assess. While a great many of his conclusions seem wrong to anyone of normal intelligence, they do follow an internal logic that makes sense in itself. For instance, he complains that Vladimir McTavish and Keir McAllister’s Look At The State Of Scotland (I’m going back to 2012 here […]