Articles tagged Edinburgh Festival:
Edinburgh Fringe Diary - Friday 9 August
- 10 Aug 2019
Friday was such a manic day I was too knackered to write this last night, so here goes. Better late than never. It absolutely hurled it down all morning. I've never seen rain like it. It carried on, off and on, during the rest of the day. Had to happen one day, I suppose. ...
Edinburgh Fringe Diary: Thursday 8 August
- 8 Aug 2019
No lie-in today either. I was up at 8.30am because I had to write a column for the Evening Standard and also my weekly ConservativeHome column. I finished just in time to leave for an In Conversation event with Scottish comedian Janey Godley all the way over in George Street. ...
Edinburgh Fringe Diary: Wednesday 7 August
- 8 Aug 2019
A rather frustrating morning. I wrote my EDP column and then jumped into a cab to go to see my friend Sarah Southern perform her TENTATIVELY TORY show. The whole of Edinburgh seemed to be gridlocked. After forty minutes we'd had to avoid two sets of gridlock and ended back...
Edinburgh Fringe Diary: Tuesday 6 August
- 7 Aug 2019
Up early for a radio panel with Mark Dolan, Christopher Biggins and Shapi Korsandi, then a quick visit to the Apple Store to buy a battery pack. They didn't have the one I wanted, natch. Someone texted me to say the Sturgeon interview was playing big in the Scottish papers and...
Edinburgh Fringe Diary: Monday
- 6 Aug 2019
Twelve shows down, twelve to go. Today is a bank holiday in Scotland and Edinburgh was teeming with people enjoying both the Fringe and the good weather. I have to admit I got up late today but then did a bit of prep for the Nicola Sturgeon interview. At noon I got a ca...
Edinburgh Fringe Diary: Sunday
- 5 Aug 2019
This was one of those days when (almost) everything went right and I can go to bed happy. Mind you, it didn't start off that way. I got up earlier than I would have liked to record this week's For the Many podcast with Jacqui Smith. We recorded about 80 minutes before I...
Edinburgh Fringe Diary: Saturday
- 3 Aug 2019
It's weird to think that it's only Saturday but I have now hosted one third of the shows in the entire 24 show Edinburgh run. It hardly seems possible, but it's true. I had a bit of a lie-in this morning and also read some of Kirsty Wark's new book THE HOUSE BY THE LOCH...
Edinburgh Fringe Diary: Friday
- 3 Aug 2019
I had one of the best night's sleep I've had in months and was only awoken by the alarm ringing. I could have happily stayed in bed all morning, but I was booked to appear on the Radio Scotland morning show with Stephen Jardine at 10am to plug the show. I decided to walk down ...
Edinburgh Fringe Diary: Thursday
- 2 Aug 2019
I've just won the Big Gay Slam. No, not some deviant orgiastic competition, but... well you'll have to read to the end. I think it's called reeling you in. I had a very uneventful morning, mainly because I had to write my EDP and ConservativeHome columns, as well as put the...
Edinburgh Fringe Diary: Wednesday
- 31 Jul 2019
I don't usually get nervous about much nowadays. I mean it's not as if I'm not used to being on a stage talking in front of an audience, but somehow appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe is somewhat different. I suppose I'm in fear of falling on my face and going back to London wi...