Tag: 2012

Here Comes The Fringe Podcast for 2012!

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And so August comes round once more on the calendar, and that means Edinburgh is about to be over-run by every single person who has ever appeared on a BBC Comedy Panel Quiz Show, everyone who wants to be on one, the quirky guests from QI… and the mainstream press forgets that Comedy only makes up one third of the programming at the Edinburgh Fringe. This will be the eighth year that my daily podcast from the Fringe will be running, and the seventh year that I am delighted to be working alongside The Stage to try and bring the

Judging this year’s Eurovision Songs on the Juke Box Jury

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As in previous years, the majority of my thoughts about The Eurovision Song Contest will be found on ESC Insight (www.escinsight.com). Rather than daily news about the Contest, an area well served by many sights, ESC Insight looks at some of the issues in more depth – think of it like a Sunday newspaper compared to the daily news of sites such as ESCxtra. Alongside the articles from myself, a core writing team of three others, and a number of regular contributors, it’s also the home of my Unofficial Eurovision Song Contest Podcast. There’s enough Eurovision news throughout the year for a

Sifting though music for gold at SXSW Baby

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When you have close to 2000 bands playing at SXSW, each doing at least one thirty minute sets, it’s not an easy task to decide who to go and see. I do leave part of it to serendipity, but that’s only going to get you part of the way. And with my SXSW Baby hat, it’s always nice to have some recommendations in hand and a bit of a schedule scratched out on the Filofax. With the rest of the team, I’m working through the process to put together sampler archive that is posted annual on The Baby!, and that

Will the networks choose to improve all of the UK, or the Olympic Village?

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I wonder how much of the new Government money to “improve coverage for voice calls” around the country will be spent outside of the M25, and how much of the £150 million will go to the area around the Olympic venues to stop the embarrassment of no mobile coverage for the world’s media as they go on their IOC approved Busman’s Holiday?