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The Holyrood Tavern – Edinburgh Festival 2006
Its amazing what you
can do with a tin of green paint.
Its even more amazing
what you can do with a bottle of Magners
The fire brigade
kicking doors down
They found the fire
– now all they need is a hose
Mr Miller laughs his
head off at The Holyrood
Mr Miller vets the
punter
Our supporter at
Lindsays
The Chuckle Brothers
getting pissed up
Me brotherŐs pissed
off
Al Stick having a
laugh
Krysstal plays darts
Henning & Otto
womanising
Still at it –
with Laura this time
Mike Belgrave joins
the flyer brigade
Frank Sanazi reads
MikeŐs flyer
Slaughterhouse Live
KrysstalŐs biggest fan
SabrinaŐs film crew
New material
The stairs
Luka the barman
Two Nuns
Fringe Sunday
The audience
Brian & Krysstal
& Friends e Live
The guitar I bought
from Cash Converters
The guitar I didnŐt
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The Holyrood Tavern
– Edinburgh Festival 2005
Peter Buckley Hill, Boothby
Graffoe with Brian Damage & Krysstal Until the last weekend of this year's fun
fest, the most un-remarked-on development at the Fringe was the creative rise
of the tiny and shabby Holyrood Tavern, a 50-or-so seater drab room behind a
dingy pub at the bottom of the Pleasance Hill en route to the old Gilded
Balloon and the new Smirnoff Underbelly. Seldom visited by Armani-clad media
moths, only six years ago the Holyrood Tavern used to have naff shows you
wouldn't want to see even when drunk and wearing a thin tee-shirt on a rainy
day. In the last five years, though, it has been programmed by Vicky de Lacey
(female half of the Brian Damage & Krysstal comedy act) and the Holyrood
has become a fascinating hotbed of interesting acts - some brilliant, some
talented though underdeveloped and some just plain bizarre.
Wil Hodgson Last year, the Holyrood Tavern's Wil Hodgson
won the Perrier Best Newcomer award.
Laura Solon This year, their Laura Solon rightly won the
prestigious main Perrier award for Kopfraper's Syndrome while, with less of a
fanfare, their Desperately Seeking Sorrow (Johnny Sorrow & Danny
Worthington) was nominated for the new Malcolm Hardee Oy Oy award.
Vicky de Lacey and Brian Damage run the Pear Shaped
comedy clubs in London and Sydney and are shaping up as the new Malcolm
Hardee, although adding a pair of breasts to his legendary bollocks. They
drink, they can spot talent and they run fascinatingly creative bills in
shabby venues. So, while the media moths are attracted to the
brightly-coloured and wackily-posed posters of the three (or, with the
Underbelly, four) main venues and sign up the Douglas Bader end of the
creative spectrum - acts with no legs - the really interesting acts have been
passing them by. It will be interesting to see if this changes
next year for two reasons. One is that Pear Shaped at the Holyrood Tavern
have now won Perrier Prizes at two consecutive Fringes. John Fleming – Writers Guild Edinburgh Festival 2005 |
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