Fringe Review: Dusty Limits: Post-Mortem

Fringe Review: Dusty Limits: Post-Mortem

I’m not sure I want to know what a dissolute deviant like Dusty Limits does in his spare time, when he’s not hosting Britain’s foremost revues. Judging from Post-Mortem, the latest in a series of solo shows developed with pianist Michael Roulston, at least some of...
Fringe Review: The Bongo Club Cabaret

Fringe Review: The Bongo Club Cabaret

After 14 years on and off the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, The Bongo Club Cabaret can rightfully claim the “pioneer” epithet. It may have missed the first inclusion of the genre as a separate category in the festival’s programme last year, but it was here long before...
Review: Boom Boom Club: Prospero’s Tavern

Review: Boom Boom Club: Prospero’s Tavern

Every new season of Boom Boom Club is a milestone in British cabaret. Since it abandoned a weekly format in 2011 to reinvent itself as a franchise of self-contained performance events, the seminal variety show has experimented with the genre in unusual venues like the...
Videos: Alternative Eurovision Favourites

Videos: Alternative Eurovision Favourites

Call it musical Marmite or a kitsch collision of disco, nationalism, outré fashion and downright weirdness, there’s no doubt Eurovision has a special place in many people’s hearts. Alternative Eurovision, traditionally held on Eurovision Eve since 2010 has...