Spoonfed In The Sunday Times
Mon, 5/07/10 – 12:54 | One Comment

There’s been some frantic goings on at Spoonfed towers over the last few months and now it looks like all this hard work is starting to pay off.
Yesterday we all clambered out of bed extra …

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Edinburgh Review: Phill Jupitus – Stand Down
Written by Spoonfed | Mon, 15/08/11 – 9:09 | No Comment

4/5 stars
“Hi, I’m Phill Jupitus. You might recognise me from every fucking show on the television channel Dave… for which I apologise.”
After more than a decade of brilliant-yet-safe comedy panel shows, Jupitus has returned to …

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Edinburgh Review: Pete Firman – Jiggery Pokery
Written by Spoonfed | Thu, 11/08/11 – 14:46 | No Comment

4/5 stars
I’m a sucker for a good comedy magic show. Purists might argue that it’s a style taken up by magicians without the skill to take the profession seriously or comedians without the acumen to …

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Edinburgh Review: James Sherwood – I Fed My Best Friend Her Favourite Cow
Written by Spoonfed | Thu, 11/08/11 – 13:17 | No Comment

3/5 stars
It’s hard to imagine James Sherwood ever behaving that badly. He’s such a charming, witty and innocent looking individual, I’d be most surprised to discover that in his spare time he enjoys torturing small …

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GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN’s Ephemera Project
Written by Naima | Thu, 11/08/11 – 12:20 | No Comment
GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN’s Ephemera Project

At predictable intervals, PR agents will invade my inbox with rehearsals room pictures of a celebrity-saturated, soon to be hit, in progress. The idea is to create intrigue, but intrigue is generated with questions and …

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Still Life Dreaming: An interview with Arti Prashar
Written by Naima | Thu, 11/08/11 – 11:35 | No Comment
Still Life Dreaming: An interview with Arti Prashar

Along with the likes of Analogue Productions, Spare Tyre theatre company have recently set out to investigate the people behind scientific procedure. As with Analogue’s 2401 Objects which looked at Henry Molaison, the man whose …

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Edinburgh Review: Rich Fulcher – Tiny Acts of Rebellion
Written by Spoonfed | Thu, 11/08/11 – 1:49 | No Comment

5/5 stars
“Somewhere along the lines, as adults, we have lost our edge” declares Rich Fulcher (”a comedian and actor”, he reminds us later). Fulcher wants us to get a new lease of life back by …

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Edinburgh Review: Steve Pretty’s Musical Mixtape
Written by Spoonfed | Wed, 10/08/11 – 23:44 | No Comment

2/5 stars
Steve Pretty has a heck of an anecdote to build his show on. After the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, he was announced as ‘Missing, Presumed Dead’ by the Daily Mail. His mortified friends and …

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Edinburgh Review: Nathan Dean Williams Presents…’The Buffet’
Written by Spoonfed | Wed, 10/08/11 – 18:17 | No Comment

4/5 stars
“I joined the circus when I was 16″, says Donald, a wild-eyed clown wearing a multi-coloured onesie, smudged make-up and white powdered hair. Donald is one of six roles that Nathan Dean Williams plays …

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Edinburgh Review: Andrew Maxwell – The Lights Are On
Written by Spoonfed | Wed, 10/08/11 – 17:51 | No Comment

4/5 stars
The lights are on, but nobody’s home. I’m ashamed to admit that it took me a while to connect the title to the theme of tonight’s show. In essence, the show is an hour …

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Edinburgh Review: Lou Sanders – How To Be Awesome: An Introduction
Written by Spoonfed | Wed, 10/08/11 – 17:42 | No Comment

4/5 stars
Lou Sanders is awesome and she’s going to teach you how to be awesome. At least that’s the premise of the show but as she admits, the content has little to do with the  …

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Edinburgh Review: Sammy J – Potentially
Written by Spoonfed | Wed, 10/08/11 – 17:37 | No Comment

4/5 stars
It’s hard to avoid the cliché of referring to Sammy J as a nerdy comedian. Famed for his catchy keyboard songs and frequently supported by a cast of puppets, the gangly Australian …

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Edinburgh review: Jay Foreman – We’re Living in the Future
Written by Spoonfed | Wed, 10/08/11 – 17:10 | No Comment

3/5 stars
Jay Foreman has started to feel quite old recently, not least of all, when he found out his nephew hadn’t even heard of tape cassettes or Nirvana. Asking his Twitter followers whether …

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Edinburgh review: Max and Ivan are …Holmes and Watson
Written by Spoonfed | Wed, 10/08/11 – 17:04 | No Comment

4/5 stars
If any show is going to snap you out of the dozy afternoon feeling you may have got going on this festival, it’s Max and Ivan Are…Holmes and Watson. A narrative-driven sketch show …

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Edinburgh Review: Tony Law – Go Mr Tony Go!
Written by Spoonfed | Wed, 10/08/11 – 17:02 | No Comment

4/5 stars
An utter shambles. That’s the best description I can think of for Tony Law, and it’s also what I really like about him.
I can see how some critics get frustrated by his shows’ …

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