Spank's Edinburgh Diary, Saturday 24/08/2019 (though really it's BrewDogging #66/#67: Perth/Edinburgh Airport)
Reviewed today: nothing really, it's not been that sort of day.
Reviewed today: nothing really, it's not been that sort of day.
Reviewed today: Attila The Stockbroker's Early Music Show, Crocodile Fever, Jerry Sadowitz: Comedian Magician Psychopath 2019, Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet, Matt Forde: Brexit Pursued By A Bear, Philip Glass: Minimalism At The Organ.
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Reviewed today: Art Blakey's Centennial, Baba Brinkman's Rap Guide To Culture, Bach's Multiple Concertos, Desiree Burch: Desiree's Coming Early!, Phil Ellis: Au Revoir, The Scott Walker Songbook.
Continue reading "Spank's Edinburgh Diary, Thursday 22/08/2019" »
Reviewed today: Attila The Stockbroker, Chaika: First Woman In Space, London Symphony Orchestra, Shaving The Dead.
Continue reading "Spank's Edinburgh Diary, Wednesday 21/08/2019" »
Reviewed today: Bridget Riley, Mark Watson: I Appreciate You Coming To This And Let's Hope For The Best (Work In Progress), Musik, Russell T Davies, Simon Munnery: Alan Parker Urban Warrior Farewell Tour.
Continue reading "Spank's Edinburgh Diary, Tuesday 20/08/2019" »
Reviewed today: Andy Smart: 40 Years At The Edinburgh Fringe, Eddie Izzard: Expectations Of Great Expectations, Greg Proops: The Smartest Man In The World, Nearly Human, Tracey Thorn.
Continue reading "Spank's Edinburgh Diary, Monday 19/08/2019" »
Reviewed today: Bristol Improv Presents: Dynamite!, Daniel Kitson: Shenanigan, Guys Dolls And Pies, Mervyn Stutter's Pick Of The Fringe, Roger McGough.
Continue reading "Spank's Edinburgh Diary, Sunday 18/08/2019" »
Reviewed today: John Robertson: The Dark Room, Peter Buckley Hill And Some Comedians XX.
Continue reading "Spank's Edinburgh Diary, Saturday 17/08/2019" »
Douglas Adams (if my train had got in on time). Ken Campbell. Rufus Harley. Iain Banks. Pete McCarthy. Stephane Grappelli.
These are all people that I saw perform at my first ever Edinburgh Festival in 1989, the 30th anniversary of which we are celebrating right here, right now.
They're also all dead these days, which puts a minor crimp in the celebrations.
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When was the last time you picked up a leaflet from a tourist information office that read like a taunt from a James Bond villain?
I'm guessing you can spot the subtle subtext in the typography here. Even when you've just come from Japan, a country notorious for the impenetrability of its address system, Korea turns out to be operating on a whole other level. It's difficult enough finding out Korean addresses in English, but then you find that Google Maps is incapable of calculating walking routes - you'll either be told one doesn't exist, or made to take a three-mile detour along a motorway and back just to get across the road.
That's why, as we enter the Korean section of this year's holiday, you can expect to see lots of GPS co-ordinates shown for all the places we visited. Slap them into your phone mapping application of choice - maps.me is still my personal favourite on my vintage Blackberry - and you may be in with a chance of retracing our steps. Cool? Cool.
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