Lovely new pics

Andy managed to cope with the photo shoot that we had organised, despite the fact that us three were in the audience giggling at all the silly faces he had to pull.  Hopefully some of the papers might pick up the images and then come and review the show?

Went to see two shows yesterday.  First was 'Reel to Reel' in the Pleasance Grand - this was "cheese on stage".  This is probably the first show that I've attended at the Fringe where I've actually felt young - the average age of the audience was about 70.  The songs they covered were all from the golden days of movies...  'Diamonds are a girl's best friend';  'Singing in the rain';  'Hit the road Jack'; etc.  Unfortunately, they felt the need to string the songs together with a terrible story about twins who don't really get on but have to travel the world in a race to see who will inherit the family business.  You can guess what happens.  Still the other 749 people in the audience loved it despite it's cheesiness and sang along (badly) to the songs all the way through, and then gave them a standing ovation aftewards.


The second show we saw was 'Idiots of Ants'.  We expected good things from this as it had received high praise from a friend - but was a load of pants it was!  Idiots of Pants!!!  It was awful.  I've given it 1 star and that was only for the sound effects sketch.  The rest was awful and if I hadn't have been trapped in the middle of a row, I would have left.  Are people so easily pleased these days?  There wasn't an original joke, or any rapport with themselves or the audience.  I don't know which of the 4 comedians irritated me the most.  That was one of those shows where you wish you could get the hour of your life back to spend more fruitfully cleaning out your bin!!!