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Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Day 2

Day 2 of the festival began with a bang!

We rushed to try to find C Nova for the first performance of the day to attend a beautifully written play called the Stolen Inches. The cast were wonderful and the whole atmosphere was created the second we walked in. It runs daily at 12.15pm in C Nova at the top of the Royal Mile. See our Edinburgh Fringe Section above for the full review.

We then went to meet an original Bay City Roller (Ya I know, it was awesome!). Alan Longmuir is a legend amongst men. He was happy to pose for photos and shared stories of being at parties with the Beatles, chatting away to Cilla Black at after parties and many, many more including receiving a letter from John Lennon which he still has to this day.

If you want to see his life story, he is performing ‘And I ran with the Gang’ in Le Monde, George Street Sunday to Friday 7th to the 31st of August. It is said to include songs like Bye, Bye Baby, it is written by Liam Rudden and will have a question and answer session afterwards with Alan himself. We’ll definitely be going to that one!

Went out for dinner to the purely vegetarian restaurant, David Bann. (Below)

A quick beer in Pleasance and we got persuaded to a comedy show called Princes of Man, partly due to some good flyering work by one of the Cast Members. When we weren’t sure about going, but when he came back with two free tickets, how could we say no. It was a funny show and the three former members of the Cambridge Footlights were as tight as you can get. They have a good bit to work on and will relax after a few more shows, but it was a nice way to end the evening.

Overall Day 2 was a success. It genuinely flew by. There is just so much to see and do here and the smell of cretivity and excitement is wonderfully overwhelming. We just hope we can get to as many shows as possible. What would ye like to see reviewed?

All my Love as usual,

TPJ x

Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015

And thus arrives the best and most respected Fringe festival in the world…bar none! – the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015. Running from the 7th to the 31st of August, over 3000 events are to take place in such a short space of time.

There is such a buzz in the air. We arrived yesterday, got our press passes and just walked the streets. You can literally smell the creativity in the air, with every second person walking the streets looking to showcase the performance that they have a hand in making. There is an aura of excitement here.

We, at TPJ, are going to try to bring you coverage of as many events as possible ranging from Theatre, Comedy, Dance and Music. We just hope we can get to one twentieth of all shows. There are three of us up here so hopefully we’ll cover as much as possible, the majority being in photographs and reviews.

To all performers and creators up here: Best of luck. This could be your big break.

Enjoy the ride, there’s a Tiger on the loose.

Manchester

We hit Manchester this Week… what a great spot. Would happily live here. Good craic!

The ‘I Don’t Do Mornings’ Cat

Came across this lovely sleeping cat in Dobcross, UK.

She was so nice a pleasant sleeping there by the church…

Then I woke her with my presence. Bad idea.

I don’t think she has ever hated another being more than she hated me…

I don't do mornings cat — “I hate that you were born”

So I left. She wished me well on the way out…moral of this short story –

Don’t wake up cats sleeping on car roofs. Lesson learnt…Moving on…

If you come near me cat — “Don’t ever, ever come back ever again…you dickhead”

Introducing Arthur Lanigan O’Keeffe

We have some exciting news here at TPJ. Irish Olympian Arthur Lanigan O’Keeffe has agreed to tell his story with us and share his incredible journey – we’re starting our first collaboration if you will – He is on a bit of a roller-coaster of a journey to the Olympics in Rio 2016 and has decided to vlog his countdown… so what better way to combine the two forces.

He competes in a discipline called the modern Pentathlon which includes running, fencing, riding. shooting and swimming and he went to the London 2012 Olympics and did well. This time it’s serious though and he has begun his countdown already. I’ll post his first few vlogs below, they’re super interesting and give you a real insight into what it’s actually like to train that hard and become an elite athlete in Ireland.

We can’t wait for this journey and are delighted to welcome Arthur into the TPJ family. Hopefully he’ll write a couple of articles on the site and bring me around to different competitions in the lead up to the games. We are very excited to be there at the start of this! Bring on the world…literally.