Hello from Scotland!

Hi there all -

I'm now in Edinburgh, with sporadic internet access, so here's my first post, two shows in!

Thanks to all of the people who have already come to the show. We've had some moments of extraordinary delight - like Jimmy who thought that an AK47 was a plane (we're unsure how jokey he was being), the shocking revelation that Scrabulous had been shut down (since disproved by, uh, me playing a game of Scrabulous), not to mention the most awkward loo break ever. Sorry, person whose name I've forgotten.

PEGABOVINE: POLITE CLUB is now on every day at the Pleasance Courtyard in a spangly portakabin called the Beside, at 1.30pm. Come say hello! Or book tickets here! Or at the EdFringe website if it's started working again!



Other shows seen: "Idiots of Ants" also in Pleasance Courtyard - Beside and "Girl and Dean" in the Pleasance Courtyard - Cellar. Check them out as they are both splendid.

Pegabovine Recommends

Don't just come to see Pegabovine: Polite Club at this year's Edinburgh Fringe! Why not check out the shows of some of our friends and associates, and other shows that have people in that are not friends or associates, but upon whom we have rather silly friend-crushes...

Like Jo Neary! Her show was my favourite of last year, and she will undoubtedly be awesome again. (Though in the Assembly Rooms! So far away!)

The Penny Dreadfuls will, with ball-crushing inevitability, deliver amazing things with Aeneas Faversham Forever. This should be at the top of your list of shows to see. It's on in the Pleasance Courtyard. (Also check out Sketchatron for more P Diddys goodness...)

Our double-bill buddies Girl And Dean shall be splendid, and are directed by Pega-director Richard Hurst, as are those charmers Dan and Jeff in the all-new Potted Pirates, and the not-at-all-new-but-still-great Potted Potter.

Podcast alumni are also in Edinburgh. My housemate The Comedian Stuart Goldsmith is in the wonderful Kiosk Of Champions with Richard Sandling. It's completely bloody free. Amazing. It'll never work. The Actor Loo Brealey is also at the Fringe with the way-more-highbrow Pornography at the Traverse. I'm looking forward to the Google searches that title sends our way.

Our other comedy friends are also there: Faultless and Torrance, The Idiots Of Ants, the unsurpassable Josie Long, the wonderful Pippa Evans, Sanjay Shelat and the ImproJam, lovely Hils Barker, fantastic Isy Suttie, Surrey homeboy Tim Vine, and of course, King of our Edinburgh Fringe last year, the utterly brilliant Rhod Gilbert.

Theatre-wise, be sure to check out The Search for Sunshine, and a special mention for the crazy, crazy guys in Victims Of Duty, deserved NSDF award-winners, and owners of one giant hand. Please check them out!

And hey! Why not check out people who we don't even know! They're brilliant too! The awesome awesome awesome Wil Hodgson, superlatives haven't been invented that could describe the greatness of Nick Mohammed, deadpan supergroup Ginger And Black, the too-good-for-their-own-good Pappy's Fun Club... dear lord, there are a lot of shows on, aren't there?

My final two recommendations are:-
1) Susie's Wholefood Diner‎ at 51 West Nicolson Street. The food is tasty, and there is sometimes live music.
2) The Dark Knight. Obviously.

We are "very promising"!

According to the esteemed journal Time Out, we're "very promising".

And also recommended.

Thanks, Time Out dudes!

Preview Review

"Pegabovine: Polite Club" had its first preview on Friday in Surbiton, which went very nicely, thank you. Some lovely people there, and hopefully we all learnt a little bit about... well, something or other.

There are two more previews which you should attend if humanly possible... This Saturday (12th) at the Etcetera Theatre, and Wednesday 23rd July at the splendid Arcola Theatre. Details on the Live page.

Tickets are on sale for the Fringe run of Polite Club here and here. Do book up. We've sold at least nineteen already!