Tue 29th- PHIL BUCKLEY

29th July Phil Buckley Laughable.
-Phil's new edinburgh show following on from last year's 'Stroke the Panda'. With compere Paul Gerrard chit chatting to the audience, support from John Scott honing new material, Anthony P and Patrick Devine and Pete Thompson playing comedy songs through his Nintendo DS.

July 15 / 22 The Dog Eared Collective / Justin Moorhouse.

The Dog Eared Collective.
The edinburgh festival previews continue. This week a troupe of actor/comedians pitted hilarious sketches against each other. It was a comedy smack down! Ahhh! In a show encompassing the art of shadow puppetry, and a lecture on STD's which seemed to be aimed at the under 5's (beware the herpes dwarf!) the dog eared collective gave us a little bit of everything. Paul Gerrard was trying his hand as compere for the first time - and overcame the nerves with a sterling effort. Carl Hutchinson and John Whale appeared as Jimmy & Jackie (think Cannon and Ball after the BBC stopped calling)stopping off at the dog and parrot from their sold out Laz Veegaz tooah. Greg Larmouth, Stephen Baines and Graham Mack all chipped in with the funnies too.

And on the 22nd Justin Moorhouse appeared in his new show -'Ever decreasing Social Circles.' We've had a great crop of previews from performers we're (frankly) lucky to get at our small club and Justin was another big name with a great show. Justin's show whittles down his friends, from the 600 he has according to Facebook, to 5 he can call on in a crisis. We were all sucked in and desperate to get the questions right and stay in with a chance of being Justin's newest pal.

With Chris Ramsey, Ben Sayers and Paul Schmitz all trying out some great new material and oldest member Barry was back on stage as alter-ego Arthur Fernshuttle- always a treat.

July 8th Matt Tiller - Tillerpop!

8th Matt Tiller
Matt Tiller, comedy song writer, in an hour long preview of his new show. A great night despite the technical hitches (matt brought his brand new projector 200 miles just to play us the windows close-down music.) With support from Dutchman Wouter Meijs, Eddie O'Dwyer and Liam Mcleod.

Why is our picture here? Well It's been relegated after the comments of 'ourman' - "Please please - I never want to see that pic again. Would you want to see these people by only seeing the picture? They all look so incredibly smug. I swear, that picture haunts me. Can't they get a new picture?"

We wouldn't normally give in to blackmail from a single internerd, but he does represent 100% of the feedback we've had in the last 3 months. So maybe we do need a new picture. One with me in the middle, looking more smug than you can possibly imagine.