Kevin Ibbotson-Wight
@weaklemondrink
Borders-born Edinburgh based worker/ writer/ runner/ sleeper. A good book, a good film, or a good show and I'm a very happy chap.
Reviews: 855
Other Articles: 264
Lou Taylor: Jeans and a nice top
A warm and charming coming-of-age debut that plays it a little too safe
Gabey Lucas: A Berkshire Boar Walks Into a Bar (and Gets Shot in the Face)
Idiosyncratic comic turns her fitful attention to one of the weirdest wars in history
Joe Kent-Walters is Frankie Monroe: LIVE!!!
Near genius pastiche of the old-school variety act with a hellish bonus twist
Ian Lockwood: The Farewell Tour
High-energy and high-concept musical comedy mines the cult of celebrity for existential dread
Andrew Doherty: Gay Witch Sex Cult
Screamingly hilarious folk horror pastiche tickles the funny bone and shivers the spine
Interview: Amanda Dwyer
‘I found it quite therapeutic to be honest.’ We speak to Amanda Dwyer about her debut Fringe show ‘What You Thinking About?’
Interview: Kathleen Hughes
‘Even if it goes horribly wrong, I may have learned something about myself.’ We speak to Kathleen Hughes about her debut show, ‘Cryptid!’
10 to see at Edinburgh Fringe
Our Managing Editor looks at some practically nailed-on winners for this August.
Interview: Bailey Swilley
‘It’s always surprising which jokes resonate with people the most’ We talk to Bailey Swilley about her debut Fringe show ‘Gimme a Sign!’
Interview: Chris Tavener
‘I couldn’t be heard or seen for two songs. I laughed hysterically about it afterwards.’ Musical comedian Chris Tavener tells us about debut Fringe hour ‘Faking Cool’
A Scottish Day at the Fringe
Our Manging Editor Kevin Ibbotson-Wight takes us through a potential day of local acts at the Fringe
Interview: Timmy Booth
‘It’s about masculinity, manliness, and how I often lack both of those things.’ Timmy Booth tells us all about his ‘Manhole’
10 to See at Edinburgh International Film Festival
Managing Editor Kevin Ibbotson-Wight with 10 of the films that caught his eye from the EIFF programme launch
Interview: Chloe Radcliffe
‘Top to bottom it is dick jokes and dating and me being a feral little animal!’ Chloe Radcliffe tells us about her second Fringe show ‘Proud Raccoon’
Interview: Ralph Brown
‘A guy just walked in… and then pulled out a gun.’ We speak to Ralph Brown about his hair-raising Fringe show, ‘My First Hostage Situation’
Hundreds of Beavers
Unfeasibly funny pastiche of silent comedy, Looney Tunes madness, and singular eccentricity
Interview: Gabey Lucas
‘I think humanity’s whole existence is a raging mess of non-sequiturs’. Gabey Lucas tells us about her debut hour, ‘A Berkshire Boar Walks into a Bar (and Gets Shot in the Face)’
Interview: Ladies Who Ranch
‘Ironic detachment is not for us feeling beasts!’ We spoke to the improv troupe about their debut Fringe show
Interview: Bella Humphries
‘I draw endlessly on my own life experiences (for better or worse!).’ We speak to Bella Humphries about her debut hour, ‘Square Peg’
Rose
Sofie Gråbøl is incredibly empathetic in a road movie that treats mental illness with real humanity
Interview: Suchandrika Chakrabarti
‘I like the joke to always be on me wherever possible’. We chat to Suchandrika Chakrabarti about her sophomore show ‘Doomscrolling’
Interview: Ian Lockwood
‘You’re catching me at an interesting point in my career’. We spoke to musical comedian Ian Lockwood about his debut Fringe hour ‘The Farewell Tour’
Interview: Paulina Lenoir
‘The whole of LIFE in under an hour’, Paulina Lenoir tells us about her all-encompassing clown show ‘Puella Eterna’
Interview: Abby Wambaugh
‘It’s like those times when you can’t trust yourself to fart unless you are over a toilet, but creatively’. Abby Wambaugh tells us about her debut Fringe hour, ‘The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows’