WHAT'S ON AUGUST
02-Aug-2013 until 25-Aug-2013 PLEASANCE : 12:30am EDINBURGH CASSETTEBOY vs DJ RUBBISH - Introducing the must see mash up at this year’s Edinburgh Festival. This is the late night show of the festival that needs to be seen to be believed! Making their debut appearance are YouTube sensations Cassetteboy alongside idiot rapper DJ Rubbish. 02-Aug-2013 until 25-Aug-2013 GILDED BALLOON CAVES : 17:45 EDINBURGH DIANE SPENCER - New Current - Woman of The Year 2013 Chortle Best Newcomer - Award Winner 2011 Adelaide Fringe Awards - Best Comedy (Emerging) Nominee 2011 Hottest Comedians 02-Aug-2013 until 25-Aug-2013 THE STAND COMEDY CLUB : 1.10pm 5 York Place EDINBURGH 0131 558 7272 Katie Mulgrew: Your Dad’s Not Funny - One of the UK’s circuit’s “bright young things” (Broadway Baby), Katie Mulgrew’s takes to the stage for her debut Edinburgh solo show. This is an autobiographical tale of teen angst, seaside Piers and schoolyard jibes. - www.thestand.co.uk 02-Aug-2013 until 25-Aug-2013 THE STAND COMEDY CLUB : 17:40 5 York Place EDINBURGH 0131 558 7272 Mary Bourke - Muffragette - Irish born writer and comedian Mary Bourke is an understated star – however this year her star is set to shine. Mary returns to Edinburgh festival with her brand new show ‘Muffragette’ after last year’s magnificent and critically acclaimed ‘Hail Mary’ show. - £7.00 - www.thestand.co.uk 02-Aug-2013 until 25-Aug-2013 THE STAND COMEDY CLUB : 17:10 5 York Place EDINBURGH 0131 558 7272 Lucy Porter - Northern Soul - “I was uplifted into huge regions of northern sky. I desired with almost sickening intensity something never to be described (except that it is cold, spacious, severe, pale and remote) and then ... - www.thestand.co.uk 02-Aug-2013 until 17-Aug-2013 SCOTTISH STORYTELLING CENTRE : 5pm (1hr) 43-45 High Street EDINBURGH OLD TOWN 0131 5569579 Soddin’ Flodden -IDEOMS Theatre 1513, Flodden Field: among the dead lay Scotland›s most popular Stewart King and the flower of her nobility. - £8.50 (£6.50) 03-Aug-2013 until 25-Aug-2013 GILDED BALLOON CAVES : 19:45 EDINBURGH Mark Dolan: You’re Awesome! - Mark Dolan is back with his hilarious new stand-up show for 2013, ingeniously titled ‘Mark Dolan: You’re Awesome! - www.markdolan.com 03-Aug-2013 until 26-Aug-2013 PLEASANCE DOME : 18:50 Potterow, 1 Bristo Square, EDINBURGH 0131 556 6550 Mat Ricardo - Showman - In both his previous one-man shows (the five-star reviewed «Vaudeville Schmuck» and the Herald Angel Award-winning «Three Balls and a New Suit») Mat told stories from a life spent touring the stages, streets and clubs of the world with his act. - www.gagreflex.co.uk 03-Aug-2013 until 18-Aug-2013 THE FOREST CAFÉ : 18:15 141 Lauriston Place EDINBURGH Lior - Lior is one of Australia’s most successful singer/songwriters, renowned for his beautiful voice and songs that radiate truth and sincerity. - www.lior.com.au 03-Aug-2013 until 25-Aug-2013 PLEASANCE COURTYARD : 17:45 60 Pleasance EDINBURGH 0131 556 6550 GARY DELANEY 2: THIS TIME IT’S NOT PERSONAL - ‘Anything’ is the hotly anticipated debut solo show from award-winning stand-up comedian and star of BBC2’s Popatron and Sky’s Officially Special, Ian Smith. 03-Aug-2013 until 24-Aug-2013 MAYFIELD SALISBURY CHURCH : (not Sundays or Mondays) 18 Mayfield Rd EDINBURGH SOUTHSIDE EPT: Hatches, Matches & Dispatches - 55th Year for EPT in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe! It is 1924, one year after Parliament decreed that Edinburgh and Leith should become the one town. Old rivalries still fester and after the utter chaos that ensued at the funeral of an elderly Aunt, a Newhaven Fishwife who drowned in the harbour, the mourners gather in the tenement flat on the old boundary. An impending marriage between the two families, one Leith working class, the other Edinburgh upper middle class, is in jeopardy when an unmarried mother-to-be turns up at the door. There is also a lay-about booki