Uke can do it!

Date for your diary: Wednesday 22nd August

Chris Young Entertains presents Johnnie Suave, the 1920s song-and-dance man. Johnnie's songs will leave you both tickled and intimately touched as his impressive banjolele brings tears to your eyes.

For one night only, come and experience Johnnie's slot - as part of Tricity Vogue's very modern cabaret evening...

Tricity Vogue's much-loved ukulele night returns to the Fringe for its third year. A star-studded line-up of special guests battle to win the coveted Uke of Edinburgh Award, and the audience get roped in for some rousing singalongs too. If you've got a uke, bring it. If you haven't, play your cards right and Tricity might let you have a strum on one of hers.

TRICITY VOGUE'S UKULELE CABARET
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, Ballroom, 38 West Nicolson Street Edinburgh EH8 9DD
AUG 2-26 at 9.30-10.30pm
ENTRANCE FREE

Spoetry

No, I haven't just sneezed. "Spoetry" is the title given to a project produced by ConFAB, which fuses sport with poetry, with specific reference to Glasgow, via the medium of short film. The three videos (which have been played as part of the Merchant City Festival) feature the words of John Savage, Anita Govan and Chris Young. Anita's poem also features the body of Chris Young, as does his own poem, "Stereotypical Jock". Chris will now stop talking in the third person and let you enjoy the video (complete with captioning if you choose to read the words as subtitles).

Death by Chocolate

Tonight's booking is sold out, but you may be interested in booking a murder mystery courtesy of Spirit of Glasgow. "Death by Chocolate" is the name of what I'll be doing tonight - a tale of doomed romance in Victorian Glasgow. Among the many reasons to pick this for your celebration, be it a hen night, birthday or works night out, is the opportunity of seeing this dashing young fellow:

Vote for me! Do it for the fluffy animals!

And do it soon! You only have this weekend (until Monday morning) to help judge the inaugural StAnza Digital Slam. Which of the 12 finalists has produced the best poem? My talented sidekick Cid is hoping you will vote for him (and me) performing our poem about the Minotaur:

Note: you can read the text of this poem by turning on YouTube's close captioning facility (CC button).

You can see and listen to all the splendid entries here, at the end of which page is the voting poll - only this weekend to vote!

Arguments and Nosebleeds at Free Fringe 2012

Back again for a third year, I will be performing at this show as part of the Edinburgh Fringe and the Laughing Horse Free Festival:

Arguments and Nosebleeds - FREE

Sun 26 August @ 16:00 (1h)
Laughing Horse @ The FREE Sisters (Venue 272), 139 Cowgate, EH1 1JS

THIRD year - ONE show - NO entry fee


Round off your Fringetide with an afternoon of poetry transfused with comedy. A craic squad of performance poets tackles life’s major issues (scary schoolteachers, body hair, missing teapots etc.), pausing only for laughter and medical emergencies.

Battered and bruised from the success of previous years, the tag-team returns for another bout of verbal footwork – punching both sides of the belt. They expect to haemorrhage humour of all kinds, from the sanguine and the phlegmatic to occasional melancholy and bile.

Warning: excessive side-splitting may lead to blood loss.

www.argumentsandnosebleeds.com