CO Thursday 5 — Thursday 12 August 2004
Festival Sections
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12 Mike Nelson 1 4 Robert Therrien
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Milliltil 22 Sarah Kendall
24 Tim Fountain and Filth 26 Wendy Spero and Never Mind the Botox
28 Simon Munnery
30 Reginald D Hunter
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44 Pig Iron
46 John Hegley
47 The Owl and the Pussycat
Festival Fran
2 Top 20 Festival shows
4 Festival Insider
6 Festival news round up, plus Matinee Idol canoon
8 Ed Byrne’s Festival View, plus Shows to Look Out For by John Fardell
Highlights
12 Mike Nelson This year’s art gets served up in the form of a new Art Festival, and if Mike Nelson's excellent installation — in an old bus parked in Market Street — Is a taster of what we can look forward to in the future. we're in for an exciting ride.
51 Air
56 Madness
6O Thom Pain
62 Kenneth, What Is the Frequency?
72 Radioactive Man with Silvah Bullet
78 International Games
22 Sarah Kendall Among the plethora of gimmicks. from puppets and masks to musical Instruments. a few comedians just rely on good material and a microphone. Among the straightforward stand-ups. Sarah Kendall Is set to stand out.
24 Bare faced cheek The Festival has always thrived on saucy. salacious. even downright dirty
. . . . Fesflval shows. But this year things have got plain filthy. We trawl through the dustbin of smut — just in case you fancy a blt of rough' Published 0‘, Inc l_:st I id III AD ()i-i ICE 56 Round the bend What do we do when the ‘--‘- No" Street . country’s at war and we fear for our future? Go Elf?"‘,‘)’f‘,;€"1\i’ff7,1,1: ,..l ,,. bonkers, of course. This year‘s theatre is laced with iLg}§,;Clg}'g,,585}oc a liberal dose of psychosis. paranoia and mania . . . ;:;>.;m you just hear that voice? (Ellxléi‘x!thlliO"($1611?)le 77 High and mighty The best places from which For to look down on Edinburgh (and we don‘t mean complete Glasgow). eight-day information about non- I 10 2-for—1 Tennent’s Lager at T on the Fringe, 2-for-1 festiza'. tickets at the Pleasance and Assembly Rooms 6.3590“, and Edinburgh, a see regular l'ljk The List's Festival issues have been sponsored by 4Life FM, a company bidding for Edinburgh's edition of new FM independent local radio licence. We'd like to thank them for their support. The List.