{FRONT} FirstWord FirstWord The Boy With Tape On His Face
We asked The Boy to answer our Q&A – the only problem being that can’t speak. He put together these revealing photographic responses instead (with some interpretations by The List)
First record you ever bought
First great piece of advice you were given Never use a pig as a phone. First three words your friends would use to describe you Silence is golden.
First word you spoke
Last extravagant purchase you made The Boy bought Zimbabwe.
Last great meal you cooked Frog sandwich. Last time you made an impulse buy and regretted it Zimbabwe (again).
Last thing you recommended to someone The Boy With Tape On His Face.
■ The Boy With Tape On His Face, Pleasance Courtyard, 556 6550, until 28 Aug, 9.10pm, £10.50–£12.50 (£9.50–£11.50).
WeLike The things making our Festival just that little bit better
■ We’re loving the efforts of listings- based dating site festafriend.com to match Fringe-goers up with people to see shows with, or goers at the Fringe with a vague pretext for congress with
random strangers. Also making good use of all that lovely Fringe event data
(our research team get hot under the collar just thinking about it) are fakefringe.com, who've set up a simple but brilliant multiple-choice game of 'guess the fake Fringe show'.
One of the more improbable real shows in the programme is urinary cabaret
When Women Wee,
who were kind enough to send a Shewee to The List's
offices (complete with leaflet detailing accessories such as zip-
fronted ‘X-fronts’, a somewhat alarming Shewee Extreme extension pipe and the QeeZee sick bag). Granted, some of us spend a lot of time at our desks in August, but really, there are limits.
L A V I T S E F
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Have you seen our Top-rated page at list.co.uk/festival? A thing of beauty, it ranks every Edinburgh Festival show based on reviews received from all sources. Not that you can’t trust our dedicated List critics of course, but it’s nice to get the big picture.
2 THE LIST 11–18 Aug 2011