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NICK REVELL A comic who had to relearn the rules of engagement
N ick Revell is a survivor. As one of the acts who was around at the start of the thing we call alternative comedy, he has flitted in and out of love with stand-up, but the fact that he is still kicking gags around and fleeing across the country in search of new laughs proves that he has staying power. Revell did quit the comedy circuit for the best part of a decade to concentrate on his writing career, but he enjoyed having to learn the new rules of engagement in a business which had gone from burrowing along the fringes of entertainment to the
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superstratosphere of having acts who could suddenly play to huge stadium crowds. ‘I had to subconsciously monitor what subjects might have a level of taboo or edginess to them and what subjects the audiences are plugged into,’ says Revell. ‘When you’re doing it all the time, you’re constantly aware of it and when you step away from it you have to relearn all the delicate things.’ (Brian Donaldson)
The Stand, Edinburgh, Thu 21–Sat 23 Feb.
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✽ Louise Welsh ✽ Tom Stade The pretty-much naturalised The ever-popular Glasgow author delivers Edinburgher Totally Rocks! It’s not just us a lecture entitled ‘Robert Louis Stevenson and or him who say that. Come and see what the the Theatre of the Brain’. If that wasn’t intriguing Canadian-born fuss is all about. enough, let us hit you with the event’s subtitle: The Stand, Edinburgh, Sun 17 Feb. ‘An Exploration of.
✽ Stuart Goldsmith He’s done a Fringe ✽ Louise Welsh show about being a reasonable man, used The ever-popular Glasgow author delivers to be a street performer and once juggled fish a lecture entitled ‘Robert Louis Stevenson and on behalf of this very magazine. What next for the Theatre of the Brain’. If that wasn’t intriguing Stu, we wonder? See My Comedy Hero, page enough, let us hit you with the event’s subtitle: ‘An 57. The Stand, Edinburgh, Thu 31 Jan–Sun Exploration of. 3 Feb.
✽ Milton Jones One of the most gifted
jokesmiths in this land (or any other land, really) is On the Road. Both literally and non-literally. See preview, page 56. Venue 150 @ EICC, Edinburgh, Sat 16 Feb; Pavilion Theatre, Glasgow, Sun 17 Feb.
✽ The Greater Shawlands Republic Another special night in the search for
Southside independence with Bruce Morton, Andrew Learmonth, Stu Who? and Elaine Malcolmson doing the jokey jokey thing. The Bungo Bar & Kitchen, Glasgow, Sun 3 Feb.
✽ Russell Kane Prepare to be exhausted watching one man get through as many
words in one single evening as is almost unhumanly possible. See 5 Things, page 55. Brunton Theatre, Edinburgh, Wed 13 Feb.
✽ Keith Carter He’s been away
from us for far too long, but Liverpool lad Carter humbly re-introduces us to that scalliest of Scousers, Nige. Jongleurs, Glasgow, Fri 15 & Sat 16 Feb.