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Mychelle Colleary was a big deal on the jazz circuit of NYC about ten years ago, with regular gigs and invitations and guest appearances. That all changed one clear sky day when a big blue truck ran into her little car, and she suffered a traumatic brain injury. Years later and still suffering the after effects of the ‘blue blur’ Colleary has at least chalk one milestone off her bucket list, appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe. This may not be award-winning or groundbreaking, but it is a sweet show, which paints a simple timeline of Colleary’s career to the present day, the traumas she has suffered and the songs that made life worth living. Funny, self-deprecating and deeply personal with music by Sondheim, Strayhorn and others but sprinkled with original songs by Colleary herself....

There will be few Fringe sights this year more unsettling than The Wobbly Waiter, a dismembered, dead-eyed puppet & frying pan fixture, advancing down the aisle… to you. To the strains of the Custard Club song. Except, a short while later, The Ship’s Wheel appeared. The relief in the room was palpable once a woman near the front agreed to take the expensive sausage and two fellows on the left the Huge Red Knickers. Their most intimate adventures successfully described by the mind-reading ship’s appliance (despite one denial), Twonkey returned to the stage to continue something resembling a revue of his greatest moments from the last ten or so years. Nine more than he’d ever envisaged when putting his first show on in 2010. Might’ve been 2011 but everything’s fluid in the Twonkeyverse. ...

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Ambitious Underachiever – Speakeasy @ Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh

Twonkey’s Greatest Twitch – Edinburgh Voodoo Rooms (Ballroom)