Thank goodness The Dog-Eared  Collective is back at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival

www.dogearedcollective.co.uk

" Another excellent entertaining show from Dog Eared Collective .....that has one in stiches during the hour show, and for many hours after the show. ....
another well deserving USA Weekly News 100 Star Award... for  The Apolcalypse Road Show at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Fest..."USA Weekly News

A Bag Dog Variety

 

The Dog-Eared Collective have been given a month's leave from one of the UK's most secure mental institutions to attend the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival... after been carted off by men in white coats from the USA Weekly News 100 Star Awards held at ClubWEST at the end of the
2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival..... Ruth..one of the members of Dog- Eared collective was found to have snakes in her brains and is definately one the most dangerous comedians in the UK...please do not approach Ruth if you see her at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival...just buy a ticket for the DOG-Eared Collectives's show The Apolcalypse Road Show and keep your distant and come with armed secirity guards... The Apolcalypse Road Show  being held at the UnderBelly, 56 Cowgate, Edinburgh, Scotland at 14:30 from the 6th till 25th August, 2009.Venue 61Grid Ref: E5 Tel: 08445 458252
Dog Eared Collective are classed as renegade entertainment. The Dog Eared Collective poke the coals of panic in an explosive sketch show about the end of the world. 'Ofbeat to the extreme..it's 'The Mighty Boosh' meats 'The League of Getlemen"(Fest).
www.dogearedcollective.co.uk
Warning: See this show at your owm risk...you may need medical attention to stop you dying of laughter...

More 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival History BAD DOG VARIETY is a riotous sketch show where live stunts, comedy and cabaret collide. Join Babs Malloy's Yorkshire & European All-Stars including Signor Love Shark and his puppet Pinky, mystic mind-nester Snaaake and Fantasy Jackson's Sex Gremlin Dungeon Party. 
Explosive mix of sharp satirical writing & outrageous physical comedy, it’s a dazzlingly deviant sketch show experience.
The Dog-Eared Collective will be performing at Smirnoff Underbelly at 14.30pm from 7th to 31 st August. 2009 The DOG-Eared Collectives's show The Apolcalypse Road Show
Reviews FOR The Dog-Eared Collective
Since forming in 2005 The Dog-Eared Collective has performed at theatres, festivals, pubs, clubs, streets and roof tops. This is what them that can write say: Barnaby Brown: Orphan Extraordinaire
“more laughs than any three other fringe shows put together”  THE STAGE - “STAGE MUST SEE”
“The Dog-Eared Collective leaves no pun unspoken, no sight gag unseen, no entendre left singular in its take-no-prisoners campaign for laughs.”  Gerald Berkowitz, THE STAGE
“Firmly on the critics' radar. Definitely one to watch”  METRO “ * * * * * By far the funniest show I saw at the Edinburgh Fringe this year” REMOTEGOAT.CO.UK
“Consistently hilarious...You’ll be in stitches.”  THREE WEEKS  The Bi-Annual Barbecue & other stories
“ * * * * The UK-based Dog-Eared Collective wrest us from the artsy-fartsy fringe experience [...] physically adept and perfectly pitched tonally [...] charming even the most reluctant audience into their quaint and whimsical world”  IRISH TIMES
“The Dog-Eared Collective revel in a great British tradition: to mock the mad plethora of eccentrics their country appears to be filled with. The Collective pursue a breakneck pace, displaying impressive range across excellent performances. A frivolous, mad-cap and fun night out.”  IRISH THEATRE MAGAZINE “Absolute gold dust”  IRISH THEATRE MAGAZINE
“Unashamedly whimsical, silly and surreal, very much in the vein of television’s The Mighty Boosh.”  CAMDEN NEW JOUNRAL
“The show moves along at a cracking pace, culminating in the exhilarating anarchy of the barbecue itself.”  ISLINGTON TRIBUNE
“real charm, energy and most importantly, laughs.”  CAMDEN NEW JOUNRAL
“A powerful performance, full of energy and dynamism”  FRINGE REPORT.COM
The Wireless Sketch Show “Part sketch show, part clown ensemble... Hilarious!”  Rod Dixon, Director of Theatre-Do 2 Festival August 2005
“Genuinely funny, laugh out loud” Gary Brown, BBC Manchester

  A Dog Eared Collective receiving their USA Weekly News 100 Star Award from INL News International Market Director  smail Bag for  their performance of  A Bad Dog Variety performed at the Underbelly at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Review for Me, Mum and Dusty Springfield 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Fest at Assemby Hall, Mound Place, Edinburgh....3.25pm 6th to 30th August, 2009

Stephanie Ridings sits fully composed in a chair with a table beside her. She is applying eye make up and seems to have been doing so for many an hour. The look is of course the Dusty Springfield look. The heavy black liner and dark brown greenish eye shadow look to get this right the applications are repeated and take longer than cooking a three course meal. In between newly applied brush strokes and carefully engineered fine thin black eye pencil lines she talks of her mother. Her mother is a Dusty Springfiled look a like and her daughter who is one woman played by Stephanie Riggs is the illegitimate child of the Dusty Look alike. Her mother has a friend called Tom Jones not the real singing Tom Jones but a chancer alcoholic Tom Jones who sleeps with the mother and seems to make her unhappy as the daughter talks of very uncomfortable breakfasts with him which include no food on his part as he stands there swaying with beer in hand quizzing her about her school uniform. Dusty's daughter is angry and unhappy and the hour play is quite brilliant. You get such a good insight into the plight of being the daughter of a mother who so wanted to be someone and only managed to look like someone well that someone was luckily Dusty Springfield thats  not a bad person to look like it could have been much worse. However she didnt quite look enough like her to come first in the look alike competition. She lost out and came second. This plight took its toll on the Dusty look alike and alcohol controlled her life and as it seems her daughters too who is now on stage drinking vodka and applying make up and preparing to sing a Dusty song at her mothers funeral. Actually Stephanie herself who plays the daughter does a pretty good job of looking like Dusty herself and when she sings the song is fantastic and ends the fully energized, wonderfully acted show.'... Sophie Gatacre INL News Group

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Pyjama Men: The Last Stand To Reason
Brand new comedy form last year's sold-out sensations! Winners of the 2009 best show.
Melbourne Comedy Festival. 'Exquisitely imaginative' (Time out) " Dazzling!"***** Five stars-Times
Absolute comic genius **** five stars (Scotsman)   ***** five stars (List).
'Another must See Show at Assemby 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Fest....best comedy around...'......NYT Today

Pyjama Men: The Last Stand To Reason, on at Assemby  7.25pm  6th to 30th August, 2009
'I went to see Pajama Men on Friday 21st August at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The house was totally packed, unfortunately I arrived three minutes late, I slipped in quietly and two eyes on the stage transfixed me. The actors ushered me with their beedy eyes to the nearly only available seat at the end of the front row. Once I was seated they smiled and got on with their pyjama conversations. They both sit in two seats. Two men from America. New York. Their jokes are about being gay and silly and energetic however it is never not for one minute annoying humour that one would normally cringe at. Its amazing and hysterical as one man eyes the other up and he screams back oh my god you are getting me so pregnant. The jokes are so original and totally first hand, never heard before to my delight. Then two unfortunate members of the audience leave for what ever reason and as they try and slip out of the side door they do not get the same friendly reception I got in being a touch late as they quietly manouever through the crowded theatre hoping to go unnoticed the gays scream whats wrong is this too gay for you both. And one of them goes to the door where the early leavers left through and shouts after them "well you werent very funny yourself". What a delightful hour I have had watching these two men who mime as brilliantly as they act as they make the audience scream with laughter nearly to pant wetting hysteria.....five  plus Star reveiw .'.... Sophie Gatacre INL News Group

 
Dana Gillespie and Joachim Paklen
USA Weekly News 100 Star Award winner two years running...."What more can one say..simply the authentic best Blues duo in the world"... USA Weekly News . .  
USA Weekly News 100 Star Award Winners for the 2008 and 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Fest....

Dana Gillespie the Legend
 

Dana Gillespie, Sal Bashir who performs his Elvis Tribute at 2008 ClubWest-Invasian Fest, World Famous Austrian wizard boogie-woogie player, Joachim Paklen who supports Danna Gillespie

Venue Club West at the Edinburgh Hilton does it again
at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Fest with all Club West Shows receiving USA Weekly News 100 Star Awards
   The Picture of Dorian Gray August 15th to August 22nd 6.00 pm nightly ..Club West Venue, Hilton Hotel, Grosvenor Street, Edinburgh..Wild's tale pf a handsome man's descent into vice..whilst retaining his beauty has been adapted many times but this accclaimed performance uses Wilde's own magnificent words to shock, amuse and surprise. Oscar worthy and unmissable...USA Weekly News 100 Star Awards Winner

Phil Cool - Who's He?August 15th to August 22nd 7.30 pm nightly ..Club West Venue, Hilton Hotel, Grosvenor Street, Edinburgh
the world's only 'Stand-up Chameleon' can be shocking, funny or shockingly funny.  Dexterous impressions and surreal comic sketches take us into a world where anything seems possible and the adsurd seems credible. Phil Cool is the ultimate in Cool..."definately the coolest Kat in Town and well deserved his USA Weekly News 100 Star Award Winner"...USA Weekly News . .   USA Weekly News 100 Star Award Winner
Dana Gillespie and Joachim Paklen

August 15th to August 22nd 8.40 pm nightly ..Club West Venue, Hilton Hotel, Grosvenor Street, Edinburgh
The Sell-Out Fringe Award wining Blues Diva returns with Joachim Palden, the fastest boogie-woogie player in the West. They'll have you shimmying, shaking, clapping your hands and stamping your feet. Sexy, sassy and wonderfully musical. Sure to be a sell-out at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Fest
"What more can one say..simply the authentic best Blues duo in the world"... USA Weekly News . .   USA Weekly News 100 Star Award Winner
The Jive Aces

August 15th to August 22nd 9.45 pm nightly ..Club West Venue, Hilton Hotel, Grosvenor Street, Edinburgh
the Sell-Out fringe Award-weinning top UK Swing and Jive Band will make you dance the nigth way. The Jive Aces move as crazily as they play, and they will blow you away with their sheer energy. With guest Toni-Elizabeth Prima. Booky early for this one..." A High Energy World Class Jive Swing Band" USA Weekly News . .   USA Weekly News 100 Star Award Winner