Pre-Edinburgh Shows – plus Sex Tips for Pandas Guests!

Comedy 365’s Edinburgh 2008 season is well underway and we’ve some special programmes over the next couple of days featuring some of the guest acts due to appear with Sowerby & Luff at The Dragonfly throughout August.

Thursday sees another chance to hear James Shakeshaft and David Davis with John Dredge in his Didn’t Quite Make it in Time for Christmas Show.   James and David will be with us at The Dragonfly from August 3rd to 8th.

On Friday, we’ve a very special half-hour edition of Chickenflaps, where comedy musician (or should that be musical comedian?) Rob Paravonian introduces a personal selection of songs from his repertoire.  Rob will be with us for a song or two and a chat on August 9th, and will also be appearing with Liam McEneaney in Two American Comedians Lose Their Shirts at the Edinburgh Fringe at Laughing Horse @ Meadow Bar, 42-44 Buccleuch Street at 12:05 between August 6th and 13th.  It’s free to enter, although voluntary contributions are welcome.  Liam himself will be joining us on the 14th.

Finally, the second episode of Pegabovine’s wonderful House of Mirth can be heard again on Saturday.  You can catch Davis Wateracre with us from August 13th to 17th, and in Pegabovine’s own offering this year, Polite Club, at the Pleasance Courtyard every day until August 24th, except the 11th and 18th. The show starts at the jolly decent hour of 1:30pm and tickets range in price between £5 and an an extraordinarily reasonable £8.  Visit www.pegabovine.co.uk for more details.

As for guests generally, below you will find the schedule as things currently stand.  As is usual with these things, all appearances are subject to change – but we will endeavour to update and amend this list as the festival progresses, as we are still waiting on confirmations from some very big names.

If they say no, we’ll just have to make do with a cardboard cut out of Reg Varney.

SEX TIPS FOR PANDAS: THE GUEST LIST

Sat 02/08/2008 Nick Helm
Sun 03/08/2008 James Shakeshaft & David Davis / Girl & Dean
Mon 04/08/2008 James Shakeshaft & David Davis / Nick Hodder
Tue 05/08/2008 James Shakeshaft & David Davis / Delete the Banjax
Wed 06/08/2008 James Shakeshaft & David Davis / Jon Brittain
Thu 07/08/2008 James Shakeshaft & David Davis / Will & Greg
Fri 08/08/2008 James Shakeshaft & David Davis / Ste Porter
Sat 09/08/2008 Doug Faulkner / Rob Paravonian
Sun 10/08/2008 Doug Faulkner / Rosie Wilby
Mon 11/08/2008 Doug Faulkner / Alyssa Kyria
Tue 12/08/2008 Doug Faulkner / John Cooper
Wed 13/08/2008 Davis Wateracre from Pegabovine / Isabel Fay
Thu 14/08/2008 Davis Wateracre from Pegabovine / Liam McEneaney
Fri 15/08/2008 Davis Wateracre from Pegabovine / Jay Foreman
Sat 16/08/2008 Davis Wateracre from Pegabovine / Alfie Moore
Sun 17/08/2008 Davis Wateracre from Pegabovine
Mon 18/08/2008 Eric Kerchberger
Tue 19/08/2008 Simon Lilley
Wed 20/08/2008 Hayley Jayne Standing / David Meech
Thu 21/08/2008 Hayley Jayne Standing
Fri 22/08/2008 Paul Ricketts
Sat 23/08/2008 Dan McKee

Don’t forget: Sowerby & Luff’s Sex Tips for Pandas will be live every day at The Dragonfly Cocktail Bar in Edinburgh from August 2nd to 23rd at 6.40 pm (doors 6:25pm) as part of PBH’s Free Fringe 2008. Each night’s show will be different and sections will be made available as podcasts within 24 hours, providing the technology doesn’t get into the wrong hands.