Edinburgh Festival Previews

Globe-trotting but Hertford local comedian Alistair Barrie can't make it to The Edinburgh Festival this year, but has decided instead to showcase a short season of previews featuring some of the finest performers who are making the trip to Scotland in August.

Pete Firman: Edinburgh Festival Preview
Pete previews his new show ahead of the Edinburgh Fringe, expect his trademark blend of laugh-out-loud comedy and jaw-dropping magic.

Mitch Benn: Ten Songs To Save The World
One guy. One guitar. One audience (hopefully). One broken world, and ten funny songs to fix it.
If, like Mitch Benn, you’re sick of the stupidity burying our world, then join him as he sets out, with his trusty six-string in his hand and a head full of silly rhymes, to cut a path through the BS towards a brighter and saner future.

From his many years as the resident songwriter on BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show to his work as an activist, columnist and commentator, Mitch Benn is not only “the country’s leading musical satirist” (The Times) but one of our most engaging, insightful and even-handed political observers.

In his new show Mitch presents a collection of comic songs addressing the “interesting times” in which we live and proposing (semi-serious) solutions to our problems...