As any reporter with experience of covering their backs from potential libel suits will tell you, the passing of time and the distance from your subject equals a greater chance of getting away with printing whatever the hell you like...
David O'Doherty is big in Ireland. The Dublin-born comedian has written plays and children's books, has a successful sitcom and is currently starring in his first film...
Harking back to a time when men were men and women were called Susan, the Penny Dreadfuls' tribute to the eccentricities of the Victorian age was a veritable feast of giggles by gaslight.
"We had the Fringe announcer announcing it as Anus Favours-Ham, which was disgusting every single day for three weeks," says David Reed, one quarter of comedy sketch troupe The Penny Dreadfuls. "Luckily we didn't get too many people coming in on the basis of that title."
Based on the commedia classic Mirandolina by Goldoni, this production by local theatre company A27 took the brave step of placing its audience in the action, as diners in the titular owner's Italian inn.
Phill Jupitus and Andre Vincent are like two peas in a pod - whether they like it or not.
If you like your music with a twist of sexual deviancy and a pervading atmosphere of impending violence - and let's face it, who doesn't - then The Tiger Lillies are for you.
Mr Hudson is like a posh version of The Streets (The Boulevards if you will), riffing on songs from My Fair Lady and rapping/singing about sipping brandy as a viable way to keep warm in winter...
"I reckon if Carl Jung had dug indie rock he might have quite liked Gravenhurst," says Nick Talbot, frontman of this euphoric space- rock band...
If your only experience of world sacred music is that bloke who plays the panpipes outside Churchill Square, then you could do with broadening your horizons.
