Are you a Dad Dancer, Sneaky Snogger or Festive Flirt?

With the office Christmas party season just around the corner(seriously how quickly has this year gone!), Dublin's comedy venue the Laughter Lounge launched today a new survey into the truth behind end of year work celebrations and the festive faux pas committed by employees across the country. We can only begin to imagine the embarrasing stories this is going to unearth...

Have you ever had a secret snog with a co-worker, or do have your eye on the new skirt or shirt in the office for this year's Xmas bash? Are you guilty of falling over while attempting to do the Dirty Dancing jump and flashing your Bridget Jones knickers to the whole room? Do you think that a relationship started at the Christmas office party can last?

Britney Wannabes take note - there ain't no party like a F&M party!

Pop music educators and flamboyant comedy duo Frisky and Mannish opened at the Absolut Fringe's Theatre Club tonight, and I am not going to wait until the usual end-of-blog-post-plug to urge you to log on/ring up/queue up to buy tickets because this pop parody may be sold out by the time you finish reading this. Seriously tickets to F&M were like gold dust at the Edinburgh Fringe this year!
Having wowed audiences at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with 2009's School of Pop and 2010's follow up The College Years, Pop Centre Plus is structured like a careers advice service to help fame seekers and wannabe superstars secure employment in the fickle world of pop - no talented required. I mean, if those boyband 12 year olds of X factor last year can do it, no doubt we can do it too!

Big Wheel World Record

We are working alongside the Bone Marrow For Leukaemia Trust, who announced today their Big Wheel World Record, the Guinness World Record attempt for the longest continuous ride on a Ferris Wheel. The Big Wheel World Record attempt will take place on Saturday, 22nd October for a total of 24 hours and 10 minutes (WOW!!) on the massive 60 meter Big Wheel, known as the “Revolver”, at Dublin’s Point Village.


Amongst the groups and teams that have already signed up to take part in the record breaking attempt are students from; Dublin City University, University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin and University of Limerick. To take part in the full 24 hours and 10 minute world record attempt, you can email Shell on bigwheelworldrecord@gmail.com. A 10 minute break, in accordance with Guinness World Record rules, will be given every 2 hours where participants can take a bathroom break and get some food into them!

Irish boys bring comedy gold to Edinburgh Fringe (Part 2)

............ So next stop on our "Irish Night" was the beautiful Aidan Bishop and his show "Misspelled", only a quick rickshaw journey away in the Gilded Balloon! - OK.... completely lying here.... it was no more short.... we hadn't clocked on the scary journey down the hill (see previous comments) that even scarier was that we now had to go up the bloody hill in the rickshaw!! Dear God..... not only did we feel bad for the poor chap that had to ride the bike up the hill with the two of us lumps in the back, but it appeared the whole of Edinburgh felt sorry for him as passers-by joined in, the now farcical situation, and started to push us up the hill! Now I don't mean strapping young lads either! I mean 50/ 60/ 70 year old men!! Meanwhile myself and Shell were attempting to cover our laughter creased faces with the flimsy blanket wrapped around our legs! If ever I were to die from laughter, this moment would have been the cause!! -

Irish boys bring comedy gold to Edinburgh Fringe (Part 1)

Day 2 in fabulous Edinburgh led us on a tour of all things Irish when we attempted to cram in as many Irish performers as we could! ( A lot harder than you'd imagine when you are hungover as hell having spent until the wee hours of the morning chatting with the many Irish faces we bumped into at Gilded Baloon's many bars!!) First stop, the 3 musketeers that are Foil Arms and Hog, made up of Conor McKenna, Sean Flannagan and Sean Finnegan, for their show "Comedy Doesn't Pay" at the Gilded Balloon! Have broken our backsides to get to the gig on time (not easy to get a cab when it's bucketing down outside) we grabbed our seats just as the lovely 3 arrived on stage! I had never had the pleasure of seeing these 3 live before but was hoping that they lived up to the high standard I had come to expect having heard great reviews! (Shell has previously written about them so I was keen to check them out for myself!)