Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Bad, good and ugly

Uber Hate Gang<br /> Underbelly Little Black Bastard; Stripped<br /> Gilded Balloon The Tailor of Inverness<br /> Udderbelly Pasture Ginger and Black<br /> Pleasance

Uber Hate Gang
Underbelly

Little Black Bastard; Stripped
Gilded Balloon

The Tailor of Inverness
Udderbelly Pasture

Ginger and Black
Pleasance

And it’s getting bigger. Amazing as it sounds, the Edinburgh Festival keeps expanding like a slum landlord. Every year half a dozen cobwebbed halls and disused assembly rooms are forced open, spruced up and pressed into service for the ragamuffin hordes of wannabe superstars.

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