Bits and Pieces
Culture lovers awake! An Audience With Mr Methane heralds the return of highbrow entertainment to the Edinburgh Festival.
By Martin "Buttock Bassoon" Kelner
Jul 30, 2008 - 11:46:35 AM
Mr Methane will perform several of his international best-selling hits during the show, while recounting some of his amazing adventures in show business to witty and urbane broadcaster/ journalist Martin Kelner.
“I’m really looking forward to it,” said Kelner when we visited him at the run-down caravan park just outside Grimsby, where he lives with his wife and four children, “I feel privileged to interpret for Edinburgh Festival’s culture lovers Mr Methane’s amazing story; the laughs, the tears, the agony, the ecstasy, the trouser trumpets, of a life in this heart-warming business we call show.”
What is more, it’s free!
Kelner asks only for a small contribution on the night for children in Africa deeply traumatised by being visited by Lenny Henry every bloody year for a Comic Relief documentary.
An Audience With Mr Methane. Standing Order, George Street, Edinburgh, August 9th – 23rd, 7.45pm