A Decade's Worth of Mostly Comedy.


Tonight saw our official tenth anniversary Mostly Comedy show, which was marked rather splendidly with performances from our long-time club favourite Jay Foreman and a special guest appearance from the multi-talented Kate Robbins.




It’s kind of appropriate that Kate played our tenth birthday gig as we last saw her perform at our first Edinburgh Fringe in 2008 a couple of months prior to starting the club. I remember being knocked out by her show, which was on at the same venue as us - the Gilded Balloon - albeit in a bigger room. Much like her set at Mostly tonight it was a great mix of music, stand-up, impressions and anecdotes that perfectly revealed her versatility.

She also happened to be in a sitcom reading we attended that year on the invitation of Michael Barrymore (who was also in it), who had kindly offered us support and advice after coming to see our Edinburgh show The Balloon Debate with a mutual friend with whom he was working on show about Spike Milligan. I’d completely forgotten she was in it until it came up in tonight's conversation, proof that Disney was right and it’s a small world after all.

All our correspondence in the lead-up to tonight had been very easygoing so we knew she'd be nice and we weren't disappointed. She also shared a few choice Paul McCartney anecdotes as she's his cousin, which was a bonus; all in all a good way to mark our first decade.

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