Slow Progress Cafe & Records (No. 640)

Music & Comedy showcase; fresh line-up every day! Join host Dan Collins & enjoy a variety of Songwriters, Comedians, Clowns, & Musical Misfits. Featuring local acts & international talent, The Daily Strum is an easy way to start your day at the Fringe. Laugh along with the best bards & the sillie...

Start your day at the fringe with Tim. His new stand-up show is about finding life's golden ticket. With high-energy jokes and stories about fame, family and travel with a hapless hippy. The ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2025 Best Show nominee. Best Comedy at Shaftesbury Fringe 2025. 'Conjures up s...

High fidelity stand-up comedy. Alastair shares jokes and stories from a near decade working behind the counter of an independent record shop. A show that waxes lyrical about crate digging, needle dropping and arguing with children about Limp Bizkit. ★★★★★ The Sphinx. ★★★★ One4Re...

Rosie Wood and Jude Crook have had the absolute nerve to make their Edinburgh Fringe debut. This 50 minutes of classic scrapes and alternative stand-up is the split bill of the century. Rosie is a Leicester Square Theatre NCOTY 2025 finalist. 'Memorable and sharply written' (Tim Harding, Chortle)...

Join Salma, British-Pakistani stand-up, for stories of spats with her formidable Muslim mother (who thinks she's holier than Christ) & her husband's raucous Irish-Catholic family (who definitely aren't). A fearless, fresh new voice in comedy. WestEndWomenComedy Finalist: "Salma's persona lulls an...

Riots! Chaos! Karate! Join Steve McLean as he recounts the unbelievable true story of five musicians pretending to be Deep Purple . Amid the carnage, they manage play the first ever stadium rock concert in Mexico.

Eileen will be reading travel stories from her book, In Pursuit, with journeys she took in the 1980s, pre mobiles and wifi, when the world was varied and "culture shock" the norm. Smell the smells, hear the sounds, feel the humidity, and gaze in wonder. Come travel back in time to a place you may...

What if I told you that Neo wasn't the only The One? This one-woman musical parody is an absurd, stupid, and clown-y journey through the events of the iconic 1999 sci-fi film, only this time as told by Anderson Thomas, a.k.a. "Typo". Agents, machines, kung-fu, and bullet time; Y2K, pills, songs, ...

Do you find the universe's messages too subtle? Wanna see them played out on the Fringe stage by some of Edinburgh's finest homegrown improvisers and tarot enthusiasts? Join us as we channel the intuition and curiosity of the Page of Cups to spin dreamy and hilarious tales, based on a tarot readi...