The Free Fringe is a mixed bag at best, but you will not find a more mixed bundle of rag-tag characters than at the Utter! Spoken word competition.

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Three Australian musician-comedians present an hour of smart, hilarious rock songs in their return show, Infinity Rock Explosion.

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Die Roten Punkte (or The Red Dots as it translates) are a brother and sister band (Otto and Astrid Rot) – she plays the drums and he plays guitar.

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Mike Keat astounds as Miguel Mantovani, the ringleader of this seedy yet adorable quartet. The character is one of an aging ex-porn star who finds an extension to his infamy through becoming a club owner, on-stage performer and singer.

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Nik Coppins is proof that the Free Fringe doesn’t have to only apply to first time comedians, for mixed race Nik has traveled the world honing his comedic craft for over eight years and as a result delivers one of the most confident and enjoyable performances at The Laughing Horse.

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Chris Cox is an enthusiastic “mind reader” that jokes and quips his way through his show with boyish enthusiasm.

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There are nearly three thousand shows at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe but there is exactly one show this year that in its final moments will leave you terrified out of your wits, and that is ‘The Bone House’.

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‘I love you, you’re perfect, now change’ has been brought again and again to the Fringe with different cast and slight changes.

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Manchester based Justin Moorhouse returns to the Edinburgh Fringe, putting his own varied twist on the theme of archetypes and the notion that there are only seven stories in the world and all others are merely variations on these seven.

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Geraldine Quinn is one angry woman- and with just cause. Voicing with vitriol the fears of certain women everywhere, hers is a backlash show against the embarrassing realisation that the most influential female-led piece of TV entertainment in recent popular culture is a show depicting modern women, despite being successful, attractive and intelligent in their own right, as wishing nothing more than a husband and 2.4 children as they are not truly fulfilled otherwise.

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