Hello! From wet and windy Edinburgh!

So on Thursday evening I walked up to the Udderbelly box office and played box office roulette. I asked what the next show on was and they said The Vocal Orchestra. I cringed, as I had been hoping that there would have been something more theatrical on, and asked what the next show on was but that finished a little too late for the show I was planning on seeing next. I begrudgingly paid £14.00 for a ticket and made my way to the venue. It was my own fault, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose when playing box office roulette. However, I was determined not to completely pass judgement on the show before I'd seen it. 

The Vocal Orchestra does what it says on the tin. It is a group of vocalists who build songs using only their voices (so they sing the instrumental parts as well as the parts originally written for voice). Imagine a beatbox version of Glee. The performance was extremely polished, perfected and entertaining but because of this it felt manufactured and for me lacked the excitement of watching a live production as every movement, gesture and joke were completely scripted. The performers were extremely talented and had amazing voices, plus great stage presence. In a show that didn't  have any through narrative they held it all together and kept the audience entertained. Even though this show really is my cup of tea, its well worth a watch if you love Glee and cheesy musical theatre. To book tickets click here. 

My second show of the evening was The Harri-Parris - The Leaving Do, for further information and to book tickets click here. . Up with A Strange Wild Song, this is one of my favorites! I was transported into a West Wales living room, cake and wine were thrust upon me along with a cast of strange but loveable characters. The show was hilarious, I got the giggles and literally couldn't stop. I haven't seen a new musical that I have been so impressed by in such a long time. I absolutely loved the songs, they reminded me of Goldilooking Chain's back catalogue, and the writing was very clever. All of the performances were incredibly strong but very natural and not forced, I fell in love with every character and grew attached to them all. I went to see the show by myself, however, I wish that I had taken someone with me who wasn't welsh with me to see what their reaction would be.

On Friday and Saturday, I went for something a little different a bit of spoken word, some comedy and some live music. For my thoughts see the video blog that I did with Kelly: click here. To book tickets for Wonderful World of Wilfredo click here and I thoroughly recommend you do!

The Golden Cowpat has been weathering dwindling audiences now that children have gone back to school. We are still exiting flyering relevant shows and performing on the mile a every afternoon, which is hard work and at the end of the day everyone is extremely tired ( and sometimes wet through) but it is worth it and it works. We have a cast change as well in the show and so have been rehearsing in our new performer Ros which again has been hard work and has taken up a lot of our relaxation time, but its great to have a new and different energy in the show, here's Ros:

That's all I have time to write for now . . . but I'll write another tomorrow as I've seen more stuff!

Sarah