Edinburgh Fringe Reviews

Radio West Pier reviewed by - "The Scotsman" in The Quantum Physics Quarterly.

As Albert Einstein might have said, God doesn't play dice but if he played crap he would have ended up with Radio West Pier. A comedy radio show that purportedly broadcasts from an underwater shack underneath Brighton's West Pier, and its currently broadcasting live, (after a long treacherous and arguably controversial expedition to its current final destination somewhere beneath the Port of Leith by the show's sidekick, Rico Mortis). It's unfortunate that his ciggie break in Weston Super Mare ended rather abruptly on the morning of 28th of July. The Times would later report of its Grand Pier, the town's main attraction, as a mangled mass of charred steel. One might recall to mind, similar incidents happening to Southend Pier in 1959, 1976 and in 1995, it doesn't take a genius to work out the formula. But one might ask whether he was the skipper of the MV Kingsway in 1986? I'll say no more and leave it at that. The show itself has its quirks which are indeed up and down, top and bottom exuberating both strangeness and charm. Improbability is no obstacle to Jah Scooterman and 'Flaming'Rico Mortis when they transmit the impossible i.e the fact that the latter singlehandedly burnt down the West Pier et. al, (whilst cooking mackerel under water). I'm no Miss Marples but this does appear to be rather accidentally coincidental). This is where these two are quite literally not aware of the gravity of the situation. "If time flies like an arrow then fruit flies like a banana"- that would seem to be the editorial of the journal of their own reality. When it comes to time itself their roving reporter the Right Reverend Tristram Shandy-Drinker appears after 250 years' retirement to chronicle the destruction of the West Pier. Nevertheless the show asks challenging questions such as, if parallel lines could meet, what would they sat to each other? This undoubtedly is the free fringe at end of a badly cut universe. If you don't believe me get your energy force behind the performance in Edinburgh, it isn't an equation I can get my brains around!