Homepage News Reviews - Acts - Shows - Screen - Radio - Books - Clubs Interviews Awards 2006 Edinburgh 2005 - Reviews - Blog - Previews Features Archive Awards 2005 Edinburgh 2004: - Previews - Shows - Diary Guestbook Forum © Emporium Of Mirth 2004 Editor: Lauren Murphy Reporters: Fiona Wilkie Natalie Joanne	Emporium of Mirth Robin Ince's The Book Club Robin Ince's The Book Club. They say Book clubs are boring. They also say a comedy night should consist of a couple of stand up telling jokes and a compere. Well, I don't know who 'they' are, but they're wrong. TV's rent-a-gob and proud quiff wearer Robin Ince has somehow fused literature, performance art and humour into one tight, energetic nugget. With acts as polarised as Gawkagogo and Josie Long performing at the inaugural meeting, the Book Club is set to become a must-attend event. As ever with such a mixed bag on offer, the line-up can be a bit hit and miss, but unlike the many comedy evenings that try to do something a bit different, the hit rate far outstrips the miss and the only dubious element of the whole evening is...the literature. The featured work in the opening salvo of humorous studiousness is Little By Little, the autobiography of Sid Little which only now seems to be garnering the reverence it deserves, it seems, with Ince setting passages to music in an effort to deconstruct the man and bring this prize work into the limelight it so deserves… Ahem, obviously. Join the club. Quick. RSS  Printable version	Visit our Siamese Twin Sister Site!