Reviews & features: Baba Brinkman

Edinburgh Fringe 2010: Guide to survival and reproduction

Baba Brinkman’s top tips on how to survive and reproduce this August

1: To survive, avoid socialising. Meeting people is the best way to catch a disease, drinking will strain your voice box, and staying up late will leave you tired and unpresentable for your shows. To reproduce, stay out until dawn every night without…

Edinburgh Free Fringe round-up

In a festival where Ricky Gervais can charge whatever he wants for a show in the Playhouse and sell out comfortably, as well as expecting to pay £10 for a half-decent comedian nobody's heard of, it's nice to see the free alternatives still going strong.

The Rap Guide to Evolution

Combining Chuck D and Charles Darwin

Part gig, part stand up, part lecture, Baba Brinkman, the man who brought you The Rap Canterbury Tales, tackles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Instantly accessible, destroying creationism through the music of The Notorious BIG, Dead Prez, Mobb Deep and…