10 Films With You Pricks, Sweet Grassmarket, Edinburgh Fringe

This one-off night was supposed to be Goatley's exposé of the secrets behind his long running and very successful show, 10 Films With My Dad, as it finally dies after 8 years.  But.  Although he promises (yet again) it won't ever be returning to Edinburgh, he has been asked to take it to the Adelaide Comedy festival, so those secrets will have to wait.

Instead he used the hour to show us a different side to the usual Aidan, the one that attracts adjectives like warm and cuddly and lovely.  This was Goatley unleashed.  He started on his hatred of the so-called 'silent disco' that plagues the Old Town at this time of year and went on from there into various rants that were loud, sweary and very, very funny.

That was followed by memories of some of the worst gigs he's ever had in his career, dire situations he turned into hysterically funny material.  Nobody who was there will forget his tale of trying to perform 10 Films to an audience still weeping over the death of a teenager, and being told it's what he would have wanted.  Although my personal favourite story combined massage, masturbation and delicious toasties.

The show was being filmed and I hope it is made available some time, for it was one of my favourites of this month.  This was Goatley in the raw showing just what a naturally funny man he is, and that there's a lot more to him than "being nice".  Definitely not for the kids though....