GRÁINNE MAGUIRE brings her brand new solo show Where Are All the Fun Places and Are Lots of People There Having Better Fun? to the Edinburgh Festival this year. Do you always worry that you’re missing out on all the fun, that the real action is elsewhere, that everyone else is having a better time than you? GRÁINNE has spent her entire life trying to be where the action is; moving to the big city, trying to hang out with the “it” gang and gate crashing the 2011 Labour Party conference. Luckily she knows as much about the shadow cabinet as she does about CHERYL COLE’S hairstyle choices. A lot. Why at a time when we have never been poorer are we bombarded with even more images of privileged orange people having a better time than us? GRÁINNE’S not asking to be the next KATE MIDDLETON, she just wants two simple things from life: to sing ‘Don’t Go Breaking My Heart’ with PETER MANDELSON and always to be where the fun times roll. Is that really too much to ask?

GRÁINNE MAGUIRE is a regular writer for 8 Out of 10 Cats (Channel 4), Now Show (BBC Radio 4) and News Quiz (BBC Radio 4), and has written for The Independent, Total Politics and The Evening Standard.
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What the press has said about Grainne Maguire:

“Incredibly Funny,” Times Online
"Highly promising, delightfully quirky and whimsical has a big future ahead of her," Time Out
"Engaging and natural performer with deep reserves of excitable energy. Can employ understatement with the dry mastery of a Father Ted script," Chortle

LISTINGS INFORMATION
Where Are All the Fun Places and Are Lots of People There Having Better Fun?
Venue: Udderbelly - Daisy
Date: 1st Aug - 26th Aug (15th Aug)
Time: 4.20pm
Box Office: 0844 545 8252

For more information and press tickets, please contact: edinburghpress@avalonuk.com or phone: Hannah Wilkinson, Alex Sayer, Lottie Doran, Debra Clavey, Charlotte Davidson or Dan Lloyd on: Edinburgh: 0131 527 1588 / London: 020 7598 7222

AVALON PROMOTIONS

Avalon is one of the leading promoters of live comedy in the UK. Recent highlights include: RUSSELL HOWARD performing to over 240,000 fans with sell-out tour Right Here, Right Now; AL MURRAY’s triple extended show The Pub Landlord’s Beautiful British Tour, including London’s O2 arena; RUSSELL KANE becoming the only person to win both the Edinburgh Comedy Award and the Barry Award in the same year for Smokescreens and Castles; RICHARD HERRING returning to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for his 25th year; DAVE GORMAN’s Barry Award nominated sell-out tour Powerpoint Presentation and GREG DAVIES’s Edinburgh Comedy Award nominated, triple-extended, 109 date sell-out show Firing Cheeseballs at a Dog.

Avalon has been presenting shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe since 1988, promoting more Edinburgh Comedy Award winners and nominees than any other company, including: CHRIS ADDISON, GREG DAVIES, DAVE GORMAN, HARRY HILL, RUSSELL HOWARD, RUSSELL KANE, THE MIGHTY BOOSH, AL MURRAY, KRISTEN SCHAAL & KURT BRAUNOHLER and FRANK SKINNER and two of only three female winners of the prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Award; JENNY ECLAIR and LAURA SOLON. Last year saw CHRIS RAMSEY nominated at the festival. Avalon has been presenting its new talent vehicle and the Fringe’s longest running stand-up showcase, The Comedy Zone, at the festival for the last 21 years, which has launched the careers of some of the biggest names in stand-up: DAVE GORMAN, HARRY HILL, RUSSELL HOWARD, MARK LAMARR, STEWART LEE, SIMON MUNNERY, AL MURRAY and ROSS NOBLE.

Avalon Promotions has staged major shows and tours including: NEWMAN & BADDIEL at Wembley, in the first ever arena show in the UK, which played to over 10,000 people in 1993, FRANK SKINNER’S Guinness World record-breaking performance to an audience of 6,000 (the biggest ever stand-up show at that time) at Battersea Power Station and Jerry Springer - The Opera which won 6 Oliviers, playing to audiences at the National Theatre, New York’s Carnegie Hall, London’s West End and the Sydney Opera House.