Edinburgh: Night and Day

Full on day at the Edinburgh Fringe on Saturday with my friend, Pauline.
Only just rounded up a few pix.
The day kicked off at the Herald Angel awards at the Festival Theatre.
Five male dancers from New Zealand-based Black Grace whipped off their tops and shoes and launched into a hi-energy haka style dance.
Cue lots of ladies - and a few gents - coming over all peculiar...
We then hot-footed it down to Dovecot Studios where the Foster's Comedy Awards were in full swing.
Frank Skinner was entertaining a packed crowd and also announcing the winners. I had only heard of one of them...
There were lots of manly bromance hugs in a testosterone-filled room. At the back a wee boy's Maltesers spilled all over the floor. He was distraught. I think some of the losing comedians knew how he felt.
I was more interested in seeing Dalziel + Scullion's exhibition for GENERATION, Tumadh: Immersion.
That's represented in this montage by the two figures in the foreground and the female figure in the background with the huge rock-face looking train to her Victorian style tweed dress.
I found this a really thoughtful and beautiful exhibition. The space is lovely but the long-train lady is the stand-out work and Pauline and I both had the thought that we'd love to see it on the top of a big open Scottish mountain.
In between a few drinks and a sunshine-and-showers lunch in the Grassmarket we also saw the GENERATION show at the National Galleries of Scotland on the Mound.
This Scotland-wide presentation offers up the work of an elite band of contemporary art stars from the last 25 years in Scotland.
There's a group of A-listers in this particular space inside the RSA building.
David Shrigley's exhibition - the one with the big black plaster boots and the black and white woodcut prints - is playfully serious and I like that in an artist's work.
The highlight for me was the late Steven Campbell's On Form and Fiction, a recreation of the exhibition of the same name held at the Third Eye Centre in Glasgow in 1990.
If you only see one GENERATION show, make it this one.
I felt my heart contract. Campbell, who died in 2007 at the age of just 54, is in every work on paper and every oil painting which covers every available space of wall.
Je t'aime plays on an old tape machine and even the benches - borrowed from Glasgow Museums - are part of the package.
After this art high, we went on to see the Soweto Gospel Choir, which gave us another aural and visual high. People even stood up at the end! And in the McEwan Hall too!!
Our day ended at Full Tilt; which starred actress Angie Darcy as Janis Joplin. Incredible performance.
Pauline and I stumbled out into the Edinburgh night, our head full of broken biscuits.
Only in Edinburgh.