Tell us about your show. Why should we go and see it?
Schtoom is my tenth show at the fringe, and it’s my first show where I don’t speak.
You must experience it to believe it, it’s not about the “joke” that can be written and read, or retold by others.. this show it’s about the live experience and just be savoured as a live experience.
What are your hopes and dreams for the Fringe?.
To bring laughter and joy to the streets, to get some nice audience reviews.. and win a few new fans.
What three words best describe your performance style – and why.
Fool. Dopamine-Coordinator. Idiot
How will your audience think/feel differently after an hour in your company?
I’ve no idea. Joy I hope. My true push for this show is to just bring joy and laughter without speaking a single word. In this era of podcasts and talk talk talk talk banter banter banter .. “oh aren’t we so fucking witty” comics… I’m going the opposite way, I’m saying nothing! I’m staying Shtoom.
What kind of shows – apart from your own – are you looking forward to seeing at the Edinburgh Fringe?
I’m looking forward to seeing more pioneering female clowns/ fools & idiots. True weirdo fringe performers I’m
Sick to my back teeth of “stand up” and lad culture pod cast “banter” stand up (sit down around a fight microphone and laugh at each other daily observations) … it’s so fucking hack and ego driven and it’s beyond boring and no one is calling it out. And these so called saying the unsayable comedians is just shock humour that’s frankly utterly offensive and grotesque … I wanna see true brave woke & feminist & queer comedians punching up and showing empathy and anger at the true liars in society …
not privileged career / follower obsessed, bourgeois podcast brat comics continually punching down. No more. Pleeeease.
The cost of living is a big issue this year – will it make this Fringe more challenging?
Not from the amount of people spending £7 on a pint of beer when my show is only £5.
What do you predict will emerge as the big themes of this year.
Pole Dancing it seems. And very little else, I feel comedians have lost any real edge, and the fringe attracts mainstream Fame hunters, not actual Avant Garde “fringe” performers, although that said you can find them if you dig around deep enough away from the big money corporate venues.
Who is your showbiz idol and why.
Sinéad O’Connor .. her fucking all out bravery and pioneering true punk attitude of not playing into the patriarchal system of “show biz” but using it as her platform.
What is your idea of a perfect Fringe moment?
Sitting Silently in a coffee shop sipping a latte after I’ve had a great gig where all the notes where hit and the audience and I were hitting all the marks and the gig flowed like a perfect orchestral cascade of guttural laughter and utter mayhem.
Paul Currie: Schtoom, 21:00, Just The Tonic At The Caves
