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LONDON, 9TH MAY 2023 – Winner of Best Newcomer at the Scottish Comedy Awards 2019 Amy Matthews is set to bring her brand-new hour ‘I Feel Like I’m Made of Spiders’ to the Fringe, performing at Monkey Barrel The Tron at 3pm, throughout the festival. 

In her highly-anticipated new show, Amy Matthews spins a sparkling web of comedy magic in a mission to reconnect. After two relationships end in quick succession, she is left swinging between two states - stability and restlessness. Taking you into her world of breaking up, breaking down and the search for connection. Will she fix her life by kitting out an unfurnished flat, sitting in silence with geriatric Quakers, or telecommunication with a Portuguese Metallica fan? This is a show about the thrill of falling and the thud of landing. And after a thud comes a laugh.

Amy is a stand-up comedian, whose intelligent, distinctive and warm style has earned her a glittering arrival on the comedy scene. Lily Allen meets Kate McKinnon (Broadway World) in comedic force, she often weaves in and out of wry despair and whimsical imagination.

On TV and Radio, Amy has appeared on the BAFTA-award-winning Scot Squad (BBC One), Fred at The Stand (BBC Radio 4), Breaking The News (BBC Radio Scotland), The Good, The Bad & The Unexpected (BBC Radio Scotland), Nihal Arthanayake (BBC 5 Live) and Patrick Kielty (BBC 5 Live). She has also written on Have I Got News for You (BBC One). Amy is a regular on the live circuit, performing at comedy clubs all over the UK & Ireland. She has also been tour support for Rachel Fairburn and Jess Fostekew. She is also the co-host of BBC Sounds podcast Snookered, alongside Des Clarke. 

AMY MATTHEWS: I FEEL LIKE I’M MADE OF SPIDERS

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LONDON, 23RD MAY 2023 – BBC New Comedian of the Year 2021 Finalist Tamsyn Kelly brings her new stand-up hour ‘Crying in TK Maxx’ to the Fringe, performing at Pleasance Courtyard at 8.40pm throughout the festival. 

When working class Cornish comedian Tamsyn Kelly discovers footage of her estranged father in a Channel 4 documentary, she's forced to stop and reassess her life. How have men shaped who she is? Will the chicken-shop guy ever give her the time of day? Why was Mr Blobby her first crush? A brutally honest, but fair appraisal of the men in her life, from a woman who has cried in most high-street shops. Directed by double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Amy Gledhill. 

Tamsyn Kelly is a working class comedian, actor and writer from Penzance, Cornwall. On TV, she has recently appeared in the Stand Up Sketch Show (ITV2) alongside Seann Walsh, and was a regional finalist in the BBC New Comedian of the Year Award 2021 (BBC One).  She is also set to star in Comedy Central Live (Comedy Central). As a comedian Tamsyn is a regular on the UK circuit performing at top comedy venues across the country, and supported Kiri Pritchard-McLean on her tour Home Truths.

She’s also a writer and performer on a new Cornish based BBC Radio 4 series Wosson Cornwall starring Dawn French, which was critics’ choice in both The Guardian and The Times. Tamsyn currently has various other scripted projects in development.

TAMSYN KELLY: CRYING IN TK MAXX

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Winner of 2Northdown’s New Act Competition 2022 John Tothill is bringing his highly-anticipated debut stand-up hour ‘The Last Living Libertine’ to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, performing at Pleasance Courtyard Below at 8.30pm throughout the festival. 

Join John Tothill, the Last Living Libertine [citation needed], for his debut hour dedicated to the pursuit of pleasure, full of exaggeration, emancipation and historical speculation. Performed by a gushing bon vivant (and Year 4 teacher), with an aptitude for flights of fancy and a revulsion for the mundane (specifically meal prep), let your cups overflow with this mix of cabaret and TEDTalk (aka stand-up comedy) featuring almost exclusively sleepover-style gossip. Come for the comedy; stay for the leopard print. 

John says: “To bring my show to this, the last ever Edinburgh Fringe, means so much, not just to me but to my community (classically trained clarinettists who were in bottom-set PE and now teach English). Here I am, on my knees, begging you to pour yourself a glass of incredibly dry white wine (or very pale rosé, that's fine too) and come to my conventionally attractive, highly educational show all about pleasure, where crucially you will learn nothing, but for a moment you could forget everything.”

John Tothill is an actor and comedian, who is now taking the UK comedy scene by storm having won 2Northdown’s New Act Competition in 2022. John has performed at The Upright Citizen’s Brigade in New York and Second City Chicago, as part of his sketch troupe. 

This show is directed by and dedicated to the late Adam Brace. 

-ENDS-

JOHN TOTHILL: THE LAST LIVING LIBERTINE

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2Northdown’s New Act Competition 2021 finalist Paddy Young is set to bring his highly-anticipated debut stand-up comedy hour ‘Hungry, Horny, Scared’ to the Fringe, performing at Pleasance Baby Grand at 9.35pm, throughout the festival. 

Following sell-out previews at the 2022 Fringe, Northern scamp Paddy Young’s debut show mixes his charismatic, cult leader vibe with the inevitable reality that underneath it all he is hungry, horny and scared (aren’t we all?). Upon leaving a nightmare flatshare to move back in with his parents, Paddy is confronted with a spectacle that disturbingly resembles himself: Thor, a wanking walrus, stranded on Scarborough beach (it’s real, look it up). Join Paddy as he asks the hard-hitting questions: is everyone in his generation going to die still living in a flatshare? If Hitler was on drugs, how bad was his comedown? And what happens to TikTok families after their 15 minutes of fame? Let’s face it, Paddy is in the gutter, but he’s looking down on all of you.

Paddy is a comedian and actor, who is quickly becoming one of comedy’s fastest rising stars, having appeared on Channel 4, ITV2, Sky and Stewart Lee's recommendation list. Paddy makes daft videos that somehow have been viewed over 10 million times, occasionally teaming up with fellow comedians Horatio Gould and Ed Night, covering everything from King Charles at an afters, navigating housemate dynamics, to a posh actor in a Northern film. 

Paddy regularly performs comedy across the UK, including shows at Machynlleth Comedy Festival, the Cambridge Fringe, the Brighton Fringe and with ‘A Lovely Time’ in Manchester. Paddy hosts his own sell out night ‘Rodeo’ in London, which he’s bringing to the 2023 Fringe for a limited run. He has performed at O2 Shepherd’s Bush alongside comedians James Acaster and Mark Watson in a special one-off show ‘A Night for Ukraine’. He has also just returned from a mini US tour with BBC New Comedy Award Winner 2022 Dan Tiernan with dates in New York, Chicago and Nashville. 

-ENDS-

WHAT PEOPLE HAVE SAID ABOUT PADDY:

 “Hilarious. One of the funniest men online” Seann Walsh

★★★★ Lancashire Post

PADDY YOUNG: HUNGRY, HORNY, SCARED

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Terry Hyde MA MBACP

Psychotherapist/counsellor

Terry started dancing at age 6, won a 5 year scholarship to the RAD afterwards attending the Royal Ballet Upper School,

On retiring from performing, Terry set up a Business Manager for people in show business. 

Terry combined his two passions, dance and psychotherapy, when he set up www.counsellingfordancers.com

Terry presents interactive Mental Health Self-Care Workshops for Dancers.  These proactive workshops are to help support dancers’ mental wellbeing by teaching them how to be mentally fit and emotionally strong and in 2021 Terry created the Help4Dancers app.  In 2021, Terry won the

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