My Pageant: Randy Feltface | The Scotsman

What are you doing at this yr’s pageant?

I’m doing a present known as Alien of Extraordinary Means each evening at 9.15pm, and the remainder of the time I look like both strolling uphill, snacking on flapjacks or politely declining bits of paper from enthusiastic strangers.

What do you most wish to see this yr and why?

I’d prefer to see Scottish Dance Theatre’s present Antigone, Interrupted as a result of I typically want I had chosen dance as an alternative of comedy as a profession. I took some ballet classes in my early 30s and realised I’d probably left my run as a dancer a bit of too late once I puked mid-pirouette within the third lesson. I needed to do three weeks of vestibular rehabilitation to get my stability again.

What’s your favorite place within the metropolis and why?

Duddingston Loch as a result of I do know of not less than two otters that stay there.

Who do you most like spending time with on the pageant?

The otters at Duddingston Loch.

What do you bear in mind about your first ever Edinburgh pageant look?

I bear in mind stepping out of Waverley Station for the primary time and seeing the Fort shrouded in fog and instantly feeling an amazing wave of emotion. Seems it was the vegetarian pastie I ate on the practice repeating on me but it surely was a robust second nonetheless.

What are the most effective and worst issues which have occurred to you in Edinburgh?

The worst factor was the time Pete Firman spilled his maggots backstage and I didn’t realise a few of them had landed in my suitcase till I used to be fined by Border Pressure brokers for breaching biosecurity laws on my approach again into Australia. And the most effective factor to have occurred is the dramatic enhance in vegan eating choices on this metropolis since 2008.

How was lockdown for you? Did it change you, and in that case how?

Lockdown was two years in the past! Why are we nonetheless speaking about it? When coping with international trauma, I all the time discover it greatest to return to a way of normalcy as rapidly as attainable with out taking any sensible measures to forestall the reason for the trauma from reoccurring. Subsequently I’ve since reverted to my pre-lockdown way of life with such reckless abandon that any life classes I could have learnt have been rapidly forgotten in a sea of worldwide boarding passes, petrol station sizzling chips and careless handshakes with sweaty strangers.

Inform us one thing about you that will shock individuals.

I’m a critically endangered species. And I can play the harmonica. However largely the critically endangered bit.

What’s the very first thing you do if you get up within the morning?

Test for earwigs and shimmy down the drainpipe.

And what’s the very last thing you do earlier than you go to mattress at evening?

I cocoon myself in a sleep nest of throw pillows and pug canines and hearken to a sleep mediation. My present go-to is the Steven King novel The Shining as narrated by Nicola Sturgeon.

Thanks for the interview! We’d like to purchase you a drink. The place are we going and what are we consuming?

That might be pretty, thanks. We’re going to Morocco for a mint tea.

Randy Feltface: Alien of Extraordinary Means, Meeting George Sq., 9.15pm, till 28 August