Big Noise is an album of comedy songs, written and sung by me,  from the Edinburgh Fringe show of the same name. And now, you can buy Big Noise on iTunes here or on Amazon here. You can buy individual songs, of course, but if you buy the album, you also get a digital booklet of [...]

In the summer of 2010, I did a show of comedy songs for the Edinburgh Fringe. It was called Big Noise. Now, I’ve released those songs for your listening and laughing pleasure in an album of the same name. You can buy individual songs, of course, but if you buy the album, you also get [...]

Hello! Dublin, November 10: come to Tara Flynn – Big Noise at Comedy Box, Sheehan’s of Chatham Street, €8 (€6 unwaged), 9pm This may be the last ever time this show will be done live. It’d be a shame to miss it!

So, no more talk of the Fringe. It’s all over, like it never happened. Despite the triumphs, the casualties, the tragic waste of resources, the very real human stories of survival and return, it’s no longer cool. I don’t think it’s overdramatic to say it’s the Vietnam of today.

My poor, poor husband didn’t know what was about to hit him. He’d been to the Fringe before, but never with me performing in it, and never for the full month. Luckily, I’d warned him what would happen: I’d even said “It might not be wise to have so-and-so to stay at that point…I’ll be [...]