'People were baffled and scared': Robin Ince on the vital failure of his Edinburgh festival debut
Nineteen years since his first fringe solo show, the comedian returns to riff on punching melons " but this time with a hard-won happiness My career was transformed when I repeatedly punched a melon with the face of Vernon Kay amateurishly scrawled on it. A shamanic spell perhaps? For the first 11 years of my standup life, I was moving further and further away from that teenage excitement I experienced when I sat in …