DisComBoBuLaTe - where literature, boy scouts and comedy collide

'Discombobulate delivered a brilliant, thought-provoking and highly entertaining mix of literature and comedy at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. It was one of the popular hits of the festival and also one of my own personal highlights.'

Nick Barley
Director
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010

Preening itself from it's stunning success at the EIBF, DisComBoBuLatE embarks on its first world tour on November 30th. The venue? The Attic @ Stirling's Tolbooth.

In keeping with Stirling's position as the gateway to Scotland's lovely Highlands, your louche host Ian Macpherson will read selected passages from 'A Brisk Hike Up The Trossachs' by Hector Baden Powell, maternal grand-nephew of the boy scout chap.

'His frequent references to the female sex as 'an inexcusable aberration' may, perhaps, jar with the modern reader. It was, after all, published in less enlightened times - spring of last year, to be precise. But set against this are his delightful passages on nature, as witness his exhilarating chapter on rolling naked in the gorse with the prettier members of 'F' Troop.' - inlocoparentis.com

Joining Macpherson will be Stirling Machar Magi Gibson, poet Billy Letford, polymaths Alan Bissett and RJ Ritchie, and the sweet, unbroken voices of the 1st Trossach Scout Group Male Voice Choir. Unless otherwise engaged.