Nick Elleray: It's Been Emotional is on at Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre - The Little Kirk, during August. 

  • What is your Fringe show about?

Family, feelings and the rich emotional ecosystem of the Australian male.

  • How many times/many years have you appeared at the Fringe?

Four times all-up. Three times as part of a two-hander, once with a solo show.

  • What’s your most memorable moment from the Fringe?

Weeping with laughter in 2014 whilst watching the criminally unseen and un-reviewed “Henry von Stifle: Working Class Hero (With a Valet)”, then walking back to the flat and sitting on my bed laughing for another hour.

  • What’s the worst thing about the Fringe?

It’s a perfect environment for developing a show over a month, but there is immense pressure to treat it as a showcase - so you spend the preceding months workshopping/previewing it into shape under much less ideal conditions.

  • If you were not a performer what would you be doing?

I’d be like a parking meter attendant for the local hospitality industry, except I’d visit cafes and time how long people sat there in front of their laptop without buying another beverage and after an hour* I would take the seat next to them and talk about Jesus Our Saviour until they moved on to a new venue.

*Fifteen minutes if they’re making Skype calls out loud.

  • How do you prepare for a performance?

Avoid talking to anyone. Empty my pockets. Remind myself that however I'm feeling, for about the next hour, I’m the entertainment.

I get out a lot more - in my regular life, I spend far too much time online due to the poor opportunities for purchasing tartan-based giftware in a traditional retail environment.

  • What’s the most Scottish thing you’ve ever done?

Being drunk (that’s not the Scottish part) in Stornoway whilst playing guitar in a band on a BBC Gaelic-language program.

  • Favourite Scottish food/drink?

Bowmore 18yo Single Malt Whisky and/or Arbroath smokies, please.

  • Sum up your show in three words

Droll, acerbic, mango.

Nick Elleray: It's Been Emotional is on at Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre - The Little Kirk, during August. for tickets, please visit www.edfringe.com

You can follow Nick on Twitter at @nickelleray and find him on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/nickelleray/