Powerpoint is world's first multi-media poetry show. Situated in the stark, surreal rhetoric of the corporation and designed to give the gutsy poetry of Aisle16 a visual lift, Powerpoint brought together satire and verse in a truely ground breaking way. They took the show to the world's biggest performing arts festival to try it out ...

Suited in the essential uniform of the paranoid urbanite, the Aisle return to Edinburgh for their third fringe festival run...

Each evening begins with the detonation of the Aisle16 data-bomb: Graphs, acronyms, sharp suits, 80s power ballads and corporate verse, all crammed into one hour-long seminar. With Powerpoint, Aisle16 manages to reach record audiences, as well as receiving generous critical acclaim.

But Aisle16 are never off duty. On the Royal Mile, Aisle16 are diligently branding all potential achievers. If you see another person wearing a WINNER sticker, why not stop and talk to them? Perhaps you can swap BMWs for the day. Or maybe just come together to gloat over a tramp.

The Aisle also make stage appearances at the Fringe opening party, a theatre in Portobello, and the Fringe Sunday event (looking like someone had just dug them up).

By the end of the festival, a city is motivated. Every Jimmy Carr poster in the city has been stencilled, and Aisle16 are beginning to believe the spurious motivational dogma that falls out their slogan holes.

The run ends with a group hug with the audience, and Aisle16 allows Joe Public to cry on their shoulder one last time. With only the stencil at the top of Arthur’s Seat to remind us of our victory, we piss off back to the jobs we have spent the last month parodying.

Aisle16 would like to thanks all Edinburgh achievers, plus anyone else who was willing to get up each morning and bite the arse of a bear. Grateful support from the East to Edinburgh crew.

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