Gemma Flynn: Trap Queen at Cowgatehead

Glasgow standup Gemma Flynn opens her set by cheerily outlining the squalor in which acts have to perform in Cowgatehead, a building Edinburgh City Council have otherwise deemed "dangerously uninhabitable". It is this unflappable attitude that carries her through life – that and her love of hip hop. The amount of gangsta rap she listens to means that she often spends more time "remembering Biggie" than she does any of the dearly departed from her own immediate family.

Moving swiftly from musical tastes and memorials, she explains why she is able to spend the month of August expousing the virtues of the song ‘Trap Queen’ by Fetty Wap. Having left her lecturing job at Edinburgh University due to the unfair nature of zero hours contracts and a run in with the all male secret club, The Speculative Society, she now spends her afternoons educating Edinburgh audiences on the "loyal, streetwise woman" featured in Wap's magnum opus.

Flynn makes for a joyous host whilst discussing the most difficult of subjects from feminism (including an inspired way to recycle hen party T shirts) and mental health, not to mention the difficulty of the Glasgow open mic scene (basically, her plus a load of divorced dads), and trying Harry Potter fans. The message is a little muddied, ending with an unexpected but fun break down of the classic Will Smith hit ‘Just the Two of Us’ replete with Bob Dylan-esque falling cue cards. But what the show lacks in structure Flynn more than makes up for in ebullient charm with a voice to listen out for in the future.

Gemma Flynn: Trap Queen, Cowgatehead, until 29 Aug, 3:15pm, Free