2014 Edinburgh Fringe

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Batten down the hatches, there's a storm headed our way.

Chris Boyd, northern England's foremost storm-fancier and impending doom merchant, has heard the inescapable roar of a mile-wide twister - and it's approaching fast. Not one to lie down and die, however, former cub-scout and sometime glasses-wearer Boyd has built a makeshift tornado shelter, and he urges us all to join him within its life-saving walls.

With the loss of a loved one to cope with, a relationship slipping through his fingers and a nightly battle with stand-up comedy to overcome, Boyd is heading straight for disaster. But armed with an encyclopaedic knowledge of low-budget horror films, an obsession with extreme weather and help from a loyal, supportive crowd, he will escape certain oblivion and - in the process - present a unique guide to confronting nature's darkest spectacle. Filled with survival techniques, blustering theatrics and stories from the front line of weather observation, Caution To The Wind may be Boyd's debut Edinburgh hour - but by Jove it is for your own good.

Born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, watching The Wizard Of Oz at a young age spurred Chris Boyd to spend "a lifetime fascinated by tornadoes abroad whilst surrounded by monotone northern weather at home". Besides such fascination, he has managed to carve out a comedy career which has seen him do very well in the BBC New Comedy Award and perform his shows Filthy, No Frills and The Best Of Boyd And Metcalfe to impressed reviewers.

He is also a short-film maker, his piece Slow Death: Part Three being selected to play in the 2014 London Short Film Festival, and a writer - contributing to The Alarmist magazine and penning a book of short stories entitled If You Like It So Much, Why Don't You Just Go Live There?. In 2013 Boyd travelled to the American mid-west to chase storms, and wrote an article about it for the website Vice: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/i-went-storm-chasing-in-americas-midwest