Huge Davies chats about murder, music and his weapon of choice

2019's Best Newcomer nominee and writer and star of web sitcom The Artists, Huge Davies, brings his second hour to the Fringe, asking Whodunnit? With quick wit, surreal material, deadpan delivery, and a massive keyboard strapped to his chest, Huge takes audiences on a silly, hi-jinks journey to uncover a killer.

We sat down with Huge to hear more about whodunnit and what Huge would do it he'd do it...

In Whodunnit can we expect a live re-enactment of the murder you witnessed?

You can expect whatever you like; what you're getting is stand-up comedy about a full murder investigation I was part of and how I solved it. It's a good show peppered with a nice bunch of routines, but I also solved a real murder, Poirot-style, wearing a full-sized keyboard the whole time. A bit like a live re-enactment.

If you were going to do a murder, would your keyboard be the weapon of choice?

I've been slinging this keyboard all over the country every single day for years; on trains, walking through fields & on Boris bikes. I then wear it on stage when I get there, for up to an hour, then have to take the whole thing home. You think I'm using the keyboard again? On my night off? For my first murder? Also they'd know it was a keyboard, I'd be cancelled on the spot. Probably just stab.

Also, who would you murder and why? (We promise not to tell anyone and we'll burn this should they show up dead...)

I'm waiting for my future self to turn up. Then I'd try and kill him, see what happens to the timelines. Cut my finger off and see him go crazy when his own disappears. Get our dicks out, compare them, start a YouTube prank channel etc. Then kill him. Because there can't be two lads wearing keyboards. I'm already slumming it with Bill Bailey and David O'Doherty shot-gunning all the best jokes already.

That's a lot of talk about murder isn't it. Let's talk about comedy. Are you excited to be back in Edinburgh? You haven't been here since you were nominated for the Newcomer Award in 2019, right?

Yeah, it should be fun to do a new show. I've been doing The Carpark for about three years so I'm glad to see the back of it. I was actually here secretly in 2022 with Janine Harouni doing the Free Fringe with her dog Charles Barkley. None of the jokes have made it in the show, so you could say it was a massive waste of time. Though looking unlikely for me or Janine to get best Newcomer this year, so arguably this year will be a massive waste of time too.

What do you want to say to people who have yet to watch your sitcom The Artists?

I'd say that was fair. The marketing was very strange, lots of thumbnails with Mr Beast and Logan Paul doing food challenges, but believe me; the sitcom is almost nothing like that. It's about a bunch of failing street performers that hang out in a seaside town, but the blurb in the videos still reads 'See David Attenborough, a harpoon gun and an unbridled rage attempts to wipe out the WORST animals on Planet Earth'. Humiliating.