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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2019 17:38:31 GMT
Wow! Would love to [be able to afford to] be there for the month!
Just 5 days for me. I have a pretty solid spreadsheet of what I want to see with some deliberate gaps to allow for 'word of mouth'-type shows and reviews of shows to get out.
Only booked the really popular stuff so far.... Stewart Lee, Eddie Izzard's Great Expectations and Milton Jones. Oh and one of the 'Interactive' escape rooms things as a completely different bit of fun for the family.
Annoyingly a lot of what I want to see starts around 2pm or 7pm so there's gonna have to be some compromises.
Muse see's on the list so far as mostly musicals:
You and I (Really enjoyed Colla Voce's Buried last year)
Both Limbo's - The Twelve & City of Dreams
Tokyo Rose - Preview of one song on instagram sounds amazing.
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Post by talkingheads on Jun 29, 2019 22:36:02 GMT
Wow! Would love to [be able to afford to] be there for the month! Just 5 days for me. I have a pretty solid spreadsheet of what I want to see with some deliberate gaps to allow for 'word of mouth'-type shows and reviews of shows to get out. Only booked the really popular stuff so far.... Stewart Lee Well I figured I'll most likely never have the spare time to dedicate the whole month to Edinburgh again so I may as well go all out just this once! Yes I've got Stewart Lee booked (also Daniel Kitson has indicated he might do some last minute Fringe gigs so be quick when the word gets out!) |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2019 14:36:57 GMT
So far I only have two shows booked - Unfortunate by Fat Rascal in previews, and What Girls Are Made Of by Cora Bissett - but I also am eager to see Cruel Intentions, Friendsical, Amy Booth Steel, Men with Coconuts and Lost Voice Guy.
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Post by zahidf on Jul 1, 2019 14:13:05 GMT
I've booked for Russell Howard and musik.
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Post by stevej678 on Jul 12, 2019 12:20:25 GMT
The banners are up outside Assembly Hall, George Square Gardens are open in all their Fringey glory from this afternoon, a purple cow is soon to be inverted, and certain University of Edinburgh buildings are about to get a yellow Pleasance makeover! Three weeks to go!  |
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Post by Backdrifter on Jul 12, 2019 14:49:52 GMT
Annoyingly a lot of what I want to see starts around 2pm or 7pm so there's gonna have to be some compromises. Every year I find in particular the 2pm-4pm period is very crowded, it's the time where I most have to sacrifice stuff I want to see. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2019 16:00:05 GMT
Not sure if any are interested but Eddie Izzard is now doing a 3 night preview of his upcoming Wunderbar tour 12-14th in addition to the Great Expectations 'play' and tickets are on sale.
Had to bag a ticket for this!
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Post by zahidf on Jul 16, 2019 14:21:17 GMT
Ive booked a few today. Baby Reindeer, Canary and the Crow, Coma, Square Go and Crocodile Fever. I'll book some more post pay day!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2019 14:33:20 GMT
Ive booked a few today. Baby Reindeer, Canary and the Crow, Coma, Square Go and Crocodile Fever. I'll book some more post pay day! Oo ace. Canary and Crocodile Fever are both on my list. |
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Post by zahidf on Jul 18, 2019 9:42:12 GMT
Daniel Kitson Summerhall show sorted
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Post by drmaplewood on Jul 18, 2019 10:52:33 GMT
Much like last year I have left this terribly late - there from 2-6, any theatre recs? Comedy shows nearly always come to London afterwards so more keen on the theatre side of things.
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Post by zahidf on Jul 18, 2019 19:30:59 GMT
Much like last year I have left this terribly late - there from 2-6, any theatre recs? Comedy shows nearly always come to London afterwards so more keen on the theatre side of things. Bible John, art heist, conspiracy, new jonny Donahue play at summerhall look good! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2019 13:38:31 GMT
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Post by Backdrifter on Jul 19, 2019 20:30:06 GMT
Teviot "just down the road" from Hula?! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2019 22:41:35 GMT
Brew Lab was my daily haunt at uni, and I was very satisfied to find it is still as good when I was up at the Fringe last year!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2019 8:49:19 GMT
Found a very useful app - RefillInteractive map showing points across cities (including Edinburgh) where you can refill water bottles. Will be making good use of this and highly recommend everyone else to download it, useful not just for the Festival Fringe but nationwide, year round. |
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Post by Backdrifter on Jul 22, 2019 10:52:37 GMT
It's taken me longer than usual but yesterday I finally completed my bookings for my 8-day Fringe trip. Sitting back and looking at it, I realise I've fallen back into my old bad habit of booking far too much. But at least I've avoided another previous annoying tendency, that of booking stuff in venues too widely scattered. This time almost everything is in venues which on the Fringe map are in squares E5&6 and F5&6, with much of the rest in G6 thanks to a big load of Summerhall bookings.
I think I made a slight mistake in making bookings from the early online ticket releases, then getting the programme when it was published and realising I'd now blocked a few things I'd have liked to see, but then every year I end up having to sacrifice a lot of things that appeal so in that sense it's no different.
Even if I have booked too many, because I'm arriving earlier than I usually do - Mon 29th - I have that whole day free as there are apparently no events that day, and just one on the Tuesday evening, and two on my final day Mon 5th. It's the intervening days when it's quite rammed but I'm really looking forward to it.
Also gearing up for meals at some of my favourite places - The Kitchin, Field, Educated Flea, and hoping to give Monteith's a try for the first time as I keep meaning to but never have. I was in the city briefly last week and noticed a few new coffee places I don't know so might give them a try, while also revisiting old favourites of course. A couple of cocktails and maybe a meal at Under The Stairs is in order too.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2019 10:58:48 GMT
What booking are you looking forward to most Backdrifter? We went to the The Kitchin last year, incredibly good meal. We're going to Castle Terrace this year to change it up and because whilst Leith is nice, it felt like a long journey to get there. |
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Post by zahidf on Jul 22, 2019 11:49:35 GMT
Ive fully booked up one day at Summerhall for 5 plays in a row. Got a few more things booked around the festival. Tough to keep it so they are close together!
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Post by Backdrifter on Jul 22, 2019 12:20:35 GMT
What booking are you looking forward to most Backdrifter ? We went to the The Kitchin last year, incredibly good meal. We're going to Castle Terrace this year to change it up and because whilst Leith is nice, it felt like a long journey to get there. Hmmm, hard to pick out just one. Coma would be up there, as would Shenanigan but the latter is slightly shaky in that Kitson's made it clear it's far from finished and while I usually enjoy the looser work-in-progress stuff it doesn't match the more structured end product. And I can only go to the first performance! In Loyal Company and Heroin(e) For Breakfast seemed to get very good reviews for previous runs so I'm looking forward to them. The only two out-and-out comedy shows I've booked are Stewart Francis and Matt Forde, both of whom I like a lot so I'm hoping those will be highlights. What are your most-anticipated ones? Yeah I ate at Kitchin once before, last autumn and it was absolutely superb. You probably know Castle Terrace is a sister restaurant, also very good and another favourite of mine. Based on my one experience of Kitchin it edges into the lead, but while I don't find Leith too much of a trek I'm not actually very keen on the area. I'm not sure why that is though. |
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Post by Backdrifter on Jul 22, 2019 12:24:23 GMT
Ive fully booked up one day at Summerhall for 5 plays in a row. Got a few more things booked around the festival. Tough to keep it so they are close together! In the last 2-3 visits I've taken to doing this. It has such a range of events and venues, and is so pleasant to kill time in between events, I decided to schedule at least one whole day there. This time I don't have any complete days there but do have three when I'm mainly there for 3 or 4 shows. I once did the Pickerings distillery tour there, this year moving from gin to beer with the Barney's Brewery tour. |
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Post by zahidf on Jul 22, 2019 13:03:58 GMT
Ive fully booked up one day at Summerhall for 5 plays in a row. Got a few more things booked around the festival. Tough to keep it so they are close together! In the last 2-3 visits I've taken to doing this. It has such a range of events and venues, and is so pleasant to kill time in between events, I decided to schedule at least one whole day there. This time I don't have any complete days there but do have three when I'm mainly there for 3 or 4 shows. I once did the Pickerings distillery tour there, this year moving from gin to beer with the Barney's Brewery tour. Yeah, starting with Coma and ending with Kitson!
I try to have as many shows in the same venue as possible but its not always feasible. I'm seeing Gordon Brown do a talk at the book festival as well, which has messed up that day potentially in terms of close shows to them!
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Post by Backdrifter on Jul 22, 2019 14:22:49 GMT
I try to have as many shows in the same venue as possible but its not always feasible. I'm seeing Gordon Brown do a talk at the book festival as well, which has messed up that day potentially in terms of close shows to them! Outside of Summerhall I haven't attempted the 'focused venue' strategy. I have one instance of your Brown aberration* which is that my attendance at the Stewart Francis show is literally my only show north of Princes St and is on a day otherwise consisting entirely of southside stuff. My only other outliers are a show each at the Traverse, Lauriston Halls and Dynamic Earth. It'd be great if I had my usual rental on West Port but as it was unavailable this year I'm in a place right amid the hustle and bustle of Rose St, which I'm not much looking forward to. In the first few years of going I would always find myself attending the C venues a lot but that's really tailed off now. I haven't consciously avoided them, but through simply booking what appeals I find myself very rarely visiting them now. * Sorry, "your Brown aberration" sounds a bit questionable but you know what I meant. It could also be The Brown Aberration - a long-lost unpublished Len Deighton novel. |
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Post by zahidf on Jul 22, 2019 15:09:30 GMT
I try to have as many shows in the same venue as possible but its not always feasible. I'm seeing Gordon Brown do a talk at the book festival as well, which has messed up that day potentially in terms of close shows to them! Outside of Summerhall I haven't attempted the 'focused venue' strategy. I have one instance of your Brown aberration* which is that my attendance at the Stewart Francis show is literally my only show north of Princes St and is on a day otherwise consisting entirely of southside stuff. My only other outliers are a show each at the Traverse, Lauriston Halls and Dynamic Earth. It'd be great if I had my usual rental on West Port but as it was unavailable this year I'm in a place right amid the hustle and bustle of Rose St, which I'm not much looking forward to. In the first few years of going I would always find myself attending the C venues a lot but that's really tailed off now. I haven't consciously avoided them, but through simply booking what appeals I find myself very rarely visiting them now. * Sorry, "your Brown aberration" sounds a bit questionable but you know what I meant. It could also be The Brown Aberration - a long-lost unpublished Len Deighton novel. Ha! With Brown, im going to the Stand and Musik, which are on the 'right side' of it, but I annoyingly have a 2 hour gap which hasn't got much I like playing I need to try to fill. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2019 17:51:41 GMT
Outside of Summerhall I haven't attempted the 'focused venue' strategy. I have one instance of your Brown aberration* which is that my attendance at the Stewart Francis show is literally my only show north of Princes St and is on a day otherwise consisting entirely of southside stuff. My only other outliers are a show each at the Traverse, Lauriston Halls and Dynamic Earth. It'd be great if I had my usual rental on West Port but as it was unavailable this year I'm in a place right amid the hustle and bustle of Rose St, which I'm not much looking forward to. In the first few years of going I would always find myself attending the C venues a lot but that's really tailed off now. I haven't consciously avoided them, but through simply booking what appeals I find myself very rarely visiting them now. * Sorry, "your Brown aberration" sounds a bit questionable but you know what I meant. It could also be The Brown Aberration - a long-lost unpublished Len Deighton novel. Ha! With Brown, im going to the Stand and Musik, which are on the 'right side' of it, but I annoyingly have a 2 hour gap which hasn't got much I like playing I need to try to fill. There's usually some free fringe stuff going on around there too. I've found the Fringe app handy for last minute "stuff near me in the next hour" -type searching for some gap fillers. |
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