Friday, 27 August 2010

Tim Cornwell's Festival Diary: It's one man and his biro

One of the great traditions of the Fringe is revived tonight with Arthur Smith's moonlit tour of the Royal Mile.

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Thursday, 26 August 2010

Lili La Scala: Summer atire

Every year, packing for Edinburgh begins in mid-July. Lined up are a veritable rainbow of at least 15 pairs of peep-toe pin-up heels, 1950s petticoats and a pile of pencil skirts.

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Thursday, 26 August 2010

Andrew Clover: Pancakes out of a hat

ONE night in Edinburgh 2008, I walked through the rain to perform at a late show compered by Ivor Dembina. Four other comics turned up. Two punters did too, but they left.

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Thursday, 26 August 2010

Abie Philbin: Blown away by Gail

THE weirdest gig I ever did in Edinburgh was an "Eco-Friendly, Black-Tie Dinner" for the Prince's Trust. It was in a posh hotel, and most of the guests were business leaders fishing for ethically-farmed, Fair Trade Knighthoods.

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Wednesday, 25 August 2010

Sarag Harpur: Soooo Adaptable

I AM Sarah, and I have arrived from Wellington, New Zealand to do my first Edinburgh festival.  Edinburgh is a delightful city. Everything is made out of castle. Cobbled streets invoke all kinds of wonderous imagery, of garroted prostitutes, of "catch-me-if-you-can" messages smeared in blood and baffled coppers. Delightful.

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Wednesday, 25 August 2010

Keith Farnan: Only a Festival. Right?

THIS is only my third Edinburgh Festival. It seems like a lifetime ago when I did my first one two years ago, and yet I've noticed a pattern emerging in the past few years in conversations with most stand-ups.

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Tuesday, 24 August 2010

Jim Bowes: Crunching numbers

As a part-time comedian and full-time geek, the data of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival is interesting to me. I know I'm one of over 21,000 performers, who are giving 40,254 performances of 2,453 shows in 259 venues, but that's not enough, the social data of the world's largest arts festival fascinates me.

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Tuesday, 24 August 2010

Tricity Vogue: My life is a cabaret

I started to call myself a cabaret performer about three years ago, but I think I was one long before I knew it. What happened three years ago was that I stumbled upon a whole scene of people with the same love of vintage music and dressing-up, and the same interest in creating characters on stage and being entertainers as well as musicians.

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