One of the big festivals that occurs every year in Edinburgh is the Fringe Festival. Basically a couple of thousand performers, comedians, musicians and actors show up, convert every uninhabited room in the city into a venue and spend pretty much the whole of august entertaining audiences. Oh, and the Military Tattoo is on each night, performed in front of the stunning backdrop of the Castle.
We'd heard a little bit about it before coming here and in the weeks leading up to August there was a definite sense of anticipation in the air.
During the festival the atmosphere is amazing. Each night feels like a friday night. An evening stroll down the royal mile shows off large crowds watching street performers and there tonnes of people handing out flyers, advertising some of the thousands of shows on offer.
Over the 3 or so weeks we tried to get to as many as we could. I think it ended up being 7 stand up acts, 3 concerts and the Tattoo.
The comedians we got to see were Karen Dunbar, Tripod, Kristen Schaal, Rhys Darby, Frankie Boyle, Hattie Hayridge and Brendan Hunt.
All were very entertaining, although I laughed the loudest and longest when watching Tripod, Frankie Boyle and Rhys Darby.
Concerts, we saw Silverchair, Foo Fighters and Jamie T - all were great and it was nice to be able to go to a few concerts in Edinburgh for a change.
The Tattoo was amazing, the pipe bands and the Moscow Military Conservatoire were brilliant just the music and the timing was superb - we'll definitely be attending next year.
Monday, September 17, 2007
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