Thread: Fringe Fun

Well that's it all over for another year, it takes forever to get here and then it is over in a flash, literally! I always find it so unbelievably sad and anti-climatic at the close of every Edinburgh Fringe.

Apart from the torrential rain making the Royal Mile a bigger nightmare than normal and maintaining your cool when scanning for a seat at the Spiegel Garden very difficult it was a most awesome year.

Even though it was our year off from producing our own show Rufus and I have had one of our busiest seasons to date; MoB High Tease, Sideshow, The Bongo Cabaret, The Devil Will Drag You Under and all the parties meant that nearly every night was a performance night. We are sleep deprived, ill with man-flu (on both counts), mal-nourished and we wouldn't change it for the world.

As the Fringe comes to a close; tired and skint performers climbing hungover onto buses and trains and the depressing site of seeing all the major venues disassemble I frankly can't wait for next year - we've got a few tricks up our sleeves and you can expect up to 3 seperate shows from us (Yes, we have a death wish!)

So...the point of this post, as the vast majority of performers made the sojourn this year I want tales of your funniest and freakiest Fringe moments.

GO!

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Favs- Tepooka
Watching a man fall out of his pants while upside down on aerial hoop
The filthiest Mr.Punch and 'Jude'
Feeling like a little girl again watching the Terrible Infants

Lows-Only staying for the first week and missing all teh burlesque
torrential rain with no coat and hunting for the perfect coffee shop until my body went numb and I couldn't think straight (hence going on a 3hour walk for the perfrect coffee shop)
And quite a few people being dumb/rude about me using a cane.

Wish I'd been there for all of it.

One of the few low points for me this year was the amount of times we got home and to bed between the hours of 5am and 7am. We were through practically every night but failed to secure any accomodation so that was tough.

Time would get away from us on the nights after Sideshow, it started at 00.15 so by the time you are done, dusted, out of costume and in the bar it's leaving 2am. The Underbelly is a deceptive creature because it is open until 4am so you don't realise it's so late while you drink and chat. The amount of times we would look at our watch and think "Oh Fudge, it's quarter to 4" and we'd have an hour long drive back to Glasgow - sheesh!

High Points - watching Molly Crabapple do a quick-fire and spontaneous sketch of Missy Malone in the underbelly bar, that was awesome. There are a few Molly C originals of us all in her sketch book.

Fire-Eating in clown costumes for Reginald D Hunter & Tommy Shepard (owner of The Stand) at The Skinny Mag's Fest Launch Party.

x L.B x

Originally Posted by LucilleBurn

High Points - watching Molly Crabapple do a quick-fire and spontaneous sketch of Missy Malone in the underbelly bar, that was awesome. There are a few Molly C originals of us all in her sketch book.

Aww I'm jealous, I want to be immortalised by Ms Crabapple!

I didn't get to 'do' much of the Fringe this year - but as I haven't done ANY of it since 2005, I at least got to a couple of things.

Highs: La Clique - I don't think THAT needs explaining! High Tease where I got to see some of my favourite people in the world: Missy Malone, Kitten on the Keys, Cat Aclysmic and some couple of weirdos called Lucille and Rufus... *heehee* Also, I wouldn't have been able to go to either of those shows had it not been for the aforementioned weirdos and their generosity because they kindly squeezed me into their car so I could get home! I popped through to Edinburgh yesterday afternoon and although I didn't see any shows, I met up with Kitten again and Foxy Rouge (for the first time in 2 years!) which was really lovely. We also got a sneaky tour through the Covenanters Prison in Greyfriars Kirk thanks to The Fox herself. Spooky and really cool...

Lows: Dying of a cold and hacking cough at High Tease wasn't a barrel of laughs - for anyone. Standing in rain/mud for La Clique wasn't great fun (although it was worth it in the end - and we met Kitten and chums while we waited!). Not getting to more shows - in particular The Bongo Cabaret, the Wau Waus and Pete Firman. Saying goodbye to Kitten on the Keys yesterday was sad.. she's flying back in the early hours of tomorrow morning.

And although it wasn't part of the fringe (or in Edinburgh), I think a special mention is due for another highlight of August - the Dr. Sketchy Birthday Bash! Bigger, better and bolder than I'd imagined and most of all it was lots of fun!

I ended up somehow performing more Fringe nights than I had anticipated - I did 5 Fringe gigs in 3 weeks (and seemed to bump into Kitten on the Keys at most of them!). Given that I was also still working 9-5, and throwing stuff like the Belladrum festival, Dr Sketchy's, a photoshoot for an art project and an additional Panopticon Music Hall Company show into the mix, it's no wonder I'm now bloody knackered. And there's still the Candy Box before the month is out!

Fringe high for me was probably the closing night on Sunday at the Bongo Cabaret, simply because it was rammed with punters and some familiar faces celebrating the end of the Fringe, and everyone was on a high (though I loved Wild Card Kitty's expression "just about every Fringe performer I've spoken to today is completely broken"). Another favourite moment was probably at 3am after the beer-infused opening night at the Bongo, going shopping at M&S Harthill with Lucille & Rufus!

Fringe low was not actually getting to see other cabarets than the ones I got to perform in. I would have liked to have seen La Clique, And The Devil May Drag You Under, The Wau Waus, and the Supper Club at the Assembly Rooms which I saw a few beautiful people running off to. Not to mention a bit of street theatre. I would also have liked to have seen some of the shows which I saw glimpses of at the Bongo club and at Sideshow, but they were always on at stupid-o-clock-in-the-can't-go-to-if-you-have-a-job-and-live-in-glasgow -and -are -completely -disorganised!

Roll on September, hereby christened "my month of sleep and sanity"...