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The wife and I (plus eldest) are going to Edinburgh on the 23rd and the wife is performing! She's not doing comedy as such but is part of something called 'A Pint of Poetry & a Dram of Drama' at Scotland's most haunted pub, The Banshee Labyrinth.

http://www.thebansheelabyrinth.com/

She'll be on sometime between 13.10 and 14.10 and could well be performing her latest piece, a rather nifty ditty about sexually transmitted diseases*.

*Will probably have to block our daughter's ears for that one!

Free Fringe web page here: http://freefringeforum.org/event.php?event=3510&sid=33621907e50ee3aeb0711493ebc16d95

"A Pint of Poetry and a Dram of Drama is an open mic spoken word event from Peterborough. You know, near Cambridge. For 4 years it has hosted local poets, bards of the fens and MCs. In Edinburgh for the first time. We bring some of PTowns best wordy talent to you."

Quote: Tuumble @ August 12 2010, 1:43 AM BST

The wife and I (plus edest) are going to Edinburgh on the 23rd and the wife is performing! She's not doing comedy as such but is part of something called 'A Pint of Poetry & a Dram of Drama' at Scotland's most haunted pub, The Banshee Labyrinth.

http://www.thebansheelabyrinth.com/

She'll be on sometime between 13.10 and 14.10 and could well be performing her latest piece, a rather nifty ditty about sexually transmitted diseases*.

*Will probably have to block our daughter's ears for that one!

Free Fringe web page here: http://freefringeforum.org/event.php?event=3510&sid=33621907e50ee3aeb0711493ebc16d95

"A Pint of Poetry and a Dram of Drama is an open mic spoken word event from Peterborough. You know, near Cambridge. For 4 years it has hosted local poets, bards of the fens and MCs. In Edinburgh for the first time. We bring some of PTowns best wordy talent to you."

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Fantastic. Give her a break a leg snog from me.

Can anyone just turn up at the Fringe to perform by the way or do you need to be asked?

It's ok I have just looked at the website for more info!

Free Fringe is great. If I ever put on a fringe show, that's what I'll be doing. You're a lot less likely to leave in £5-£10k of debt !

Good luck to your missus.

Quote: Nat Wicks @ August 12 2010, 11:21 AM BST

Free Fringe is great. If I ever put on a fringe show, that's what I'll be doing. You're a lot less likely to leave in £5-£10k of debt !

Good luck to your missus.

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Ta Nat and Charley!

Will see if I can take some video and upload somewhere...

I went to the Ed Fringe for a few days this week, here's my pick of what I saw:

Jonny Sweet; just brilliant, won the best newcomer award last year, it's easy to see why.

Colin Hoult; a terrific, weird show in which Hoult flits between different characters with ease; possibly my favourite out of the shows I saw.

Kevin Eldon. 'Nuff said. Manic, mental, brilliant.

It was fun seeing tons of comics just wandering about, too; including Stewart Lee in an old man coat handing me a flyer for his own show. (Which I didn't get chance to see)

Aw, Stewart handing out his own flyers.

Did Kevin recognise you? Or did you not get to see him off stage.

Quote: zooo @ August 13 2010, 11:34 AM BST

Did Kevin recognise you? Or did you not get to see him off stage.

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I didn't go up to him afterwards, he was talking to someone and I had to skip off elsewhere.

My day at the Fringe yesterday was a highly enjoyable one. Daniel Kitson was brilliant as usual. I even managed to get my photograph taken with him. He seemed a nice, approachable man.

Interesting Just a Minute recordings. John Bishop was amongst the guests and he tried his best.

However, the main highlight of the Fringe personally was that I was finally able to meet someone who I've known for years but never met face-to-face - Mark.

Quote: Ian Wolf @ August 18 2010, 2:59 PM BST

However, the main highlight of the Fringe personally was that I was finally able to meet someone who I've known for years but never met face-to-face - Mark.

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Morrison? "Oh my God!"

Quote: Ian Wolf @ August 18 2010, 2:59 PM BST

However, the main highlight of the Fringe personally was that I was finally able to meet someone who I've known for years but never met face-to-face - Mark.

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Orange Mark?

Quote: Ian Wolf @ August 18 2010, 2:59 PM BST

However, the main highlight of the Fringe personally was that I was finally able to meet someone who I've known for years but never met face-to-face - Mark.

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But I thought that you, Aaron & Mark all lived together in BCG towers?

Quote: Steve Sunshine @ August 18 2010, 3:31 PM BST

But I thought that you, Aaron & Mark all lived together in BCG towers?

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Seeing as how I live in Teesside and Mark lives in Hampshire, it would have to be a very big tower.

Quote: Ian Wolf @ August 18 2010, 3:33 PM BST

Seeing as how I live in Teesside and Mark lives in Hampshire, it would have to be a very big tower.

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...or wide?

Quote: Nat Wicks @ August 12 2010, 11:21 AM BST

Free Fringe is great. If I ever put on a fringe show, that's what I'll be doing. You're a lot less likely to leave in £5-£10k of debt !

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Spot on Nat. I did the free festival in Brighton this year and it was brilliant for we grizzled old ex-punks - spirit of 77 all over again.

If any of you are up this weekend come and see 'My Life As A Footnote', my one-man stand-up poem about young love, great music (and Phil Collins) at 1pm, Fri - Sun 20-22 at the Counting House in Nicholson St. It is, of course, free.

I'm in Ed next week with the gfriend for 5 days, 'canny wait man'

seeing Daniel Kitson, Jim Jeffries, Sarah Millican, John Bishop and Jarred Christmas. Also going Late n Live!