#21

last time i was over it was proper last minute but i managed to get a pretty reasonably priced room in the Travelodge on Queen Street. i might have just got lucky with a cancellation or something though and wouldn’t be ideal for a long stay.

previous time i looked for spare rooms on Gumtree (pre-air bnb days) and found closer to the city centre was pretty expensive but you could get some cheaper rooms further out if you didn’t mind travelling (managed to strike gold and find a decent priced room on Leith Walk though)

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#23

And that’s when good posters become good friends.

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#24

Anyone know any bookers / room runners?

Going to be in Edinburgh from Aug 19th - Aug 26th, would be good to do some stand up / improv while I’m there.

#25

Any recommendations on particularly good shows as an audience member?

Ones I will be going to:
Tim Key
Simon Munnery
Tony Law

Ones the people I’m going with have recommended, but I either am ambivalent of or haven’t had a chance to check out yet:
Dylan Moran
Janeane Garofalo
Ari Shaffir

#26

Is it doable from Glasgow? Have a friend who lives there, was thinking could kill two birds with one stone while visiting her

#27

David O’Doherty is always great

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#28

yeah absolutely. there are trains every 15-30 mins up until 11:30pm, then there are buses every hour throughout the night

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#29

Not confirmed yet but I’d imagine Scotrail will do a couple of late trains again (12 and 12:30 last year). Can’t imagine their the most pleasant of journeys though. :neutral_face:

#30

I’m going to see Tim Key and Kieran Hodgson (I can see this chap being as big as Steve Coogan one day) and I usually end up going along to Ben Target too. Otherwise I usually just take a total chance on random free events.

Managed to get a half-decent rate on AirBnB for a nice room in Leith too.

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#31

Planning on going 3rd weekend but not had a proper look at the guide, yet. Are the crowds really mental? My tolerance for such things aren’t what they used to be.

#32

Come to the meat if the dates suit too!

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#33

We’re going from Sunday 19th til Wednesday 22nd. Weekends can be good for random late night shows in places, but it’s very, very busy as actual Edinburghers go out there so I try to leave them to it.

Crowdwise otherwise, keep away from the pedestrianised part of the Royal Mile and the bit that joins it to the art galleries on Princes Street.

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#34

Let me know where and when and might very well turn up :slight_smile:

#35

Got three spots booked so far.

Also got tickets booked for Tim Key (20/08 23:15) & Dylan Moran (22/08 19:30) so far.

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Friday Evening Thread
#36

Did anyone manage to get Daniel Kitson tickets?

#37

Yeah, for the final Thursday show. The Ed Fringe site crapped out on me but the Stand’s ticket site, after refusing to load for ages, just suddenly sprung into life and worked without an issue.

#38

Saw him doing a work in progress last night. Was great, as always.

#39

Had he actually written the show he was WIPising?

I went to one in battersea last autumn, one of his theatre pieces, and he’d written about five pages of the script. Took him about ten minutes to go through them, the other eighty minutes was just chat :grinning:

#40

Totally - about an hour on the train/ bus and the last ones are about midnight.