Well, after sampling everything from choc veggie chilli to 5 kinds of bloody steak to rabbit to partridge to veal to Boddington's beer ice cream at the extremely entertaining and informative chef demos tent in St Ann's Square at Europe's biggest and best food and drink festival, the literature and comedy festivals have now started.
No free comedy last night, tonight or tomorrow, but Sunday at Fab Cafe on Portland St (scroll down) makes up for that. There are no less than FIVE free comedy gigs, from 5-11PM. All look fantastic, some have great Edinburgh Fringe reviews and I feel they will have that same amazing laid back vibe due to being in a quirky venue.
However I find myself once again feeling FreeManC STRESS as In The City, billed as "the world's premier new music event", runs from Sunday(/Saturday)-Tuesday with literally HUNDREDS of gigs in dozens of venues, many of which are free! In fact, there is also an event at the Green Room on Saturday. I have attended this festival the past two years and it is excellent, I love the fact you can just hop around from venue to venue whenever band fatigue strikes. I basically went to about ten venues a night last year and saw some great and some dreadful acts, but that's all part of the fun! I did not know anything about most of them, but I did see Little Boots before she was famous! A quick scan of the listings is quite overwhelming, the sheer scale of the event means really you just have to pick a random act/venue and go with it. Take a risk!
More random Greenroom goodness tonight and tomorrow - Locked-In with Stacy Makishi tonight at 8:00PM and 80s Cultural Walking Tour tomorrow at 12 noon.
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