We don't do merchandise in a big way on the Fringe. However this year's t-shirt is proving to be very popular and a snip at £5. I find the extra large stylish and roomy - my partner's comments were less than flattering. You can get them from the Fringe desk (at the entrance to the conservatory by the Opera House) or in Nice Venues (akaThe Old Clubhouse). Free - if you can find them - are tastly little boiled sweets with Fringe all the way through them. They should be at major Fringe venues. I've hear that Alice at Nice Venues has her own mountain of them. If on 27th July you find a toothless young thing smiling at you, that will be Alice.
Anyway the first weekend of the Festival and the Fringe is just about upon us. The Carnival we've talked about already. On Sunday (13th) we have a major Fringe promotion - cunningly called Fringe Sunday. Be at the bandstand in the Pavilion Gardens from 2.00-4.30. Bring a picnic for FREE entertainment - choirs, orchestras, comedians, belly dancers, balloons. You'd be mad to miss it.
The weekend is crammed with performances and events - nearly 30 on each day. Sam Dunkley is in the Barrel Room from 7-8pm. That will be a full-house I should think. Christopher Ellis' piano concert at St John's starts at 7.30. Earlier in the day the intriguing Jim MacCool is at the Old Hall -he finishes just in time to catch the Carnival. Nice Venues will be setting all sorts of personal bests setting up for a stream of performances - the Young REC continue with their trilogy; Fringe Benefits is playing in the evening. In the smaller nice venue - Nice and Bijou - there is the Pub Lecture on Courtship and Project Adorno.
Sunday is just as busy. Lunchtime and poetry looks good (two separate performance - Philip Holland and The Poetry Trio - but you can get from one to the other and still be there for Fringe Sunday!) Your blogger is off to New Mills for Aitone in the evening. If the A6 at night scares you there is plenty at Nice Venues or Underground Venues. Scarier than the A6 could well be Tam Hinton. Let me know.
by Keith Savage - Published 11/07/2008
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