2004 Edinburgh Festival | August 9, 2004

Just back from a weekend in Edinburgh and had a really nice time. If you’re planning to go up for the festival I can definitely recommend

  • Chris Addison - I’ve seen him 3 times at Edinburgh and he never fails to amuse. His shows are polished, intelligent and very funny. In my opinion, Chris is one of the most consistent comedians on the block today.
  • Marcus Brigstock - Despite being only a third full on Friday night, Marcus was cooking on gas. Very smart, very funny and very much worth seeing. I guarantee that next year his shows will sell out!
  • The Royal Mile - Wall to wall performers, buskers and all kinds of craziness. Bring your telephoto lens and plan to spend a good few hours soaking up the atmosphere on a Sunday afternoon.

If you want to save yourself some money I would suggest avoiding

  • Adam Bloom - A stalwart of the comedy circuit, I was expecting good things from Adam. Unfortunately his show was mediocre at best. I hope it’s just a blip and he’ll be back on form next year.
  • Brendon Burns - The first half of Brendon’s show was funny in an offensive way that only an Aussie could pull off. The second half was dire, self absorbed nonsense. Do your self a favour and see Adam Hills instead.
Posted at August 9, 2004 9:09 AM

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“The first half of Brendon’s show was funny in an offensive way that only an Aussie could pull off. The second half was dire, self absorbed nonsense.”

I’m glad that we Australians are extended the right to offensive humor. I’m not sure what we’d do without it. :)

Posted by: Chris Clark at August 9, 2004 10:20 AM

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What about Edinburgh pubs? Don’t tell us you didn’t sample any of the locally brewed hops & malt products :-)

Posted by: Michael at August 11, 2004 12:43 AM

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That’ss so weird. Originally this post was titled ‘Edinburgh Festival 2004’ and was the index of a folder called edinburgh festival_2004. Clicking on a link directly to the index page was fine, but clicking on the above link to the directory, bounced you to the archives index. I’ve had a look around my .htaccess files but can’t see any redirects that would be doing this. Changing the title and directory of the post works, but I’m at a loss as to why the links were redirecting. Very odd.

Posted by: Andy Budd at August 11, 2004 8:38 AM