The Edge Festival

I only found out about this festival through my work with Fest Mag. Which makes sense since I’ve only spent two festivals here and wasn’t here at all last year. The year before that I was working too much outside the festival to keep track of everything that was going on, but this year I plan to attend it as much as I can.
The Edge Festival has a combination of big bands such as the Phantom Band, Phoenix and Eels playing this year, as well as many bands I’ve never heard of, but am looking forward to seeing live. Their gigs will also be held at a variety of venues, from the Wee Red Bar, to Cabaret Voltaire, and the HMV Picturehouse. Prices range all the way to 20 pounds, which considering the Edinburgh International Festival is not too bad.

The Edge Festival has, since 2008, taken over from T on the Fringe and has cemented itself as Edinburgh’s number one music festival! I loved T on the Fringe where I saw one of the best gigs I have ever seen in my life — The Raconteurs at the Corn Exchange!
Across August, bands and solo artists play at a number of small and larger venues in Edinburgh. Normally gigs are played at the Corn Exchange, the HMV Picturehouse, the Liquid Room, Cabaret Voltaire and the Queens Hall, but there are other much more intimate venues.
Edinburgh is absolutely buzzing in August with the festival season, and the Edge Festival manages to add to the already brilliant festival scene. The festival manages to fill the line up with major chart topping acts, with indie bands and new upcoming bands.
A brilliant music festival, however it is sadly probably overlooked currently due to the fact that it does not have the same name recognition as T on the Fringe. But who cares about the name!
Good gigs, good venues… good experience! Give it a shot!

Awesome atmosphere, came here with some girlfriends and we had a wonderful time. Edinburgh is a beautiful gothic city full of culture and wonderful nightlife. This is our first time at the fringe and we had a brilliant time watching free comedy during the day and bigger attractions in the evening that weren’t expensive to book either, Steven Amos and Rhod Gilbert were fantastic, very funny and great entertainers. If you come across Erics tales of the Sea i’d give it a miss, felt like we were sat in a health and safety brief. The whole festival is very well organised its just a shame that in Scotland even August is pants for weather, so bring waterproof jackets and a brolly, don’t be a twat and wear one of those plastic bag coats that make you look even more like tourists. All in all well worth the flight to Scotland.

The biggest atraction of the summer season, which brings millions of poeple every year to the Scotland capital. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is arts festival, with huge choice of performances, starting from comedy, music, poetry, theathre and many many more. Everyone will find something interesting to see. It takes place during most of August, so the weather is good in the Edinburgh.

The Festival fringe brings so much people into the city and there is so much going on. On the royal mile there are various performances going on through out the day for you to watch and in the evenings there are lots of comadys, shows ect which are worth going to see. I think this is the best time to come to the city however it can get very busy which is a downside.

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the world’s largest arts festival, presenting 31,320 performances of 2,088 shows in 247 venues last August. It gets bigger and better every year and on offer yearly are theatre, comedy, music, dance and children’s entertainment. The city itself is the perfect stage for the month of mayhem. The venues are to be found in every nook and cranny of the city and you will spend the month wondering if you have stumbled upon random performances as the city streets are literally taken over by performers. You can spend all day watching theatre and all night watching comedy — it is a bit like heaven but trust me when it is bad it is worse than hell but that is part of the beauty — witnessing the real howlers! You also get a badge, or at least you should, at every show you view so you should have a lovely badge collection on your bag/​tie/​bra strap by the end of August.
This is surely the highlight of the summer for all theatre lovers, or at least it is for me. If I could I would spend every August in Edinburgh but the truth is it takes me longer and longer to recover the older I get.
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Writing this review has just helped me make my own mind up actually and I now cannot wait till 2009 because I shall most definitely be there! The Edinburgh Book Festival is also on around the same time — it is enough to make a girl combust with happiness.