Richard Melvin talks Edinburgh festival.

During this years Edinburgh Fringe I was lucky enough to be present at the Live at the Gilded Balloon podcast recordings almost every day.  The Podcasts featured a range of Hollywood A Listers and Fringe newcomers and were hosted by Edinburgh’s own, Richard Melvin. The show took 45 minutes to record and featured segments of acts from the [...]

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Edinburgh Fringe – We thank you!

It’s the end of another Edinburgh Fringe festival.  The tourists have caught their trains and planes back home, the fringe show posters are steadily coming down and, in Bristo Square, the Udderbelly is deflating.   For Edinburgh residents the month of August conjures up a conflict of opinions; there are those who deplore the ‘taking [...]

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8 Comedy Legends Discovered In Edinburgh

With the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2009 set to kick off in just under 2 weeks (7th August) we pay homage to just some of the comedy legends who got their big breaks at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe over the years. We have found clips of each of these comedy superstars to highlight just how funny [...]

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Embrace the Crowds at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Every year, the city of Edinburgh doubles in size as tourists pour in from around the globe for the world’s largest arts festival, the Edinburgh Fringe. Figures can hardly describe the scale of this event, which lasts nearly the entire month of August. For example, last year there were: 31,320 performances 2,088 different shows 247 [...]

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