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[tanbob]

ok so i'm a bit early, but i reeeeeally want to go to the edinburgh fringe festival this summer.
amanda mentioned she'd be there, but even if she isn't i still want to go.

only trouble is money. so does anyone here live in edinburgh/ have friends in edinburgh who may be willing to let me and my sister camp in their garden for a week or so? or a sofa would be even better.
we would pay you in art and love and home cooked food. and probably some money.

failing this can anyone recomend good cheap hostels?

any help/ advice would be greatly appreciated.

thanks so much.
Jo.x

[Jo Just Go Nameless]

Trouble with the hostels is, that until you know when the acts you want to see will be playing (I don't think the official programme is out for a while yet) that you won't know when you are going, and everywhere is pretty fully booked for the entire duration of the festival

At the moment I am seriously considering staying with my friends in Glasgow and travelling if its viable...

Hope someone can help you out though.

[slyvia k]

yeah, the fringe would be so cool. but it must be sooo crowded. i'll wait to hear others european concerts or festivals before deciding where to stalk amanda and sexy shadowboxers.

[Mark!]

Oh oh oh oh. i might be going to the fringe. we could all arrange to meet up or something?
if im going with my friend she has friends in Edinburgh i think...
i thinks things will become more clearer when the fringe is near.

[The Angel Raliel]

I am hoping to attend this year... all i can suggest is look for hostels as soon as possible..... st christophers is cheap and ok

[contradictionary]

Yep, I think waiting 'til nearer the time might be better. I moved to Edinburgh around fesitval time last year but didn't see much of it being wrapped up in the whirl wind that is uni fresher's week. Wish I could remember if it was particularly busy or not, but having just moved here, I was a tad flustered! But I think as long as you keep on checking websites and whatnot, there shouldn't be too much problem. If Amanda's anywhere near Edinburgh during festival time, I'm definitely there.

(Hello btw, first time poster, long time lurker, you know how it goes!)

[Emmy]

We will hire a big shadowbox house, that we can all use to come and go throughout the duration of the fringe.


although i'm only getting back to the UK on the 26th, so will only make the last weekend

[Haushinka]

I live in Edinburgh. I'm from Edinburgh. Plan on spending FUCKING TONS no matter how much you budget.

[Ronan]

True. Rent in Edinburgh is as expensive as Dublin, and frequently worse during the festival [I was very seriously planning to live in Edinburgh last summer].

[Haushinka]

The festival is for me a love/hate thing. I love it as a concept, but I hate having to spend more and work harder (or not work at all because all the foreign visitors have taken all the jobs). I hate being woken every morning by the sound of crowds. I hate how alien it makes my city feel yet at the same time I love the life it injects.


The thing I hated the most last year was the Fringe box office. WHY oh WHY did they put it in MY RESIDENTIAL ALLEYWAY!? I couldn't open the stair door without F&(£6*CKING Tourists trying to get in and "see a real scottish stairwell! OH MY GOD! PHOTOS!"

[Ronan]

The thing I hated the most last year was the Fringe box office. WHY oh WHY did they put it in MY RESIDENTIAL ALLEYWAY!? I couldn't open the stair door without F&(£6*CKING Tourists trying to get in and "see a real scottish stairwell! OH MY GOD! PHOTOS!"

Whoah. You live in a pretty nice location! I remember the street but forget the name.

[Haushinka]

The thing I hated the most last year was the Fringe box office. WHY oh WHY did they put it in MY RESIDENTIAL ALLEYWAY!? I couldn't open the stair door without F&(£6*CKING Tourists trying to get in and "see a real scottish stairwell! OH MY GOD! PHOTOS!"

Whoah. You live in a pretty nice location! I remember the street but forget the name.

I was living there with my ex. TOTALLY a new town type now. Screw the Royal Mile in the ass with 5 sets of bagpipes.

[imaginary friend]

The thing I hated the most last year was the Fringe box office. WHY oh WHY did they put it in MY RESIDENTIAL ALLEYWAY!? I couldn't open the stair door without F&(£6*CKING Tourists trying to get in and "see a real scottish stairwell! OH MY GOD! PHOTOS!"

It flat-out fucking RULES to be able to piss standing up.

#@!

[tanbob]

The festival is for me a love/hate thing. I love it as a concept, but I hate having to spend more and work harder (or not work at all because all the foreign visitors have taken all the jobs). I hate being woken every morning by the sound of crowds. I hate how alien it makes my city feel yet at the same time I love the life it injects.


The thing I hated the most last year was the Fringe box office. WHY oh WHY did they put it in MY RESIDENTIAL ALLEYWAY!? I couldn't open the stair door without F&(£6*CKING Tourists trying to get in and "see a real scottish stairwell! OH MY GOD! PHOTOS!"

yeah i can understand that. lving in london i often get annoyed at all the tourists. they can't walk in crowds properly. they stop in front of you. they're always taking photos. but then i suppose that is life.
edinburgh is a lovely city, i can imagine feeling a bit horrified if you actually live there seeing it taken over every summer.

from the tone of your posts i'm guessing you're not able/ willing to open up your home/ garden to a heap of touristy shadowboxers.
i don't suppose i would either, but then again it would be quite cool. you could feel like one of those people who opens up their homes to stray cats/ homeless youth. except you'd probably not have quite so much trouble with mess and smell.... i'd like to hope.


anyway thanks everyone for all the advice. 

[Haushinka]

I have been as accomodating as possible to Shadowboxers in Edinburgh! But I'm about to embark on a Round the World trip, and don't know if I'll even BE in Edinburgh this August. If I am, I will be arriving at the very start of the tourist boom and it'll be very unlikely I'll be able to find a decent job or even a BOX ROOM to sleep in. So I'll probably have to stay at my mums for August. She lives pretty centrally but I am only willing to invite personal friends to stay there- Sorry! I'll see what rooms I can find in YH and other cheap accomodation though. Be prepared to look at uni halls as well, though these may be full of (ahem) "up and coming" comedians.

I know I'm only being negative about the festival. But what I've posted up there about HOUSING (I refuse to call it accomodation in my own city) and Jobs and income etc is the very ugly truth of the festival for many Edinburgers. Upper middle class English and Americans with funding behind them take all the central flats available, Australians and Irish (Sorry, Ronan, for that very general grouping) take the Kitchen Porter, Waiting and even Chef jobs, often at wages that someone who lives here wouldn't accept for their dog (and then take all the decent central rooms in large flats). So I personally get left either taking a SHIT job and renting a room in Wester Hailes or some other Trainspotting style suburb. That or I'm unemployed until the 1st of September and only then can look for a job and a flat.