So the plan for Sunday was to go up Arthur's Seat, however we all slept in. The average time I've been getting up everyday is about 8:30 and the average time of going to sleep is about 2 in the morning, so a week of this had caught up with me. I got up and had a fairly leisurely morning have some food round the house, do a bit of house work. Oonagh and I set off to see Simon Munnery. Simon Munnery is one of my favourite comedians the man is quite simply a comic genius, however I'd been hearing mix reports from his latest show Simon Munnery sings Soren Kierkegaard. Luckily I wasn't disappoint it wasn't his best work, but it was a solid and interesting show which delved into the world of a barely known philosopher. The show starts with a ten minute routine where Putin is referred to as Poo Tin, it's this wonderful mix of the absurd, the profound and the silly that makes Munnery such a joy to watch.
After that I met up with Karl Barnsley the director of Removed and Destroyed, he's up here working on a few shows at C-Venue. It was good to catch up with him and find out what's going on with The Lion Tamers. Coincidentally you can buy tickets for Removed and Destroyed when it goes to Oswaldtwistle's Civic Art Centre on the 19th -20th September by following this link http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/civicartscentre
I then headed over to The Street bar to met up with Gary and catch some stand up. The Dutch-Esses was a hour stand up show from two girls who had moved from Holland to London in search of happiness, they had some strong material but about half room weren't interested with one person pulling out their phone half way through, and a language barrier for others. Audience can be such dicks.
After that we moved from one side of the city to the other to catch Red Redmond. I've never seen Red Redmond but Gary and Joe have both gigged with him, it was a great show with some solid stand up. After that we grab some food at Mosque Kitchen, that place is amazing this time I hate too much but when it's that price how can you not. Well with self control if you're going to be like that.
After tea we headed up to The Conan Doyle pub and had a quick drink before heading over to the Voodoo Rooms for The Legion of Dooms late night cabinet. We first met the LOD at a scratch night at the Unity in Liverpool they were pretty fantastic, sadly we clash with their main show but we'd been meaning to try and catch their late night show for a while. It was daft, silly and in places very very dark.
So that was my last day off, I've got another week now left in Edinburgh, on the way home me and Gary discussed plans to come back next year and what shows we want to bring, ideally I think we'd want to bring a sketch show and a stand up show. There have been times when I've worried that going to fringe was a bad idea, would it make me hate the festival, would it make me hate performance and writing, thankfully it hasn't. I'm more encouraged than ever, I also had a few ideas for things I want to write when I get back to the real world.
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