2012: Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Finally got over to visit Kelly, five years after we left Canada. At least I couldn't have picked a better weekend to visit. The weather was amazing and Kelly had recently moved into a lovely flat, a 15 min walk from Edinburgh town centre.

We were there for two jam packed nights of comedy and dancing. We got in early on Fri and Kelly brought us around town for a look at all the craziness. We wandered down the Royal Mile where all the madness is. That night we went to a sketch comedy outfit, Late Night Gimp Fight. The sketches were fairly hit and miss but the were so short that and poor ones were quickly forgotten. Overall they put on a good show.

Cricket in the sun

After that we went to Late and Live which ran from about midnight to 5am. Jarred Christmas was the host and he was brilliant.Most of the acts were good except for an asian dude who thought he was too good for the audience. I especially liked an Irish keyboardist and rapper called Abandoman. The rapper improvised his whole set and was amazingly quick at rapping about things that were going on around him in the audience and on stage. The also had a classic wrestler on stage, Mick Foley, which was all a bit surreal. After the comedy ended an Irish band, Dead Cat Bounce, played classic party tunes for a few hours as we danced the night away. We left that place at 5am to bright sunshine outside.

Dead Cat Bounce

Next day we were feeling a bit rough to start with but got back into shape after a giant fry up. Soaked in some more of the atmosphere around the city and went back to Kelly's to prepare for a party in hers. About 12 of us drank in hers until 11 and then went to a club night called Hot Dub Time Machine. Genius idea for a dance night. The dj played a classic song from every year from 1954 to 2012 with the help of a video assistant that taught us some of the dance routines. We all danced for 3 hours straight. I have never sweat so much in my life.