“Festival”
I’ve recently returned from my second visit to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, with the Hull University Big Band. Great fun once again. I’ve been home about a week now. Tonight I noticed a film on channel 4 called “Festival”, made in 2005 and set during the Edinburgh Fringe.
I’ll not go into all the details of the story, but towards the end, there’s a comedy awards ceremony. Now, throughout the film I was noticing various Edinburgh locations and landmarks that I’ve seen whilst at the Fringe, such as the Royal Mile, Princes Street Parks, the Hilton Hotel, the meadows and so on. However, there was something quite familiar during the comedy award scenes.
It turns out, the location used for shooting the comedy awards part of the film was City, the nightclub we use as a venue for the big band show. I don’t really have any decent photos of the venue with the “lights on” to put up some comparisons, but the still images from the film below should be enough for anyone that was in or came to see the big band to recognise the surroundings. 
All the familiar fringe surroundings made me wish I was still there. Roll on next year I say! 
