Edinburgh Fringe - 06-28 Aug - 185 FREE shows

mclaren_2

Here’s the list of all 185 free shows on the Fringe.

COMEDY
About as Funny as it Gets Free at Lunchtime
Hurren & Rice's Free Lunchbox
Aggie Elsdon for Free in 'Crone Alone'
Amos Phineas Klein: The Growing Pains of Amos Phineas Klein Age 33 1/3 - Free
Amused Moose Comedy's Hot Starlets 2006
Andrew J. Lederer's 'Anthology' (Free!)
Backtracking: The Free Backpacker's Comedy Show
BBC Radio 4's Stars of the Future
Best Laid Plans - Free
Bullett and Gunn's Massive Pop Explosion
Causing a scene
Comedy Bucket
Comprehensive - Steve Day
Confessions of a Logical Mind
Cos I'm Free
Dara O Briain At The Fringe
Deathmatch! Free!
Devlin's Daily
Dogs in the Sink (FREE!)
Donald Mack - Cynical Optimist - Live and Free
Everyone's a Comedian
A Failure On Two Continents - PBH Free Fringe
Fear of Ironing - Free
Finnished Business: Tomi Walamies - Free
For Ryan Out Loud, Wha'choo Talkin Bout Willis?
The Free Comic Internment Introduce - Love Is Richard Curtis Actually
Free Entry into Richard Coughlan - He Won't Mind
Funny Money - Free
Ginge on the Fringe - FREE!
Free - Lunchtime Life Lessons
The Good, the Bad and the Cuddly - FREE!
The Great Big Comedy Picnic (Free)
Hearing Voices - Free Show
Heresy
The Hollow Men
How Much Longer Can He Get Away With This?
Ian Fox - The Butterfly Effect (Free)
I'm a Celebrity - please leave me here!
Jess and Kate - Live, Uncut and Free!
Juliet Meyers: A Life: A Fantasy
Just a Minute
Kevin Shepherd: Comics Die in Hot Cars - Free!
Kieran Butler in Che Guevara on the Fringe 2
Kill the Monster!
The King and I - FREE
Kockov's Free Mind Show
Krypton 2 Clapham - Free
Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection
Laughing Horse Free Late Night Comedy
Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe
Liane Ross Presents Something Vague - Free Fringe
Loose Ends
MacAulay and Co.
Mark Allen's Quite Good Britain - FREE
Martec Engineering Presents Patrick Roink
Men With Bananas Bigger Than Jesus - Free
Mike Belgrave - Out To Lunch - Free
My Family and Other Alcoholics - Free
The Nimble Mammoth
The Now Show
Nuclear War! Followed by the Total extermination of Every Living Organism on the Planet
Pappy's Fun Club - FREE!
Peter Buckley Hill and Some Comedians - Free
Radio Pear with Madge and Monty - Free
Return to Sender - Free
Sex Kitten/Corpse
Spiders, Man - Free
Straitjacket unLIVE
3AM Delusions
Tony Littler - Stubble Trouble
The Toothpaste Expedition Presents... Fanorama! (Free)
The Truth The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth
28 Edinburgh Acts in 28 Minutes
We Are The Champions! - Free Show
Yianni's Head

EXHIBITION
Adventures, Tracey Moffatt
And We Too Want to Change the World
Architectural Designs of Alexander 'Greek' Thomson
artgraduates
Art in the Mall
Athens of the North
Best of Scottish Contemporary Art
Birds of a Feather: Audubon's Adventures in Edinburgh
The Carpet People
The Chip Shop Awards Exhibition
Clay 2006
Contemporary Tapestries and Rugs
Convivio Summer School
David Shrigley - Recent Prints
Dazzle - 50 Contemporary Jewellers
Discover Islam Exhibition
Excellence at Angkor: the Story of Khmer Sculpture
Festival Art at the BMA
Gordonstoun OGs Art Works
Handknit Cashmere - Design Studio Exhibition & Sale
Historic Musical Instruments
Human Rights Denied and Jesus Laughing and Loving
Global Village
The Fringe: 60 Years, 60 Photos
Illusions
Jewellery of the World
Laura Ford - Armour Boys
Leith Rules Golf
Lime Blue 5th Birthday Collection
Made in Scotland
Magazine
More...
My Favourite Place
Orient
Phoebe Anna Traquair Murals at the Mansfield Traquair Centre
Phoebe Anna Traquair Song School Murals
Post-Impressionism
Pots in the Woods
Robert Ryman at Inverleith House
The Scottish Sale
Sex Machines: Duchamp, Picabia & the Large Glass
Some Paintings of Life
Soqotra - Land of the Dragon's Blood Tree
Stenton Gallery's 'Scottish Art Today'
Take the Chair 3
Treasure Chests
Treasures from Lennoxlove
Violin Making in Scotland 1750-1950
West End Craft & Design Fair
Zimbabwe Sculpture

EVENTS
Bank of Scotland Fringe Sunday
Bible Babel Live!
Courtyard Readings
Cultural Integrity Vs. Political Interference: What future for Festivals?
Edinburgh Farmers' Market
The Forth One Festival Show
The Forth Two Lunchtime Show
Free Daily Walks Down the Royal Mile
Free Events at the Museum of Scotland
Free Lunchtime?
The Glorious Recital
How To Sell Your Show At The Fringe
Interfaith Prayers and Meditation for Peace
A Minute of Silence for Peace at the Fringe
Not Another Firkin Festival
The Radio Cafe
Royal Bank on the Royal Mile
Sacred Space @ St Johns
Shakespeare Schools Festival
So You Want To Do A Show On The Fringe?
The Spiritual Injury Tour - Free
Thirsty Lunch
Your Show Beyond the Fringe

MUSIC
Caledonian Folk & Blues at the Guildford
Cathedral Festival Organ Promenades
Cathedral Lunchtime Concerts
Cathedral Reger and Friends
Cathedral Sunday Services
Cathedral Weekday Services
Club Gayola
Club Spiegel
Eighty Queen Street - Jazz Festival
Epic Arts Edinburgh 2006
Establishment Jazz
Festival Masses
Music at Palmerston Place
Music at St Cuthbert's
Old Saint Paul's Festival Evensongs
Old Saint Paul's Festival Masses
Orkney Jazz at the Guildford
Out of the Bedroom - Out of Bounds!
Songs of Spain & France

THEATRE
Crossed Wires
Cymbeline
The Elephant Tree
Kiss-in-burgh
Mardling the Bard: A Norfolk Midsummer Night's Dream
Romeo and Juliet
Table For Two
Teen Goggles
Withnail & I

CHILDRENS
Abracadabra
All the Milkman's Children
Catch Me if you Can!
Celts and Kilts: the Forgotten History of Scotland
Five go to Edinburgh Again!
Free & Easy

DANCE & PHYSICAL THEATRE
The Full Moon Show

MUSICALS AND OPERA
A Rocky Horror Night

mclaren_2

thougth i would add this in to this thread

http://www.visitscotland.com - on here, several hotels and B&Bs still availible from £45 pppn - outside city can be as low as £22 pppn - tattoo tickets have all been sold but there is loads more to do.

http://www.edfringe.com - all about the Edinburgh fringe

http://www.edfringe.com/maps/html/venuelist.html - this is the venue list for the fringe shows

http://www.thetrainline.com - cheapest way to book train tickets for travel up or down to Edinburgh

if you do come here for the festiful, then you have a choice of travel and cheap aswell.

http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk - all the buses in the city centre are £1 each way or £2.30 per day for a day ticket. Now, a day ticket means you can jump on as many buses, no matter for how long, for that one price - so if you are getting 3 buses, that would cost £3 but you pay £2.30 so you save 70p.... even more if you get more than 3 buses.... but you pay on board the 1st bus you jump on and you have to show the ticket to each driver that you board their bus - NB this ticket will only work on LRT buses and will not work on first buses.

http://www.firstedinburgh.co.uk - secondry bus service in Edinburgh - they run from Edinburgh to Livingston and the outskirts of the city.

You can also drive, cycle but by far, the easiest way to get around the city, is to walk. the entire city centre is only approx 2 square miles - but this is Princess Street (main street), High Street (fringe ativity on here - road is closed becasue of all this) Castle Terrace - leading up to the castle and also the frindge

Take note, that there are also Firework dysplays on Saturday 5th, 12th and 19th 26th August (all 10:30PM).

http://www.edinburgh-tattoo.co.uk/tickets/performance_dates_times.html

If you are going to the fringe / tattoo, festiful, i am 100% possitive you will enjoy it here - the atmosphere is amazing! and i LIVE here!

Would also like to thank martin for adding this to the newsletter

sra

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Edinburghlass_2

Edinburgh International Festival

Edinburgh Festivals 2006

Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert

The grand finale to the Edinburgh International Festival is the Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert, performed by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra on Sunday 3rd September at 9pm. This spectacular firework display can be seen from many vantage points about the city

r2mahara

Can I ask how you came up with this list? Was it a search on the fringe site?

I'm asking because it would be useful to have the same list, but linked to show descriptions.

parkside_stroller

There are a number of shows (most of them according to the Fringe website) on the 6th and 7th of August which are 2 for the price of 1.

See here for details

http://www.edfringe.com/story.html?id=1496&area_id=26

parkside_stroller

Just to expand on McLarens excellent links to getting about in Edinburgh.

The primary bus service LOTHIAN Bus is normally coloured Red, Maroon or White with some red or maroon flashing on the bus. You will also find most buses go across the city centre.

If you are not staying in Edinburgh but in one of the towns nearby, you will find that Lothian Bus will take you to towns such as Penicuik, Dalkeith, Prestonpans, Musselburgh, Port Seton (Seton Sands Holiday Park) - in general most places in East or Midlothian which are near to Edinburgh.
These places can also be reached on the £2.30 day ticket.
If you are staying for a few weeks its worth considering getting a monthly pass (Ridacard) if you would be travelling a lot by bus.

Car Park and Ride at Ingliston on A8 near the Airport
Car Park and Ride at Hermiston on A71

Use First Bus if you want late evening travel to these towns or to West Lothian (eg Livingston) or Fife (Burntisland, Kirkaldy, Dunfermline etc).
I think they also do a day ticket as well as multi trip tickets but as I don't use them often someone might want to pick me up on that if wrong.

Night Bus is also available across Edinburgh and to many of the places nearby - it isn't covered by the Lothian Bus day ticket but is still good value (£2 or £1 with a Ridacard) and fairly frequent considering that it is an overnight service.
http://www.nightbuses.com/

Or train is a good bet, particularly from West Lothian, Fife or East Lothian or to a lesser extent within Edinburgh (handy enough if close to a station otherwise bus would be better). If you are not travelling to Midlothian there are no train services.

You can travel by train within Edinburgh on the west side from the following -

Edinburgh Park
Gyle
Wester Hailes
Kingsknowe
Slateford

Just out of West Edinburgh (within 20 miles or so) are -

Curriehill (park and ride)
Kirknewton
Livingston South

Livingston North

Linlithgow

Fife Stations eg Aberdour, Inverkeithing and more

On the East side of Edinburgh -

Newcraighall (park and ride just off the A1)
Brunstane

Those are around 10 mins from Edinburgh Waverly (city centre)

Also on East side is the line running to North Berwick (East Lothian) which goes through Musselburgh, Wallyford, Prestonpans, Longniddry.

Taxis are expensive and you will probably pay more for using an Edinburgh taxi if going to an area outside city limits than you would in making the journey into Edinburgh using a Mid or East Lothian taxi for example.

There are a number of private hire cars too in Edinburgh so you can always try calling these if you need picked up somewhere and can't get a Hackney type cab. Used to be possible to go into one of these private hire's office too in the Grassmarket part of the city to get a car (just sit and wait in the office), but I haven't been out in that part of town for ages so not sure if its still there).

City centre is fairly walkable if hilly in places and if you have a bike with you, it has a combination of cycle lanes, areas of the road shared with buses and cycle lanes that are part of footpaths or shared with pedestrians (don't cycle on the pavement if it isn't marked as ok to cycle on).
Some nice areas where you can cycle away from cars in and around Edinburgh - you can use a combination of these and cycle lanes on the road to commute around.
I wouldn't advocate cycling on the road with children though as its just too busy anywhere near the city centre or on main routes into the city.

competitionscafe

There are also lots of previews for £5 on 2nd, 3rd, 4th (and 5th?) of August.

Apparently if you hang around the Royla Mile or Pleasance Courtyard in the first few days you might be offered free tickets.

Also sign up to the mailing lists of the venues - got 4 free tickets for Tim Minchin last night via the Gilded Balloon mailing list which would have cost £50 during the main fringe run (£12.50 each) and the show was excellent!

jenny_f

how do u sign up for the venues mailing lists?

competitionscafe

jenny_f wrote:

how do u sign up for the venues mailing lists?

Via their web sites, eg:

http://www.gildedballoon.co.uk/

http://www.pleasance.co.uk/

http://www.assemblyrooms.com/home/

http://www.underbelly.co.uk/

http://www.auroranova.org/

(full list of venues on edfringe.com)

competitionscafe

Free tickets in today's (and yesterdays) Scotsman newspaper for many of the shows at the Assembly Rooms - by phoning Assembly Rooms box office (mention free Scotsman tickets) and by coupon (in the paper) to take to the box office.