I love the Festival, I love the ArtFestival (as it styles itself), really REALLY love the Jazz Festival (who'd have guessed?), and feel a bit of antipathy - well, love/hate towards the Fringe.
I don't really engage with the Book Festival.
My antipathy with the Fringe stems from the hordes of Fringe-goers getting in my way, stopping me getting to the bar, booking out the places I want to eat. And the blanket coverage that the BBC gives the Fringe.
This annoys me because it is as if the rest of the year Edinburgh doesn't exist. (Apart from Holyrood.)
I think the Fringe exemplifies what is wrong with London, really. It is full of people from London performing to people from London seeing lots of people from London they can see any time. But probably don't. It just seems so self-congratulatory.
On the other hand, I completely agree that Edinburgh, particularly the pubs and restaurants I like, do very well out of the Fringe, and I am pleased for them. And I do enjoy the vibrancy
I am rather looking forward to the Fringe finishing so that I can enjoy the last week of the Festival in relative peace.
And lamenting the barren cultural landscape that envelops Edinburgh in September and October.
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Date: 2013-08-21 12:09 pm (UTC)I don't really engage with the Book Festival.
My antipathy with the Fringe stems from the hordes of Fringe-goers getting in my way, stopping me getting to the bar, booking out the places I want to eat. And the blanket coverage that the BBC gives the Fringe.
This annoys me because it is as if the rest of the year Edinburgh doesn't exist. (Apart from Holyrood.)
I think the Fringe exemplifies what is wrong with London, really. It is full of people from London performing to people from London seeing lots of people from London they can see any time. But probably don't. It just seems so self-congratulatory.
On the other hand, I completely agree that Edinburgh, particularly the pubs and restaurants I like, do very well out of the Fringe, and I am pleased for them. And I do enjoy the vibrancy
I am rather looking forward to the Fringe finishing so that I can enjoy the last week of the Festival in relative peace.
And lamenting the barren cultural landscape that envelops Edinburgh in September and October.