Blog: Two Weeks Today

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It's that exciting/terrifying time of the year again where, all over the country, People Of A Certain Hobby are thinking "Ooh! Two weeks today I'll be seeing a show/doing my show/packing up my show/getting out of bed/getting in to bed/having the first curry of the day in EDINBURGH!" for LO! the Edinburgh Fringe Festival is LOOMING over though of us who are attending like a KINDLY SCHOOLMASTER hoping not to use THE SLIPPER.

It is traditionally a time of PANIC, when comedians all over the nation realise they haven't done ANYTHING and OH GOODNESS ME it is less than a fortnight to go, but here in Moon Horse HQ it is a period of odd QUIET, as we got everything done AGES ago. I think it is because of our origin in ROCK rather than COMEDY or indeed THEATRE, but we have always got ourselves ready WELL in advance - it's not like it's difficult to do. The Fringe Festival is always at the same time, you have a WHOLE YEAR to get ready for it and the final listings have to be done by APRIL, so it amazes me that some ACTS leave until NOW to worry about things. We do things differently in the world of ROCK, where VANS must be booked at least a LITTLE bit in advance so you can concentrate on the vital business of BEER and TOUR FOOD.

HENCE the eerie air of QUIET that lies around us, BEGGING to be filled up with ACTION. I have thus been busily working on varioud Dinosaur Planet ALBUM preparations this weekend, including a rather SPIFFING promo video that I'm going to spend the next four months WISHING I could show you. Ooh, it's lovely!

We - that is myself, The Cells In My Spreadsheet, and Mr and Mrs Hewitt - have also been compiling LISTS of SHOWS we want to see, which this year we are COMPILING into an UBERLIST. My oh my it is a thing of WORTH and BEAUTY, but also somewhat OVER-ENTHUSIATIC. If we wanted to get to EVERY show on the list we'd have to go and see at least five shows a day EVERY day that me and Steve are up there! Obviously there is some room to divide our forces, but still, it is a LOT! I didn't think it would be half as much, as there's TONS of stuff we all want to see happening when our own show is on, but between us we have managed to find MORE.

I know that we WON'T get to see most of it, and will probably end up seeing a ton of stuff just because it's ON and NEAR or because we get an interesting flyer or just by ACCIDENT, but it isn't half fun to think about it. Cor! Two weeks today we might even be SEEING one of them!

posted 25/7/2011 by MJ Hibbett

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