Fringe goings-on and on!

A brief visit to another Exhibition opening last night – Unreal Edinburgh, a selection of photos of Edinburgh culled from the Flickr group of the same. Some excellent shots – or captures, in Flickr speak, I believe – and free wine and nibbles!

The reason we were invited was that Madeleine is in the group and one of her pictures was on the short list, but just missed being selected. Oh, well… next time!

Suitably fortified, we went on to Cabaret Voltaire in time to catch the last song by Lee Patterson, the support act for Jackie Leven.

Jackie came on at 20.35 and played and raconteured right through until 22.00
It wasn’t really a lot different from the last time we saw him here (only back in March!) and most of the songs were the same… The between song chat was both familiar – I now really like his two terriers, although I’ve never seen them – and new – Celebrity Soap! There were a couple of songs off the new album and an older song called ‘The Garden’ which I have on the Live in a Norwegian Prison cd but maybe not on a studio release. My collection is stored very haphazardly but it wasn’t on the ones I did manage to check afterwards!

A bus took us almost home, with time for a pint at Reverie…

Good set; only gripes were the price of beer and that all the copies of his new cd were gone before I managed to get to the front of the merchandise table… grr. Guess I’ll have to shopping soon!

And this morning the weather’s back! Grey skies; steady rain. Hope it improves for Fringe Sunday tomorrow – I wouldn’t care to be a BCOAF member playing on a dreich day to a damp audience in a tent in a wet field!

see also Jackie Leven (March 2008)