Hello, Dr. Music Box here. At previous Edinburgh festivals I have rapidly fallen victim to Edinburgh lurgy.<\/p>\n
Symptoms of Edinburgh lurgy include:<\/p>\n
– Sleeping all day for no reason.
\n– Turning a pale green\/grey colour.
\n– Sheltering under a duvet like an introverted snail and only coming out to perform. If the first words you say each day are actually on stage to an audience, you\u2019re in trouble.
\n– Shouting to yourself the second you leave the flat \u201cwhy does it rain only when I\u2019m outside?\u201d and taking the weather really personally.<\/p>\n
Causes of Edinburgh lurgy include:<\/p>\n
– Sharing 3 bedrooms with 10 people.
\n– Putting on shoes in the morning that haven\u2019t dried out from the night before
\n– Flyering in the constant rain while maintaining a positive attitude,
\n– Calling 3am an early night.
\n– Ongoing jealousy of other people\u2019s show (\u201cThey\u2019ve got a set?? How come we don\u2019t have a set?\u201d How many people did you get in your audience?\u201d etc)
\n– Obsessive checking of facebook and twitter for #edfringe news. This includes late at night while surrounded by snoozing members of the cast.
\n– Surviving on nothing but rain and mist all day and then overloading on beer in plastic cups and late night takeaway vendors in the evening.<\/p>\n
This year my previous Edinburgh experience has kicked in and yesterday I made various attempts to prevent the Edinburgh lurgy. These included:<\/p>\n
– Walking up Arthur\u2019s Seat straight after the show. Wooo, like, we\u2019re totally looking down on Edinburgh man, like, totally getting some perspective.
\n– Deliberately eating in a chain pizza restaurant away from the Royal Mile surrounded like normal people.
\n– Dressing like a tourist when I\u2019m not flyering or performing.
\n– Experiencing sunshine for the first Edinburgh in ages. Yep, this happened yesterday and it was awesome. I actually have a suntan.<\/p>\n
In fact everything about yesterday was pepping me up. We had a full audience, which was an amazing experience, and had improvised a really cool show set in a graveyard featuring various ghosts and 1500 year old gravediggers and the song \u201cit looks like a human, smells like a human, but it\u2019s actually a demon\u201d. So we\u2019re now entering the show in high spirits and having fun.<\/p>\n
All manner of un-written rules about this. It\u2019s widely agreed that it\u2019s open season on the Royal Mile pillars, and you can poster over stuff, but that\u2019s the only place you can do so. But even then I\u2019ve discovered various sub-clauses when it comes to putting posters up there. These include:<\/p>\n
1a.i: Not postering over a friend\u2019s show, obvious really.
\n1a.ii: Not postering over a show you\u2019ve seen and enjoyed.
\n1a.iii: Not postering over someone you\u2019ve met in person. This had the weird effect of me meeting someone at a promo show and immediately thinking \u201cdammit, I can\u2019t poster over their show now\u201d.
\n1b: If someone posters over your poster then all of the above are null and void, and you are allowed to hold a postering grudge for the rest of the festival.
\n1c: If someone is more organized than you, with multiple posters attached together and a taller ladder, then they are a valid target.<\/p>\n
\u201cHello. Where are you?\u201d
\n\u201cI\u2019m on the Royal Mile.\u201d
\n\u201cCome over to C Venues.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHello. Where are you?\u201d
\n\u201cI\u2019m at C Venues.\u201d
\n\u201cCome over to the Royal Mile.\u201d<\/p>\n
Exciting stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Edinburgh Blog 5 Hello, Dr. Music Box here. At previous Edinburgh festivals I have rapidly fallen victim to Edinburgh lurgy. Symptoms Symptoms of Edinburgh lurgy include: – Sleeping all day for no reason. – Turning a pale green\/grey colour. – Sheltering under a duvet like an introverted snail and only coming out to perform. If[…] <\/p>\n