Thursday 2 August 2018

Let's Do Launch

Wednesday was set-up day and we headed to Espionage in the afternoon with a roll of posters and fingers crossed that all the wall space hadn't yet been taken. Hailing the venue manager as she closed the door to the venue we just made it in and set about finding prime locations for our posters.

This was trickier than predicted as it seemed everyone else in the entire festival had already been in and wallpapered the place - some with the same poster four at a time (naughty). The advantage of height came into play and we managed to secure some spots in the rafters whilst hearing the regular clattering of Espionage's oversized signs for the toilets as they defeated the tape they had been secured with and fell off the walls.

Posters up we then had time for a chat with the venue manager. She pointed out a completely clear wall in the bar we could put our posters on. Bonus points!

After this it was time for some lunch before making the trip to Fringe Central to collect our performers' passes. We passed Andy Storey en route, got chatting and spent the afternoon with him at the centre chatting all things fringe and comedy whilst drinking coffee. If you're up here go and see his show at The Caves. It's a good one.

Time had caught up with us and a glance at the phone revealed it was already 7.30pm so we walked over to the Free Sisters for the Laughing Horse launch party. One free burger and a beer later we'd chatted to various people, stuck posters wherever they would fit and were ready for an early-ish night in preparation for Thursday's show debuts.

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