Posts Tagged: festival

The Invisible Man at the Festival – August 2013

Invisible Man 19 August 2013Each year, Edinburgh has about 13 festivals and about 4million people turn up to watch what’s going on. Just now it’s full.  As in most things, it’s the mediocre that predominates, whether it’s dull stand ups from dull BBC panel shows or formulaic street performers. There’s always good stuff too and the whole office went to Kazakoshi, Japanese drumming by these guys:

http://www.tokara.net/

This was pretty ecstatic.

Taiko Drumming 18 August 2013Whilst it’s hard to capture the transformation in the streets, it’s fun to try. From an attractive, temporary (“pop up”?!) cafe the street performers don’t seem so bad.

George Street 14 August 2013