Spank's Edinburgh Diary, Sunday 25/08/2024

Reviewed today: Before And After Coal, The Modern Portrait.

Spank's Edinburgh Diary, Saturday 24/08/2024

Reviewed today: Cätlin and Marko Mägi with Finlay MacDonald & Ali Hutton, John Hegley: Do Horses Have Teeth Sir?, LUCKYME: Festival Closing Party, Melanie Bracewell: Attack Of The Melanie Bracewell, Rachel Roddy.

Spank's Edinburgh Diary, Friday 23/08/2024

Reviewed today: Colin Steele & Martin Kershaw Play Chet Baker & Stan Getz, Guy Montgomery’s Guy-Mont Spelling Bee, James Whale: Beyond Frankenstein, Making Marx, My English Persian Kitchen.

Spank's Edinburgh Diary, Thursday 22/08/2024

Reviewed today: Blindboy Boatclub, Garrett Millerick Needs More Space, Nish Kumar: Nish Don’t Kill My Vibe, Rukmini Iyer, Two Hearts: Till Death Do Us Heart.

Spank's Edinburgh Diary, Wednesday 21/08/2024

Reviewed today: Mark Nelson: Getting Better Man, Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust, Simon Munnery, Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland’s Girl Bands.

Spank's Edinburgh Diary, Tuesday 20/08/2024

Reviewed today: And Mrs, Jenny Tian: Chinese Australian, Kleio Quartet, Wu Man.

Spank's Edinburgh Diary, Monday 19/08/2024

Reviewed today: Mervyn Stutter's Pick Of The Fringe, Ray O'Leary: Your Laughter Is Just Making Me Stronger, Sunlight, Timestalker.

Spank's Edinburgh Diary, Sunday 18/08/2024

Reviewed today: Best Of Red Raw, Cat Power Sings Dylan '66, Guy Montgomery: Over 50,000,000 Guy Fans Can't Be Wrong.

Edinburgh Festival 2024

Daily updates now complete. Final thoughts from the Pals to follow soon.

Two years on, one year off: that's the rule for my Edinburgh Festival trips, though in recent years it's been disrupted by that tedious global pandemic, while 2023 was a year off for wholly delightful reasons. But we're back now for 2024, ready to get into that regular festival groove with nothing to stop us from...

...oh, how ironic. Well, are we doing this anyway?

Edinburgh Festival 1989-2023: An Index

I admit it, the Edinburgh Festival coverage on this site is all over the place - a combination of REPOST pages written for the old site and ported over to here, SPANK GOLD pages written years after the event, and pages that were actually blogged live from Edinburgh as they happened. Anyone just diving into the Edinburgh folder will probably have a hard time working out where to find stuff.

Until now!

What follows is a set of links to the writeups of all the Edinburgh Festivals I've attended since 1989, plus a couple where Spank's Pals went up without me. (Which means nowt for 1993, 1997 or 2000, so don't look for them.) For each year I've included a vaguely chronological list of all the shows that are mentioned in the entry by name. I'm now having a minor freakout at just how many shows that is, but that's not your problem.

The plan is to update this index after every Festival, so this page will mostly remain at the top of the Edinburgh folder. If that's how you got here in the first place, welcome: feel free to browse through the pages linked to below. And if you like the reviews, maybe you'd like to pay me some money to own them in book form? See bottom of page for links.

(Updated November 22nd 2023 to include 2023 reviews)