Edinburgh Festival 1989-2024: An Index

A hair salon, Edinburgh, 2005. Do you see what they did there? 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 October 8th 2024 to include 2024 reviews)

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Spank's Edinburgh Diary, Postscript 2024

A bit late - more my fault than anyone else's, sorry - but here's the conclusion of our Edinburgh Festival 2024 coverage. As is now traditional, this is where I get to shut up for a bit and let a few of the Pals - Nick, The BBG and Charmian - write about their own personal highlights and lowlights. All three seem to be as enthused about the food and drink as they are about the shows (and in one case, possibly more so).

If you absolutely feel that I should be contributing something to this page, there's a short bit of video here that I shot at the LUCKYME Festival Closing Party in Summerhall. Like I said at the time, who needs recreational drugs on the dancefloor when you've got Barney's beer?

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