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 The Fringe Club is the best bit of the festival for many of us - maybe because it's all you get to when you're running everything else. If you want to analyse the performance you just saw in a loud voice, chat up the stars, bribe the organisers to include your nude flower arranging performance next year, buy everyone a drink because you're having such a good time, or just enjoy convivial frazzled conversation with fellow-festivallers, you'll be a fringe club patron, my son. This year we have broken with previous tradition (that's what they're for) and returned to Windows Arts Centre (Lower Borough Walls, find that map!). Every night except Sundays you'll find a late bar till 2am with entertainment from local favourites and utterly unscheduled visitors, some of whom have indeed actually been engaged with that very idea in mind. Acts range from the left-field to the left-behind-the-radiator to the dodgy band that bloke from the Fringe is in, some nights of gentle acoustic music, others of full-on audience-baiting. Things we know about are listed on this site but that's not the end of the story if past years are anything to go by. The Club bar in the Windows Café opens at 10.30 every night; club entertainment may be upstairs or down (don't worry, we'll tell you) and often won't start until the main house has finished, emptied, and the room been rearranged. There will be nibbles and food on sale until late - the café -bar is open all day too, the food is vegetarian and most excellent. Entrance is £2 most days, £3 Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, but no not free to anyone, no way Josephine not tonight. Our dear friends over at 1999's Fringe Club, the Porter Cellar Bar in George Street, are also running a late bar with a bewildering selection of bands, some of whom appear in this programme and on their web site [www.theporter.co.uk]. It costs £2 to get in too and will be another great place to hang out and enjoy after a show or even if you haven't been to one. The more the merrier and the more merrier. [an error occurred while processing this directive] |