Festival Agenda
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In a month when self-promotion goes into overdrive the Warhol Campbell‘s soup cans at the Royal Scottish Academy win the prize for ingenious publicity. The naked woman with the sandwich board (we were too shy to check which show it was) on the High Street came a close second. PRs take note: it pays to be big and clever.
TESTY NEIGHBOURS
Not everyone is enjoying the enforced festival intimacy. Henry Rollins is apparently getting grouchy about sharing a dressing room with Puppetry of the Penis while a 200 Nation breakdancer cut himself on a piece of glass left onstage by another show. And the actors in England have to project over the Waverley station tannoy.
it happens out in the streets. We pay tribute
The caricaturiet
Quite why anyone thinks haVing this done is a good idea beats us. You‘ll hand over your ten quid and look at your ‘portrait' and wonder: ‘Is my nose really is that big? Are my eyes really that small? Do I really look that much like Hugh Hefner?"
The silver robotic dancing guy
This one is an Edinburgh institutiOn. usually bolted down Ol‘i Princes Street Outside BHS. his Kraftwerk cassette blaring out. To think he could have
ended up being your bank manager or something. Bariking's loss is Our gain.
South American
pan pipers
Locked in mortal musical combat with the Bravehearty looking blokes with the drums and bagpipes for the title of ‘street kings of August’. this lot Win out due to having their own 003 and more equment than Pink Floyd.