Hello hello.
I think first I need to make a rather late apology. Extreme laziness got the better for me last year and, despite maybe watching 25+ shows last year, I never wrote anything beyond what appears to be show 16.
This year I vow will be different. As a testament to my mental and literary prowess I promise to complete the necessary entries for each and every show I watch at the Edinburgh Festival 2017, and it's going to be in the region of 40+ shows this year. This feat should be helped somewhat by a majestic return to The Athens Of The North for my job.
Matthew is back in business.
A return to living in Edinburgh as well as a job with luxiuriously sociable hours means I've booked to see a show nearly every day of the festival. It's going to be a new personal best this year and this blog will be a document to this landmark period - not that anyone will study this in decades to come. This small, quiet, hidden corner of the blogging atmosphere will doubtless attract little attention, but it'll make for a nice nostalgia trip when I almost certainly hit an advanced state of senility in my dotage.
Edinburgh Festival 217 starts tonight with Ed Byrne - a favourite of mine. It'll be interesting to see if he'll draw upon his recent BBC series with Dara O' Briain and his travels to South East Asia, or his passion for Munro bagging.
There's a tantilising mix of performers at this year's festival, and interestingly a paucity of big names. The field is wide open for this year's awards. It'll be intriguing to hear who becomes popular through word of mouth and who'll take the critics' attentions.
Here's to Edinburgh Festival 2017.
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