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Welcome to the 2008 Free Edinburgh Fringe Festival

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The 2008 Free Edinburgh Fringe Festival runs from July 31st to August 25th 2008, featuring 157 FREE Comedy, Theatre, Music, Childrens and Art shows across 8 Edinburgh venues

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Sometimes Interrupted
with Stunning and talented Tania Edwards
An hour of comic interruptions & upstagings
Tania Edwards is a Stand Up Comedian from London
Present by the Laughing Horse Free Festival at Edinburgh City Footbal Club Venue 164 Baxters Palce ( Leith Walk)
August the to August 17th at 15.20 to 16.15





Daniel Simonsen, Tania Edwards and Brett Goldstein make up Tania Edwards' 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Show Sometimes Interrupted, which was presented by Alex Petty's Laughing Horse Free Festival at the Edinburgh City Football Club Venue 164 - 164 Baxter Place ( Leith Walk)
' Tania Edwards' 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Show Sometimes Interrupted packed the crowd in for their last show-they were turning people away- there was no more room-the USA Weekly News reviewer was luckly to squeeze into a space on the floor- just great entertainment with the crow laugh all the way thriough.. this show well derves its USA Weekly News over 5 star rating..
.USA Weekly News
If you missed this show..what out for the next show presented by Tania Edwards at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival..
you will hear about it first on www.edinburghfringefest.com



 
Check out the many more great Free Edinburgh Fringe Festival Shows presented by Alex Petty's Laughing Horse Free Festival

Welcome to the 2008 Free Edinburgh Fringe Festival

See our 2008 Shows

The 2008 Free Edinburgh Fringe Festival runs from July 31st to August 25th 2008, featuring 157 FREE Comedy, Theatre, Music, Childrens and Art shows across 8 Edinburgh venues

Click Here to Enter the Site








Welcome to the 2008 FREE Edinburgh Fringe Festival

The 2008 Free Festival programme is now live... browse this website to select from 158 free Fringe shows at this years Edinburgh fringe....

Our shows run from July 31st to August 25th this year... with some additional shows running right through to the Start of September.
This is the biggest ever programme of Free shows at the Fringe: With 2,626 perfromances, of 158 shows, in Eight venues of Comedy, Music, Theatre and Children's shows... 
             all for free!

In 2008, the Free Festival returns to Edinburgh with a fantastic selection of free shows...

As always there is a huge selection of comedy, and this year the Theatre and Music sections have grown quite a bit - alongside our first children's shows.

We're back at many popular venues from last year, and also have a brand new multi-roomed venue just off of thw Roayal mile - Espionage - which puts Free Festival HQ right in the centre of the Fringe, next to the Underbelly!


The Laughing Horse Free Festival Venues were established in 2004, with the aim of making the Fringe more accessible and less expensive for performers - and also to provide top quality shows for Fringe-goers at a bargain price. All of this in professionally run and equipped venues, and bucking the trend of the larger venues who's prices increase year after year. To find out why we are doing this and who is involved in organising the Free Festival click here.



Click on title to browse  programme by genre.
Comedy
Theatre
Dance and Music
Exhibitions & Events
Childrens
Click on the venue to browse by venue
The Argyle
Counting House
Edinburgh City FC
Espionage
Jekyll & Hyde
Meadow Bar
Meridian
Pear Tree

 

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If you own a venue in Edinburgh and would like the Free Festival to bring shows to your venue in 2009, or if you run an existing Fringe venue and would like to include Free Festival shows please contact us at info@freefestival.co.uk 

The Free Festival costs a lot to run and organise - some of this money is recouped through Sponsorship, Advertising,   Courses, and our own shows. If you would like to contribute, to help keep the venues Free for acts and audiences,  please click on the donate button  to make a donation via Paypal.

 


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“The absolute jewel in the crown has been the free festival at various venues throughout the city. The addition of this new strand to the festival must make it [The Edinburgh Fringe] the most inclusive festival in the world"  - The BBC

"The Laughing Horse's Free Fringe shows serve as a useful reminder of that frequently encountered concept - The Spirit of the Fringe" - Malcolm Hay, Time Out

The List's Top 5 Festival Surprises 2007: The Free Festival - "The Laughing Horse’s Free Fringe have given hundreds of performers a chance to get up in front of bigger and more appreciative audiences than they might normally encounter."


What's On

Comedy Shows
80's Luke: Live from the living room Palladium
Abando'Man: A Hip Hop Comedy comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
About an Hour comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
About Comedy: 2 Day Comedy Courses
About Comedy: 4 Week Comedy Course (Every Monday)
About Comedy: 2 Day Compering Course
About Comedy: Comedy Course Graduaton shows comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
About Comedy: Teaching - An Improvisors Art
A broad Abroad
Absinth & Coco Pops
A Cold Slap Down Under comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
Adulthood and the ever widening chasm
Afternoon Men
Aging is Amazing comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
Aiden Bishop's Batchelor Pad
Andy White: I Think therefore I joke comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
Angel Delight is a dog's best Friend
Angry Little Dropouts
Angst of the not quite Adult comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
Anthology
A Nice Tight Opening with Harry and Lou Pickles
Asian Invasion

A Ward of thier Own

Binge Thinking
Bringing in the Sheep
Bite-sized, Improvised, Televised

Comedy Fundraiser: Terrence Higgins Trust

Chris Brooker: Unstoppable comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
Comedysportz UK comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)familyfriendly.jpg (1443 bytes)
Comedy O'Clock
Cowboys and Indians
Club Sandwich
Dan Willis: Ferris Buellers Way Of...
Dench! Or how Dame Judi got her groove back
Derek Ryan - Mongrel
Dave Bloustien: Beastly
Dog Day King
Donald Mack:  Adventures of an Orgasm Doner
East-West Comedy Summit comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
The Discount Comedy Checkout Improv Hour comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
Electric Mouse: A la Carte
Festival of Football 2
Fine Sketchup
Gag Hole
Grab Your coat love, It's Helm and Taylor comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
Haha! Oink present… Filthy Swine
Heresy
Homework for Heroes
Holland and Hume and Someone else
Hollywould… but doesn’t think she'll bother
Nightingales - The Midnight Shift
Hot Box comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
Hurricane Katrina
In the Mouth
I Kissed a Frog and it gave me Herpes
I Need your Love
Istand-up
It's Jonathan, not John comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
I Pirie the Fool  comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
Ivor Dembina: This is not a subject for Comedy
Jaik Campbell: The Audacity of Hopelessness
Kevin McCarrons Just Joking
James Hately and Friends - Stubble busting
(James Mason is not) Bill Hicks & (Bobby Carroll ain't no) Richard Pryor
Journey Central Comedy Hour comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
Kevin McCarrons Just Joking
Kevin McCarron's Nuclear War 2008
Kevin Hayes
Knock2Bag
Late 'n' Leith comedy.jpg (1224 bytes) music.jpg (1036 bytes)
Laughing Cows
Laughing Horse Free Comedy Club comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
Laughing Horse Free Festival Selection
Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe
Laughing Horse Free Late Night Comedy Club comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
Laughing Horse Free Festival Club 
Laugh With Dean Scurry
Life in 2D
Lunchtime Laughs comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
Lunchtime Life Lessons Part 2
Mac's Lyrical comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
Maureen Younger - Free Show
Mental!
Mice Pudding
Midnight Hour
Mummy Wow
Nightingales - The Midnight Shift
Nik Coppin: Stuff comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
No Comedy Club for Old Men  comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
Obsessive, Compulsive, Disordered
OCD: My Family and other Anals
Original Pirate Material
Pear Tree Outdoor Stage
Phil Buckley: Laughable comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
Posh Dosh and the Propper Geezer
Race Off
Rob Deb: The Dork Knight Returns
Rob McCulloch comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
Rogues Handbook
Secret Midnight Gig
Shaggers comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
Shelley Cooper: Britishness
Spare tyres and a Tier comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
Steve Day: Should i Stay or Should i Go? comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
Tania Edwards, Sometimes Interupted
Tartan Special: Barry & Tommy's Scottish comedy all-stars comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
Teronimo Numpty
Journey Central Comedy Hour comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
The Bavarian Tradition Show
The B*llocks of Lichtenstein
The Cocksure Cowboys: Nostalgia comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
The Comedy Pub Crawl (Edinburgh tour)
The Free Three
The Good, the Bad and the Cuddly comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
The great Big Comedy picnic comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
The Lighthouse Keepers
The Lunchbox Files comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
The Man who Knows (Featuring the Magic Skinhead) comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)

The Mid 90s La La La

The Odd Squad!
The Return of the Free Mouseketeers
This show beongs to Lionel Ritchie No 2: Stand-up comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
The Umberella Show
The Yorkshire Pudding Paradigm comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
Topical Scurvey: For Lunch
Total Recall - Half Scum, Half Genius
Trainstopping
Two American Comedians loose their shirts at the Free Festival comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
Wac'choo talkin' 'bout Willis comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
Where's Yak?
Why I bathe in Ajax comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
Will Stopha is Feeling a little under the weather

Theatre Shows

Another Side of the Mirror theatre.jpg (1041 bytes)

Beyul Demojong

Dodgy Keeper theatre.jpg (1051 bytes)
Grim theatre.jpg (1051 bytes)
Infanta: Users Guide
Mr Mojo, Mum and Me
Shaker (Re-stirred)theatre.jpg (1041 bytes)
The American, The coloured and me 
The Life and times of a modern Mary theatre.jpg (1051 bytes)
Two theatre.jpg (1051 bytes)
Waxing Cynical theatre.jpg (1051 bytes)


Laughing Horse @ The Argyle
(venue 353)

The Argyle

The Argyle, 15 - 17 Argyle Place
Edinburgh, EH9 1JJ
Box Office & Enquiries: 0131 221 9759
 
How to get to The Argyle: Click Here for a Map
 
Located on Argyle Place, just up the road from the Meadows, The Argyle is located seconds from the Meadow's big tops and close to the main Fringe venues at Teviot (Pleasance Dome, Gilded Balloon, Udderbelly) as well as being a 10 minute walk from our venue at the Meadow Bar..

There are daily perfromances of Free shows in the funky basement bar, 'The Hide' - with two bars in the venue fully sticked with beers, wines and spirits and food and bar snacks also available all day.


Bar Opening Hours for Fringe 2008

Open Every Day, Midday to 1am

Shows at The Argyle in 2008

All shows are free - no booking is neccesary, just turn up 10 minutes before the start time. Click on the show title for more details!

SHOWS IN THE ARGYLE - July 31 to Aug 25 2008
Start Finish Dates Show
12:15 13:15 31 - 25 The Lunchbox Files comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
13:30 14:30 2 - 23 (not 11) Grab Your coat love, It's Helm and Taylor comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
14:45 15:45 31 - 25 (not 12) It's Jonathan, not John comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
15:55 16:45 31 - 25 Another Side of the Mirror theatre.jpg (1041 bytes)
17:50 18:50 31 - 25 (not 11) Abando'Man: A Hip Hop Comedy comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
19:05 20:05 31 - 25 Andy White: I Think therefore I joke comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
20:20 21:20 1 - 9 Steve Day: Should i Stay or Should i Go? comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
20:20 21:20 11 - 25 East-West Comedy Summit comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
21:35 22:35 31 - 25 A Cold Slap Down Under comedy.jpg (1224 bytes)
22:50 23:40 31 - 25 Aging is Amazing