I don’t have any money for disposable spending, most folk don’t.
I wonder what might be happening in the next few months which is making people try and save as much money as they can….?
After the utter cowardice this year about Jerry Sadowitz they can get to fuck. Even middle class wokescolds can’t afford the prices now oh how sad.
I wonder if the Fringe might end up becoming a bit dated? We might look back and think this was a weird way for artists to debut/workshop their shows.
The Fringe has always had issues with accommodation and costs even before a post-COVID, high-inflation, world. Getting thousands of people to visit one city at the same time pushes up the cost of travel and accommodation for cash-stapped artists trying to put on a show may not be the best way of doing it.
It might be better to do more remote shows streaming from a collection of smaller events across the U.K. Never getting to a critical mass to push up costs but still having a good amount of locals ready to attend if you promote it right. The Fringe on Tour in Sheffield, Brighton, Cardiff and with still a main (but smaller) event in Edinburgh.
Well, this years fringe was a load of rubbish.
In other news water is ….
This is a major problem for pretty much any event. I want to go to Printworks in London, and the cost for accommodation even for a single night would almost triple the cost of the actual ticket.
I can’t see from the article any distinction between ticket sales and attendance.
Consider the fact that the main ticket site (edfringe.com) charged a £1.75 booking fee per ticket (capped to £5) – despite many tickets being just £5. No mobile app this year, just the same old clunky website hampered by a frustrating search interface. Quite the deterrent!
I saw almost 40 shows in a week, but only bought eight tickets in advance because of the fees. The rest all got cash or card (direct to the artist) on the way out.
Don’t forget there were thousands of shows across hundreds of venues – it’s a fantastic experience.
Maybe it’s because sturgeon has turned Edinburgh into a city wide rubbish dump?
Why do they put it on in August? Shouldn’t they choose a less busy month.
I went this year and don’t even want to think about how much I spent on being there for only 5 days (I spread out the cost and had some savings so treated it as a holiday).
I can’t imagine how hard it is for performers to afford to live there for a month, let alone punters get tickets. There is a huge problem with getting working class performers or those starting out into the fringe as it can cost an average of £7k (according to Nextup comedy app that have streamed the fringe this year) for a run. Considering the cost of living crisis and upcoming energy costs I’m not surprised audience numbers were down when even non-headline shows cost £14 a ticket. They had the half price hut but it wasn’t as well advertised as it could have been.
Hard to see what to do, except maybe spread it out to other cities in Scotland too (if the locals are up for it)? Would still be expensive but would open up more availability.
Everything is going to slump in the next couple months. I’m waiting to see who the Tories blame (likely us not spending anything).
Can we please rephrase ‘accommodation costs’ to ‘Greedy AirBnB owners’
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I don’t have any money for disposable spending, most folk don’t.
I wonder what might be happening in the next few months which is making people try and save as much money as they can….?
After the utter cowardice this year about Jerry Sadowitz they can get to fuck. Even middle class wokescolds can’t afford the prices now oh how sad.
I wonder if the Fringe might end up becoming a bit dated? We might look back and think this was a weird way for artists to debut/workshop their shows.
The Fringe has always had issues with accommodation and costs even before a post-COVID, high-inflation, world. Getting thousands of people to visit one city at the same time pushes up the cost of travel and accommodation for cash-stapped artists trying to put on a show may not be the best way of doing it.
It might be better to do more remote shows streaming from a collection of smaller events across the U.K. Never getting to a critical mass to push up costs but still having a good amount of locals ready to attend if you promote it right. The Fringe on Tour in Sheffield, Brighton, Cardiff and with still a main (but smaller) event in Edinburgh.
Well, this years fringe was a load of rubbish.
In other news water is ….
This is a major problem for pretty much any event. I want to go to Printworks in London, and the cost for accommodation even for a single night would almost triple the cost of the actual ticket.
I can’t see from the article any distinction between ticket sales and attendance.
Consider the fact that the main ticket site (edfringe.com) charged a £1.75 booking fee per ticket (capped to £5) – despite many tickets being just £5. No mobile app this year, just the same old clunky website hampered by a frustrating search interface. Quite the deterrent!
I saw almost 40 shows in a week, but only bought eight tickets in advance because of the fees. The rest all got cash or card (direct to the artist) on the way out.
Don’t forget there were thousands of shows across hundreds of venues – it’s a fantastic experience.
Maybe it’s because sturgeon has turned Edinburgh into a city wide rubbish dump?
Why do they put it on in August? Shouldn’t they choose a less busy month.
I went this year and don’t even want to think about how much I spent on being there for only 5 days (I spread out the cost and had some savings so treated it as a holiday).
I can’t imagine how hard it is for performers to afford to live there for a month, let alone punters get tickets. There is a huge problem with getting working class performers or those starting out into the fringe as it can cost an average of £7k (according to Nextup comedy app that have streamed the fringe this year) for a run. Considering the cost of living crisis and upcoming energy costs I’m not surprised audience numbers were down when even non-headline shows cost £14 a ticket. They had the half price hut but it wasn’t as well advertised as it could have been.
Hard to see what to do, except maybe spread it out to other cities in Scotland too (if the locals are up for it)? Would still be expensive but would open up more availability.
Everything is going to slump in the next couple months. I’m waiting to see who the Tories blame (likely us not spending anything).
Can we please rephrase ‘accommodation costs’ to ‘Greedy AirBnB owners’