EdFringe lockdown memories: Day One
The #NothingToReviewHere and #SomethingToReview projects
In the eerily fallow Fringe of 2020 and weirdly hybrid event of the following year, The Dibdin Brothers, Thom & Peter, published a daily image from around Edinburgh.
These projects – #NothingToReviewHere and #SomethingToReview – showed the Edinburgh Fringe as it had never been seen before. And in that first year, when everyone had to stay at home, provided a surrogate fringe for its fans to witness from afar. There is an introduction to the projects here: #NothingToReviewHere.
This year, over the course of EdFringe 2024, we are publishing the images and words from the respective days of 2020 and 2021.
EdFringe: Day One
Edinburgh High Street. Friday 7 August 2020
Edinburgh High Street. Friday 7 August 2020. #EdFringe2020 Day 1. Pic: Peter Dibdin.
#EdFringe2020 Day 1: Peter Dibdin and I were there.
I wore my reviewing kit: pen, bike & loud shirt.
He wore a hat and and a camera.
I did some posing. He took some pics.
There were no crowds, no street performers, no pitches.
No one stopped to give us a flyer.
#BrothersGonnaSnapItOut #21Venues21Shirts
Edinburgh High Street. Friday 6 August 2021
Edinburgh High Street. Friday 6 August #EdFringe2021 #Hybrid Day 1. Pic: Peter Dibdin
#EdFringe2021 Day 1: Peter Dibdin & I were there.
One year on from our #NothingToReviewHere documentation of the fallow Edinburgh Festival Fringe we were back for the new, #Hybrid version.
Pete took some pics.
I wore my reviewing kit. Again.
Busy.
Tourists and locals.
Stressed Street Performers, getting ready to work the crowd. Camera crews hunting a story.
Stalls ready for business.
Here were crowds and street performers, lanyards and facemasks.
Police in soft rain.
Still no flyers though.
Faint smell of Fringe.
#SomethingToReview
Edinburgh High Street. Friday 6 August #EdFringe2021 #Hybrid Day 1. The Long View. Pic: Peter Dibdin.
ENDS
