I know what I did this August

Once I got the agreement that I could try to see as many things as possible during the Edinburgh Fringe, I looked up what the record was. It turns out that someone saw 304 shows in 2014.

We'll come back to what I think of that later, but until then the official record was 169, done in 1994. Insert 'those are rookie numbers' meme from The Wolf of Wall Street: I knew I could do more than that.

But if I stuck to the PBH Free Fringe, not least because of how low my income is at the moment, how many are possible? A look at the 2023 'Wee Blue Book', and counting how many shows were in each hour, limiting that to no more than 23 - the PBH does three full weeks plus an additional weekend, so you can't see more than 23 shows in any hour slot - came up with 203.

This year, I managed to see 217 different shows. ( Read more... )