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have parted company with their admin assistant for booking too many rooms in Edinburgh. The Legend of Perseus features 26 characters, all played by the same performer, hence the confusion. The company still has a couple of rooms to offload, so if any visiting dignitaries are having trouble finding accommodation, you know who to contact.
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Venues are teaming up to fight for the life of capital nightspots. Words: Allan Radcliffe
ust when you thought it was safe to consign your collection of plastic charity bracelets to the drawer marked ‘retro'. another wonhy cause is about to lay claim to the empty space around your wrists. A campaign. entitled Keep Edinburgh Clubbing, has been launched to help bolster the capital's club culture.
While The [.le reported last week on uncertainty surrounding the future of the Venue nightclub. another Calton Road nightspot. Studio 24, is being dogged by rumours of its imminent demise. because of complaints from neighbours about nOise. While a public meeting and petition have been put together. a wider campaign designed to prevent the demise of City centre nightspots is getting underway. Three thousand Keep Edinburgh Clubbing fluorescent wristbands are being (:irculated to venues across the city. and can be purchased for the very reasonable price of 91. It is hoped that community
leaders and the local authorities will support the campaign. particularly as Lothian and Berders Police are thought to be H ‘ concerned at the potential impact club closures will have on young people.
Naturally. The List is right behind this campaign. With the Edinburgh Festival in full swmg. this is an important time for I Calls, made by Assembly director those who love culture and the arts to show their support for venues. At present. the capital is in danger of becoming a William Burdett-Coutts, for the soulless enclave. With any form of cheap. accessible and — horror of horrors! — neisy entertainment being swept away in International Festival to merge with favour of exclusive flats and overpriced eateries. the ever-expanding Fringe, have I To find out more. Visit www.studioQ/Iedinhiirgh.co.ilk been dismissed by both
organisations. Burdett-Coutts (above) had complained that the ElF seemed ‘stuck on a backward- looking formula which doesn’t embrace the entirety of what Edinburgh is about’, but marketing manager Jackie Westbrook said the International Festival was in ‘rude health’.
of your favourite armchair, as they are to release a concert DVD called The PIX/OS Se// Out. this September. While the band is remaining cagey about the
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out the bubbly over at Fringe drawn up by an international panel for a friendly against the Saltiies. lhe towers. edfringe.com, the Fringe’s of judges, features the year’s most match is scheduled for Thursday 18 official website, has sold its innovative games which this year August at the Grange. ()all Mike 500,000th ticket. The site was - includes Xboxes Oddworld: Stanger on 0141 .1123 (3:395) for (lOitlllS. launched in 2000, and has seen a rumoured album of new iiiateriat the Stranger’s Wrath and Nintendo’s gradual rise in numbers of tickets DVD includes performances from Catch! Touch! Yoshi. The winner is sold online over the past couple of Belfort. France and various Stateside announced on Saturday 13 August. years. Appropriately, the half- festivals. millionth ticket was purchased by a I Visiting Edinburgh? Currently woman from Edinburgh. E-mazing! I As the Edinburgh Interactive enjoying a spate of gender identity Entertainment Festival gears up for ambivalence? Why not head for the I Don't worry if you haven't managed its third annual beano, some of the Meadov s Big Top. where the ladyboys to secure a ticket for the PiXies' :nuch- gaming industry’s biggest names of Bangkok are in the midst of their vaunted l on the Fringe show. You can are competing for this year’s seventh Fringe run. This year. the experience the band from the comfort coveted Edge Award. The shortlist, Ladyboys have stipulated that there
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