Stop Press:
Don’t know what an act is like? Watch them on YouTube!Don’t know about you, but we always like to see something we’ve not seen before when it’s a festival: but that only makes it harder to choose! But with the internet, of course, no problem. Here are youtube [or similar] links for some of the Spiegeltent and other top acts.
Not so appropriate, watching your computer, what with the sun come out today – but we’re hoping that will give you good ideas about open-air events, and we’ve all got our fingers crossed for more sun…
Amadou Diagne
youtu.be/h8RPNaSVGH4
Spirit of the Forest
youtu.be/lZF0AH9dmTg
Bilbobasso
www.dailymotion.com/video/xg2ygo_polar-cie-bilbobasso-creation-2010_creation
Bombino
youtu.be/fzWBow0OAeA
CarnyVillains
youtu.be/XHlBm6tBosU
Dead Belgian
youtu.be/Qf451W0ca8o
Destroyers
youtu.be/qn_4EwMjhx0
Dexter Selboy
youtu.be/HLWpVhTqKJE
Hazmat Modine
youtu.be/-dEgWy7kbew
Hot Potato Syncopators
youtu.be/B9U_fMHyUPU
Nina Conti
youtu.be/sSnI_ob5ebE
Peepolykuss
youtu.be/tKcYVvNlMBA
Piaf
youtu.be/xmeSvPVRzlQ
Phantom Limb
youtu.be/vs8VZJtXfIU
RSVP
youtu.be/VdJmJGRUO3Y
Sir Henry
youtu.be/WSEsC2H4hhg
Spacedog
youtu.be/bGQV47jo0ZQ
Anthony Strong
youtu.be/uITP4TtEi2o
Yiddish Twist Orchestra
vimeo.com/20885615
Zen Hussies
youtu.be/l9nFwNS_ZlQ
In other news:
Outside! NOW!! and PopUp lineups completed; Streats website coming very very soon, more news when we have it!
Errata
We made a mistake. We put that Hélélé's show on Saturday 26th was FREE. They're a great band and well worth the £10 they're actually charging. Sorry.
Photos of Fringe 2011
We've just put up a set of pictures from our mate Mostyn of the 2011 festival: Cacahuete, Stoneking, Mud Morganfield, Rory Bremner, the Holbourne Quest, and more... Feast your eyes on www.flickr.com/photos/bathfringe/sets/72157627951490847/
Chris Greenwood's Flickr photos are compendious, detailed, and really put you in the front row/line: www.flickr.com/photos/by-chris-g/sets/
- and loads loads more: here's the full list:
Electro-Swing Speakeasy - audience and performers; The Quest; Cacahuete in Mama's Funeral; CW Stoneking; Mud Morganfield; Still Life in Rock & Roll; Charleston & Cake; Brass Junkies; Boom Stage; FAB; The Spiegeltent-General Scenes; Ska Cubano
and coming soon:
Bedlam Fair & Platform 13 Cabaret; Miraculous Mule; and more...
Fringe 2011 on YouTube (more)
See our Fringe web links page:
click on 'about the fringe' on the left-hand menu, then 'bathfringe elsewhere...'
Here's a good one: Bedlam Fair and some bits of Cacahuete...
youtu.be/7ZIF0atQ3TQ
Searching 'bath fringe' on YouTube gets you even more, of course...
Welcome to Bath Fringe Festival
Bath Fringe is a 17-Day festival of all the artforms we can find (and some that don't have names yet) in the Beautiful City of Bath, and with the collaboration of many of its Beautiful & Talented population.
Bath Fringe 2012 runs from Friday May 25 to Sunday June 10, 2012 (and even a few days either side)
170-odd events (some odder than others), performers from around the world and from next door, in places from the Spiegeltent, to the secret rooms of Bath, to the streets and cafés, to cyberspace and between your ears, and of course in all the city’s best venues...If you are signed onto our EMailing list, or our page on Facebook, you will get updates, advance info, and probably a bit of gossip throughout the year and more as festival time gets closer; our Twitter feed is a bit quiet until the Festival is in the offing but then does plenty.
If you have a show, event or concert that you want to put on in Fringe 2013 (it’s now too late for 2012), if you want to volunteer to help Bath Fringe, or if you want to donate to help us keep the festival going, there are buttons over on the left of this page that will give you the information you need. Click on 'Contact Us'. The 'About the Fringe' menu has some fairly comprehensive background detail on the Festival and the organisation that facilitates it.
If you want to know more about the Fringe in general, peruse the menus to the left, or dip around under 'history'. There are archived programmes from recent years, that will show you the sort of thing we do. Those years were great but this one's even better..
Like what you see? Don't like? Like something more?? Want to comment on anything you saw this year? Come talk to us on Facebook.
If you want to know more about the Fringe's Visual Art programme click through to their site here.