It is festival season and that means that in the next month there is so many great comedy festivals to look forward to! This month we are looking at some of the great shows that you can see at the Edinburgh Fringe. So take note because we are going to give you all the information you need for just a handful of some of the great shows happening this year!

Adam Flood: Remoulded

Location:   Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive) – Hive 2 (Venue 313)

Dates: Aug 2nd-14th, 16th – 27th

Time: 15:20

Price: £9

Ticket Link: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/adam-flood-remoulded

Hello! Tell us about yourself? 

Ay up, I’m Adam. I’m a lad from Stoke on Trent. A new comedian taking the world by storm, that is if your world is the smallest comedy clubs around the UK. I’ve been lots of things in my life, indie band rockstar, county lines drug dealer, confused business owner, tech startup. I’ve landed on being a comedian and this one feels the best.

How did you come up with the name of your show that you’re taking to the fringe?

My debut hour, Remoulded, follows my award nominated 40-minute work in progress show ‘Clayhead’. I’ve ran with the theme of clay, coming from Stoke on Trent, as Stoke used to be the beating heart of the pottery industry. Now it’s more the slipped disc in the Mecca bingo chain.

Tell us all about your show!

The show is about reinvention. Did you know you can just reinvent yourself? People don’t always like it, but I’m a big fan of it. Or at least I was until I started to question why I do it. 

Growing up in shithole, Stoke in Trent, I wanted to run away from my town for a long time. Getting wrapped up there in drug dealing and crime, you might wonder if Maypole dancing was the right way to get out (you’re right, it wasn’t). Since then I’ve reinvented myself into an indie rockstar, entrepreneur.

What other acts are you looking forward to seeing at the fringe?

Lorna Rose Treen, Paddy Young, Horatio Gould, Mike Rice, Dan Tiernan, Viggo Venn, Alexandra Haddow, Nabil Abdulrashidm, Huge Davies, Tamsyn Kelley, Vittorio Angelone, Sarah Keyworth, Liam Withnail, Stephan Buchanan, Marc Jennings, John Kearns, Spencer Jones.

Have you done the fringe before? What are the key pieces of advice you have been given or would give to new groups or people performing at the fringe. 

I have yep. 2019 was my first split bill for the month. Then in 2021 I did a split bill when it was the magic year where there were so few comedians we sold out a 120 seater for the full 7 days with zero flyering as there were WAY LESS SHOWS. 2022 I did my solo 40-min preview show. 

If it’s your first or second fringe as a comic and you’re splitting a bill or doing a short WIP, best thing to do is just try as much new stuff as you can. You get so much better performing for that length. Have fun. Party. Make new pals. Pace yourself, or don’t – either works. Flyer your arse off and chat to people to convince them to come. Have a satsuma or babybel or something in your bag that you can eat when you crash if you don’t have time. Don’t stay somewhere 1,000 miles away – it’s shite. 

Favourite one liner you have done in a show and why?

‘My band split up because of musical differences between us and people with ears.’

I like it because its true, and it comes after having played clips of my band. It gets a big laugh because the old demo I play (which are our very first ones) is bad and the track is about indigestion after eating a hot curry….

What have been some of the most unique and different comedy shows you have seen this year and why?

I haven’t seen loads this year, as we’re still at that point where they’re being worked up. What I have seen is Lorna Rose Treen and Paddy Young. 

Talk us through your daily routine for a day at the Fringe

I like to start each day at the fringe with a lie to myself about going for a run or swim at some point. I bring trunks and goggles every year – not swam once. This year I’ll be performing the same delusional ritual. 

 I’ve always stayed with friends who are comics, so maybe we’ll have breakfast together.  Over a bowl of porridge we’ll do our best not to talk about our shows. If I’ve got stuff to tweak in my show I’ll think about it before I go out for the day. 

Flyering is the main bit of the day. Trick is having chats with people, making an impression, making them laugh. It’s like doing hours of a show before the show. It can be the most fun or can make you never want to talk to a human being again. 

I try to leave at least an hour before flyering and doing the show. I find somewhere to sit down, eat, have a coffee, think about how the show changes will work. Usually there I get inspiration cos it’s the proximity to having to actually bloody do the thing that forces that idea to roll out of my subconscious. There is one place that I love to go that never seems to have any comedians in….it’s my secret.

I do my show, and do a bucket collection at the end. 

I might have had a pal, family member, or a big old suit from the industry come and see me, so I’ll go have a drink with them to say thanks and beg for an opportunity, no matter which category they fall into. 

For dinner on a good day  I’m having a curry with a friend, out. Sharing a few curries, Thai or Indian or Malaysian, a light beer….come on now, stop it. On a bad day  I’m having something that my friend I’m living with has made who can’t cook but I don’t have the heart or money to refuse.

Then it’s off to an industry bar to sacrifice a lamb, perform oral or whatever it is us comedians do in there to further our pathetic little careers. Mostly it’s just hanging out for the lols tehe.

What is the best way to enjoy yourself at the fringe?

Seeing shows hanging out with friends, partying and all that is great. But sometimes you just need to disconnect from it all. On a night in, I like to watch a really trash action film that takes no thinking and just watching things explode. Bourne Identity, John Wick, something like that. This year me and the comedians I’m living with, Paddy Young, Horatio Gould, Mike Rice, Dan Tieran and Sam Eley are going to start a poker tournament. I do not know how to play poker. Yet another dizzying cost to build into this year’s fringe budget. Can you claim tax on losing bets? 

Best thing about performing at the fringe?

Doing something that completely submerges you in a show is amazing. Spending a month with friends having fun most nights. It’s the dream really. 

 The most challenging thing about performing at the fringe?

Pacing yourself. Making sure you don’t lose your voice. Whether you’re taking it easy with or not you talk A LOT. I reckon for the other 11 months of a year I consume maybe 10 lemons. In August I feel like a Sicilian citrus dealer. I’m necking cup after cup of lemon juice to keep my voice one extra day. 

What would be your top three items every performer must take to the fringe?

The flats I’ve stayed in NEVER have a cafetiere or bean grinder. So one of those. 

A bag that is comfortable so you can fit everything you need for the day but doesn’t make you look like a massive nerd – tough ask. 

A massive fanbase. Bring them so you don’t have to flyer.

What’s the secret to successful flyering? 

Chatting to people. If you’re just giving a flyer to someone, it’s nearly pointless unless your poster is printed on £20 notes. When I did my split bill with a friend we did a skit, where he walked up to a group and said ‘can I give you a flyer?’ They would say yes and he would unroll and A0 flyer which is bloody massive and stupid. He talks them through the flyer/show and says he’s only got this one so will probably keep  it. I let a minute or two pass and I head over to them in a high vis, lanyard and clipboard and say ‘sorry to bother you, but someone around here has been giving flyers that are prohibited. He looks like this’. And I show them a badly drawn picture of him. Usually they got it was a stunt and laugh a lot and I give them a normal flyer saying this is the size allowed. It was a joy to do that. Might do it again actually as it got people in very nicely. 

Who would be your ultimate dream audience member?

I was gonna say someone rich. But the other day at a show one of the guys behind inventing the iPod and Iphone was in. Mad. His wife got into a big argument with me on stage and really killed the vibe.. At the end of the show she gave me £100. So no rich people. 

If people want to find out more about you, where can they follow you on social media?

On most platforms I’m on @floodhaha. It’s not as easy to say as I thought, cos of my accent the way I say ‘haha’ people don’t get it. Just searching ‘Adam Flood’ usually works, which is easy to remember as my name is the plot summary of The Book of Genesis. 

And finally in three words – Why should people come and see the show? 

Release my family.

Surprising. Funny. Egg.

Funny. Inventive. Heartfelt.