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!

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Dru Cripps: Juicy Bits

Location:   The Big Yurt at Hoots @ Potterrow (Venue 243)

Dates:  Aug 7th – 31st

Time: 22:10

Price: £10 Concession £8

Ticket Link: https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/dru-cripps-juicy-bits

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Hello! Tell us all about your show!

Hello! 

One man, one tent one Loopstation one bespokely fun time. That’s the thing with the number one, it’s unique – just like this show. Not just because of in its incredibly bold concept: collecting strangers in a tent and diving into the musical unknown,  but on a show by show basis. Join 99 other folks in a “Hilariously Inventive” “blast” of an hour. As we take whatever’s happening and turn it into a “hilarious” time. 

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

Enrico Touchè (Simon Amstell Brown) 

Tom Toweling, Madeline Brettingham’s debut, and anyone booked at the Hoots Venues. It’s going to be a really exciting year for Hoots and its performers. 

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. 

Yeah I skipped the whole “being applicable for best newcomer” thing and traded it in for a good time, Ive been bringing crazy sh*t to this festival now for three years, my key advice is: 

– Be unprofessional

-Lean into the festival aspect – too many folk forget this I think! Cus it’s expensive… but so are music festivals.. unless you’re an act 

-Ask older folks what the fringe used to be like and then try and create a more legendary tale  for the generations to come. 

-Every year: BRING LESS than what you brought the year before. It’s not unpreparedness, it’s a refinery process. Less! LESS! Both physically but also spiritually. Less props AND less expectations. 

-ignore some advice 

If you’re lost: Come to Hoots Potterow 

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

Wake up a bit late, check ticket sales, go and find something resembling a Full Scottish – seek mischief, do my show, seek further mischief. Curry, Hopefully shower, sleep. 

Ok, where is your favourite place to eat at the Fringe? 

Bistro Cafe (they look after me every year with a discount and know my order – sweet peas) 

Mosque Kitchen THE ONE ROUND THE BACK iykyk 

Best thing about performing at the fringe?

Meeting folk, the daily opportunity to have fun and learn something new, the active thrill seeking audience and  

Seeing international mates 

Do you bring anything special from home to make it feel more special whilst you are away?

I don’t – I’m not one for the sentimental apparently… sentiment sounds heavy… every year I try really hard to bring less 

What are your best hacks to save money whilst at the Fringe?

Find a patron. In your show: tell folks you can’t afford to be here and ask if anyone would kindly put you up. I did that year two of the fringe and was kindly rescued by a lovely woman who let me stay at her house – year three and year four (this year) I stayed with an absolute hero called Gavin who’s generosity changed my entire outlook in life – such a cool dude. 

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

Dru Cripps is my real name, and it’s on everything. 

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

“Most Fringe Experience”

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