I've got an idea to save the fringe. Folk stop trying to start new ones during the Edinburgh one because Edinburgh is too much of a trek.
Every few years there's a comedian who'll float a London concurrent fringe and says how unfair it is they have to travel to Edinburgh (because woe betide culture be based anywhere that's not London for any time whatsoever)...
The local council is trying things like a tourist tax and there is a crack down on the air B&B style stuff but yes more needs to be done.
I've got an idea to save the fringe. Folk stop trying to start new ones during the Edinburgh one because Edinburgh is too much of a trek.
Every few years there's a comedian who'll float a London concurrent fringe and says how unfair it is they have to travel to Edinburgh (because woe betide culture be based anywhere that's not London for any time whatsoever)...
The local council is trying things like a tourist tax and there is a crack down on the air B&B style stuff but yes more needs to be done.