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FOR THE 2007 FREE FRINGE FESTIVAL WEBSITE - CLICK HERE

 

All over for another Year

      

After an incredibly successful August 2006, and an estimated 50,000+ visitors, the Laughing Horse Free Fringe Festival Venues are closed for another year, the stages have been dismantled, and all teh perfromers packed thier bags and headed for home.

The venues will return in 2007, and performers details for 2007 will be available on this site from January 2007. To see the 2006 information - click here. Do Email us if you have a specific question.

Can't wait until next year? If you want Free Comedy during the year in Edinbrugh, check out Lindsay's comedy club - click here. or do visit our other UK clubs - see www.laughinghorse.co.uk

   
         

FREE WIRELESS INTERNET at Lindsays - Click Here

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Photo's from The 2006 Fringe - Click Here

2006 Free Fringe Shows

Click on show name for full details
About as Funny as it Gets
About Comedy: Stand-Up Courses
Aggie Elsdon: Crone Alone
Amused Moose Hot Starlets
Andrew Roper: 'Cos I'm Free
Andrew J. Lederer's 'Anthology'
Asian Invasion
Backtracking
Best Laid Plans
Boo and Friends
Brian Damage & Krystal: Radio Pear
Bullett and Gunn's Massive Pop Explosion
Causing a Scene
Comedy Bucket
Comic Irrigation
Comprehensive Steve Day
Deathmatch!
Del Strain
Dogs In the Sink
Donald Mack: Cynical Optimist
For Ryan Out Loud...
Free Entry into Richard Coughlan - He Won't Mind
Funorama
Griff Griffiths & Nigel Taylor: The King & I
Hearing Voices
Heresy
Hurren & Rice's Free Lunchbox
Ian Fox: The Butterfly Effect
I'm A Celebrity - Please Leave me Here
Jay Sodagar: Confessions of a Logical Mind
Jess & Kate - Live, uncut and Free
Jojo Sutherland: Funny Money
Juliet Meyers: A Life: A Fantasy
Kevin McCarron: Nuclear War! Followed by...
Kevin Shepherd: Comics die in Hot Cars
Kill the Monster
Kockov's Free Mind Show
Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection
Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe
Laughing Horse Free Late Night Comedy
Lewis Bryan: My Family and other Alcoholics
Liane Ross Presents Something Vague
Love is Richard Curtis Actually
Lunchtime Life Lessons
Marc Lucero: Fear of Ironing
Mark Allen's Quite Good Britain
Martha McBrier
Men with Bananas Bigger than Jesus
Mike Belgrave: Out To Lunch
Nik Coppin: Spiders, Man
Out of the Bedroom - Out of the Bounds!
Pappy's Fun Club
Patrick Rolink
Peter Buckley Hill: How Much Longer Can He Get Away With This?
Peter Buckley Hill and Some Comedians
Return to Sender
Rob Deb: From Krypton 2 Clapham
Steven Young: A Failure on two continents
Straitjacket UnLIVE!
Teen Goggles
The Nimble Mammoth
The Good, The Bad and The Cuddly
The Great Big Comedy Picnic
The Growing Pains of Amos Phineas Klein Aged 33 and a third
The Spiritual Injury Tour
This is Richard Couglan
Tomi Walamies: Finnished Business
Tony Littler: Stubble Trouble
We are the Champions!
What a Day it's Been!
Yianni's Head
Click Here to View Shows By Time
Click Here to View Shows by Venue

     

Reviews and Press... Read reviews of Peformers and other news stories in the Press about the Free Shows and Venies - click here!

Performers Blogs... click here!

Shows at the Free Fringe Festival Venues ran from August 5th to 26th this year, and were part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe - the worlds Largest Arts Festival...
   
Shows were hosted in four centrally located venues scattered around the city: The Canon's Gait - on the Royal Mile, Lindsay's - just off of Leith Walk, The Meadow Bar - on Buccleuch Street and The Jekyll & Hyde - on Hanover street in the heart of the New Town
    
And all of the shows were FREE!
   
The Free Fringe
 

Unlike other venues at the Fringe, that are often quoted as over-charging audiences for shows, while at the same time charging performers large sums of money for hiring the performance spaces, we do not charge audiences to watch shows, and we do not charge acts to hire the venues....

  

...And just because shows are Free, doesn't mean they're not top shows - last year we had a number of four and three star reviews, and this year we have many leading circuit comedians and performers who have previously performed in the bigger Fringe Venues...

        

...So have a look at what was on in our venues in 2006 (click here for venue details) - Fringe 2007 show details will be available from May 2007.

  

  

Laughing Horse Free Fringe Venues cost a large amount of money each year to run, some of  this money is recouped through Sponsorship, Advertising, The Comedy Courses, and our own shows. If you would like to contributee, to help keep the venues  Free for acts and audiences, please click on the button below to make a donation via Paypal.

Nostalgic for last year? - click here to visit the 2005 Website

With thanks to our supporters:

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Linsay Watts

D M Stewart Ltd

The Meadow Bar

Jekyll & Hyde

Sponsor the Free Fringe Venues, Website and shows- click here

The Clan Campbell Hotel

Bellhaven
Brewery

ABOUT COMEDY Stand-Up Courses

For the ultimate Edinburgh Fringe experience, learn stand-up comedy and take part in a Fringe show....

7 intensive 2-day stand-up courses, ideal for people who want to try comedy, non-comedy perfromers trying stand-up, or new comedians looking to brush up on thier stand-up skills.
Prices from only £59
Goto www.aboutcomedy.co.uk (click here) for more details and to book online. This is not a Free Frineg show, but profits form these courses are used to run the Free Fringe Venues.
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NEWS & REVIEWS

View Fringe Show Reviews
View the Free Fringe team's 2005 Edinburgh Diary
View Performers Information and downloads

  Venues: 0131 556 4481 (Canons Gait) / 0131 556 8974 (Lindsay's) /

0131 667 6907 (Meadow Bar) / 0131 225 2022 (Jekyll & Hyde)