Edinburgh Festivals - Day 6

The best part of today was discovering I had 100 followers on Twitter. And... I had Champagne to celebrate my centenary too! But the worst part was in discovering they had reduced to 99 by the end of the day!

Such is life... It’s been a mixed a day with beautiful moments such as the Impressionist Gardens Exhibition at The National Gallery to a few disappointments as well. Both the disappointments were very different in their lack-lustre performances. In one case it was the play itself, in the other the lack of audience:

The Gay Geese: The problem here was not so much the acting but a rather ridiculous and outdated plot – the one where the 17 year old best friend comes out as gay much to the horror and repulsion of his best mate who can’t handle it (for a while). And then there’s the revelation that his father was caught in bed by his mother with another man so he had to leave. On meeting his father for the first time after many years he confesses that he ‘doesn’t do that anymore’ (therefore it is alright because he’s not really gay anyway!).

Something Relevant: Obviously judged as being irrelevant to most Edinburgh festival goers as there were only about 5 people in the audience. Apparently that is the average size of audience for an Edinburgh show so at least it hits one target but it must be really hard to be a lively up-beat band when there are more on stage than in the audience – especially when you have travelled all the way from Mumbai! The seven guys in the band were loud and confident – a bit to loud for me – fine for one number but the thought of having my eardrums pummelled for a whole hour was too much so I had to leave.

I was pondering as to why this group had not caught people’s attention. Could it be the rather bland name ‘Something Relevant’? Could it be the uninspired title of the show ‘Feels Good to be Live’ or could it be that despite coming from India they seem to have severed all their musical roots to become yet another western jam rock band? I would have loved to see and hear a little more subtlety – especially at the start of the show and some exploration of the sounds of India and the west.