ISSUE No6 FREE FEATURING Sean Hughes, Sarah Kendall, Cariad Lloyd, Luke Toulson, Aisling Bea, Jarred Christmas, Joe Lycett NEED TO GET YOUR MESSAGE OUT AT THE FRINGE FESTIVAL? ADVERTISE WITH CALL 07961 99 4000 4 CONTENTS Welcome to WUWO Magazine’s Edinburgh WUWO magazine Contributors Festival Comedy Takeover edition. - WUWO Media WUWO Magazine is a free publication distributed monthly in the south of England. We hear Editor in Chief you ask yourselves: “How does a magazine from down south find its way to Scotland?” - Steven Godwin The answer is simple: comedy. Cariad Lloyd - 20 Editor - Laura Hester Being able to have a laugh stems right from the heart of our publication and all of us at WUWO Magazine are driven to promote comic drama in every way we can. After all, laughter sees us Editorial through all those ups and downs, left and rights, ins and outs, and so forth, of everyday life. - Aisling Bea Swaying from the format of our usual monthly editions of the magazine, we have invited a - Jacob Burns diverse variety of funny people, all of whom are performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe - Jarred Christmas this year, to contribute to this month’s publication. - Matthew Elcock - Cariad Lloyd We hope you enjoy this special edition of WUWO Magazine, dedicated to all you Fringe goers - Joe Lycett and packed full of helpful tips and funny bits, both informative and useful as well as amusing. - Luke Toulson - Maria Martinez Ugartechea Luke Toulson - 14 Design - Andrew Brown Now, meet the cast: - Nita Saroglou Photography - Graeme Copper - Steve Ullathorne - Maria Martinez Ugartechea Jarred Christmas - 06 Contact To get in contact about editorial requests [email protected] To get in contact for advertising requests Sarah Kendall - 32 07961 99 4000 WUWO magazine is published monthly by WUWO publishing. We try and make sure all our information is correct but details may be subject to change. Any physical submissions are sent at the owners risk and we will accept Sean Hughes - 24 no responsibility for loss or damage. Nothing printed in WUWO Magazine can be copied or republished without our written permission. Sign up to the WUWO magazine mailing list to receive exclusive offers and deals only available to WUWO Magazine members. Food - 40 Joe Lycett - 18 Aisling Bea - 10 For more go to wuwomagazine.com 6 JARRED CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL SURVIVAL GUIDE 7 3. COMFORTABLE SHOES WITH GOOD ANKLE SUPPORT Edinburgh has loads of cobblestones. 4. DON’T SEE TOO MANY SHOWS IN ONE DAY I know you want to cram as much in as possible, but you will get show fatigue. If it’s 9.30pm and you are entering your seventh show of the day, you will be exhausted, laughed out, punch drunk and a bloody useless member of the audience. Pace yourself, plan time for meals and keep your fluids up. I don’t want anyone passing out in my show again because they hadn’t had time to eat all day because they had so many shows to see. The Edinburgh Fringe is a massive beast. 2,695 shows in 279 venues spread across I found this out later, but during the show I had the great city of Edinburgh. Those figures alone are enough to send your senses a false ego boost when I thought she laughed so into a spin. Daunting is the word, daunting. Some people will feel intimidated by much she forgot to breathe. the sheer size of the Fringe. Don’t be, plough into it and have an adventure. Be 5. USE THE FLYERS FOR GOOD NOT EVIL careful though, the Fringe beast could swallow you up. If you are handed a flyer, look at it. If you like what you see keep it and go to that show. If you don’t like it, DO NOT Here are my tips for survival follow the path of Evil and throw said flyer to the ground. Littering is bad karma. Save the flyer and make a cloak 1. THE 7 P’S time you saw Daniel Kitson do yet another master class of out of all the s****y flyers you are handed. If you are a show or the time you saw a one man play about ‘Survival in town for more than one day, you will have several PROPER PREPARATION AND PLANNING at sea in a rubber dinghy’* where the guy sat in a rubber cloaks. Then you can form some sort of weird cult PREVENTS PISS POOR PRE-BOOKINGS dinghy pouring salt water over himself and performing and save money on the uniforms. There are so many shows. The best way to pick yoga. It’s you, him and 10 people. By the end, it’s just you and get the full spectrum is go through the 6. USE THE TOILET BEFORE ENTERING and him. This is a show I have seen (the performer stopped A SHOW Fringe guide with a couple of bottles of wine. and asked me to leave, as everyone else had). *Title has Early on you select the ones you have heard of been changed to protect myself from a yoga ninja attack. Nothing annoys a performer or the rest of the and like, but as you get drunker, that’s when the audience more than you getting up mid show interesting picks come into play. 2. BE PREPARED FOR EXTREME CLIMATE CHANGES and distracting everyone as you push and nudge your way out to piss, then do the same coming “Hey I wonder what ‘The Zombie Mermaids of Take a small rucksack containing a bottle of water, a change back in. Also everyone will know if you have done Valhalla’ is about?” or “I think the Shawshank of t-shirt, condoms and a jacket (possibly a chocolate bar a wee or a poo, which can be socially embarrassing Redemption has been crying out for a dance depending on whether you are dieting or not; your call). because a comedian will always comment on that. adaptation.” Don’t hesitate, drunkenly Edinburgh weather is unpredictable, but the Another is if you are watching Albuquerque State BOOK THEM. temperature in most of the venues High School’s production of ‘Hamlet the Opera’ is predictable. It will be and you go for a piss. Chances are you are the entire uncomfortably hot audience. Those poor American school kids will have at times. to pause the show and wait for you to get back… if you Hey I wonder what The Zombie Mermaids of Valhalla is about? ... don’t hesitate, to drunkenly book them go back that is. Or the worse situation would be: you go for a poo, they pause the show, but because you take so The Fringe is your only Especially evening shows that are the eighth show in a row in that converted broom closet. You will laugh and Jarred Christmas long, they start packing up. You then re-enter the chance to see and discover amazing shows by room and everyone just stares at each other… people you don’t know, as well as see some truly sweat in equal measures. You will then be spit out into possibly rainy or subzero temperatures, even though Show: Let’s Go MoFo for ages. weird and awful things that make you wonder it’s meant to be summer. why someone thought people would want to Where: Gilded Balloon Teviot So, in conclusion, good luck, see it. Is there no better awkward feeling than Change your t-shirt, put on your jacket and then happy hunting and I you won’t catch a chill. If it truly is lovely weather sitting in an audience where you are the only hope you enjoy the one? Awkward for you but I bet the performer then sit outside, let the sweat dry and then go see Time: 9.30 pm would be delighted that you came along. another show, sweat some more, and so on, until shows you pick. you have a triple filtered sweaty shirt. That’s Dates: 1 – 26 Aug I wonder which experience would become one when its time to party and get some pussy/ of your best anecdotes at a dinner party. The cock (use the condoms at this point). For more go to wuwomagazine.com For more go to wuwomagazine.com 8 PAGE TITLE USEFUL FESTIVAL APPS 9 APPlicable ‘Technology paves the way for a stress free YELP! day’, so they say, although we’re not 100% Yelp provides a search sure about that at times, BUT there are a service that covers myriad of apps in existence out there that everything from locating PUSH OUR provide us with extra assistance that aids a pubs, restaurants, cafés, variety of situations. shops and lots more in the specified vicinity. If, like us, you plan on rocking up at this years It also delivers the added ability to read reviews from the local community as well festivities from out of town, then wandering as submitting your own findings too. Within through the maze of streets that harbour all a matter of seconds, it can even track down the fun can be quite daunting. your nearest public loo in case that curry caught you off guard! Well, guess what?! BUTTONS HOPSTOP For all you keen festie goers who plan to brave the public transport There’s system over the luxury of your own cars, this app is a must. Especially for any out of towners. Hopstop will get you to your desired location, be it by train, an app bus, bike, taxi, foot or rental car. Simply enter your start location and final destination and receive a list of all known forms of transport to get you to where you need to go! And for all you taxi snobs out there, you can for that! also find out how much your intolerance for public buses is going to cost you.