The Leicester Comedy Festival and being benched

[RichardCranium]

Radio 7 is currently broadcasting bits from the 2006 Leicester Comedy Festival. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hls3n

This year it ( http://www.comedy-festival.co.uk/ ) has preview shows on Friday 15th, then Thursdays 21st and 28th of January.

It is then on for 17 days from 5th - 21st February 2010.

This got me to thinking: what festivals have you been able to really enjoy because you have been on the bench? For example has anyone managed to attend ALL of the Edinburgh Festival?

[RichardCranium]

(Having quickly just added up all the ticket prices for every show, it comes to about £2,300 for one person to attend all of them.)

[Gonzo]

This got me to thinking: what festivals have you been able to really enjoy because you have been on the bench? For example has anyone managed to attend ALL of the Edinburgh Festival?

ALL the Edinburgh Festival?

According to its own website, http://www.edfringe.com/about/2009 there were over 2,200 shows last year as part of the Fringe festival alone.

I went one year and the atmosphere in town is fantastic but you do not have a hope in hell of seeing more than a fraction of it.