Fringe Binge 2016 kicked off with the now-traditional Hardeep show. And as tradition dictates it was slightly disappointing. Perhaps I’m just too familiar with much of his shtick now.
The show is loosely based around a mix-tape – Hardeep would play a bit, riff and storytell about it, relate it to him/the crowd/politics/whatevs. I say loosely – most of the show was him just interacting with the audience (we only got to one song – Iron Maiden’s “Nunber Of The Beast” – which had a nice anecdotal conclusion that I was unfamiliar with).
Much of it was, as I said, free-form. Several people in the audience had the pish ripped out of them; he recognised me and pulled me in to a couple of the tales; much reminiscing. And there was a wee touching bit at the end where he listed the three albums that “saved his life” after his marriage broke up – “Frank” by Amy Winehouse and the first albums from local-lass Amy MacDonad and Bon Iver.
Plenty of anecdotes about recording the charts BITD, how Edinburgh folks have “nae patter”, and so on so forth. Pleasant hour but I guess I’d heard much of it before.
Better than last year, not as good as ’14 (yes, I preferred his earlier stuff).
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