GRAHAM Fellows, creator of John Shuttleworth, Jilted John and Brian Appleton, recalls his last Fringe appearance as the hard done by rock musicologist.
IT was 2001 when I last performed as Brian Appleton in Edinburgh. I came armed with a reel to reel audio tape recorder and a razor blade.
Don’t be alarmed: I used the razor blade merely to cut up audio tape on stage and reassemble the words and even consonants recorded on the tape recorder in my show, Let’s Look at Sound. In this way I was able to edit an audience member’s innocent utterance of “God Save the Queen” into the more damning “Sod the Queen!”
Quite impressive – when it worked...
I also had a microphone and a digital multitracker, and with nowhere to store all this valuable gear I would take it in a taxi from my Canongate flat to the Pleasance and back again each evening.
My flat was noisy. Almost everywhere is during the Festival, but there is something about the narrowness of Canongate and enclosed nature of the buildings that meant every sound from the street below was amplified, making sleep before 3am virtually impossible. I can’t wear earplugs – they make me feel cut off from the world and I get paranoid.
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