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 The Fringe Club is the best bit of the festival for many of us - maybe because it's all you get to when you're running everything else. If you want to analyse the performance you just saw in a loud voice, chat up the stars, bribe the organisers to include your nude flower arranging performance next year, buy everyone a drink because you're having such a good time, or just enjoy convivial frazzled conversation with fellow-festivallers, you'll be a fringe club patron, my son. This year we have broken with previous tradition (that's what they're for) and returned to Windows Arts Centre (Lower Borough Walls, find that map!). Every night except Sundays you'll find a late bar till 2am with entertainment from local favourites and utterly unscheduled visitors, some of whom have indeed actually been engaged with that very idea in mind. Acts range from the left-field to the left-behind-the-radiator to the dodgy band that bloke from the Fringe is in, some nights of gentle acoustic music, others of full-on audience-baiting. Things we know about are listed on this site but that's not the end of the story if past years are anything to go by. The Club bar in the Windows Café opens at 10.30 every night; club entertainment may be upstairs or down (don't worry, we'll tell you) and often won't start until the main house has finished, emptied, and the room been rearranged. There will be nibbles and food on sale until late - the café -bar is open all day too, the food is vegetarian and most excellent. Entrance is £2 most days, £3 Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, but no not free to anyone, no way Josephine not tonight. Our dear friends over at 1999's Fringe Club, the Porter Cellar Bar in George Street, are also running a late bar with a bewildering selection of bands, some of whom appear in this programme and on their web site [www.theporter.co.uk]. It costs £2 to get in too and will be another great place to hang out and enjoy after a show or even if you haven't been to one. The more the merrier and the more merrier. Club Fringe at Windows Arts Centre - listings sorted by date (click '...more' for full info on each event) Doors open 10.30pm each night (after main show) except Sundays 25 May 2001: Cabaret; Music Popacatépetl £3 ...bring you the folkloric music of the little known earthly paradise known as the Republica De Santa Banana. .....more 26 May 2001: Cabaret; Comedy Swingalonga Johnny & Jimmy £3 Celebrity Northern Club style singalong .....more 28 May 2001: Cabaret; Music Malarky & Chris P £2 Tunes from round the world .....more 29 May 2001: Cabaret; Music Jazz Club £2 Jam on it. .....more 30 May 2001: Cabaret; Music Jen & Hen £2 Bath’s premier multi-instrumentalist folk duo .....more 31 May 2001: Cabaret; Film & multimedia Wait Until The Bus Stops £2 Film, photography and acoustic music from the Festival / Travelling community. .....more 1 June 2001: Cabaret Dada Cabaret £3 Art is like a Fish. .....more 2 June 2001: Cabaret; Circus Stereophonic Circus £3 Bath’s strongest & strangest performance collective. .....more 4 June 2001: Cabaret; Music Acoustic Session £2 Some more relaxed music from Bath's finest. Cool! .....more 5 June 2001: Cabaret; Music Shak Shak £2 Uplifting & eco-friendly acoustic reggae. .....more 6 June 2001: Cabaret; Music Hodmadoddery £2 Two guitars two voices and a heap of old songs, some folk, some not. .....more 7 June 2001: Cabaret Election Night £3 Come elect your Fringe candidates. All the usual Electioneering allowed, no bribes barred. .....more 8 June 2001: Cabaret; Music Dynamo's Rhythm Aces £3 Great players playing around with some familiar songs to unfamiliar effect. .....more 9 June 2001: Cabaret; Music Phyll et Gilles £3 International acoustic cool. .....more |