Fringe Podcast Featured in the latest issue of iProng Magazine

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It’s just under a week* until the first press event for the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe – which is when my ‘interview radar’ switches from passive to active and I start to track down the new stars and shows for this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Podcast.

Throughout July I’ve been doing a bit more press and publicity for the show, and this month’s issue of iProng Magazine (the publication for iPhone, iPod, music, podcasting, and social media lovers) features myself in the Podcaster Spotlight section:

What are you most looking forward to at the 2009 Festival?

September the 1st!

There is such a rush at the start, with all the press previews, and while I do have some interviews booked ahead of time, it’s the process of going through the previews and the buzz of all the reporters and people on the ground to try and find the small shows that are going to be big. While it’s great to interview the big names I much prefer being able to point to Fringe shows from previous years and seeing that I did get the names that are now big, when they were much smaller and struggling to pull in audiences of ten or fifteen people.

So it’s a process of discovery. And there’s also a huge extended “family” of people that gather once every year, so we all catch up in the bar, find out what’s been happening, much as you do at any festival or conference, but the scale of the Fringe makes it amazing. For comparison, SXSW Music has around 1800 20 minute slots through the event… the Fringe has the aforementioned 34,265 slots, generally running an hour long.

Thanks for the opportunity, Bill. The full interview is available both online and in Issue 44 of the magazine.

* (a week to go?!? Neep!!!!)