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Originally Posted by awaywithfairies I'm in Sydney, too, and saw absolutely nothing about MICF here. |
Well I can completely agree with that.
Meanwhile I decided at quite late notice (i.e. after the guide had come out in The Age) that I was going to actually make the trip down, and the difficulties I had trying to get some friends from Melbourne to grab me a copy of the comfest guide before they flew up to Sydney the week before I was going (as in, the week Comfest began) kind of demonstrate a failure to publicise the festival.
I would think that it would be a sensible thing to flood public places with the guides in order to publicise the event. Surely you would expect to find copies of the guide at the airport at least?
Why they didn't appear to be trying to encourage more people from interstate to come I don't know. Surely if people are coming from interstate that means that they'll probably have more time to spend going to multiple shows in a night? I mean, I cram so many shows in when I'm down there, but the friends I saw while I was down there - I only managed to convince one of them to come along to see Tripod and they're huge fans of Hot August Nights.
I agree about the Festival Club thing though. It really did suck. Sitting in the Peter Cook was cheaper and more entertaining (aside from Superband - but even that wrapped up rather early) - so I tended to just give up and headed back to the apartment to sleep.
But all the same, nothing in Sydney can compare with Comfest. Comfest is a very unique situation, and is quite different from the way I go to comedy in Sydney.