La Clique

wOW!

that was sooooo good!

maybe bcoz i'd never been to performances of this kind, hence got impressed pretty easily. but still for this one I would say top class! no wonder all tickets were almost sold out right at the start of the Edinburgh Festival, they truly deserve the credits.

we weren't that efficient at all to obtain ourselves tickets to grant us the access to their supposingly the best and the last show in the festival. tickets on this night were sold out wayy earlier. haha. fortunately, michael's fren who had two tickets bought, couldn't make it on the very last minute, hence had to give them up.

la clique has a famous reputation. everybody is talking about it.

we hesitated no more and quickly grabbed the tickets from this guy and off we went, to the Spiegeltent at 11pm to watch the show. sounds scary isn't it. show that don't start till midnight, duno wat kind of adult contents they gonna put in later.

the show was running late for 30 mins and crowds was getting abit impatient already.

michael was showing face like this. yeah, we were worried it might turned out to be another Jim Rose Circus, which was a truly traumatizing event, paid money in to suffer only.

finally got in after 1 hour of queueing and waiting outside the tent. surprisngly they don't have seats for eveyrone. only a few rows of chairs prepared. many people had to stand at the back and watched.

and even more surprising, the show that captured so many attention around the world, happens only on a stage as small as this. hard to imagine.

we were very very lucky to got ourselves two seats right in front of the stage. apparently they put a reserved signs there, but we thought, dun care la. since nobody wanted to sit, standing at the back sure cannot see at all since all the angmohs are so tall, so we acted blur and plonk ourselves into the chairs. see that old man next to me, he was the sponsor of the show. not sure from which company.

right after we settled down, a crew came to us and said those were seats for VIPs and we weren't suppose to take. but if those vips do turn up, we gotta let them sit. haha, guess what, we were really lucky to not see them showed up at all. so, those good seats were ours!

la clique is a good cocktail of circus skill, comedy, musics and carbaret. too bad no photos was allowed during the show, hence lack of exhilarating pics from the post. im just gonna google some pics for what I'd seen tonight and put them up here.

the show started with two guys performing acrobatics. those were basically olympics gymnasts' stunts, but done in a much more entertaining way. that was a good start! the crowd was cheering like mad already.

then came the La Clique signature performance. The Bathboy, a bathtub acrobat. His stunts were truly breathtaking and too beautiful for a guy to do. reminds me of a mermaid comes in a man package. since we were sitting at the front row and the stage was just not too far from us, we were given plastic towel to shield from the water spilt around. double thumbs, triple thumbs up for him! chunnest!

The Rubber Man or the Captain Frodo. Apparently he is a famous figure on tv programme since ages ago. His Ehlers-Danlos syndrome from a genetic condition allows the hypermobililty on his joints, hence the possibilities of doing all these dislocating and twisting joints stunts. in tonight's performances, he was trying to squeeze himself through two tennis rackets.

well, can see why they put it on a late night show. there were a few half naked performances like these. overall, there was nothing offensive. it was much much better than that scary Jim Rose which did it in such a dodgy way.

Those are what I can find atm from google pics. The rest were good too but I guess the reason why they don't have as many photos was bcoz of the varieties of programme la clique has, not in eveyr show they had the similiar performances, except for these few famous ones.

It was afterall a good show, we thought.

Edinburgh Festival - the world largest art festival, of this year has officially ended today. Glad that I'd watched a few good ones I really enjoyed. Not a bad thing afterall to come back early for uni and to experience summer in Edinburgh for the first time. Hopefully after tomorrow, the Burgh will become a quiet city again. For this one month, our streets were quite crowded with tourists. It's good to have the not-so-busy Princes St again. =)

a Red-Indian band performing on Princes Street

So, byebye Summer and Hello Autumn!