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THE PRE-DISPOSED ED FRINGE REFLECTIONS!!
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So the Greatest Arts Festival and Comedy Mecca on the planet didn't disappoint and while one of the toughest I have ever experienced, largely because of this poxy disease for all her beauty Edinburgh's Medieval street planners understandably didn't have accessibility top of the agenda, coupled with a very 'bad burger experience' on the Tuesday.... certain balls got dropped!
But the show and my performance got better through each performance, I flipped the tale 3 times but by the end of the week in a packed venue on Saturday, all the comedy landed.
Indeed that is how this kind of live performance works and I am excited and inspired to continue to develop the show and bring it beyond that greatest misnomer in Venue world that was the 60 seater Banqueting Hall of the Banshee Labyrinth.

Hasta la Vista Edinburgh Fringe
for as long as I can manage You...Ireland, Rio, Barcelona, Spain are my soul!

The Banshee Labrynth
walk-through to the 'Banqueting Hall' 

The aim of the pre-Disposed at the Fringe was never to be a fundraiser but to really raise awareness for the campaign and allow me the opportunity to roadtest the performance... but we still managed to through the generous donations in the buckets over the week we managed to not only cover all expenses but get home with the princely sum of £200 sterling which will be added to the cause!
Thanks to everyone!!
THE THANK YOUs...
I learned so much, was inspired and humbled by some of the very greatest comedians on the planet who trusted me and came to my cave to help make the show happen...
Andy J Ritchie 
Danny Lobell 
Kieran Butler 
Carey Marx 
​Simon Munnery
Alexis Dubus 
Trevor Lock 
and Eddie Izzard 
, legends all... you humbled me wth your presence
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and special mentions to Johnny Keenan, Andy J Ritchie, Kieran Butler, Sophie Prints, Steven and Carolina who looked after me at different and through some very trying times and without whom I would ever have got this over the line.
Love all you people!!
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And to the PBH and all the Free Fringers that sail in her I will seek to be back next year, but maybe not halfway down Niddry street LOL 

Aaah... the memories

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The Closing Night when an Arena comic came to my cave, check the Giant 15" screen LOL!! #MasQueUnComic
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The Pre-disposed
        (Live Storytelling Show)

will be a Live Storytelling Show that I intend to take to the Edinburgh Fringe '17 as part of the PBH's Free Fringe.
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The show will be 3 x 10min segments followed by a small audiovisual presentation which together will frame the story of my search for a diagnosis through comedy festivals in Barcelona and Madrid, Brazil's 2 Mega Events (World Cup & Olympics), Rio's only English language Night out, Rio Night Live and other comedy projects that involved the very biggest names in the comedy industry from Dylan Moran to Eddie Izzard.

In Edinburgh I will be inviting some of the comedians that punctuate the story to join me for a cara a cara 'podcast style' shooting of the shit under the theme of the Show title which came about as a correction by a Psychologist that it is politically incorrect to refer to PPMS, despite it's 'No Treatment, No Cure' reality as a 'Terminal Disease' which I had done and was informed that I should use the more PC term, a Pre-Disposed illness!
With life being a Terminal Disease anyway it seemed fair...

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A quick look at the definition of what it is to be Pre-Disposed reveals a more general theme and that is what I will be discussing with the comics for the final 15 mins
predispose
ˌpriːdɪˈspəʊz/
past tense: predisposed; past participle: predisposed
  1. make someone liable or inclined to a specified attitude, action, or condition.
​Should be fun!!
The show will be part of the PBH's Free Fringe and I have a great venue and time for anyone making the trip to the incredible experience that is Edinburgh Fringe '17 when it will celebrate it's incredible 70th anniversary see  full details here

An excerpt of 'The Pre-Disposed' will make an appearance in Longford Arms Hotel in Ireland on September 23rd 2017 supporting Edinburgh Fringe's biggest selling show of all time the irrepressible and amazing Jason Byrne!!!
Check the details here, and share the bejaysus out of it Irish people!!!
It will be epic!!
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