# It is the room, not the venue: every building, every room

Source: https://edfringeguide.com/analysis/rooms
Part of: What actually sells out at the Edinburgh Fringe — https://edfringeguide.com/analysis

Sellout rate for every measurable room at the Edinburgh Fringe: 187 rooms across 49 buildings, ranked inside each operator. Snapshot pinned at 21 August 2026.

35,035 ticketed performances across 3,292 shows, 3–21 August 2026. Snapshot pinned at 21 August 2026 (2026-08-21T19:40:00.000Z).

**Every rate below is a floor**: a date counts as sold out only where the outcome was observable, and unobservable dates count as not sold out.

## It is the room, not the venue

_The league table above treats an operator as one thing. Inside a single building, rooms of the same size at the same price sell out nearly forty points apart — and the ranking holds up on a completely different set of shows._

Pleasance Courtyard is one operator at one address. Its Bunker One sells out 60.4% of its dates and its Below 22.8%. The two rooms hold 56 and 55 seats, average £13 a ticket, sit in the same building, and are 37.6 points apart. That gap is not an oddity of one venue: across the festival the median operator spans 36.7 points from its best room to its worst, against 38.3 points across the whole ranked operator table from Monkey Barrel down to Just The Tonic. Those two numbers are the same order, not equal: a max-minus-min over five to twenty-two rooms of 80–240 dates carries sampling noise the operator range does not, and shuffling the labels inside each chain — rooms kept, dates kept, only which room a date sits in randomised — still produces a median spread of 9.6 points (7.7 to 11.9 over 500 shuffles). The observed 36.7 is far clear of that floor, but roughly a quarter of it is floor. The room is a dimension of the same size as the venue chain the page has been publishing.

The obvious objection is that a room is just where the good shows get put. So rank every room on a random half of the shows that played it, and score it on the other, disjoint half — ranked inside its own operator, so a good chain cannot masquerade as a good room.

**Rooms ranked on one half of their shows, scored on the other half**

| Held-out dates in… | Rooms | Dates | Sold out |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| Their operator’s better half of rooms | 114 | 7,096 | 18.67% |
| Their operator’s worse half of rooms | 114 | 7,177 | 12.83% |
| Gap | — | — | +5.84pp |

A +5.84-point gap on shows the ranking never saw, with a 95% interval of +3.01 to +8.79 resampling SHOWS rather than dates — dates inside one show are not independent and a date-level interval here would be about half the width it should be. Repeating the whole split ten times gives a mean gap of +5.26pp and it never changes sign. This is the one table on the page built on a random split; the split is seeded, so a refresh that moves this number means the data moved.

> **About half the raw gap is size and price, and the rest is programming**
>
> Hold the operator alone and the held-out room effect is an odds ratio of 1.66. Add room size and price band and it falls to 1.30, averaged over ten splits and never below 1.09. So the 36.7-point raw spread is how much rooms differ, not what a room does to you: much of it is that a chain’s best room is also its biggest and dearest. What survives that is real and small. And a room’s rate is its programming as much as its architecture — Bunker One has hosted nine shows, so it is nine booking decisions and one room, and none of this is a tip about which door to walk through.


## In full

The findings page draws the readable cut of this chart: buildings with at least 4 measurable rooms, which is 19 buildings and 129 rooms. It is a sample of the finding, not the finding. Drop that one threshold — keep every per-room floor exactly where it was — and the same query returns 49 buildings and 187 rooms, 30 buildings and 58 rooms more. That fuller chart replaces the sampled one here rather than sitting beside it, so no building is drawn twice on this page.

**Every building with two or more measurable rooms — 40 buildings, open one to see its rooms**

#### Assembly George Square Studios

Best room: 58.4% Studio One · Worst room: 5.2% Underground · Spread: 53.2pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Studio One (288 seats · £16 · 9 shows) | 58.4% | 101 |
| Studio Four (60 seats · £13 · 11 shows) | 23.1% | 143 |
| Studio Three (250 seats · £17 · 9 shows) | 21.3% | 75 |
| Studio Five (87 seats · £13 · 10 shows) | 17.3% | 127 |
| Studio Two (195 seats · £16 · 12 shows) | 7.9% | 126 |
| Underground (120 seats · £14 · 7 shows) | 5.2% | 77 |

#### Summerhall

Best room: 47.6% Main Hall · Worst room: 0% Sauna Theatre · Spread: 47.6pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Main Hall (146 seats · £17 · 10 shows) | 47.6% | 124 |
| Former Gents Locker Room (45 seats · £15 · 5 shows) | 33.3% | 75 |
| Former Womens Locker Room (40 seats · £16 · 7 shows) | 32.2% | 87 |
| TechCube 0 (114 seats · £17 · 10 shows) | 28.8% | 132 |
| Anatomy Lecture Theatre (58 seats · £16 · 11 shows) | 25.4% | 134 |
| Red Lecture Theatre (80 seats · £17 · 9 shows) | 20.3% | 133 |
| Old Lab (94 seats · £16 · 11 shows) | 17.9% | 140 |
| Sauna Theatre (80 seats · £25 · 9 shows) | 0.0% | 134 |

#### Pleasance Courtyard

Best room: 60.4% Bunker One · Worst room: 15.6% Above · Spread: 44.8pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Bunker One (56 seats · £13 · 9 shows) | 60.4% | 144 |
| Beyond (299 seats · £18 · 9 shows) | 54.5% | 121 |
| Grand (750 seats · £20 · 10 shows) | 45.7% | 81 |
| Bunker Three (46 seats · £12 · 10 shows) | 42.9% | 161 |
| Pleasance One (299 seats · £17 · 9 shows) | 42.7% | 96 |
| Attic (50 seats · £13 · 10 shows) | 42.1% | 159 |
| Beside (95 seats · £14 · 10 shows) | 40.6% | 143 |
| Baby Grand (66 seats · £13 · 9 shows) | 40.4% | 141 |
| Cabaret Bar (170 seats · £15 · 13 shows) | 40.4% | 104 |
| Bunker Two (56 seats · £13 · 10 shows) | 35.4% | 144 |
| The Green (60 seats · £12 · 13 shows) | 32.3% | 133 |
| Upstairs (91 seats · £14 · 10 shows) | 30.9% | 136 |
| Cellar (46 seats · £12 · 10 shows) | 29.5% | 156 |
| Pleasance Two (158 seats · £16 · 8 shows) | 28.3% | 92 |
| Forth (257 seats · £18 · 13 shows) | 27.0% | 122 |
| Below (55 seats · £13 · 10 shows) | 22.8% | 158 |
| Above (146 seats · £15 · 10 shows) | 15.6% | 141 |

#### Monkey Barrel Comedy

Best room: 70.9% Monkey Barrel 3 · Worst room: 33.2% Monkey Barrel 2 · Spread: 37.7pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Monkey Barrel 3 (155 seats · £14 · 23 shows) | 70.9% | 148 |
| Monkey Barrel 1 (106 seats · £13 · 17 shows) | 68.8% | 189 |
| Monkey Barrel 4 (100 seats · £13 · 22 shows) | 57.8% | 166 |
| Monkey Barrel 2 (65 seats · £11 · 19 shows) | 33.2% | 184 |

#### ZOO Playground

Best room: 33.6% Playground 3 · Worst room: 0.9% Playground 2 · Spread: 32.7pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Playground 3 (20 seats · £13 · 9 shows) | 33.6% | 116 |
| Playground 1 (40 seats · £12 · 10 shows) | 4.3% | 138 |
| Playground 2 (50 seats · £14 · 8 shows) | 0.9% | 112 |

#### Underbelly, Cowgate

Best room: 41.4% Belly Button · Worst room: 8.9% Jelly Belly · Spread: 32.5pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Belly Button (123 seats · £13 · 9 shows) | 41.4% | 111 |
| Belly Dancer (180 seats · £14 · 7 shows) | 36.1% | 108 |
| Belly Laugh (125 seats · £13 · 8 shows) | 22.3% | 94 |
| Iron Belly (60 seats · £12 · 8 shows) | 19.0% | 126 |
| Big Belly (60 seats · £12 · 10 shows) | 17.6% | 125 |
| Jelly Belly (60 seats · £12 · 8 shows) | 8.9% | 123 |

#### Hoots @ The Apex

Best room: 29% Hoot 1 · Worst room: 0.8% Hoot 5 · Spread: 28.2pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Hoot 1 (200 seats · £13 · 9 shows) | 29.0% | 176 |
| Hoot 6 (25 seats · £6 · 8 shows) | 17.6% | 108 |
| Hoot 2 (60 seats · £10 · 10 shows) | 13.8% | 109 |
| Hoot 4 (40 seats · £8 · 11 shows) | 3.5% | 143 |
| Hoot 3 (50 seats · £9 · 10 shows) | 1.8% | 113 |
| Hoot 5 (28 seats · £7 · 9 shows) | 0.8% | 128 |

#### Underbelly, Bristo Square

Best room: 28.5% Friesian · Worst room: 0.9% Dairy Room · Spread: 27.6pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Friesian (115 seats · £13 · 9 shows) | 28.5% | 123 |
| Daisy (42 seats · £11 · 7 shows) | 20.2% | 104 |
| Cowbarn (300 seats · £15 · 7 shows) | 18.1% | 94 |
| Jersey (90 seats · £12 · 9 shows) | 14.3% | 119 |
| Dexter (60 seats · £12 · 9 shows) | 13.7% | 124 |
| Ermintrude (196 seats · £15 · 7 shows) | 9.8% | 92 |
| Clover (60 seats · £11 · 9 shows) | 7.8% | 129 |
| McEwan Hall (1000 seats · £19 · 15 shows) | 4.8% | 83 |
| Dairy Room (120 seats · £13 · 7 shows) | 0.9% | 110 |

#### Pleasance Dome

Best room: 38% Jack Dome · Worst room: 11.8% King Dome · Spread: 26.2pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Jack Dome (75 seats · £13 · 11 shows) | 38.0% | 137 |
| Queen Dome (174 seats · £16 · 8 shows) | 32.5% | 126 |
| 10 Dome (83 seats · £14 · 10 shows) | 12.3% | 138 |
| Ace Dome (115 seats · £14 · 11 shows) | 11.9% | 134 |
| King Dome (174 seats · £15 · 7 shows) | 11.8% | 110 |

#### theSpace @ Symposium Hall

Best room: 42.4% Amphitheatre · Worst room: 18.8% Annexe · Spread: 23.6pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Amphitheatre (156 seats · £16 · 12 shows) | 42.4% | 144 |
| Annexe (55 seats · £12 · 19 shows) | 18.8% | 154 |

#### theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall

Best room: 26.4% Theatre 1 · Worst room: 5.4% Stephenson Theatre · Spread: 21pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Theatre 1 (60 seats · £12 · 21 shows) | 26.4% | 163 |
| Grand Theatre (152 seats · £13 · 17 shows) | 17.6% | 148 |
| Theatre 2 (49 seats · £11 · 22 shows) | 15.0% | 160 |
| Haldane Theatre (49 seats · £12 · 25 shows) | 13.2% | 182 |
| Fleming Theatre (117 seats · £13 · 21 shows) | 12.0% | 166 |
| Theatre 3 (42 seats · £11 · 22 shows) | 11.8% | 238 |
| Stephenson Theatre (47 seats · £11 · 21 shows) | 5.4% | 168 |

#### Gilded Balloon Teviot

Best room: 21.7% The Den · Worst room: 0.8% Billiard Room · Spread: 20.9pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| The Den (60 seats · £13 · 12 shows) | 21.7% | 157 |
| Debating Hall (307 seats · £17 · 10 shows) | 20.2% | 94 |
| Nook (46 seats · £12 · 10 shows) | 15.2% | 145 |
| Wine Bar (150 seats · £14 · 11 shows) | 14.3% | 119 |
| Wee Room  (50 seats · £12 · 8 shows) | 13.5% | 126 |
| Turret  (50 seats · £12 · 9 shows) | 12.2% | 139 |
| Lounge (120 seats · £13 · 9 shows) | 9.6% | 115 |
| Dining Room  (120 seats · £14 · 13 shows) | 9.4% | 127 |
| Billiard Room (100 seats · £13 · 8 shows) | 0.8% | 127 |

#### Assembly Roxy

Best room: 21.8% Roxyboxy · Worst room: 2% Snug Bar · Spread: 19.8pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Roxyboxy (74 seats · £13 · 8 shows) | 21.8% | 110 |
| Central (250 seats · £15 · 10 shows) | 19.7% | 117 |
| Downstairs (60 seats · £13 · 8 shows) | 5.9% | 119 |
| Upstairs (168 seats · £15 · 10 shows) | 3.6% | 110 |
| Snug Bar (50 seats · £13 · 8 shows) | 2.0% | 99 |

#### Paradise in Augustines

Best room: 26.5% Sanctuary · Worst room: 7.9% Snug · Spread: 18.6pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Sanctuary (115 seats · £12 · 10 shows) | 26.5% | 83 |
| Studio (capacity not filed · £13 · 11 shows) | 8.6% | 81 |
| Snug (30 seats · £9 · 9 shows) | 7.9% | 89 |

#### Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street)

Best room: 17.6% Slice 1 · Worst room: 1.2% Slice 3 · Spread: 16.4pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Slice 1 (60 seats · £7 · 8 shows) | 17.6% | 85 |
| Slice 2 (60 seats · £6 · 11 shows) | 7.6% | 119 |
| Slice 5 (25 seats · £7 · 11 shows) | 6.5% | 138 |
| Slice 3 (100 seats · £10 · 7 shows) | 1.2% | 82 |

#### Gilded Balloon Patter House

Best room: 20.4% Blether · Worst room: 4.6% Dram · Spread: 15.8pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Blether (56 seats · £12 · 11 shows) | 20.4% | 142 |
| Big Yin (234 seats · £15 · 8 shows) | 20.0% | 110 |
| Bothie (58 seats · £11 · 10 shows) | 20.0% | 140 |
| Doonstairs (160 seats · £13 · 9 shows) | 20.0% | 105 |
| Coorie (60 seats · £12 · 12 shows) | 16.3% | 147 |
| The Penny (43 seats · £12 · 9 shows) | 13.8% | 145 |
| Snug (40 seats · £11 · 11 shows) | 13.3% | 143 |
| Other Yin  (140 seats · £13 · 9 shows) | 11.8% | 127 |
| Dram (100 seats · £13 · 11 shows) | 4.6% | 153 |

#### Assembly George Square

Best room: 32.3% Gordon Aikman Theatre · Worst room: 17.6% The Crate · Spread: 14.7pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Gordon Aikman Theatre (500 seats · £18 · 9 shows) | 32.3% | 124 |
| The Box (74 seats · £13 · 10 shows) | 24.6% | 130 |
| The Crate (74 seats · £14 · 11 shows) | 17.6% | 125 |

#### Just The Tonic at The Hive

Best room: 17.2% The Queen Chamber · Worst room: 2.9% The Worker Room · Spread: 14.3pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| The Queen Chamber (120 seats · £10 · 7 shows) | 17.2% | 99 |
| The Worker Room (65 seats · £8 · 9 shows) | 2.9% | 103 |

#### Just The Tonic at The Caves

Best room: 15% Just The Fancy Room · Worst room: 1.5% Just Up The Stairs · Spread: 13.5pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Just The Fancy Room (80 seats · £11 · 13 shows) | 15.0% | 160 |
| Just The Wee One (60 seats · £9 · 13 shows) | 6.3% | 128 |
| Just The Big Room (150 seats · £15 · 11 shows) | 5.1% | 99 |
| Just The Spare Room (50 seats · £9 · 13 shows) | 5.1% | 118 |
| Just Up The Road (80 seats · £11 · 7 shows) | 4.9% | 81 |
| Just Out Of The Box (60 seats · £10 · 16 shows) | 2.6% | 156 |
| Just Up The Stairs (80 seats · £11 · 14 shows) | 1.5% | 133 |

#### theSpaceTriplex

Best room: 14.6% Big · Worst room: 1.8% Studio · Spread: 12.8pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Big (130 seats · £13 · 22 shows) | 14.6% | 158 |
| Studio (65 seats · £12 · 16 shows) | 1.8% | 164 |

#### Greenside @ Riddles Court

Best room: 12% Clover Studio · Worst room: 0.7% Thistle Theatre · Spread: 11.3pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Clover Studio (20 seats · £12 · 13 shows) | 12.0% | 150 |
| Pickle Studio (22 seats · £12 · 14 shows) | 10.9% | 138 |
| Willow Studio (60 seats · £14 · 15 shows) | 2.2% | 134 |
| Thistle Theatre (70 seats · £12 · 16 shows) | 0.7% | 139 |

#### Underbelly, George Square

Best room: 29.7% Bluebell · Worst room: 18.4% Buttercup · Spread: 11.3pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Bluebell (72 seats · £13 · 9 shows) | 29.7% | 101 |
| The Wee Coo (60 seats · £12 · 8 shows) | 22.0% | 123 |
| Udderbelly (410 seats · £16 · 8 shows) | 20.6% | 107 |
| Buttercup (72 seats · £12 · 10 shows) | 18.4% | 136 |

#### Just The Tonic Nucleus

Best room: 20.7% Just The Atomic Room · Worst room: 9.5% Just The Sub-Atomic Room · Spread: 11.2pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Just The Atomic Room (280 seats · £16 · 10 shows) | 20.7% | 92 |
| Just The Sub-Atomic Room (110 seats · £12 · 17 shows) | 9.5% | 84 |

#### theSpace @ Niddry St

Best room: 13.2% Lower Theatre · Worst room: 2.3% Studio · Spread: 10.9pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Lower Theatre (102 seats · £14 · 23 shows) | 13.2% | 167 |
| Upper Theatre (92 seats · £11 · 24 shows) | 7.6% | 170 |
| Studio (50 seats · £11 · 23 shows) | 2.3% | 171 |

#### ZOO Southside

Best room: 10% Main House · Worst room: 0% Studio · Spread: 10pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Main House (200 seats · £19 · 10 shows) | 10.0% | 80 |
| Studio (70 seats · £13 · 10 shows) | 0.0% | 135 |

#### Paradise in The Vault

Best room: 12.6% The Annexe · Worst room: 2.9% The Vault · Spread: 9.7pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| The Annexe (45 seats · £12 · 14 shows) | 12.6% | 95 |
| The Vault (42 seats · £12 · 13 shows) | 2.9% | 104 |

#### Assembly Rooms

Best room: 13.8% Music Hall · Worst room: 4.5% Drawing Room · Spread: 9.3pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Music Hall (670 seats · £19 · 6 shows) | 13.8% | 80 |
| Ballroom (350 seats · £17 · 9 shows) | 10.0% | 90 |
| Drawing Room (104 seats · £15 · 7 shows) | 4.5% | 111 |

#### Assembly @ Dance Base

Best room: 16.7% DB1 · Worst room: 7.5% DB3 · Spread: 9.2pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| DB1 (72 seats · £15 · 12 shows) | 16.7% | 84 |
| DB3 (90 seats · £15 · 8 shows) | 7.5% | 67 |

#### theSpace on the Mile

Best room: 21% Space 1 · Worst room: 11.9% Space 3 · Spread: 9.1pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Space 1 (52 seats · £11 · 20 shows) | 21.0% | 181 |
| Space 2 (55 seats · £12 · 20 shows) | 14.2% | 176 |
| Space 3 (58 seats · £12 · 20 shows) | 11.9% | 143 |

#### Hoots @ Potterrow

Best room: 11.2% The Big Yurt · Worst room: 2.2% Wee Container 1 · Spread: 9pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| The Big Yurt (45 seats · £9 · 10 shows) | 11.2% | 107 |
| Wee Container 2 (32 seats · £7 · 9 shows) | 10.4% | 115 |
| Wee Container 1 (32 seats · £6 · 10 shows) | 2.2% | 134 |

#### Greenside @ George Street

Best room: 10.2% Mint Studio · Worst room: 1.4% Jade Studio · Spread: 8.8pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Mint Studio (34 seats · £13 · 14 shows) | 10.2% | 137 |
| Lime Studio (70 seats · £11 · 16 shows) | 10.0% | 140 |
| Ivy Studio (33 seats · £13 · 17 shows) | 9.9% | 161 |
| Sprout Studio (21 seats · £12 · 15 shows) | 8.1% | 148 |
| Olive Studio (45 seats · £12 · 16 shows) | 5.2% | 155 |
| Forest Theatre (90 seats · £14 · 16 shows) | 3.6% | 111 |
| Jade Studio (70 seats · £14 · 12 shows) | 1.4% | 143 |

#### Assembly George Square Gardens

Best room: 28.3% Palais du Variété  · Worst room: 20.1% Piccolo Tent · Spread: 8.2pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Palais du Variété  (450 seats · £17 · 12 shows) | 28.3% | 127 |
| Piccolo Tent (192 seats · £15 · 10 shows) | 20.1% | 149 |

#### Just The Tonic at The Mash House

Best room: 4.2% Just The Snifter Room · Worst room: 0% Just The Bottle Room · Spread: 4.2pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Just The Snifter Room (60 seats · £9 · 13 shows) | 4.2% | 143 |
| Just The Cask Room (80 seats · £9 · 11 shows) | 2.1% | 97 |
| Just The Attic (50 seats · £9 · 10 shows) | 1.0% | 102 |
| Just The Bottle Room (60 seats · £9 · 13 shows) | 0.0% | 134 |

#### Assembly @ St Andrew Square

Best room: 18.9% Bijou · Worst room: 15.3% Front Room · Spread: 3.6pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Bijou (capacity not filed · £18 · 8 shows) | 18.9% | 95 |
| Front Room (capacity not filed · £14 · 9 shows) | 15.3% | 118 |

#### Hoots @ Nicolson Square

Best room: 3.2% Nic 3 (Nicolson Square Venues) · Worst room: 0% Nic 6 (Nicolson Square Venues Courtyard) · Spread: 3.2pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Nic 3 (Nicolson Square Venues) (40 seats · £8 · 13 shows) | 3.2% | 126 |
| Nic 9 (Nicolson Square Gardens) (40 seats · £7 · 10 shows) | 3.1% | 97 |
| Nic 2 (The Main Hall, Nicolson Square Venues) (100 seats · £6 · 5 shows) | 3.0% | 66 |
| Nic 5 (Nicolson Square Venues Courtyard) (32 seats · £7 · 9 shows) | 2.7% | 111 |
| Nic 8 (Nicolson Square Gardens) (40 seats · £7 · 8 shows) | 2.7% | 111 |
| Nic 4 (Nicolson Square Venues) (25 seats · £5 · 10 shows) | 2.4% | 123 |
| Nic 7 (Nicolson Square Gardens) (45 seats · £6 · 8 shows) | 1.8% | 109 |
| Nic 6 (Nicolson Square Venues Courtyard) (40 seats · £6 · 12 shows) | 0.0% | 104 |

#### Monkey Barrel Comedy (Cabaret Voltaire)

Best room: 29.2% CabVol 1 · Worst room: 26% CabVol 2 · Spread: 3.2pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| CabVol 1 (100 seats · £12 · 18 shows) | 29.2% | 144 |
| CabVol 2 (50 seats · £10 · 14 shows) | 26.0% | 154 |

#### C ARTS | C venues | C aurora

Best room: 5.2% main house · Worst room: 2.4% studio · Spread: 2.8pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| main house (143 seats · £13 · 27 shows) | 5.2% | 116 |
| studio (45 seats · £12 · 18 shows) | 2.4% | 165 |

#### Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn

Best room: 7% Beehive 2 (The Comedy Attic) · Worst room: 4.7% Beehive 1 (The Comedy Tent) · Spread: 2.3pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Beehive 2 (The Comedy Attic) (64 seats · £10 · 12 shows) | 7.0% | 171 |
| Beehive 1 (The Comedy Tent) (75 seats · £9 · 6 shows) | 4.7% | 127 |

#### C ARTS | C venues | C aquila

Best room: 2.3% studio · Worst room: 0.7% temple · Spread: 1.6pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| studio (52 seats · £12 · 11 shows) | 2.3% | 133 |
| temple (85 seats · £13 · 22 shows) | 0.7% | 153 |

#### Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows

Best room: 22.2% The Lafayette · Worst room: 21.5% The Beauty · Spread: 0.7pp

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| The Lafayette (550 seats · £19 · 5 shows) | 22.2% | 63 |
| The Beauty (500 seats · £17 · 6 shows) | 21.5% | 79 |

The scroll draws only buildings with 4 or more measurable rooms, which is 19 buildings and 129 rooms. This is the same query with that one threshold dropped: 49 buildings and 187 rooms in total, of which 40 have a spread to report. The per-room floors are unchanged and are what make a bar mean anything — at least 60 dates and at least 3 different shows in the room. Operators that report sellouts but never confirm a miss are excluded entirely, so no bar here is a floor with no ceiling. Bars run to a 100% scale. Each bar is a share of that room's dates.

**Buildings with exactly one measurable room — 9 of them**

| | Sold out | Dates |
|---|---:|---:|
| Assembly Hall — Main Hall (840 seats · £18 · 9 shows) | 16.7% | 102 |
| C ARTS | C venues | C alto — theatre (68 seats · £12 · 9 shows) | 6.5% | 138 |
| Gilded Balloon at the Museum — Auditorium (210 seats · £16 · 12 shows) | 37.5% | 88 |
| Just The Tonic at Subway — Just The Tonic at The Subway (60 seats · £10 · 11 shows) | 3.6% | 84 |
| Just The Tonic at Westside Rodeo — The Saloon Bar (130 seats · £11 · 13 shows) | 0.0% | 120 |
| Monkey Barrel Comedy (Niddry Street) — The Studio (40 seats · £10 · 7 shows) | 18.3% | 104 |
| Monkey Barrel Comedy at O'Neill's (The Tron) — O'Neill's (The Tron) (60 seats · £13 · 13 shows) | 36.2% | 152 |
| Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar — The Waverley (55 seats · £11 · 7 shows) | 17.9% | 106 |
| theSpace @ Venue 45 — Venue 45 (89 seats · £11 · 25 shows) | 15.0% | 120 |

One room each, so there is no within-building spread to report and none is claimed. A building appears here rather than above because only one of its rooms cleared 60 dates and 3 shows — usually a site where one room runs a full programme and the others host a handful of short runs. Every rate is the floor rate used everywhere on these pages.


## Method, in full

Both cuts are one query with one set of floors. A room is drawn if it has at least 60 dates and at least 3 distinct shows in this snapshot; a building is drawn if it has at least one such room here, and at least 4 on the scroll. The 19 buildings the scroll draws appear here with identical rooms and identical rates, and a test fails the build if they ever stop matching — the deep cut is an extension of the scroll’s '
          + 'chart, never a second opinion about it.

The 3-show floor is the one doing the most work, and it was added after the fact. Without it a single listing that played one room every day of the festival becomes that room’s entire record, and Underbelly Cowgate acquired an 84-point internal spread out of one show. A room bar is meant to describe a room, so a room whose record is one act does not get one.

Operators that sell every date through the Fringe’s central box office are excluded from this page altogether, not marked with a ≥ as they are in the operator league table. The reason is that the claim here is comparative — this room against that room inside one chain — and a floor with no ceiling cannot be ranked against a measurement without inventing the missing bound. Their rooms are not shown rather than shown wrongly.

Population is the driver set rather than the ticketed floor the rest of the analysis publishes. One timed-entry listing running dozens of slots a day moves a small room’s rate by twenty points, and those listings are excluded from the driver set. It is the one population difference between this page and the scroll’s headline figures, and it is why a room rate here will not reconcile against a venue rate elsewhere to the decimal.

The held-out test in the section above is the only thing on any of these pages built on a random split. The split is seeded and the seed is fixed, so re-running it does not reshuffle until the data itself moves; the whole split is repeated ten times and the gap never changes sign. Rooms are ranked inside their own operator, so a good chain cannot enter the test disguised as a good room, and the interval resamples shows rather than dates because dates inside one run are not independent draws.