David Hasselhoff's loose kilt - and other Fringe highlights

"It veers from bad to cheesy to generous spirited, and ends – not totally intentionally – in the most eye-popping spectacle I've seen all festival", wrote the Guardian's critic Brian Logan.

Hasselhoff: The curse of the cameo

At the climax, Hasselhoff sang the Proclaimers' hit, 500 Miles. Just one hitch, wrote Logan: "his costume change was rushed, his kilt isn't fastened properly. It keeps threatening to fall down; his dancers try to help, but can't; the Hoff, distracted, forgets his lyrics. No one present will forget the sight".

Each August the Fringe yields some great images, such as the one here of Hasselhoff publicising his show with the help of two dancers.

Here we look at some other scenes from the Fringe in recent years.

We could be heroesSabrina Gargano, Tess Letham, Jordan Lennie and Joseph Mercier portray comic book superheroes as they promote their Fringe dance theatre show R.I.O.T. at Zoo Venue, August 2015 (Image: Julie Howden)

A Chinese Shakespeare

August 2015: Emma Wilson, aged four, meets the elaborately dressed Lavinia (actor Vivian Shi) from a Chinese production of 'Titus Andronicus' on the Royal Mile (Image: Julie Howden)

A daring juggler

A performer in action during the last days of the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe festival (Image: David Cheskin/PA Wire)

Dressed to kill

A Fringe performer tries to attract the crowds on the Royal Mile, August 2014 (Image: Julie Howden)

No strings attached

Members of the Catalonian string orchestra Orquestra de Cambra d'emporia perform on the roof tops of Craig's Close in Edinburgh's Old Town ahead of their Fringe show Concerto a Tempo D'Umore, in August 2017 (Image: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

Making wavesElin Phillips, Christopher Elson, Gethin Alderman, Mairi Phillips and Neal McWilliams, from Volcano Theatre, perform the Chekhov play The Seagull, partly submerged in 45 tonnes of water in an interior lake filling St James Church in Leith. August 2017 (Image: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

A monumental acrobat

Manu Tigher, a comedy acrobat, performs in front of the Scott Monument in Princes Street Gardens during the 2017 Fringe (Image: David Cheskin/PA Wire)

Salmond, unleashed

Former First Minister Alex Salmond, pictured during his sold-out Edinburgh Fringe show on tour in August 2017 (Image: Lesley Martin/PA Wire)

A berserk show

Acrobats from Cirque Berserk helping to launch the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2018 (Image: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

Back on the Royal Mile

Ballet good show

Dozens of Irish artists - including Ballet Ireland, seen here - were among the stars of the 2018 Fringe (Image: Julie Howden)

Don't try this at home

Actor Maggie Frazer looks through a cloud of liquid nitrogen in front of Edinburgh's McEwan Hall which forms part of one of the explosive science experiments that are demonstrated in the Edinburgh Fringe show 'Brainiac Live!' in 2018 (Image: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)