The 30th year of Edinburgh’s Hogmanay was celebrated in style with lots of music, hourly fireworks from 9pm until the Midnight Moment and the crowds were dancing in the streets.
The event was a sell out with 50,000 people buying tickets for the gardens and the street party, and the mild dry weather made this a good year to be in the crowd.
In addition to the headline act Pulp, appearing at Hogmanay for the second time, there was a Hot Chip DJ set beforehand to rev the crowd up. On the Waverley Stage the Hannah Fisher Ceilidh Band got them doing the Gay Gordons and the Dashing White Sergeant.
Three tonnes of fireworks exploded in a colourful display over the capital during a display lasting around six and a half minutes.
We would love to show you some of the action from the stages but no filming of live acts performing is permitted from the stage pit, and a press pass did not entitle us to admittance to the enclosure, although many who were in the audience were filming for themselves and their families.
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