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At The Queen’s Hall 6 May 2016 – The Men from Leith
Dean Owens, Dick Gaughan and Ross Wilson, who performs and records as Blue Rose Code, will all play at The Queen's Hall on Friday night. Whether they will all play together is yet to be...
Blair Dunlop at Sneaky Pete’s next week
Accomplished writer, guitarist and vocalist, Blair Dunlop will be coming to Sneaky Pete’s in Edinburgh on 27 April performing songs from his upcoming studio album ‘Gilded’, as well as material from his back catalogue.
New...
Anima Mundi coming to Voodoo Rooms
The Cuban progressive five-piece Rock Band Anima Mundi will be appearing at the Voodoo Rooms on Wednesday 25th May.
The Band will begin the tour in their home town of Havana before heading east to...
Review – LIIMA – Summerhall
Liima, a new band formed by Finnish percussionist Tatu Rönkkö plus Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen and Rasmus Stolberg of Danish act Efterklang, took to the stage for their live Scottish debut in Edinburgh's Summerhall.
With...
Big Country to appear at Howden Centre Livingston next month
Big Country will be appearing in Livingston on Sunday 15th May at Howden Park Centre EH54 6AE 01506 777666 www.howdenparkcentre.co.uk/7.30pm £23 £21Conc
The popular band will perform classic hits and live favourites including Harvest Home - Fields of Fire...
Southern Tenant Folk Union to play Edinburgh Folk Club
Southern Tenant Folk Union will play the Edinburgh Folk Club on Wednesday 11th May.
The Edinburgh based string band who recently featured on BBC1's 'Andrew Marr' show, have, over a series of albums produced a thought...
Review : Ulrich Schnauss – Summerhall – Sunday 13th March
Creating aural soundscapes, immersing his audience into entrancing, emotive lands of the industrial, yet also the natural, Ulrich Schnauss, ambitiously hit Summerhall to entertain the electronic music aficionados.
Ben Chatwin, supporting Schnauss, evoked the appropriate...
Bella Hardy to appear at the Brunton in Musselburgh
Multi award winning singer and songwriter Bella Hardy will be appearing at the Brunton in Musselburgh on 9 April.
2015 was a breathless year for Bella which saw the release of her seventh solo album,...
Acts announced for Party at the Palace 2016
Following on from the success of last year’s event, Party at the Palace have announced the acts that will top the bill for 2016. Set against the stunning backdrop of Linlithgow Palace, this year’s two...
Kaela Rowan coming to The Hippodrome in Eyemouth next month
Kaela Rowan will be playing The Hippodrome in Eyemouth on Wednesday 13 April
Since she first started playing sessions and singing in bands in the Scottish highlands, Kaela Rowan has been gaining a reputation for...
Julia Holter – Summerhall – Saturday 20th February
Julia Holter, playing at Summerhall, managed to sell out on Saturday, and after seeing her mesmerising set it was easy to fathom why this was.
Packed out even for the supporting artist, DM Stith, the venue...
Tuff Love & The Prettiots – Summerhall – 22nd February
Tuff Love, a band who hail from Glasgow, with Suse and Julie on guitars on vocals only created one disappointment on Monday night: the lack of captions and freeze framing which we would only associate...
Music : Interview with Eliza and the Bear
On the closing night of their month-long tour (a jam-packed schedule of dates all over the UK including Edinburgh's Electric Circus) I caught up with Eliza and the Bear to find out about the forthcoming album and life...
The Space Between (2015, Losen Records)
The Space Between (2015 Losen Records)
Haftor Medboe (Guitar), Espen Eriksen (Piano) & Gunnar Halle (Trumpet)
Originally from Norway, Haftor Medboe has made his home in Edinburgh, he’s Jazz Musician in Residence at the city’s Napier...
The Belle Angele, featuring Exit the Theatre, Ferric & The ‘Xcerts
INDEPENDENT VENUE WEEK : Friday 29th January 2016
The Belle Angele, featuring; Exit the Theatre, Ferric & The ‘Xcerts.
Well I must admit I didn’t think I would have spent the evening of the worst gales...
Matthew E. White – Monday 25th January, Electric Circus
Pure Beauty, the support band from London, was enough to make the trek to Electric Circus worthwhile, even on a Monday night in January in Edinburgh. Despite the cold and lethargy this jazz and...
Review – New album by Kirsten Adamson
When I decided to review this new album from Kirsten Adamson, (daughter of Scotland’s much missed legend, Stuart Adamson, founder member of the Skids and a true Rock Star in his own right) I really...
Neu! Reekie!’s Burns Belter
More sedate and quieter than any other Neu Reekie I have attended before now, the stage was graced with Craig Lithgow, a youthful local lad from Kinnesswood. Known for his talents with previous band,...
#NeuReekiesXmasKracker – 17th December, Central Hall
Central Hall had a surreal vibe when the Neu! Reekie! gig took place there last week.
An avant-garde, experimental evening of spoken word, poetry, readings and music, this is a nuance to Edinburgh’s cultural scene which has significantly shifted...
REVIEW – The Charlatans at The Usher Hall
The Charlatans, like Ocean Colour Scene and several other British bands who appear to be everlasting, have been fortunate to enjoy their illustrious 26-year career playing to consistently healthy crowds – and the fans from...
REVIEW – The Vaccines at The Usher Hall
The Vaccines may be steadily declining in popularity, but their performance is still as mammoth and wild as it was when the band broke onto the mainstream scene four years ago supporting Arctic Monkeys....
REVIEW – Don Broco at The Liquid Room
There's nothing that can be done to make Don Broco's sound any more appealing to their young, and quickly growing, fanbase.
But for some of us their clean-cut, sugar-coated mix of assorted pop punk may become hard...
REVIEW – Lissie at Liquid Rooms
This tour shows folk rock star Lissie, formally known as Elizabeth Maurus, in a slightly different mood. She grew tired of touring with a band and is now going it alone, with an acoustic...
St Mary’s Music School entertained guests at SQA Star Awards
Pupils from St Mary’s Music School entertained guests at the SQA Star Awards, held last week at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh.
The School's Scottish Traditional Group: (from left to right) Ciorstaidh Sarah Chaimbeul (Accordion),...
The Charlatans to play Edinburgh this December
The Charlatans will play one last home tour promoting their most recent album Modern Nature with two Scottish shows this month.
The British band, who have had three number one albums in the UK, will play Edinburgh's...
Big Country to play Teviot Debating Hall on 19 December
Music legends 'Big Country' will play the Teviot Debating Hall Teviot Row House, 13 Bristo Square on Saturday 19th December.
Following the incredible success of their 30th Anniversary ‘Steeltown’ Tour, the band set off again on tour...
Museum Lates: Victorian Sensation
Well, the Museum Lates this time came with a Victorian twist, albeit elements of steampunk and selfies to drag it right up to the present day. With a lecture on tattoos, mindfulness, colouring in of...
REVIEW – Bring Me The Horizon at Corn Exchange
Bring Me The Horizon have managed to shape their sound into what an arena band should sound like: huge choruses and energy at the click of a finger.
They have come a long way since...
REVIEW – Stiff Little Fingers at Liquid Rooms
Photo by Ian Rook
Stiff Little Fingers have toured widely, playing to many punk-adoring crowds for years.
They play the Glasgow Barrowlands on St. Patrick's Day every year and manage to sell it out, and they...
REVIEW – James Morrison at The Queen’s Hall
James Morrison was until recently a forgotten pop star who had three platinum albums nearly four years ago.
The singer-songwriter has just returned with a new album, Higher Than Here, and times have changed.
He's a father who says...
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