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REVIEW – Simple Minds at the Usher Hall
Simple Minds were the archetypal 80's band: their emphatic, stadium-sized, harmonic and synth-filled hits meant that their studio energy transcended and inflated into a...
Bella Hardy to appear at Queen’s Hall next month
Acclaimed folk singer and song writer Bella Hardy is appearing at the Queen's Hall on 1st May to promote her seventh solo album 'With...
Colin Steele Quintet: Edinburgh Festival Theatre Studio
Trumpeter Colin Steele is one of the leading names in Scottish jazz. An Edinburgh resident, he is a regular name at many of the...
REVIEW – Axis Of at Sneaky Pete’s
For their 'Edinburgh album launch', the poky Sneaky Pete's wasn't so poky for Axis Of's first Sneaky Pete's gig, however they played it like...
REVIEW – The Coronas at Liquid Room
The Coronas' UK tour is a mere footnote compared to the massive shows they have previous played in their native Ireland. The band have...
Masterclass today at the Reid Concert Hall
There will be a masterclass today from 11:00 – 13:00 at Reid Concert Hall, Bristo Square, Edinburgh by Susan Tomes who is a pianist and writer. She...
Paul Weller: The Modfather Still Does Something To Me
As a long-time fan of Paul Weller, from the angry young man days of The Jam in the late 1970s, to the style-changing Style...
The Edinburgh Reporter in conversation with Young Kato
Young Kato are the ultimate six-piece that notch up hard-hitting melodies incorporated into their list of convincing indie anthems. After coming together as a...
The WS Orchestra to stage a first this week
The WS Orchestra presents
THE GREAT WAR – A COMMEMORATION IN WORDS AND MUSIC
SPONSORED BY HBJ AND URQUHARTS
At the Signet Library, Parliament Square on 19 MARCH 2015 at...
The Edinburgh Reporter in conversation with The Handsome Family
You may know them as a multi-genre folk act for their obscure lyrics and admiration for animals; or you may know them because of...
The Edinburgh Reporter in conversation with Gun
Gun were the Scottish glam rock band in the 90s who could have taken over the world. They supported The Rolling Stones on their Urban...
Scottish Schools Pipe Band Championships 2015
The world's largest schools piping competition took place in Edinburgh earlier today involving 400 pupils from across the country.
The High School of Glasgow took...
Interview with Rhodes
Three EPs into his already promising music career, David Rhodes is renowned for his idyllic songs with a mesmerising atmospheric edge. Rhodes has already...
The Edinburgh Reporter in conversation with Quiet as a Mouse
Quiet as a Mouse are the latest exciting band from Edinburgh and are almost changing the way indie is defined. Their anthemic-cum-fragile sound draws...
Blueflint launch new album ‘Stories from Home’ with UK tour
Edinburgh based folk band Blueflint are launching their new album ‘Stories From Home’ and doing a major UK tour to support the release during...
Music – The Shires will showcase new album Brave in Edinburgh
UPDATE - The Shires have had to cancel their Edinburgh date! So to make up for this Decca Nashville have given us 5 albums...
East Coast FM brings 60’s music legends to Haddington
Community radio station East Coast FM has teamed up with 60's legends The Animals and The Troggs as part of fund raising efforts to support...
The Edinburgh Reporter in conversation with Ghostpoet
Three albums into his already promising music career, Ghostpoet (aka Obaro Ejimiwe) has already won a Mercury Prize nomination, only losing out to PJ Harvey's Let...
Young Kato to release debut album
Six-piece Young Kato are to release their debut album Don't Wait 'til Tomorrow on 3 May through the Republic of Music label.
The first single from their...
T in the Park announces 2015 line-up
Kasabian and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will join The Libertines as the headliners of this year's T in the Park.
The festival is due...
Ghostpoet announces new album and UK tour dates
British musician Ghostpoet has published details of his upcoming album release, Shedding Skin, which is to be released on 2 March 2015 through the label...
Django Django announce new album and tour dates
Edinburgh-formed, London-based band Django Django have announced details of their new album, Born Under Saturn, that will be released on 4th May. The band will...
REVIEW: Django Django at Liquid Room
The buzz around some bands these days has become a case of 'been there, done that'. But when you take five sounds and mash them...
REVIEW – Prides at Liquid Room
2014 was the year of Chvrches, 2015 is the year of Prides. Chvrches rose from supporting the likes of Two Door Cinema Club and...
Music – Interview with Prides
Out of the blue, Prides were asked to play during the Commonwealth Games when their song 'Messiah' was acclaimed as representing the sporting event most appropriately.
The...
Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker and John Doyle to play Queen’s Hall
Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker and John Doyle three members of the BBC acclaimed Transatlantic Sessions will play the Queen's Hall on Thursday 12 March as part...
Ryan Adams to play two Scottish shows
Photo credited to Alice Baxley
Ryan Adams is to play two Scottish dates as part of his UK tour, which takes place at the end...
Review: Laura Marling at The Caves (4th Feb 2015)
As diluted folk music seeps its way into the mainstream music chart, there has become a rather blurry middle ground between obscurity and intense...
Idlewild having a beer to celebrate their new album
Edinburgh's Barney’s Beer has come on board with Scottish band Idlewild, brewing a new beer to celebrate their eighth album Everything Ever Written. The craft...
The Music of Doris Day: Edinburgh singer to entertain at The Big Burns Supper
http://vimeo.com/117580800
It's before 9am on a cold January morning and Sarah Laing has just arrived at Dance Base in the Grassmarket to rehearse her one-woman show....
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