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I’VE LOST MY BOBBLE HAT! A new Nick Cope family show for 2025!

Help Nick find his beloved bobble hat in this fun filled musical hour with all your favourite Nick Cope hits and more. Nick’s live performances are legendary, appealing to children and adults alike. With his charming songs and humour Nick engages, entertains, and enthrals.

Location Summerhall

subvenue Dissection Room

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music, Live Music

Discography

Celebrating the high energy sounds of New Yorks ‘Studio 54’, 10-piece Discography perform classic and new arrangements of iconic floor fillers form the disco era. Featuring songs from legends; Chic, Nile Rodgers, Donna Summer, Bee Gees, Sister Sledge, Diana Ross, Grace Jones and many more. RESCHEDULED DATE - All original tickets will still be valid for this new date.

Location Summerhall

subvenue Dissection Room

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Live Music

B Dolan

Independent from the jump and fueled at times by willpower and community alone, B. Dolan has expanded his creative influence beyond music into film, poetry, and songwriting over the past fifteen years. Known on stages around the world for his impassioned delivery, dynamic live performances, and dedication to challenging the norm, Dolan engages deeply in his craft while actively fostering a community among his fans and friends.

Location Summerhall

subvenue The Old Lab

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music, folk, Live Music

CALAN

Immerse yourself in an enchanting world as the mesmerising quartet CALAN grace our stage with their unique brand of power-folk.

Location Summerhall

subvenue Dissection Room

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music, Live Music

Cahill//Costello (Cancelled)

Cahill//Costello are an ambient duo from Glasgow, Scotland and consist of guitarist Kevin Daniel Cahill and drummer Graham Costello. Their process fuses elements of minimalism and ambient music to create a shared, highly emotive soundworld, without regard for over-complication or unnecessary tangents.

Location Summerhall

subvenue The Old Lab

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music, Live Music

Calum Baird

Calum Baird is an emerging Scottish indie-folk singer-songwriter and musician featured on BBC 6 Music, BBC Introducing and BBC Radio Scotland. Calum’s music is characterised by its honesty and authenticity, with lyrics that are often introspective and personal. His songs explore social commentary, modern life, relationships, alienation and social change. 

Location Summerhall

subvenue The Old Lab

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Ceilidh Club

Edinburgh Ceilidh Club brings you the best regular ceilidhs with fantastic live bands. The bands all have a caller to teach the dances, so everyone is welcome - from complete beginners to experienced ceilidh dancers.

Location Summerhall

subvenue Main Hall

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Cold Turkey

Cold Turkey is a scrumptious festive buffet of music, spoken word and arty weirdness, featuring Hollie McNish, Michael Pedersen and Withered Hand. This is the mouth-watering seventh serving. Cold Turkey was founded as a collective by Michael Pedersen, Scott Hutchison, Hollie McNish & Withered Hand. Since Scott’s leaving, Michael, Hollie & Dan/WH have been joined by special guests such as: Kae Tempest, Paul Smith (Maximo Park), Kathryn Joseph & more. The sleigh sails on: in tribute and for the love & joy of it. Special guests TBA

Location Summerhall

subvenue Dissection Room

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comedy, theatre

Creepy Boys

You're invited: The Creepy Boys, are throwing their 13th birthday party. It will have everything. Games. Gifts. Possibly Satan. Probably Cake. Combining 2000s sexy songs, satanic rituals, and Willam Dafoe, these horny little boys do whatever it takes to make their birthday dreams come true (think Oh, Hello meets those twins from The Shining, meets My Super Sweet 16).

Location Summerhall

subvenue TechCube 0

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Live Music, rock

Deaf Club

Deaf Club is a savage sound bath dripping with sardonicism: a blastbeat-centric hardcore punk assault channelling crust, thrash, and grind (un)sensibilities. Succinct pauses, surreal frequencies and effects, breakneck pace and sharply hurled vocals characterize the band’s aesthetic, which seems as though it is rooted in a sort of nasty-sound-meets-highbrow-message ethos.

Location Summerhall

subvenue The Old Lab

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music, Live Music

Disposable: Album Release Party

After their successful debut destruction of Summerhall in May, Edinburgh metallers Disposable return to the Old Lab to celebrate the release of their third full length album It's Blood That Trickles Down, a highly charged, confrontational cut of 15 tracks of finger pointing thrash. A trilogy of Edinburgh metal is completed by young buck thrashers Luxera and Penicuik hard hitters Hammer who are providing a ferocious warm-up before the main event. After proving last time that the Old Lab is the perfect environment for a big metal celebration – it's time to do it all again!

Location Summerhall

subvenue The Old Lab

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music, Live Music

Edwin Raphael - CANCELLED

How do you anchor yourself when occupying multiple geographic identities at once? For Edwin Raphael, the Dubai-raised, Montreal-based songwriter, it requires an intentional and intensive form of world-building. By developing an unmistakable style of folk that merges Eastern scales with the Western pop canon, Raphael reimagines his music as a exploratory tool that allows him to construct an interior and sacred home to retreat into

Location Summerhall

subvenue The Old Lab

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Gizmo Varillas

Gizmo Varillas, the UK based Spanish singer songwriter, has created a genre elusive sound that accessibly merges his refreshingly varied musical influences and an endless list of instruments he performs.

Location Summerhall

subvenue The Old Lab

music, Live Music

Grayling

Recently deemed one of Vic Galloway’s (BBC Scotland) ‘Ones to Watch’ Glasgow artist - Grayling along with her all star band will play Summerhall’s Old Lab on the 7th of November

Location Summerhall

subvenue The Old Lab

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Ibibio Sound Machine

Pull the Rope, the new record by Ibibio Sound Machine, casts the Eno Williams and Max Grunhard-led outfit in a new light. The hope, joy, and sexiness of their music remains, but, further honing the edge of their acclaimed 2022 album Electricity, the connection they aim to foster has shifted venues, from the sunny buoyancy of a sunlit festival to a sweat-soaked, all-night dance club. The atmosphere has changed, but you’re still having the time of your life.

Location Summerhall

subvenue Dissection Room

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music, Live Music

Idiogram - Reunion of Broken Parts: Album Launch (POSTPONED)

This show is being postponed, all customers have been contacted. Ticket holders should feel free to contact the promoters at idiogramband@gmail.com with any questions in the interim. Genre-bending quartet Idiogram launch their debut album ‘Reunion of Broken Parts’. Unconstrained by convention or expectation, their music blends influences from post-prog, rock, electronic, ambient and classical. Reflecting a shared love of the weird and the beautiful, the result is a compelling musical journey, all delivered with joyful conviction.

Location Summerhall

subvenue The Old Lab

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Live Music

Jyoty presents We've Been Here Before

Jyoty’s journey into music is admirable. From managing the door of London’s Boiler Room to manning the decks at Jacquemus parties with Kaytranada, the Amsterdam-born DJ injects her garage-house mixes with a roster of R&B classics, Punjabi tunes and dancehall tracks. Jyoty hosts her own weekly show on Rinse FM and has provided workshops for fellow South Asian women wanting to break into the music industry.

Location Summerhall

subvenue Dissection Room

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Last Night From Glasgow presents: wojtek the bear Xan Tyler & very special guest Martin Metcalfe CANCELLED

Last Night From Glasgow are delighted to bring wojtek the bear and Xan Tyler to the capital. They’ll be joined on the evening by very special guest Martin Metcalfe of Goodbye Mr McKenzie & The Filthy Tongues. This is a rescheduled date from May 2024, all original tickets are still valid.

Location Summerhall

subvenue The Old Lab

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music, Club Night

MICROSTERIA - CANCELLED

Welcome to MICROSTERIA where the micro is made massive Join us on Saturday 26th October as Summerhall host 2024’s Halloween edition of MICROSTERIA. After an immense year of Dissection Room parties and multiple festival takeovers, Maranta have packed in some astounding and strange acts for the Halloween special.

Location Summerhall

subvenue Dissection Room

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music, Live Music

Niamh Bury

Ever since releasing her first single with Claddagh Records in July 2023, Dubliner Niamh Bury has been hailed as one of Irish folk’s most exciting new talents; a particularly prestigious coup during a time when the genre is garnering so much attention around the world.

Location Summerhall

subvenue The Old Lab

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Project Smok

Project Smok is the neo-trad trio of Ali Levack, Ewan Baird and Pablo Lafuente, whose nonconformist and progressive Scottish traditional music has set them apart since their formation in 2017. Project Smok’s debut album has cemented their place as a young band at the forefront of the traditional music scene who have great intensions and crave innovation. They offer an unconventional, idiosyncratic, energetic synergism that defies expectation. Their second album ‘The Outset’ was released on 19th January 2024.

Location Summerhall

subvenue Dissection Room

Event Image
music, Live Music

Tashi Wada

Los Angeles-based musician Tashi Wada works within a heady, intergenerational slipstream bridging storied East and West Coast art music institutions, and the DIY experimental scenes that emerged in the 2000s and 2010s. Between recording and performing with his partner, Julia Holter, and running his record label Saltern, Wada has carved a unique path as a forward- thinking composer alongside a tight network of collaborators, drawing on diverse influences and exchanges.

Location Summerhall

subvenue The Old Lab

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The Buffy Ball - CANCELLED

Enter the Hellmouth this Halloween for a club night with 90s bangers, hot vampires, spooky happenings and more. For one night only, Summerhall becomes The Bronze so bring your best Slayer energy. Featuring demon DJs, Halloween treats and a special performance from burlesque star and queer cabaret queen Nova Duh. Fangs and flannel encouraged!

Location Summerhall

subvenue The Old Lab

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music, Live Music

The Jim White Trio

Jim White gets around. When he’s not releasing his own critically acclaimed solo albums he splits time producing records for other artists, exhibiting his visual art in galleries and museums across the US and Europe and publishing award winning fiction.

Location Summerhall

subvenue Dissection Room

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music, Live Music

Tujiko Noriko + Mia Zabelka

Tujiko Noriko is a musician, singer, songwriter and filmmaker based in France. Shortly after her demo was discovered by Peter Rehberg and Christian Fennesz in 2000, she released her debut album "Shojo-Toshi" on the renowned Mego label (later Editions Mego). Tujiko has to date released over twenty critically acclaimed albums on the labels Editions Mego, FatCat, Room 40 and PAN. She has performed worldwide, including international festivals Sonar, Benicassim and Mutek. Austrian violinist, vocalist, sound artist and composer Mia Zabelka is at the forefront of international electro-acoustic performance art. She developed her unique musical language in a process she calls “automatic playing”, where the music grows out of her physical movement and finds its expression in her electric violin with electronic devices, alien objects, vocals, and/or the acoustic violin

Location Summerhall

subvenue The Old Lab

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I’VE LOST MY BOBBLE HAT! A new Nick Cope family show for 2025!

Help Nick find his beloved bobble hat in this fun filled musical hour with all your favourite Nick Cope hits and more. Nick’s live performances are legendary, appealing to children and adults alike. With his charming songs and humour Nick engages, entertains, and enthrals.

Location Summerhall

subvenue Dissection Room

Event Image
music, Live Music

Discography

Celebrating the high energy sounds of New Yorks ‘Studio 54’, 10-piece Discography perform classic and new arrangements of iconic floor fillers form the disco era. Featuring songs from legends; Chic, Nile Rodgers, Donna Summer, Bee Gees, Sister Sledge, Diana Ross, Grace Jones and many more. RESCHEDULED DATE - All original tickets will still be valid for this new date.

Location Summerhall

subvenue Dissection Room

Event Image
Live Music

B Dolan

Independent from the jump and fueled at times by willpower and community alone, B. Dolan has expanded his creative influence beyond music into film, poetry, and songwriting over the past fifteen years. Known on stages around the world for his impassioned delivery, dynamic live performances, and dedication to challenging the norm, Dolan engages deeply in his craft while actively fostering a community among his fans and friends.

Location Summerhall

subvenue The Old Lab

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music, folk, Live Music

CALAN

Immerse yourself in an enchanting world as the mesmerising quartet CALAN grace our stage with their unique brand of power-folk.

Location Summerhall

subvenue Dissection Room

Event Image
music, Live Music

Cahill//Costello (Cancelled)

Cahill//Costello are an ambient duo from Glasgow, Scotland and consist of guitarist Kevin Daniel Cahill and drummer Graham Costello. Their process fuses elements of minimalism and ambient music to create a shared, highly emotive soundworld, without regard for over-complication or unnecessary tangents.

Location Summerhall

subvenue The Old Lab

Event Image
music, Live Music

Calum Baird

Calum Baird is an emerging Scottish indie-folk singer-songwriter and musician featured on BBC 6 Music, BBC Introducing and BBC Radio Scotland. Calum’s music is characterised by its honesty and authenticity, with lyrics that are often introspective and personal. His songs explore social commentary, modern life, relationships, alienation and social change. 

Location Summerhall

subvenue The Old Lab

Event Image

Ceilidh Club

Edinburgh Ceilidh Club brings you the best regular ceilidhs with fantastic live bands. The bands all have a caller to teach the dances, so everyone is welcome - from complete beginners to experienced ceilidh dancers.

Location Summerhall

subvenue Main Hall

Event Image

Cold Turkey

Cold Turkey is a scrumptious festive buffet of music, spoken word and arty weirdness, featuring Hollie McNish, Michael Pedersen and Withered Hand. This is the mouth-watering seventh serving. Cold Turkey was founded as a collective by Michael Pedersen, Scott Hutchison, Hollie McNish & Withered Hand. Since Scott’s leaving, Michael, Hollie & Dan/WH have been joined by special guests such as: Kae Tempest, Paul Smith (Maximo Park), Kathryn Joseph & more. The sleigh sails on: in tribute and for the love & joy of it. Special guests TBA

Location Summerhall

subvenue Dissection Room

Event Image
comedy, theatre

Creepy Boys

You're invited: The Creepy Boys, are throwing their 13th birthday party. It will have everything. Games. Gifts. Possibly Satan. Probably Cake. Combining 2000s sexy songs, satanic rituals, and Willam Dafoe, these horny little boys do whatever it takes to make their birthday dreams come true (think Oh, Hello meets those twins from The Shining, meets My Super Sweet 16).

Location Summerhall

subvenue TechCube 0

Event Image
Live Music, rock

Deaf Club

Deaf Club is a savage sound bath dripping with sardonicism: a blastbeat-centric hardcore punk assault channelling crust, thrash, and grind (un)sensibilities. Succinct pauses, surreal frequencies and effects, breakneck pace and sharply hurled vocals characterize the band’s aesthetic, which seems as though it is rooted in a sort of nasty-sound-meets-highbrow-message ethos.

Location Summerhall

subvenue The Old Lab

Event Image
music, Live Music

Disposable: Album Release Party

After their successful debut destruction of Summerhall in May, Edinburgh metallers Disposable return to the Old Lab to celebrate the release of their third full length album It's Blood That Trickles Down, a highly charged, confrontational cut of 15 tracks of finger pointing thrash. A trilogy of Edinburgh metal is completed by young buck thrashers Luxera and Penicuik hard hitters Hammer who are providing a ferocious warm-up before the main event. After proving last time that the Old Lab is the perfect environment for a big metal celebration – it's time to do it all again!

Location Summerhall

subvenue The Old Lab

Event Image
music, Live Music

Edwin Raphael - CANCELLED

How do you anchor yourself when occupying multiple geographic identities at once? For Edwin Raphael, the Dubai-raised, Montreal-based songwriter, it requires an intentional and intensive form of world-building. By developing an unmistakable style of folk that merges Eastern scales with the Western pop canon, Raphael reimagines his music as a exploratory tool that allows him to construct an interior and sacred home to retreat into

Location Summerhall

subvenue The Old Lab

Event Image

Gizmo Varillas

Gizmo Varillas, the UK based Spanish singer songwriter, has created a genre elusive sound that accessibly merges his refreshingly varied musical influences and an endless list of instruments he performs.

Location Summerhall

subvenue The Old Lab

music, Live Music

Grayling

Recently deemed one of Vic Galloway’s (BBC Scotland) ‘Ones to Watch’ Glasgow artist - Grayling along with her all star band will play Summerhall’s Old Lab on the 7th of November

Location Summerhall

subvenue The Old Lab

Event Image

Ibibio Sound Machine

Pull the Rope, the new record by Ibibio Sound Machine, casts the Eno Williams and Max Grunhard-led outfit in a new light. The hope, joy, and sexiness of their music remains, but, further honing the edge of their acclaimed 2022 album Electricity, the connection they aim to foster has shifted venues, from the sunny buoyancy of a sunlit festival to a sweat-soaked, all-night dance club. The atmosphere has changed, but you’re still having the time of your life.

Location Summerhall

subvenue Dissection Room

Event Image
music, Live Music

Idiogram - Reunion of Broken Parts: Album Launch (POSTPONED)

This show is being postponed, all customers have been contacted. Ticket holders should feel free to contact the promoters at idiogramband@gmail.com with any questions in the interim. Genre-bending quartet Idiogram launch their debut album ‘Reunion of Broken Parts’. Unconstrained by convention or expectation, their music blends influences from post-prog, rock, electronic, ambient and classical. Reflecting a shared love of the weird and the beautiful, the result is a compelling musical journey, all delivered with joyful conviction.

Location Summerhall

subvenue The Old Lab

Event Image
Live Music

Jyoty presents We've Been Here Before

Jyoty’s journey into music is admirable. From managing the door of London’s Boiler Room to manning the decks at Jacquemus parties with Kaytranada, the Amsterdam-born DJ injects her garage-house mixes with a roster of R&B classics, Punjabi tunes and dancehall tracks. Jyoty hosts her own weekly show on Rinse FM and has provided workshops for fellow South Asian women wanting to break into the music industry.

Location Summerhall

subvenue Dissection Room

Event Image

Last Night From Glasgow presents: wojtek the bear Xan Tyler & very special guest Martin Metcalfe CANCELLED

Last Night From Glasgow are delighted to bring wojtek the bear and Xan Tyler to the capital. They’ll be joined on the evening by very special guest Martin Metcalfe of Goodbye Mr McKenzie & The Filthy Tongues. This is a rescheduled date from May 2024, all original tickets are still valid.

Location Summerhall

subvenue The Old Lab

Event Image
music, Club Night

MICROSTERIA - CANCELLED

Welcome to MICROSTERIA where the micro is made massive Join us on Saturday 26th October as Summerhall host 2024’s Halloween edition of MICROSTERIA. After an immense year of Dissection Room parties and multiple festival takeovers, Maranta have packed in some astounding and strange acts for the Halloween special.

Location Summerhall

subvenue Dissection Room

Event Image
music, Live Music

Niamh Bury

Ever since releasing her first single with Claddagh Records in July 2023, Dubliner Niamh Bury has been hailed as one of Irish folk’s most exciting new talents; a particularly prestigious coup during a time when the genre is garnering so much attention around the world.

Location Summerhall

subvenue The Old Lab

Event Image

Project Smok

Project Smok is the neo-trad trio of Ali Levack, Ewan Baird and Pablo Lafuente, whose nonconformist and progressive Scottish traditional music has set them apart since their formation in 2017. Project Smok’s debut album has cemented their place as a young band at the forefront of the traditional music scene who have great intensions and crave innovation. They offer an unconventional, idiosyncratic, energetic synergism that defies expectation. Their second album ‘The Outset’ was released on 19th January 2024.

Location Summerhall

subvenue Dissection Room

Event Image
music, Live Music

Tashi Wada

Los Angeles-based musician Tashi Wada works within a heady, intergenerational slipstream bridging storied East and West Coast art music institutions, and the DIY experimental scenes that emerged in the 2000s and 2010s. Between recording and performing with his partner, Julia Holter, and running his record label Saltern, Wada has carved a unique path as a forward- thinking composer alongside a tight network of collaborators, drawing on diverse influences and exchanges.

Location Summerhall

subvenue The Old Lab

Event Image

The Buffy Ball - CANCELLED

Enter the Hellmouth this Halloween for a club night with 90s bangers, hot vampires, spooky happenings and more. For one night only, Summerhall becomes The Bronze so bring your best Slayer energy. Featuring demon DJs, Halloween treats and a special performance from burlesque star and queer cabaret queen Nova Duh. Fangs and flannel encouraged!

Location Summerhall

subvenue The Old Lab

Event Image
music, Live Music

The Jim White Trio

Jim White gets around. When he’s not releasing his own critically acclaimed solo albums he splits time producing records for other artists, exhibiting his visual art in galleries and museums across the US and Europe and publishing award winning fiction.

Location Summerhall

subvenue Dissection Room

Event Image
music, Live Music

Tujiko Noriko + Mia Zabelka

Tujiko Noriko is a musician, singer, songwriter and filmmaker based in France. Shortly after her demo was discovered by Peter Rehberg and Christian Fennesz in 2000, she released her debut album "Shojo-Toshi" on the renowned Mego label (later Editions Mego). Tujiko has to date released over twenty critically acclaimed albums on the labels Editions Mego, FatCat, Room 40 and PAN. She has performed worldwide, including international festivals Sonar, Benicassim and Mutek. Austrian violinist, vocalist, sound artist and composer Mia Zabelka is at the forefront of international electro-acoustic performance art. She developed her unique musical language in a process she calls “automatic playing”, where the music grows out of her physical movement and finds its expression in her electric violin with electronic devices, alien objects, vocals, and/or the acoustic violin

Location Summerhall

subvenue The Old Lab