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Experience the worlds of jazz, funk, rock, and electronic music collide with our deep love of video games and pop culture. Launching our highly anticipated album SQUARE-EYED with fantastic guests to be announced!
Summerhall
The Old Lab
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.
Summerhall
Main Hall
Scottish musicians Donald WG Lindsay and Alasdair Roberts have been friends for thirty years, since their teenage days. In these three decades, their careers in music have taken them down differing yet similarly unorthodox paths, and they’ve continued to make a lot of music together, usually informally. They’ve only rarely appeared together in concert, but in autumn 2024 they will remedy this state of affairs with their first duo tour.
Summerhall
The Old Lab
Mercury and Brit nominated artist returns with his 9th album. Tom’s 9th studio album is an album of duets with some of his favourite French artists. McRae decided to collaborate on these 11 new songs with various artists as a way of acknowledging his deep love of French music, and deepen his relationship with mainland Europe, following Britain’s disastrous decision to leave the EU.
Summerhall
Dissection Room
Andrew Wasylyk’s cinematic compositions have been nominated for the Scottish Album of the Year Award and been awarded BBC Radio 6 Music’s Gideon Coe’s Album of the Year. He has collaborated with former National Poet for Scotland, Liz Lochhead, and written soundtracks for Radio 4. Tommy Perman’s work as a musician and DJ has taken him across the world, with numerous record releases under his own name and with experimental group/arts collective FOUND, alongside visual works at the Sydney Opera House and National Museum of Scotland. An intimate, transcendental audio-visual performance by two artists at the height of their creativity.
Summerhall
The Old Lab
As Gum Takes Tooth, the duo of Thomas Fug and Jussi Brightmore plot an adventurous, idiosyncratic and wilfully unpredictable trajectory. Continuously exploring and mutating with an ever more nuanced approach while maintaining a staunch commitment to non-conformity, the band formed in East London in 2009 with wild gigs across the East London underground music and art scene. Early material coalesced primitive DIY Silver Apples electronics, blast beat mayhem, and experimental noise with explosive avant-punk energy.
Summerhall
The Old Lab
Jadasea tours the UK in support of his new album Too Many Tears, out now via 10k. Jadasea is a crucial fixture in the local hip hop scene of South London – where he was born and raised. He first gained attention as a member of Sub Luna City, alongside his bandmates King Krule, Jesse James Solomon, Rago Foot, and Black Mack. Jadasea is an important bridge between London and New York City through his collaborations with rappers such as Wiki and MIKE (both of whom he has toured with).
Summerhall
The Old Lab
A re-imagining of teenage years in the 1980s, featuring stories by Ben Harrison and new interpretations of classic eighties songs by David Paul Jones. 'the atmosphere is one of almost liquid harmony and strength...a beautiful and intelligent hour of music theatre. **** The Scotsman, on Undertow Overflow, (prequel to Last Night…)
Summerhall
The Old Lab
A collective of artists; Karen Sutherland, Omar James and Sanjeev Mann aka Supermann on da Beat - performing new works exploring movement and acceptance. Bringing together digital instruments, authentic songwriting, dance and responsive visuals; a platform for diverse voices. Support from Queen of Harps
Summerhall
The Old Lab
Venue upgrade - all original tickets remain valid. Cosmo is a UK-based multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer, live improviser, and field recordist. His music ranges widely from celebratory anthems to soulful elegies to riotous party numbers, to sparse electronic production, to haunting polyphonic songs that have grown out of field recordings of birds, whales, fish, frogs, and fungi, and more. Running through all his work is a belief that the living world is a noisy and musical place with the power to change how we think, feel, and imagine. Together with his human and non-human collaborators, Cosmo creates music that speaks to the urgency and possibility of our times
Summerhall
Dissection Room
Baby Bushka are 8 powerful women whose detailed, choreographed performance of Kate Bush’s music transcends the word “tribute” to create a wild joyous celebration that is simply unforgettable.
Summerhall
Dissection Room
Only yes means yes. HER is a play about the damaging effects of gender inequality, the truth about consent and asks, how can you be the change you want to see in the world, when you feel like the world is fighting against you?
Summerhall
TechCube 0
To open MegaMix festival, join us for an end-of-residency sharing from the 16th iteration of our legendary creative lab Rough Mix. Five artists from across art forms will share early-stage ideas, following a two-week residency in Summerhall.
Summerhall
Cairns Lecture Theatre
An autobiographical performance of personal and political comedowns growing up in the aftermath of New Labour, scored by a live DJ. This is a show about late nights, early mornings, party politics and men who let you down. You know what they say, things can only get better…
Summerhall
TechCube 0
Join us in celebrating 25 years of Magnetic North’s multi-artform and theatre work with some special performances. Saturday’s MegaMix festival line up features early stage sharings, film, live music, dance, and a spoken word performance.
Summerhall
Cairns Lecture Theatre
Join us in celebrating 25 years of Magnetic North’s multi-artform and theatre work with some special performances. This ticket will give you full access to the whole weekend of events at Summerhall
Summerhall
Cairns Lecture Theatre
Join us in celebrating 25 years of Magnetic North’s multi-artform and theatre work with some special performances. Sunday’s MegaMix festival line up features book events, early stage sharings, live music, dance, and a spoken word performance.
Summerhall
Cairns Lecture Theatre
John Maus is a truly enigmatic musician. Broadly cut from the synth pop cloth, he’s fashioned the frosty minimalism of its fabric into a cloak of infinite meaning, genuine grace and absurdist humour over the course of three defining albums since 2006. His music is a highly mutable affair, whilst often described as retro-futurist on behalf of the 80’s drum machines and synth sounds employed, John’s music is more personal than the nostalgic re-tread implied. There’s a cinematic quality to his songs, with pathos conjured through propelling bass-lines, trailing arpeggios and of course his deeply resonant vocal.
Summerhall
Dissection Room
Chrysanths (Modern Studies front woman Emily Scott) launches ‘Leave No Shadow’, the lush orchestral LP out on Chemikal Underground September 13th. Joined by full band and strings, this promises to be lush.
Summerhall
The Old Lab
Stuart Murdoch is a Scottish musician, composer, writer and filmmaker, and the lead singer and songwriter for the iconic Glasgow based band Belle and Sebastian.
Summerhall
Dissection Room
Astrid Sonne is a Danish, London based composer and viola player. Throughout her acclaimed discography, Astrid Sonne has been carefully crafting different moods through electronic and acoustic instrumental endeavours.
Summerhall
The Old Lab
‘Take a kilogram of ideas (if possible, not too confused), fifty kilograms of talent, and a few thousand drawings. Stir it well and then with a bit of luck you won’t get the right answer to your question.’ – members of The Zagreb School of Animated Film Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival 2024 is proud to present the second instalment of bizarre, eerie, and unique animated films from the late Eastern Bloc (1980-1997). A surgery is performed on a bust of Joseph Stalin, a yeti living in the mountains of Kazakhstan gets to listen to The B-52s, a school of vengeful fish attacks a seaside village, and a man pawns his face to buy a lottery ticket – this is a collection of some of the most dreamlike and thought-provoking shorts from a time and place where the animated image served as a stage for radically unprecedented artistic and political expression.
Summerhall
Red Lecture Theatre
Samizdat presents a unique and vibrant collection of 17 films entered into our Short Film Competition. Out of the 1100+ submissions we received this year, our curators have carefully selected some of the finest contemporary shorts from Eastern Europe and Central Asia, spanning from Estonia to Kyrgyzstan. For this screening, we have chosen seven of these films, each highlighting the variety and diversity of voices from the region. This block of shorts includes a dark romantic comedy from Ukraine, an exploration of Kazakhstan’s search for a new national identity, and a Moldovan film about intersex people and the stigma they are exposed to. These films offer a hard-hitting glimpse into the most pressing social, political and cultural issues in Eastern Europe and Central Asia today.
Summerhall
Red Lecture Theatre
For the first time, Meteor Airlines is set to bring their unique sound to Scotland. This event is an exciting opportunity for Scotland’s audiences to experience the rich, culturally infused rock music of Meteor Airlines, a band that not only entertains but also educates and connects listeners to the Moroccan Amazigh culture
Summerhall
Dissection Room
Frankie Archer has exploded onto the electrofolk scene with music that transcends stereotypes using a combination of manipulated samples, synths, drum tracks and earthy Northumbrian fiddle and voice to capture her audience. Her aim? To shake up genres and traditions, challenge perspectives and call for a fairer future.
Summerhall
The Old Lab
A myriad of things could point to Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel not being a good example of Estonian cinema. The alpine setting and the exterior of the hotel originate in Kazakhstan, the film’s cast features a number of Latvian and Lithuanian actors (including a signatory of Lithuania’s Act of the Re-Establishment of Independence), and science fiction is not a genre frequently explored in Estonian cinema – in fact, the film is based on a novel by Soviet-Russian authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (the minds also behind Andrey Tarkovsky’s Stalker). Yet none of this stops the film from being repeatedly listed among the most valuable classics from the country. Opening with a panorama of stunning mountain views, the film follows police inspector Peter Glebsky as he arrives at the titular hotel in response to a call out – but while the guests he meets do seem to be strange humans, there appears to be nothing to investigate: yet. The accidental all-inclusive holiday is not destined to last – in the modernist maze of the hotel’s hallways, Glebsky encounters phenomena that challenge his understanding of the world. Cut off by an avalanche, he tries to solve what is going on.
Summerhall
Red Lecture Theatre
Celebrating Joni Mitchell: the 7-piece band Hejira performs the greatest works of the genius singer-songwriter. Fronted by the outstanding vocalist/guitarist Hattie Whitehead, this band fully captures the poetry, passion and beauty of Mitchell’s masterpieces.
Summerhall
Dissection Room
Afro Celt Sound System are among the pioneers of the contemporary world music scene. Their ground-breaking fusion of African, Gaelic and Bhangra influenced sounds has won the hearts and minds of audiences since the group’s beginnings over 25 years ago. With album sales now topping more than one and a half million, two Grammy nominations to date and tours all around the world, they are the legendary afro-celtic band bringing spirits and music from different cultures together to a breath-taking show.
Summerhall
Dissection Room
Los Bitchos is back and better than ever! Since the launch of their much-loved debut album, 'Let the Festivities Begin,' with City Slang in February 2022, the London-based, pan-continental female instrumental four-piece has captivated audiences worldwide. They've performed over 200 shows, including legendary appearances at Glastonbury, and supporting tours with King Gizzard, and a legendary stint to Australia. Their dynamic live presence remains unparalleled.
Summerhall
Dissection Room
Beside Trawbreaga Bay, in Co. Donegal, in an old schoolhouse with a suitcase full of borrowed recording gear, Oisin Leech strums gently on an acoustic guitar and watches the tide pull the water away from this ancient inlet. The thickness of Oisin’s voice soothes the old world room as the sound waves bounce around to be captured in the land where his ancestors still live and still make music. This is a scene from the makings of acclaimed songwriter Oisin Leech’s new album, the Steve Gunn-produced Cold Sea, which is coming on Outside Music/ Tremone Records (out March 8th). While Leech may be a familiar name in some circles due to his two decade long career as one half of revered Irish folk duo The Lost Brothers, and from his brilliant radio show Caravan Radio, Cold Sea is his first solo offering. Recorded in Malin, in an old sea-facing schoolhouse that Leech and Gunn transformed into a working studio, the album features contributions from M. Ward, Dónal Lunny, Róisín McGrory and Tony Garnier, a long-time member of Bob Dylan’s touring band. In January 2024 Leech shared the second single from the record, a track called “Colour of the Rain.” The new track a follow up to last autumn’s debut solo single ‘October Sun’, which garnered widespread radio airplay from the likes of BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio Ulster, US Radio, RTE Radio 1 and Radio France.
Summerhall
The Old Lab
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.
Summerhall
The Old Lab
Straight from the heart of Nigeria, in celebration of the life and music of the great Fela Kuti and Black History Month, Rhythm & Revolution presents for the first time in the UK and Scotland, Lagos Thugs with special guest, Indy Dibongue (official guitarist of Tony Allen).
Summerhall
Dissection Room
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.
Summerhall
Dissection Room
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
Summerhall
The Old Lab
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
Summerhall
The Old Lab
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.
Summerhall
The Old Lab
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.
Summerhall
The Old Lab
Immerse yourself in an enchanting world as the mesmerising quartet CALAN grace our stage with their unique brand of power-folk.
Summerhall
Dissection Room
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.
Summerhall
The Old Lab
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.
Summerhall
The Old Lab
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.
Summerhall
Dissection Room
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.
Summerhall
Dissection Room
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.
Summerhall
The Old Lab
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!
Summerhall
The Old Lab
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.
Summerhall
The Old Lab
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
Summerhall
The Old Lab
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.
Summerhall
Dissection Room
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.
Summerhall
The Old Lab
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.
Summerhall
Dissection Room
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.
Summerhall
The Old Lab
Experience the worlds of jazz, funk, rock, and electronic music collide with our deep love of video games and pop culture. Launching our highly anticipated album SQUARE-EYED with fantastic guests to be announced!
Summerhall
The Old Lab
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.
Summerhall
Main Hall
Scottish musicians Donald WG Lindsay and Alasdair Roberts have been friends for thirty years, since their teenage days. In these three decades, their careers in music have taken them down differing yet similarly unorthodox paths, and they’ve continued to make a lot of music together, usually informally. They’ve only rarely appeared together in concert, but in autumn 2024 they will remedy this state of affairs with their first duo tour.
Summerhall
The Old Lab
Mercury and Brit nominated artist returns with his 9th album. Tom’s 9th studio album is an album of duets with some of his favourite French artists. McRae decided to collaborate on these 11 new songs with various artists as a way of acknowledging his deep love of French music, and deepen his relationship with mainland Europe, following Britain’s disastrous decision to leave the EU.
Summerhall
Dissection Room
Andrew Wasylyk’s cinematic compositions have been nominated for the Scottish Album of the Year Award and been awarded BBC Radio 6 Music’s Gideon Coe’s Album of the Year. He has collaborated with former National Poet for Scotland, Liz Lochhead, and written soundtracks for Radio 4. Tommy Perman’s work as a musician and DJ has taken him across the world, with numerous record releases under his own name and with experimental group/arts collective FOUND, alongside visual works at the Sydney Opera House and National Museum of Scotland. An intimate, transcendental audio-visual performance by two artists at the height of their creativity.
Summerhall
The Old Lab
As Gum Takes Tooth, the duo of Thomas Fug and Jussi Brightmore plot an adventurous, idiosyncratic and wilfully unpredictable trajectory. Continuously exploring and mutating with an ever more nuanced approach while maintaining a staunch commitment to non-conformity, the band formed in East London in 2009 with wild gigs across the East London underground music and art scene. Early material coalesced primitive DIY Silver Apples electronics, blast beat mayhem, and experimental noise with explosive avant-punk energy.
Summerhall
The Old Lab
Jadasea tours the UK in support of his new album Too Many Tears, out now via 10k. Jadasea is a crucial fixture in the local hip hop scene of South London – where he was born and raised. He first gained attention as a member of Sub Luna City, alongside his bandmates King Krule, Jesse James Solomon, Rago Foot, and Black Mack. Jadasea is an important bridge between London and New York City through his collaborations with rappers such as Wiki and MIKE (both of whom he has toured with).
Summerhall
The Old Lab
A re-imagining of teenage years in the 1980s, featuring stories by Ben Harrison and new interpretations of classic eighties songs by David Paul Jones. 'the atmosphere is one of almost liquid harmony and strength...a beautiful and intelligent hour of music theatre. **** The Scotsman, on Undertow Overflow, (prequel to Last Night…)
Summerhall
The Old Lab
A collective of artists; Karen Sutherland, Omar James and Sanjeev Mann aka Supermann on da Beat - performing new works exploring movement and acceptance. Bringing together digital instruments, authentic songwriting, dance and responsive visuals; a platform for diverse voices. Support from Queen of Harps
Summerhall
The Old Lab
Venue upgrade - all original tickets remain valid. Cosmo is a UK-based multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer, live improviser, and field recordist. His music ranges widely from celebratory anthems to soulful elegies to riotous party numbers, to sparse electronic production, to haunting polyphonic songs that have grown out of field recordings of birds, whales, fish, frogs, and fungi, and more. Running through all his work is a belief that the living world is a noisy and musical place with the power to change how we think, feel, and imagine. Together with his human and non-human collaborators, Cosmo creates music that speaks to the urgency and possibility of our times
Summerhall
Dissection Room
Baby Bushka are 8 powerful women whose detailed, choreographed performance of Kate Bush’s music transcends the word “tribute” to create a wild joyous celebration that is simply unforgettable.
Summerhall
Dissection Room
Only yes means yes. HER is a play about the damaging effects of gender inequality, the truth about consent and asks, how can you be the change you want to see in the world, when you feel like the world is fighting against you?
Summerhall
TechCube 0
To open MegaMix festival, join us for an end-of-residency sharing from the 16th iteration of our legendary creative lab Rough Mix. Five artists from across art forms will share early-stage ideas, following a two-week residency in Summerhall.
Summerhall
Cairns Lecture Theatre
An autobiographical performance of personal and political comedowns growing up in the aftermath of New Labour, scored by a live DJ. This is a show about late nights, early mornings, party politics and men who let you down. You know what they say, things can only get better…
Summerhall
TechCube 0
Join us in celebrating 25 years of Magnetic North’s multi-artform and theatre work with some special performances. Saturday’s MegaMix festival line up features early stage sharings, film, live music, dance, and a spoken word performance.
Summerhall
Cairns Lecture Theatre
Join us in celebrating 25 years of Magnetic North’s multi-artform and theatre work with some special performances. This ticket will give you full access to the whole weekend of events at Summerhall
Summerhall
Cairns Lecture Theatre
Join us in celebrating 25 years of Magnetic North’s multi-artform and theatre work with some special performances. Sunday’s MegaMix festival line up features book events, early stage sharings, live music, dance, and a spoken word performance.
Summerhall
Cairns Lecture Theatre
John Maus is a truly enigmatic musician. Broadly cut from the synth pop cloth, he’s fashioned the frosty minimalism of its fabric into a cloak of infinite meaning, genuine grace and absurdist humour over the course of three defining albums since 2006. His music is a highly mutable affair, whilst often described as retro-futurist on behalf of the 80’s drum machines and synth sounds employed, John’s music is more personal than the nostalgic re-tread implied. There’s a cinematic quality to his songs, with pathos conjured through propelling bass-lines, trailing arpeggios and of course his deeply resonant vocal.
Summerhall
Dissection Room
Chrysanths (Modern Studies front woman Emily Scott) launches ‘Leave No Shadow’, the lush orchestral LP out on Chemikal Underground September 13th. Joined by full band and strings, this promises to be lush.
Summerhall
The Old Lab
Stuart Murdoch is a Scottish musician, composer, writer and filmmaker, and the lead singer and songwriter for the iconic Glasgow based band Belle and Sebastian.
Summerhall
Dissection Room
Astrid Sonne is a Danish, London based composer and viola player. Throughout her acclaimed discography, Astrid Sonne has been carefully crafting different moods through electronic and acoustic instrumental endeavours.
Summerhall
The Old Lab
‘Take a kilogram of ideas (if possible, not too confused), fifty kilograms of talent, and a few thousand drawings. Stir it well and then with a bit of luck you won’t get the right answer to your question.’ – members of The Zagreb School of Animated Film Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival 2024 is proud to present the second instalment of bizarre, eerie, and unique animated films from the late Eastern Bloc (1980-1997). A surgery is performed on a bust of Joseph Stalin, a yeti living in the mountains of Kazakhstan gets to listen to The B-52s, a school of vengeful fish attacks a seaside village, and a man pawns his face to buy a lottery ticket – this is a collection of some of the most dreamlike and thought-provoking shorts from a time and place where the animated image served as a stage for radically unprecedented artistic and political expression.
Summerhall
Red Lecture Theatre
Samizdat presents a unique and vibrant collection of 17 films entered into our Short Film Competition. Out of the 1100+ submissions we received this year, our curators have carefully selected some of the finest contemporary shorts from Eastern Europe and Central Asia, spanning from Estonia to Kyrgyzstan. For this screening, we have chosen seven of these films, each highlighting the variety and diversity of voices from the region. This block of shorts includes a dark romantic comedy from Ukraine, an exploration of Kazakhstan’s search for a new national identity, and a Moldovan film about intersex people and the stigma they are exposed to. These films offer a hard-hitting glimpse into the most pressing social, political and cultural issues in Eastern Europe and Central Asia today.
Summerhall
Red Lecture Theatre
For the first time, Meteor Airlines is set to bring their unique sound to Scotland. This event is an exciting opportunity for Scotland’s audiences to experience the rich, culturally infused rock music of Meteor Airlines, a band that not only entertains but also educates and connects listeners to the Moroccan Amazigh culture
Summerhall
Dissection Room
Frankie Archer has exploded onto the electrofolk scene with music that transcends stereotypes using a combination of manipulated samples, synths, drum tracks and earthy Northumbrian fiddle and voice to capture her audience. Her aim? To shake up genres and traditions, challenge perspectives and call for a fairer future.
Summerhall
The Old Lab
A myriad of things could point to Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel not being a good example of Estonian cinema. The alpine setting and the exterior of the hotel originate in Kazakhstan, the film’s cast features a number of Latvian and Lithuanian actors (including a signatory of Lithuania’s Act of the Re-Establishment of Independence), and science fiction is not a genre frequently explored in Estonian cinema – in fact, the film is based on a novel by Soviet-Russian authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (the minds also behind Andrey Tarkovsky’s Stalker). Yet none of this stops the film from being repeatedly listed among the most valuable classics from the country. Opening with a panorama of stunning mountain views, the film follows police inspector Peter Glebsky as he arrives at the titular hotel in response to a call out – but while the guests he meets do seem to be strange humans, there appears to be nothing to investigate: yet. The accidental all-inclusive holiday is not destined to last – in the modernist maze of the hotel’s hallways, Glebsky encounters phenomena that challenge his understanding of the world. Cut off by an avalanche, he tries to solve what is going on.
Summerhall
Red Lecture Theatre
Celebrating Joni Mitchell: the 7-piece band Hejira performs the greatest works of the genius singer-songwriter. Fronted by the outstanding vocalist/guitarist Hattie Whitehead, this band fully captures the poetry, passion and beauty of Mitchell’s masterpieces.
Summerhall
Dissection Room
Afro Celt Sound System are among the pioneers of the contemporary world music scene. Their ground-breaking fusion of African, Gaelic and Bhangra influenced sounds has won the hearts and minds of audiences since the group’s beginnings over 25 years ago. With album sales now topping more than one and a half million, two Grammy nominations to date and tours all around the world, they are the legendary afro-celtic band bringing spirits and music from different cultures together to a breath-taking show.
Summerhall
Dissection Room
Los Bitchos is back and better than ever! Since the launch of their much-loved debut album, 'Let the Festivities Begin,' with City Slang in February 2022, the London-based, pan-continental female instrumental four-piece has captivated audiences worldwide. They've performed over 200 shows, including legendary appearances at Glastonbury, and supporting tours with King Gizzard, and a legendary stint to Australia. Their dynamic live presence remains unparalleled.
Summerhall
Dissection Room
Beside Trawbreaga Bay, in Co. Donegal, in an old schoolhouse with a suitcase full of borrowed recording gear, Oisin Leech strums gently on an acoustic guitar and watches the tide pull the water away from this ancient inlet. The thickness of Oisin’s voice soothes the old world room as the sound waves bounce around to be captured in the land where his ancestors still live and still make music. This is a scene from the makings of acclaimed songwriter Oisin Leech’s new album, the Steve Gunn-produced Cold Sea, which is coming on Outside Music/ Tremone Records (out March 8th). While Leech may be a familiar name in some circles due to his two decade long career as one half of revered Irish folk duo The Lost Brothers, and from his brilliant radio show Caravan Radio, Cold Sea is his first solo offering. Recorded in Malin, in an old sea-facing schoolhouse that Leech and Gunn transformed into a working studio, the album features contributions from M. Ward, Dónal Lunny, Róisín McGrory and Tony Garnier, a long-time member of Bob Dylan’s touring band. In January 2024 Leech shared the second single from the record, a track called “Colour of the Rain.” The new track a follow up to last autumn’s debut solo single ‘October Sun’, which garnered widespread radio airplay from the likes of BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio Ulster, US Radio, RTE Radio 1 and Radio France.
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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.
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Straight from the heart of Nigeria, in celebration of the life and music of the great Fela Kuti and Black History Month, Rhythm & Revolution presents for the first time in the UK and Scotland, Lagos Thugs with special guest, Indy Dibongue (official guitarist of Tony Allen).
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Immerse yourself in an enchanting world as the mesmerising quartet CALAN grace our stage with their unique brand of power-folk.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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