The Torchlight Procession - returning in 2025 - is the opening event in the annual Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations with thousands of torchbearers creating a "river of fire" from The Meadows through ...

Extreme weather may have shut down the main Hogmanay events last year - for the third time in the thirty year festival - but plans are going ahead for Edinburgh's Hogmanay 2025-2026. Traditionally, ...

Unlike the Loony Dook at South Queensferry, the Portobello or "Porty" Dook has always been a free event that takes place at Portobello's long, sandy beach. Participants meet at the foot of Bath Street ...

Wet Leg will be getting revellers off their chaise longues and partying under Edinburgh castle into 2026 this Hogmanay. The drole indie rockers from the Isle of Wight will be joined by Edinburgh local ...

Stornoway-based folk rockers Peat and Diesel will be bringing their home-spun, Western Isles rock to Edinburgh’s Hogmanay for the first time on the 30th. Described as a Scottish Pogues, the threesome ...

Given the maelstrom of disinformation and growing tension on the world stage, this year’s 2025 International Festival theme of The Truth We Seek is a timely one. EIF Director Nicola Benedetti calls it ...

It is not often that a Royal Scottish National Orchestra concert begins without a single player to be seen. But on this occasion it was the one hundred and thirty or so members of the RSNO Chorus who ...

The Magdalen Chapel is one of Edinburgh’s hidden gems. Nestled away, yet in the midst of the Cowgate, it is easy to miss this building – though it embodies such a tremendous wealth of history and ...

This sardonic remark by the moral philosopher, Adam Smith is addressed to the CEO of the Royal Bank of Scotland as he faces the global financial crash of 2008 and his own disastrous downfall from ...

Jason Donovan (Frank N Furter) Nathan Caton ( The Narrator) Connor Carson (Brad) Lauren Chia (Janet) Edward Bullingham (Eddie/Dr Scott) Job Greuter (Riff Raff) Natasha Hoeberigs (Usherette/Magenta) ...

In a nightclub somewhere between provincial anonymity and mythic suburban folklore, a cloakroom attendant sits quietly, reading. The phone rings. He doesn’t answer. The world will find him soon enough ...

You’d be foolish for thinking, even for a second, that was Loud Poets at their peak. Yes, it's organised; structured; hilarious; poignant. But the gang's most recent Fringe performance isn’t its the ...