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Nothing Ever Happens Here is a live music night based out of Summerhall’s Dissection Room.

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Grace Petrie

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Grace Petrie’s unique takes on life, love and politics, and the warmth and wit with which they are delivered, have won over an army of loyal fans across the alternative, folk, political and comedy scenes. She’s toured to arenas with Frank Turner, supported comedians Robin Ince, Josie Long and Hannah Gadsby, and has collaborated with Leon Rosselson and Peggy Seeger as well as touring with the hugely successful Guilty Feminist shows.

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(Offsite) Viagra Boys

Viagra Boys are a Swedish post-punk band from Stockholm. The band formed in 2015, with several members coming from the bands Les Big Byrd, Pig Eyes and Nitad. In 2018, they released their debut album Street Worms. Nils Hansson, a journalist at the newspaper Dagens Nyheter described the band favourably, praising their musical style, as well as their use of black humour and satire, and rated the album a five out of five.

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Sam Amidon

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Born in 1981 and raised in Vermont by folk-musician parents, Sam Amidon sings and plays fiddle, banjo, and guitar. With his self-titled seventh album, Amidon returns to the vast reservoir of folk music with fresh energy and a renewed enthusiasm for texture, facilitated by the creative leap of 2017’s The Following Mountain.

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Pictish Trail

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Johnny Lynch, AKA Isle-of-Eigg dwelling electro-acoustic psych-pop wonder Pictish Trail is back with a fourth album Thumb World, which was released on February 21, 2020. Four years in the making, Thumb World is the much-anticipated follow-up to his critically acclaimed Scottish Album of the Year Award public vote winner Future Echoes.

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Yorkston, Thorne, Ghatak

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Yorkston Thorne Khan are songwriter James Yorkston (guitar, nyckelharpa, voice), jazz musician Jon Thorne (double bass, voice) and 8th generation sarangi player and vocalist Suhail Yusuf Khan. Meeting by chance backstage in 2015 and playing together ever since, Yorkston Thorne Khan’s musical explorations are well-informed by their rich musical heritage but never reverential, preferring to run with an energy and fun that pushes them to new ground, Rolling Stone calling their Neuk Wight Delhi All-Stars album “a game changing masterpiece”.

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CANCELLED: Gentle Sinners

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Gentle Sinners – the new project from Aidan Moffat (Arab Strap) and James Graham (The Twilight Sad) – released their first album These Actions Cannot Be Undone earlier this year. It’s the album’s cathartic, rousing finale ‘Landfill’ – built from rolling, toppling drums and flashes of synths and strings as atop it all layers of intersecting vocals from Graham explore addressing your mental health head on and the conflicting emotions it can bring.

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Kakatsitsi Master Drummers

Anatomy Lecture Theatre Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Kakatsitsi are a group of traditional drummers, dancers and singers from Ghana. Their music rearranges traditional rhythms and chants from a variety of Ghanaian tribes in a ‘neo-traditional’ and accessible way. They have toured the UK 15 times, including high profile performances at WOMAD, Glastonbury and many other festivals and venues. The recent addition of

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Optimo Espacio

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

It’s been nearly a year since Optimo graced Summerhall with their presence – The duo of JD Twitch and JG Wilkes return to the Dissection Room with another eclectic and euphoric session which has made them legends in the Glasgow and international club scene, now into their 25th year – Optimo (Espacio) is still throwing

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Lubomyr Melnyk

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT IS SEATED (UNALLOCATED SEATING). Approximate Timings: Doors – 19:30 Matthew Thomason – 19:45-20:15 Lubomyr Melnyk – 20:30 – 22:00 Curfew – 22:30   Lubomyr Melnyk is one of the greatest pianists of our time – some consider him to be the greatest pianist alive because of his extraordinary virtuosity —which he

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Pussy Riot

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Approximate Timings: 19:00 – Doors 19:30 – ĠENN 20:30 – Pussy Riot 22:00 – Curfew   Out of jail and away from her house arrest for the support of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, Maria Alyokhina and her infamous Russian feminist protest art collective PUSSY RIOT are coming back in the UK this October and

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Meursault

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Fresh from recording the latest (self titled) Meursault record on the Isle of Skye, Neil Scott Pennycook and cohorts descend upon Summerhall with an offering of songs old and new. As always, the cast that comprises the Meursault live band is ever changing, so expect some new faces and sounds, some special guests and the

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All Work Together: With Rachel Sermanni, Solareye & Rick Redbeard (Phantom Band)

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

NEHH and Summerhall are delighted to announce the second edition of “All Work Together”, a songwriters circle featuring three more of Scotland’s finest songwriters performing in a round robin style. Compered by Summerhall’s Music Programme Manager Jamie Sutherland, we will take a deep dive into each songwriters back catalogue and oeuvre, discussing songwriting quirks and

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Kapil Seshasayee

Old Lab 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Kapil Seshasayee is a protest musician and visual artist from Glasgow Scotland. A one man combination of Scott Walker, Blood Orange, Arca and Thundercat, creating something wholly unique. Combining electronica flourishes evoking FKA Twigs with virtuosic Indian classical guitar ornamentations, stunning vocals and lush Prophet synthesizers , Kapil presents protest music as you’ve never heard it

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Stina Marie Claire

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Stina Marie Claire is the new solo project of singer/songwriter Stina Tweeddale aka Honeyblood. She revealed the new project in August 2021, developed with the support of her fans throughout 2020 while she was unable to tour and record with her supporting live band. A significant departure from her usual rock-pop sound, Stina Marie Claire delivers heart-wrenchingly poignant bedroom pop; returning to her DIY roots and looking inwards to present songs fuelled with vulnerable, tender lyrics which are fitting of current times.

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Modern Studies

Red Lecture Theatre

Scottish quartet Modern Studies unite pastoral chamber pop and folk with a subtly experimental spirit. Blending lush vocal harmonies, kosmische-tinged rhythms and intricate arrangements, the band have released three critically-acclaimed LPs since 2016. Modern Studies formed in 2015 around the songwriting of Glasgow-based musician Emily Scott. Having recently written a set of songs on an

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Broken Records & Tinderbox Orchestra

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

NEHH are delighted to announce a coheadline performance of Broken Records & the Tinderbox Orchestra. Including a headline set from both artists as well as collaborative work. Tinderbox Orchestra “Bringing together rappers and singers with soaring strings, heavy brass, woodwind and thundering bass and drums, Tinderbox Orchestra combines original music and movement to transform preconceptions

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Talisk

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Ground-breaking, chart-topping, genre-bending, globetrotting, instantly enthralling… it’s little wonder that Talisk rank highly amongst the most in-demand folk-based groups to emerge from Scotland in the last decade and more.   Mohsen Amini (BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards’ Musician of the Year 2018), Graeme Armstrong and Benedict Morris  (BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the

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NEHH Presents… Poster Paints & Jill Lorean

The Gallery Bar 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Jill Lorean is Jill O’Sullivan (Sparrow and the Workshop) in collaboration with Andy Monaghan (Frightened Rabbit) and drummer Peter Kelly. Jill muses on nature, relationships, love, sorrow, motherhood and memory over frenetic, hypnotic drum beats and playful, subversive bass and guitar lines. Poster Paints are Carla J. Easton and Simon Liddell. Two beloved Scottish musicians

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NEHH Presents… James Yorkston & Nina Persson

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

On January 13th, James Yorkston, Nina Persson and The Second Hand Orchestra will release The Great White Sea Eagle, the follow up to James Yorkston and The Second Hand Orchestra’s The Wide, Wide River – a Guardian Top 10 Folk Album of 2021. The record didn’t start life as a follow up; in early 2021,

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CANCELLED: Start to End perform The Postal Service: Give Up

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled. All ticket holders have been contacted and full refunds have been processed. If you bought tickets through SeeTickets, they will be in touch shortly to process refunds. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

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NEHH Presents… London Astrobeat Orchestra performs Talking Heads

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

The London Astrobeat Orchestra have ignited a movement where cult western band repertoires are blended with African influences and have made quite an impact in doing so. The band bring together the finest West African session musicians in the UK with legendary band leader and bassist Edd Bateman hosting rhythmic influences from Senegal, Guinea Conakry,

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NEHH Presents… Mini Mediterraneo Carnevale

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

For all the little fans of dancing and live music from around the world, it is Carnevale time! The time to wear a costume, to put on a mask and to dance, dance, dance! Come and jump, dance and warm up your Saturday afternoon in Summerhall’s Dissection room with some live pizzica tarantella and tammuriata

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NEHH Presents… Mediterraneo Carnevale

Dissection Room 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Mediterraneo and Nothing Ever Happens Here present Carnevale 2023, a huge masquerade featuring Italian Pizzica, Brazilian Jazz and Moroccan Gnawa. A night of live music and dance to shake the winter blues away in style. We have reached 10 years of Carnevale at Summerhall, Mediterraneo’s own celebration of madness and mischief – of the world

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