Billy Woods is a rapper who defies easy categorisation; he claims Washington D.C. as his hometown but has spent much of his life in New York City. He was born in the U.S. but spent much of his childhood in Africa and the West Indies, the second child of a Jamaican intellectual and a would-be Marxist revolutionary.
Welcome to MICROSTERIA x PHLOX! Where the micro-made-massive meets a hybrid format of sensory clubbing. For the fifth instalment of Microsteria at the Summerhall Dissection Room, we are collaborating with PHLOX femme and non-binary Glasgow-based collective to combine electronic music with visual art, costume and performances. A unique club-equinox one-off as a dual powerhouse. Under
Come and celebrate the debut EP Tour 2024 with abs and her incredible band. abs is touring the UK with support from Help Musicians, to take her performance and career to the next level. You can expect grooves and a full show that you don’t want to miss! With a fusion of neo-soul, R&B, funk,
After three sold out dances in 2023, Edinburgh Dub Club returns in a unity style with the original Scottish rootsman Messenger Soundsystem playing alongside Mighty Oak Sound. This is a dub / reggae dance in the traditional sense – 2 hand-build and highly regarded soundsystems meeting up for a friendly session whereby each sound takes
A fundraiser for Gaza. On March 2, we will be bringing together a variety of musicians, poets and artists to perform at Summerhall, offering sounds of resistance in the name of solidarity, awareness and raising more money for those in need in Gaza. The line-up features poetry from some faces that will be familiar if
This show will now take place at The Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh. All tickets issued through Summerhall’s Box Office will be valid on the night.
The Edinburgh Schools Rock Ensemble (known as ESRE) is in its 22nd year. These gifted young musicians come together over 2 school terms to rehearse a wide range of repertoire such as classics from the Britpop giants Blur & Pulp as well as pieces from David Bowie, Alice Merton and Talk Talk
Having met and bonded over sea shanties across a kitchen table in their native Bristol a decade ago, The Longest Johns – Jonathan ‘JD’ Darley, Andy Yates and Robbie Sattin – have sailed the seven seas in the name of the “rock ‘n’ roll of 1752” to grace the stages of international folk festivals, tour the UK, Europe and North America, and appear on TV.
Ozric Tentacles are regarded as one of the most influential bands to emerge from the UK’s festival scene, formed during the solstice at Stonehenge Free Festival 1983 going on to become psychedelic staples at Glastonbury and other festivals. The creative vision of multi-instrumentalist Ed Wynne, the Ozrics’ uniquely trippy soundscapes connect fans of progressive rock,
Roseanne Reid visits Edinburgh Summerhall on Thursday 4 April 2024, with special guest Tom Webber. 2023 has seen Roseanne release the wonderful sophomore album LAWSIDE, which has been nominated for UK album of the year at the UK Americana Music Awards, alongside Ward Thomas and Far From Saints. Roseanne Reid’s world has changed in some
Over the span of her career, Jolie Holland has knotted together a century of American song – jazz, blues, soul, rock and roll – into some stew that is impossible to categorise with any conventional critical terminology. This is her burden and her gift, to know all of these American songs of the last ten decades in her head and her heart, and to have to wrestle with their legacy.
Edinburgh-based David Bowie tribute band, paying homage to his songwriting brilliance, spanning six decades of musical invention and originality.
Bring the sing to the greatest musicals of all time! This show is a dream come true for fans of the Musicals, as we raise the curtain on all your favourite hits from stage and screen. Featuring songs from MAMMA MIA, HAMILTON, THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, GREASE, FROZEN, DIRTY DANCING, EVITA, CATS, LES MIS, JUNGLE BOOK,
Fans of Leftwich’s earlier work will associate him with a rich but pared-back acoustic singer-songwriter sound. Hits such as Atlas Hands and Shine – both from his Top 40 debut Last Smoke Before the Snowstorm – were infused with a charming wistfulness. Artistic transformation is often associated with a blast of fanfare – the dramatic
An evening of adventurous electronic music, this collective forged in the clubs of Berlin bring you into a world where Ethereal drones and pulsating beats combine to create a sonic landscape, blurring the lines between club, electronic and experimental music.
Five-piece band from Edinburgh. Founded on dramatic dynamic shifts and duelling vocals, waverley. fuse Americana inspired indie rock with folk-rooted songwriting. A group of childhood friends, waverley. thrive in communal writing and self recording sessions. The results of these sessions are seen in their debut EP, ‘It Makes An Emptiness Of A Crowded Place’, which
From the propulsive immediacy of the bass and drums’ taut groove, it’s clear something has changed in Broken Chanter‘s world. Thudding, powerful odes to the strength of collectivity and togetherness, David MacGregor’s Broken Chanter bristle with energy and empathy on their incendiary third album Chorus of Doubt. Recorded (and produced) by Paul Savage over 2023’s
Since forming in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2006 Broken Records have established themselves as one of Britain’s best live bands. They’ve toured the UK, Europe, and US extensively, supporting the likes of The National, and playing all major UK and international music festivals, including the main stages of Latitude and Green Man, Glastonbury, and Reading and
