Shop Local #100 - W/E 18.7.2025
Not the only fun in town...
Edinburgh’s weekend starts here…
Thursday - The Bathers / Braw Cinema Club #79 presents Phenomena (1985) / Wavetable #44 presents Lauren Sarah Hayes + James Adrian Brown + Joy Moughanni with Morphogen & Sevendeaths (visuals) / TFEH presents Maria Kovacevic + Free Magic Show + Ali Robertson
Friday - VoxBox Music Summer Sessions present Hayfield Monolith + Speculum Bunny + Go Went Gong / Street Rat - AKA David Luhanga + Ombongo Nambari / Aquelarre with Tony Morris + Moth Girl + Sacred Keys + Pako Vega / Out of the Blue - A Celebration of Joni Mitchell / Doss + Crop Rot / Samwoodowmas (live set) / Manifesto of Bliss
Saturday - HelloArt Asian Market / Whitespace Mega Epic Sale of Stuff / Samodiva Nestya & Friends / Table of the Elements relaunch Party No. 7 - Edinburgh / MFSB / Fuzz Bat Gigs present Dez Dare + Sha Rivari & the Maybes + SheBeat / corto.alto / Umbrella Vinyl DJ Takeover
Wednesday - Alice Cooper / Cinetopia Film Networking Night
Thursday - Px4m present Cowboy Builder + Tiff + Self Love / Kevin Rowland: A Life Story - In Conversation with Stewart Lee / Irvine Welsh Album Launch and After Party
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Here All Week…
The Bowlers Rest, Mitchell Street.
Paradise Palms, Lothian Street.
The Oh Damn Jam at Home Bar, Home Street.
Leith Depot, Leith Links.
Thursday 17.7
Voodoo Rooms, West Register Street. 7.30pm. Tickets - https://www.thevoodoorooms.com/events/the-bathers-live-in-edinburgh-the-voodoo-rooms-the-ballroom-17-07-2025
The Bathers - Live in Edinburgh
Chris Thomson’s latest incarnation of The Bathers return for two consecutive nights featuring the hugely talented Colin Steele on trumpet to play songs from their 8 highly acclaimed studio albums including the most recent, Sirenesque.
Banshee Labyrinth, Niddry Street. 7.30-9.15pm. Free.
Braw Cinema Club #79 presents
Phenomena (1985)
Dario Argento’s film features a trippy pre-Labyrinth performance from Jennifer Connolly and the always entertaining Donald Pleasance (as a Scot!). The plot sounds like some made up, ChatGPT nonsense - which is precisely why it's an absolute blast to watch. Dario really chucks the whole kitchen sink at this one - even throwing in a lovable, knife wielding chimpanzee, Inga! Total chaos!
Whitespace, East Crosscauseway. 7.30pm. Tickets - https://www.eventim-light.com/uk/a/6582ad95ecf5b33c7561cde3/s/6603280387ede700bbc8678b
Wavetable #44 presents
Lauren Sarah Hayes + James Adrian Brown + Joy Moughanni with
Morphogen & Sevendeaths (visuals)
Lauren Sarah Hayes is a Scottish improviser, sound artist, and scholar who is recognised for her embodied approach to computer music. https://www.laurensarahhayes.com
James Adrian Brown is former lead guitarist of Pulled Apart By Horses, who has begun paving a new path in instrumental electronic music and composition. https://www.jamesadrianbrown.com
Joy Moughanni is a Beirut-based producer, engineer, and songwriter, who first emerged in Beirut’s alternative scene as a member of the electronic and pop projects Pomme Rouge and Gizzmo.
Fruitmarket Gallery, Market Street. 8pm. Tickets - https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/edinburgh/fruitmarket/tfeh-presents-marija-kovacevic-free-magic-show-ali-robertson/e-xzqxgd
TFEH presents
Marija Kovacevic + Free Magic Show + Ali Robertson
FEH goes for broke in the final chapter of their spring/summer programme for weirdo experimental sound enthusiasts….
MARIJA KOVACEVIC - Marija successfully cuts strings with her violin's classical past to get strung out on (and for) the free musics of the future with a sound world's worth of unexpected utterances.
FREE MAGIC SHOW - No-fidelity meanderings of Michał Fundowicz combines with fellow magician Joe Coghill's more tech-adept seasonings and whisks them into a dizzying scramble of cracked electronics, amplified objects & magnetic tape spool protein for a freshly baked fritatta of noise.
ALI ROBERTSON - While Firas Khnaisser recuparates after a season-length slog as one-half of the Tfeh house band Off Brand, his fellow non-idiomatic noodler exercises his solo performance muscles.
Friday 18.7
VoxBox Music, St Stephen Street. 5.30-8pm. Free.
VoxBox Music Summer Sessions present
Hayfield Monolith & Seth Bennett + Speculum Bunny + Go Went Gong
Friday night is almost upon us, and the Summer Sessions are about to begin.
Check out Friday nights artists on bandcamp.
https://haystackmonolith.bandcamp.com/
https://speculumbunny.bamdcamp.com/
https://gowentgong.bandcamp.com/
Leith Arches, Manderston Street. 7.30pm. Tickets - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/live-in-leith-reggae-edition-tickets-1479099168429
Live in Leith and Leith Arches present
David Luhangah, aka Street-RatStreet + Ombongo Nambari + Medina Riddim
First edition of regular live music event showcasing unsigned artists, with this one focused on Reggae.
David Luhangah, aka Street-Ra - Malawian-born singer-songwriter who delivers messages of love and, unity.
Ombongo Nambarrie - Glasgow based band who play dub reggae rocksteady and ska.
Medina Riddim - Brand new 6 piece based in Ediburgh putting their own mark on Reggae classics, bringing in various different elements and influences.
Leith FAB Cricket Club, Leith Links. 8pm. Tickets - https://ra.co/events/2188575
Aquelarre - A club night for curious minds… with
Tony Morris + Moth Girl + Sacred Keys + Pako Vega
Aquelarre is back for another fun night for the weirdos.
Tony Morris (Optimo Music) - the ever-dapper Glaswegian delivers a set of deconstructed, angst-ridden songs underpinned by bass-heavy, minimalist beats.
DJ Moth Girl (Ascetic Practices) is gracing the Aquelarre stage with her signature dark synthy beats. Since it's her birthday and she will need to socialise occasionally, she's dragging the old ball and chain Sacred Keys (Ascetic Practices) along to cover while she satisfies her ablutions.
Pako Vega (Sounds of Ogigia) will open the night with a DJ set packed with wonky, psychedelic vibes.
Voodoo Rooms, West Register Street. 7.30pm. Tickets - https://www.thevoodoorooms.com/events/out-of-the-blue-a-celebration-of-joni-mitchell-the-voodoo-rooms-the-ballroom-18-07-2025
Out of the Blue - A Celebration of Joni Mitchell
Celebrating the music of Joni Mitchell, Anne Gair and her 5 piece band explore the songs from her most loved albums, Blue, Hejira, Court and Spark and more, including Big Yellow Taxi, Coyote, Help Me, Both Sides Now, River and many more
Anne Gair - Vocals, Guitars, Dulcimer Maria Quinn - Piano
Ian Murray - Double bass, Guitar John Inglis - Guitars, Electric Bass
Billy Bowes - Drums, Percussion
Sneaky Pete’s, Cowgate. 7pm. Tickets - https://sneaksevents.seetickets.com/event/doss/sneaky-pete-s/3384432 SOLD OUT
Doss + Crop Rot
Glasgow electronic punks Doss have carved out a distinctive sound blending hard-hitting drums, trudging basslines and sharp, tongue-in-cheek lyricism. Co-headlining with Louisville, Kentucky’s Crop Rot.
Paradise Palms, Lothian Street.
Samwoodowmas (live set)
Project by Sam Wood that defies easy categorisation, blending ambient, techno, and experimental sounds. In 2024, he released Modes of Transportation, an album built around field recordings from diverse journeys, including cars, horses, the ocean, birds, and trains among others. Known for unconventional performances in spaces such as urinals, or playing a bass guitar with a bicycle. samwooddoowmas manipulates sound with tape loops, digital processing, and analog instruments.
Upper Hall, Portobello Town Hall, Portobello High Street. Tickets - https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Edinburgh/Upper-Hall%2C-Portobello-Town-Hall/Auld-Cruivies-Bazaar/40933238/
Manifesto of Bliss presents
Auld Cruivies Bazaar
An evening of music, spoken word, Folk, Folklore and Four to the Floor.
Featuring J Wright Presents, Ian Humberstone (of Folklore Tapes fame), visuals from Stephen Gribbin, Manifesto of Bliss DJs aaaand the first live performance of story tunes from Erin Farley and Stephen Clarke 1980 (Jack by popular demand!)
Saturday 19.7
Out of the Blue Drill Hall, Dalmeny Street. 12 noon-5pm. Free.
HelloArt Asian Market
From hand-crafted artworks to street snacks, this vibrant summer market brings together a unique blend of East and West, featuring over 20 stalls of art, design, handmade goods, food, and interactive workshops.
Whitespace, East Crosscauseway. 19.7 - 23.7. 12 noon-6pm daily
Mega Epic Sale of Stuff
In a nutshell:
We’re selling lots of studio and household stuff over 5 days and donating >33.3% of any money we make to buy phone credit for refugees and other displaced people living in precarious situations around the world such as Gaza.
Pianodrome, Red Bus Warehouse, West Harbour Road. 4pm. Free.
Samodiva Nestya & Friends
Bewitching harmonising, fiery sirens offering Bulgarian and Mediterranean trad songs…
Umbrella Vinyl, Valleyfield Street. 5-7pm. Free.
Table of the Elements relaunch Party No. 7 - Edinburgh
Umbrella Vinyl is thrilled to be supporting a revival of one of experimental music's most radical, influential and uncompromising labels, Table of the Elements.
An immersive evening of sound and story from the outer edges of experimental culture.
Screening: 'An E-Ticket Ride in the Six Flags of Sound' — a short film charting the untamed legacy of Table of the Elements.
Listening Session: 'Library of Babel', the intense, transcendent new album by radical bagpipe composer Matthew Welch — with a live video appearance and Q&A direct to Umbrella Vinyl from California.
The Street, Picardy Place. 3pm-9/10pmish. £6 cash / £7 card on the door…
MFSB Young Blood - Lawrie Francey
Lawrie Francey has pitched up at the same spot next to the speakers at almost every MFSB in recent years.
We think he's gonna turn out to be a silent assassin, packin' some serious bullets.
His recent set at The Get Down reinforced and multiplied the numerous calls for him to play at MFSB, and he is doing jus' that!
MFSB, the true, the ORIGINAL Saturday daytime party
Leith Depot, Leith Walk. 7.30pm. Tickets - https://wegottickets.com/event/654620
Rivari Records and Fuzz Bat Gigs present
Dez Dare + Sha Rivari & the Maybes + SheBeat
In reverse running order...
Dez Dare: Solo Psych/Electro Punk legend from Brighton. Groovy punk riffs and chanty/spoken vocals blend with soaring synths + electronics which are simultaneously uplifting and wacky. Oh and live there's cool visuals played behind him too. Listen: https://dezdare.bandcamp.com/music
Sha Rivari & the Maybes: The 21st century Garage Rock/Synth Punk band. Deliciously dusty, nutritious and danceable sounds with songs about everything from illusions on the internet to plants taking over the world to political pineapple.
Listen: https://sharivari.bandcamp.com/music
SheBeat: Indie Folk/Pop Songstress from Liverpool, now residing in Scotland. Heartfelt and melodic musings swing and dance around with dynamic beats and pretty instrumentation resulting in catchy/infectious tunes.
Listen: https://shebeatmusic.bandcamp.com/music
Poster by Theo Cleary - https://www.instagram.com/theoclearyart/
Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street. 7pm. Tickets - https://www.thequeenshall.net/whats-on/cortoalto-support
Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival presents
corto.alto plus support
Project of multi-instrumentalist and producer Liam Shortall. A lynchpin of Glasgow’s flourishing jazz scene, he brings together some of Scotland’s finest players, including pianist Fergus McCreadie and drummer Graham Costello, to create a heady mix of jazz, hip-hop, broken beat, electronica, dub, and punk.
The Jazz Bar, Chambers Street. Midnight and 2.15am
Umbrella Vinyl DJ Takeover
Umbrella Vinyl is a bricks-and-mortar second hand shop and music label located in Tollcross, Edinburgh!! Here to share their love and passion for music, they will be taking over The Jazz Bar’s decks this Saturday spinning a rare selection of records!
Wednesday 23.7
Edinburgh Playhouse, Greenside Place. 6.30pm. Tickets - https://www.atgtickets.com/shows/alice-cooper/edinburgh-playhouse/ SOLD OUT
Alice Cooper
Icon, pioneer, and Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductee - Alice Cooper is simply one the greatest rock shows on the planet.
The Blackbird Bar, Leven Street. 7-10pm.
Cinetopia Film Networking Night
Find us in the garden for a super casual, friendly mixer for film professionals, film curious, film lovers. Whatever your level of experience, you're welcome!
Cinetopia connects the film community. We run screenings, events, industry networking, a DOC: Club, and a podcast. Subscribe to Cinetopia: Recommends for weekly events + opportunities in film in Edinburgh & beyond...
Thursday 24.7
Leith Depot, Leith Walk. 7.30pm. tickets - https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/px4m/cowboy-builder-tiff-self-love/e-pvblkz
Px4m present
Cowboy Builder + Tiff + Self Love
Cowboy Builder - 4-piece band with two drumkits, made up of junk and found percussion. Joined by prepared guitar, echo-strangled vocals and mangled church organ, the result is hypnotic droning songs, featuring intricate interlocking polyrhythms and occasionally a complete disregard for rhythm.
TiFF is an experimental electronic project helmed by Harry Volker, otherwise known from local dance-punk outfit Bikini Body.
Self Love began in 2016 as a basement punk bass and drums duo drunk with youth, before moving out of the basement and into the domain of the digital. Their third full length, Selected Ambivalent Works is a curated grab bag of the duo's history.
Queens Hall, Clerk Street 6.30pm. Tickets - https://www.thequeenshall.net/whats-on/dexys-kevin-rowland-life-story-conversation
Kevin Rowland: A Life Story - In Conversation with Stewart Lee
“Warts and all, mainly my own…”
Dexys’ maverick frontman Kevin Rowland joins guest host Stewart Lee for a truly special evening discussing his astonishing new memoir, ‘Bless Me Father’.
From the juvenile courts of his troubled teenage years to the early days of the New Romantic scene in the late ’70s and beyond, Kevin will recount his darkest hours, deepest desires and greatest joys. in a deeply personal account of an extraordinary life.
Leith Arches, Manderston Street. 8pm-1am. Tickets - https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Edinburgh/Leith-Arches/Irvine-Welsh-Presents-Men-In-Love-Exclusive-Album-Launch-Party/41170925/
Irvine Welsh Men Love - Album Launch and After Party
To celebrate the release of his brand-new book Men in Love, Irvine Welsh returns to Leith for an unforgettable night of words, beats, and mischief.
After the official Q&A at PS & Gs Church (46 York Place), the real party kicks off.
The Sci Fi Soul Orchestra, featuring:
IRVINE WELSH
Carl Loben — DJ, producer, and long-time Editor-in-Chief of DJ Mag
Steve Mac — legendary producer with remixes for Amy Winehouse, Jamiroquai, and Todd Terry
Together, they’ll be spinning tracks from Men in Love – The Soundtrack, dropping the same day as the book.
Warm-up DJs:
Edinburgh’s own SoulSubbo and Ricardo get the party started with a killer mix of disco, funk, and soulful sounds.