Shop Local! #96 - W/E 20.6.2025
Not the only fun in town...
Edinburgh’s weekend starts here…
Thursday - Love & Trouble + Q&A with director Amy Hardie / Baiana featuring Snowboy and The Haggis Horns / Active Inquiry present The Manuscript / Braw Cinema Club #78 - A Prayer Before Dawn / Shock & Awe + The Bucky Bombs + Dapitz / Playtime presents Playtime Fab Four Play Originals / The Brian Molley Quartet
Friday - Dear Library / Acceptance + Canaan Balsam + A.V.L. / Live Music Fundraiser for Crew 2000 / Disc Jocelyne
Saturday - Resistance / Through the Lens / Abbeymount Open Studios / Edinburgh Canal Festival / NorthByNorthWest All-Dayer / Jake Chapman / Across the Board Soul and Motown Night / Fuzz Bat Gigs present Wild Again + Portable Heads + Errant Boy / Solstice Soundclash
Sunday - Teasing Melvin / Box Energy Warehouse Sessions
Monday - Nick Costley-White Quartet
Wednesday - Hame-ish Cabaret
Thursday - Betty Boo - Boomania 35
Scroll down for details…
Thursday 19.6
Cameo Picturehouse, Home Street. 5.30pm. Tickets - https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/005/HO00016236/love-trouble-q-a
Cinetopia presents
Love & Trouble + Q&A with director Amy Hardie
Join director Amy Hardie and stars of the documentary Kenny and Kerry for a live Q&A following this screening.
Kenny and Kerry both come to their wedding with high ideals and hidden pasts. Filmed over the first ten years of their marriage, Love & Trouble explores identity, shame, anger and love. A rollercoaster of horses, race-cars, therapy, psychiatric drugs and wild swimming.
Voodoo Rooms, West Register Street. 7.30pm. https://www.thevoodoorooms.com/events/baiana-feat-snowboy-and-the-haggis-horns-the-voodoo-rooms-the-ballroom-19-06-2025
Baiana featuring Snowboy and The Haggis Horns
Brazilian-inspired project of Liverpool-born singer-songwriter Laura Doyle. Refreshingly joyful and charismatic, the show will feature internationally acclaimed percussionist Snowboy plus The Haggis Horns
Out of the Blue Drill Hall, Dalmeny Street. 19.6 - 20.6 - 6.30pm. 21.6 - 5pm and 7pm. https://www.outoftheblue.org.uk/events/active-inquiry-presents-the-manuscript
Active Inquiry present
The Manuscript
A completely unreliable and dubious history of Leith.
Devised by the cast and written by Duncan Kidd
Jeff is a Leither, born and bred. Through his meticulous research he is sure that he is the one to tell The Story of Leith. But the appearance of the Janitors and the mysterious Manuscript forces Jeff to go on a unique journey and question what a story is and who gets to tell it.
Active Inquiry are a theatre company based at the Drill Hall and committed to creating exciting new theatre projects with and for communities.
Banshee Labyrinth, Niddry Street. 7pm. Free.
Braw Cinema Club #78 - A Prayer Before Dawn (2017)
Butal true tale of Scouser Billy Moore’s incarceration in the notorious Klong Prem Prison in Bangkok for 3 years where he becomes the first white Muay Thai kickboxing prison champ. Camera work, music, sound and choreography are utterly stunning and left jaws dropping upon its release in 2017.
Banshee Labyrinth, Niddry Street, 8pm. £8 on the door.
Banshee’s Introducing presents…Shock & Awe + The Bucky Bombs Dapitz
June’s edition of Banshees’s Introducing sees a bill of old-school punk taking over the asylum.
The Outhouse, Broughton Street Lane. 8.15pm. Pay on the door.
Playtime presents
Playtime Fab Four Play Originals
The Playtime fab four of Martin Kershaw (sax), Graeme Stephen (guitar), Tom Bancroft (drums), and Mario Caribé (bass) go back to the original Playtime mission statement - to meet to play original new (or nearly new) music together in front of a small but perfectly formed audience and maybe a dog.
The Jazz Bar, Chambers Street. 8.30pm doors, 9.15pm start. Tickets - https://www.thejazzbar.co.uk/tickets/
The Brian Molley Quartet - Brian Molley – Saxes Paul Harrison – Piano
Elie Afif – Double Bass Doug Hough – Drums
Global travellers Brian Molley Quartet bring their unique blend of jazz and world music back to their spiritual home, with innovative re-interpretations of standards alongside original compositions for an exhilarating experience
Friday 20.6
National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge. 20.6.325 - 4.26. Mon-Thu - 10am-7pm. Fri-Sat - 10am-5pm. https://www.nls.uk/whats-on/dear-library/
To the 100th birthday of the National Library of Scotland, this love letter to libraries will intrigue, energise, and galvanise with a new perspective on libraries, how they can help you, and how you can help them.
Librarians and libraries in popular culture, protest banners and badges reflecting libraries under threat, vintage film footage bringing past libraries to life, and lots more…
Banshee Labrynth, Niddry Street. 7-10.30pm. Tickets - https://thekurganpromotions.bigcartel.com/product/acceptance-canaan-balsam-avl-banshee-labyrinth-20-june-2025
The Kurgan Promotions present
Acceptance + Canaan Balsam + A.V.L.
ACCEPTANCE - harrowing and life-affirming, crushing and beautiful, aggressive and vulnerable.
CANAAN BALSAM - ambient and expansive, dark and delicate, with swells of harshness among a wash of melody, soundscape, and spoken word…
A.V.L - local nail spitting sludgy/crusty 3-piece annihilation that crosses into more progressive territory.
A.V.L - exploring their electronic alter ego with a second set of caustic noise, lysergic loops and ritual synths.
Sneaky Pete’s, Cowgate. 7-10pm. Pay on the door.
Live Music Fundraiser for Crew 2000 with
Flame + Fraser MacCallum + Pictureskew + Dinghy + 30th Century Erotica
Stacked lineup for you to enjoy whatever you’ve got in your pockets to raise money for Edinburgh based sexual health and drug and addiction awareness charity Crew_2000
Paradise Palms, Lothian Street.
Disc Jocelyne
DJ, EHFM Mornings host and frontwoman of local party starters Bikini Body (Optimo Music Rocks). Expect everything on the punk-meets-dance music spectrum.
Saturday 21.6
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Modern Two, Belford Road??? 21.6 - 4.1.26. 10am - 5pm. Tickets - https://www.nationalgalleries.org/exhibition/resistance
Resistance - How protest shaped Britain and photography shaped protest
Conceived by acclaimed artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen, Resistance explores how acts of resistance have shaped life in the UK, and the powerful role of photography in documenting and driving change.
This exhibition will bring together works by renowned photographers such as Vanley Burke, John Deakin, Fay Godwin, Edith Tudor-Hart, David Hurn, Tish Murtha, Humphrey Spender, and Paul Trevor, alongside lesser-known photographers who documented these powerful stories.
Cameo Picturehouse, Home Street. 11am-2pm. Tickets -
Through the Lens
Fantastic showcase of short films made by pupils from Craigroyston, Wester Hailes and Castlebrae high schools. The filmmakers of the future are here.
Out of the Blue Abbeymount, Ferry Road. 21.6 - 22.6. 12 noon-5pm - https://www.outoftheblue.org.uk/events/summer-open-studios-weekend
Abbeymount Open Studios
The 19th century former Regent Road School is now home to over 50 artists and makers. This weekend’s Summer Open Studios - is a chance to meet some of our artists and makers and find out more about their work.
Union Canal. 12 noon-5pm.
Edinburgh Canal Festival
Fountainbridge Canalside Community Trust are pleased to be organising The Edinburgh Canal Festival – a celebration of the Union Canal and canalside community. Full programme and map -www.edinburghcanalfestival.org.uk–
The Pitt, West Shore Road. 3pm-10pm. Tickets - https://www.citizenticket.com/events/the-pitt/summer-solstice-warehouse-sessions-day-party/
NorthByNorthWest All-Dayer
Box Energy and the Pitt present their Summer solstice Warehouse sessions Day party, with headliners Euan Fryer and Lel Palfrey, from legendary Edinburgh based record label, recording studio, and music production collective - Athens of the North.
Unlimited Corporation, Brunswick Street. Opening 12 noon-3pm
Jake Chapman
In a world obsessed with polish, Jake Chapman offers corrosion. In his first solo venture north of the border, nihilism meets precision, and the grotesque gives way to revelation.
Installations that laugh at your fear.
Objects that reject comfort.
A film that refuses closure.
Edinburgh City F.C. Social Club, Lochend Road. 7pm-midnight. Tickets from Club Bar
Across the Board Soul and Motown Night
Leith Depot, Leith Walk. 7.30pm. Tickets - https://wegottickets.com/event/652307
Fuzz Bat Gigs present
Wild Again + Portable Heads + Errant Boy
In reverse running order...
Wild Again: Dreamy and swirly post rock/experimental pop quartet
Portable Heads: Alternative band from Dundee splicing together noise rock, post rock and post punk into a blender while swinging said blender from side to side in time to jazz songs.
Errant Boy: Melodic dreamy indie guitar pop trio. Pretty and weavy melodies take a dance in the moonlight with emotional vocals and joyous and fun instrumentation.
Poster by Fiona Beveridge
https://www.instagram.com/fibanshee/
No one turned away due to lack of funds. All Fuzz Bat Gigs are safe, inclusive spaces. Be excellent to each other
The Royal Dick, Summerhall. 8.30pm-1am. Free!
Umbrella Vinyl presents
Solstice Soundclash
To celebrate the Summer Solstice Umbrella Vinyl and our good friends at Greenhouse Records host a vinyl-only Soundclash.
Music starts 8:30. Be there and expect to dance!
Sunday 22.6
Sett Studios, Leith Walk. 11am-8pm.
Fallacy Worldwide presents
Teasing Melvin
Jest Fest film screening: 1pm
James scratches ‘Melvyn’ performance: 5:30pm
Faliraki performance: 6:30pm
Early stages of absurdist comedy, ‘Melvyn’.
Melvyn’s eponymous protagonist is a flawed individual and mediocre politician, and they are freshly dead. Over the course of the dramatic work, Melvyn navigates the afterlife and comes to terms with his new reality. The project takes some inspiration from Dante’s ‘The Divine Comedy’ and follows a similar arc.
The Pitt, West Shore Road. 2-10pm. Tickets - https://www.citizenticket.com/events/the-pitt/summer-solstice-warehouse-sessions-day-party/
Box Energy Warehouse Sessions Day Party featuring
Athens of the North + Disco Records + Kris Wasabi + Mairi ‘B’ Potts + Nem &Sorcha + Howie & Kirstie
Box Energy and the Pitt are excited to announce their Summer solstice Warehouse sessions Day party.
Headliners Euan Fryer and Lel Palfrey from Edinburgh based record label, recording studio, and music production collective Athens of the North bring their special blend of disco, house, weird gear and whatever else earns a place in the box for your listening pleasure…
Monday 23.6
Traverse Theatre Bar, Cambridge Street. 8pm. Tickets - https://www.traverse.co.uk/whats-on/event/nick-costley-white-quartet-spring-25
Nick Costley-White Quartet
One of the most in-demand jazz guitarists in the UK, Nick Costley-White is renowned for a deep understanding of the jazz tradition, who combines virtuoso technique with a distinctive style of improvisation. With saxophonist Julian Siegel and a rhythm section of James Maddren and Conor Chaplin.
Wednesday 25.6
Assembly Roxy, Roxburgh Place. 7pm. Tickets - https://www.tickettailor.com/events/hameishartscic/1706117/r/fbevent
Hame-ish Cabaret: Lamp (Hame-ish Live Special)
Hame-ish Live is our version of an open mic, with acts signing up in advance. If you are a poet or solo/duo music act with plenty of material to draw from and would like to take part, please email yerhame.ish@gmail.com.
Thursday 26.6
Voodoo Rooms, West Register Street. 7pm. Tickets -
Betty Boo - Boomania 35
Hip Hop pioneer and 90's icon Betty Boo returns after 35 years to reclaim her place as pop star and Ivor Novello Award-winning singer-songwriter and rapper. Expect to hear Hey DJ - I Can't Dance To That Music You're Playing," "Doin' The Do", "Where Are You Baby?" and other songs from her albums, Boomania and GRRR! It’s Betty Boo. plus songs from her second coming including Boomerang."