Live Music

Formerly  the GRV this is just off the Cowgate (next door to the gap site of the former Gilded Balloon) is a late night club haunt.

Established in 1956, Leith Dockers Club is still largely run by dockers, but regularly hires out its premises for functions and events.

Disused airfield up in Fife which is best known, since 1997, as the scene of annual music festival T in the Park. 

Getting there

As the name says, an irish bar complete with fittings and furniture shipped over from Ireland. Features live sport and live Scottish and Irish folk music. Pub grub.

Recently renovated, basement piano bar with a theme that riffs on the Rat Pack era with cocktails influenced by songs from the 1950s, and bar staff dressed in uniforms of braces, trilbies and ties.

This imposing and rotund building combines elegance and grandeur. The concert hall is named after its benefactor Andrew Usher, a whisky distiller who donated £100,000 in 1896 for the building of the hall.

The Mound precinct is a public space by the National Galleries on Princes Street that is frequently used by buskers, street performers and for other outdoor events. You often hear the area referred to simply as "The Galleries".

Central, multi-purpose live music and club venue alongside Waverley Station in Edinburgh's Old Town.

Small 90 capacity live music and nightclub venue down in the Cowgate.

A 1,500 capacity live venue with a balcony bar that can carry up to 350 people in older, refurb'd building. While the venue in its previous incarnations has always been a magnet for teens on the radge the venue re-opened as the Edinburgh Picture House in September 2008 with an emphasis on live gigs (Jarvis Cocker, Idlewild, Travis) as well as club nights.

The century old Lauriston Hall in Edinburgh's West Port is a large city centre community space which hosts among other things popular ceilidh dances.

The Big Red Door is an old Victorian warehouse situated in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle on Lady Lawson Street.

The Village with its wooden-floors and stone-walls, and tall ceiling has a light, open feeling to it. An easy-going, Leith local near Ferry Road. Reasonable bar-food and Sunday brunch.

The site of the current Edinburgh Festival Theatre was extended to create the largest stage of any presenting house in Britain at the time, reopening in June 1994.

Attractively refurb'ed restaurant, bar, live music, and club venue housed in a 200 year-old building above Cafe Royal (just off the East end of Princes Street).

Live music and dining across from Queen Street Gardens, with diners being entertained with an acoustic set followed by a live band from about 10pm.

Central Edinburgh club, right opposite the Omni Complex and Jongleurs at the top of Leith Walk.