We are THRILLED to announce PULP as your headliner for Concert in the Gardens 2023!

We know you will remember the first time you brought in the bells under Edinburgh Castle, like the Common People with PULP! pic.twitter.com/MmltePENfH

— Edinburgh’s Hogmanay (@edhogmanay) September 26, 2023

Hogmanay is the Scottish celebration of the New Year, and typically involves gift giving, bonfires and other festivities. Edinburgh’s Hogmanay festival is one of the largest of its kind, and was even recognised by the Guinness Book Of World Records in their 1996-97 edition as the largest New Year’s party, with approximately 400,000 people in attendance that year.

The upcoming event will mark pop band Pulp‘s first live show in the Scottish capital in over 20 years. Attendees will be able to celebrate the New Year as they watch Pulp perform against the surreal backdrop of Edinburgh Castle.

Pulp lead singer Jarvis Cocker said on the band’s upcoming appearance at ‘Concert In The Gardens’, “When your grandkids ask “Do you remember the first time Pulp played Edinburgh’s Hogmanay?” What will your answer be? Come along & start 2024 in the very best way possible. Oh yes.”

Directors of UniqueAssembly, which creates and produces Edinburgh’s Hogmanay on behalf of the City of Edinburgh Council, said: “Reaching the milestone 30th anniversary for Edinburgh’s Hogmanay is a phenomenal achievement, which since 1993 has welcomed millions of party people to celebrate at the Home of Hogmanay.

“We wanted to make sure that this year was extra special for our audiences and are thrilled to welcome Pulp to the party. This will be the hottest ticket in town, and we recommend people grab their tickets fast to make sure they don’t miss out.”

Other events taking place at this year’s Hogmanay festival include a street party, silent disco, a torchlight procession and many more activities yet to be announced.

Tickets for the 30th anniversary of Edinburgh’s Hogmanay go on sale this Friday (September 29th) at 10am, which you can purchase here.

For those registered with the Hogmanay website, a pre-sale for the ‘Concert In The Gardens’ will be available from 10am on Thursday 28th September.

The three bands will all go on a four-date tour across the UK – Glasgow, Nottingham, Cardiff and London. The tour will start on the 24^th of November and end on the 28^th of November 2019. Tickets are on sale now and are priced relatively cheap at £32.35. You can purchase them here. The tour will be female-fronted, by Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale, In This Moment’s Maria Brink and lastly New Years Day’s Ashley Costello.

Halestorm released their latest album ‘Vicious’ earlier this year and will tour the UK next year in support of it. Vocalist and guitarist Lzzy Hale, has had the idea of a tour like this for a while she told Kerrang: ‘We’ve been wanting to put together a tour like this for a long time. We are some of the hardest working women in rock, so the fact that we are all on the same stage every night is something not to be missed! We support and love each other, and we are representing our genre. This line-up is a beautiful display of what it means to be a strong female example for rock fans everywhere.’

In This Moment have spent the vast majority of 2018 on the road with Halestorm and have been writing while they are on the road. The band is gearing up to release their seventh album which they are planning to enter the studio in February and begin recording. Front women Maria Brink told New York’s Q103 about the process of the new album: ‘Some of my band members are flying in here to Albany and they’re gonna be writing with me for a few weeks here till the next Halestorm tour starts. It has begun. We’re writing on the road as well. So, it’s all happening.’

New Years Day who just dropped a new song this month called ‘Skeletons’ from the band’s forthcoming full-length album, which is due to be released this spring. Front women Ashley Costello also told Kerrang: ‘Every single photo we have ever posted about being on tour with Halestorm and In This Moment, was always flooded with comments of people asking us to bring this same tour to the UK – and now we are. We are so excited to bring our show to more faces and ears and get to meet everyone around the world who wants to head bang with the women of rock.’ Listen to New Years Day new song ‘Skeletons’ below.

They will play the following venues in 2019:

24^th November – The SSE Hydro, Glasgow

25^th November – Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham

27^th November – Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff

28^th November – Alexandra Palace, London

Tickets available here.