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.

Optimism being in the air for 2022, the young musician posted a New Year’s message on Instagram about some of her hopes for the future. She wrote, “My New Years Message to you all is keep trying! Never give up! You CAN do anything you put your mind to!“. Not being one to dream small, she said she’d “LOVE to jam with Billie Eilish and one day be Prime Minister of Great Britain.“

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Now, becoming the leader of a country might seem a rather unconventional move for a budding musician (although Bill Clinton’s notorious sax might beg to differ), but Bushell seems well on her way with her first wish. She’s already played with some of the most well-known industry figures, such as Dave Grohl and The Foo Fighters last August in LA, or with Lenny Kravitz at The O2 Arena back in 2019. She’s also been getting a bit competitive with some of the biggest names in drumming, doing ‘drum-offs’ against the likes of Grohl and Queen’s Roger Taylor, and she even has the tendency to win apparently. Grohl has gone so far as to say she’s the “best drummer in the world“, which is lucky since he’s her favourite too. Bushell started out posting her cover videos after her parents bought her a drum kit due to her good grades at school. Soon things began to take off, appearing on a John Lewis advert in 2018 and being noticed by the likes of Lenny Kravitz and American musician Questlove. Her viral cover of Nirvana’s “In Bloom” (which gained over 10 million views on Twitter within a week) caught Grohl’s attention, and the rest is history as they say. Despite usually focussing on rock classics such as The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter“, Linkin Park’s “Numb“ and Slipknot’s “Duality“, she’s recently made a foray into dance music as well, covering Fatboy Slim’s 1999 track “Right Here, Right Now“ only a few days ago, saying “I watched Nelly Cook,  (daughter of Zoe Ball and Fatboy Slim) DJ’ing on YouTube and was inspired to have a go at improvising over a #dancemusic song. It was a lot of fun and nice to try something different on my musical quest.”

 

 

 

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If you want to see what Bushell’s composing talents are like, you can listen to this collaboration she did with Roman Morello (son of Tom Morello), called “The Children Will Rise Up“, about climate change. Either way, it seems like she’s set for a good 2022 so far.