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Scottish music calendar 2012
There’s so much going on in Scotland throughout the year, it would be easy to overlook some significant events. To help minimise that risk, here’s a schedule of the biggest and best musical happenings in 2012 to pencil in your diary.
I’ll keep this post updated throughout the year with any major new announcements and confirmed dates should you wish to bookmark it for future reference.
January 5-19: King Tut’s New Year’s Revolution, Glasgow
January 19-February 5: Celtic Connections, Glasgow
February 10-11: Kilmarnock Edition Festival, Grand Hall
March 1: Scottish Alternative Music Awards, The Garage, Glasgow
March 23-24: Celtic Connections Big Top, Broadford Airfield, Skye
April 7-8: The Electric Frog, SWG3, Glasgow
April 11-12: Wide Days, Teviot House, Edinburgh
April 14-15: Eye O’ the Dug, St Andrews
April 21: Record Store Day
April 21: Beatdoon Festival, Dundee
April 29: Haddow Fest, Edinburgh
May (date tbc): Summer Shindig, Black Isle Brewery, Munlochy, Ross-shire
May (date tbc): Sounds In The Grounds, Stornoway, Lewis
May 4-6: Darvel Music Festival, Darvel Town Hall, Ayrshire
May 4-6: The Big Stooshie, Howe Country Centre, Giffordtown, Fife
May 5: Brew at the Bog, Bogbain Farm, Inverness
May 19: Stag & Dagger, Glasgow
June 1-24: West End Festival, Glasgow
June 6-7: goNORTH, Inverness
June 8-10: RockNess, Dores, Inverness-shire
June 13: The Pop Cop 5th anniversary!
June 15-17: Eden Festival, Raehills Meadows, Moffat, Dumfries & Galloway
June 15-18: The Insider Olympiad, Aviemore
June 22-24: Solas Festival, Wiston, South Lanarkshire
June 22-27: St Magnus Festival, Orkney
June 30-July 1: The Garden Party, Kelburn Castle, near Largs
July (dates tbc): King Tut’s Summer Nights, Glasgow
July 6-8: T in the Park, Balado, Kinross
July 11-14: Hebridean Celtic Festival, Stornoway, Lewis
July 20-21: The Wickerman Festival, East Kirkcarswell, Dumfries & Galloway
July 20-22: Away Game, Eigg
July 21-22: The Big Tent, Falkland, Fife
August (dates tbc): The Edge Festival, Edinburgh
August (dates tbc): Rock N Roll Damnation, Glasgow
August (dates tbc): HaarFest, Anstruther, Fife
August (dates tbc): Retreat!, Pilgrig St Paul’s Church, Edinburgh
August 3-4: Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival, Beauly, Inverness-shire
August 11: Bfest, Riverside, Wick
August 24-25: Wizard Festival, New Deer near Peterhead, Aberdeenshire
August 24-26: Doune The Rabbit Hole, Carron Valley, Stirlingshire
September (dates tbc): Jocktoberfest, Black Isle Brewery, Munlochy, Ross-shire
September (dates tbc): No Mean City, Glasgow
September (date tbc): EH1 Live, Edinburgh
September 21-22: Loopallu, Ullapool
October (dates tbc): Oxjam Glasgow/Edinburgh/Aberdeen/Dundee/Paisley/Ayr/Inverary
December (dates tbc): Glasgow Popfest
December 31: Edinburgh’s Hogmanay
One Response to “Scottish music calendar 2012”
January 3rd, 2012 at 15:18
add in The Dirty Edition Festival in Kilmarnock’s Jolly’s the weekend of the 10th, 11th and 12 of Feb. Tommy Reilly headlines the saturday and Steve Craddock headlines the Sunday! The imagineers are also playing!
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