Live Music

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".

Multi-purpose live music and club venue just behind Waverley Station in the 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.

Edinburgh's latest live music venue Maggie's Chamber on 3 April 09.

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).

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

Edinburgh Castle is at the heart of the Scottish capital. An ancient stronghold perched on top the craggy remains of an extinct volcano, it is believed to have been an important fortification as long ago as the Iron Age.

The Ross Theatre (aka the Ross Band Stand) is the outdoor concert venue, with a capacity of 2000, in West Princes Street Gardens. The venue has an impressive backdrop of Edinburgh Castle and the green hilly area of Edinburgh Castle Gardens.

Large, late-night opening central bar with typical Edinburgh stonewall interior and alcoves. Usually has live music - often local rock or folk rock - played loud.

Perhaps best known during the festival for its huge fringe festival programme, Edinburgh University's 300-capacity student union building at the Pleasance is also the venue for public events (such