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– Free New Event Year – Start Location & Programme – Register for the event Torchlight Procession – Event Safety Candlelit Concert at St. Giles’ Cathedral ’s Street Party World’s Biggest Hot Dub Time Machine Street Party Scottish Stage – Street Party Waverley Stage – AtlanticTwin / The Twilight Sad Fathers / Young Concert in the Gardens – Lily Allen & Soul II Soul Keilidh on the Mound Fireworks Moment Midnight Midnight Moment – Auld Lang Syne G4S – Health & Safety information Street Party Map & Stage Times SCOT:LANDS SCOT:LANDS SCOT:LANDS Loony Dook 1872 Cup – v Warriors Daily Event Diary #blogmanay – Win tickets to EH2015 Procession Torchlight Johnnie Walker – Sign the Pact The Big Wheel & Christmas Gardens Free Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Night Buses EH2015 Film Season Getting around Edinburgh Getting to Edinburgh Tickets & Box Office Information Edinburgh’s Hogmanay – brought to you by... TUESDAY 30 DECEMBER 2014 2014 DECEMBER 30 TUESDAY 2015 2 JANUARY – FRIDAY 31 DEC 01 JAN 02 JAN 30 DEC

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Edinburgh’s Edinburgh’s DIARY Hogmanay Hogmanay 2014/15 TUESDAY 30 DECEMBER 2014 The City of Edinburgh Council has been The Big Wheel & Christmas Gardens 10am – 10pm Edinburgh City Centre hosting the world’s greatest Hogmanay EH2015 Film Season – I Know Where I’m Going 1pm Filmhouse, Lothian Road EH2015 Film Season – Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie 6pm Filmhouse, Lothian Road celebrations for 22 years. Torchlight Procession 7pm start George IV Bridge Torchlight Procession Finale 8.15pm approx. Waterloo Place & Calton Hill Thanks to everyone who joined in the festivities and to all the artists WEDNESDAY 31 DECEMBER 2014 The Big Wheel & Christmas Gardens 10am – 6pm & who performed over the years. 7pm – 12.30am Edinburgh City Centre Candlelit Concert at St. Giles’ Cathedral 7.30pm – 9pm St. Giles’ Cathedral, High Street We look forward to welcoming you Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Street Party 7pm – 1am Edinburgh City Centre to this year’s fantastic programme! World’s Biggest HOT DUB Time Machine 9pm – 1am Edinburgh City Centre Concert in the Gardens (Doors 8pm) 9pm – 1am West Princes Street Gardens www.edinburghshogmanay.com Keilidh on the Mound (Doors 8pm) 9pm – 1am Mound Precinct # BLOGMANAY Midnight Fireworks Midnight Edinburgh Castle & Calton Hill World’s Biggest Auld Lang Syne Midnight Edinburgh City Centre @edhogmanay THURSDAY 1 JANUARY 2015 The Big Wheel & Christmas Gardens 10am – 10pm Edinburgh City Centre EH2015 Film Season – Whisky Galore 1pm Filmhouse, Lothian Road

EH2015 Film Season – I Know Where I’m Going 6pm Filmhouse, Lothian Road edinburghshogmanay.com The Loony Dook – Grand Parade Check website South Queensferry The Loony Dook – The Dook Check website South Queensferry Scot:Lands 1pm – 4.30pm Register at edinburghshogmanay.com FRIDAY 2 JANUARY 2015 The Big Wheel & Christmas Gardens 10am – 10pm Edinburgh City Centre EH2015 Film Season – What We Did On Our Holiday 1pm Filmhouse, Lothian Road 1872 Cup – Edinburgh Rugby v Glasgow 7.30pm

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Share your New The award-winning #blogmanay Year experience is back and looking for your photos, with the world tweets, blogs, reviews and videos, showing why Edinburgh is the world’s and win tickets best Christmas & New Year experience! to Edinburgh’s Post your photos and videos on Hogmanay and a Instagram, Twitter & Facebook using meet & greet with #blogmanay and we’ll select the very edinburghshogmanay.com Twin Atlantic! best in December to win amazing Edinburgh’s Hogmanay prizes including a meet and greet with Street Party headliners Twin Atlantic! Find our new #blogmanay photo frames around Torchlight Procession 2013 - Photo © Runaway Juno Edinburgh city centre throughout

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Welcome 2015 with a series of fantastic events celebrating Burns Night. For more information go to Scotland.org/burns #ImNOTdrivingHogmanay

WIN A RIDE IN A SUPERCAR WITH MIKA HAKKINEN

EventScotland is the national events agency and is proud to support Edinburgh’s Hogmanay as part of JENSON BUTTON OR KEVIN MAGNUSSEN Scotland’s Winter Festivals. Join the Pact to never drink and drive at www.JointhePact.com or by tweeting #ImNOTdrivingHogmanay to @JohnnieWalker_ and you could win a ride in a supercar with a JOHNNIE WALKER ® Global Responsible Drinking Ambassador. From St Andrew’s Day to Burns Night, this unique and distinctive programme of events brings people You can also enjoy free bus travel home this Edinburgh’s Hogmanay. Sponsored by JOHNNIE WALKER ® from all over the world together to celebrate Scotland’s modern culture and traditions. on selected bus services after midnight from Edinburgh city centre to destinations across the city.

Follow us @EventScotNews Visit www.edinburghshogmanay.com for all event and travel information. Terms and conditions apply. THE JOHNNIE WALKER WORDS, THE STRIDING FIGURE DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED LOGOS ARE TRADEMARKS. © JOHN WALKER PLEASE & SONS 2014. RESPONSIBLY. DRINK

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The opening event of Edinburgh’s Hogmanay TUESDAY 30 DECEMBER - See page 14 for event details

A total sell-out each year, the Torchlight Procession is the start of three days of spectacular Edinburgh’s Hogmanay events. Last year’s event welcomed over 35,000 participants, joining the Up Helly Aa Vikings, massed pipes & drums and thousands of torch carriers as they illuminate the city from our start position of George IV Bridge to the viewing areas of Waterloo Place and Calton Hill. The Torchlight Procession fireworks finale can be viewed across the city and beyond.

Principal funding partner Torchlight Procession A donation from sale of torches Founded in 1916 to care for servicemen injured in active service, of Edinburgh’s Hogmanay supported by will this year be given to: Erskine remains dedicated to supporting veterans in Scotland 12 13 TUESDAY 30 DECEMBER (outside St. Giles’ Cathedral) from 2pm. Torches will Torch vouchers available for sell-out so get them early. purchase in advance for £10 each (see page 61). Limited PLEASE NOTE: torchlight availability on the day. Torchlight Procession is an outdoor event using Torchlight Procession leaves procession wax-based torches, please George IV Bridge 7pm. EVENT AND SAFETY dress appropriately. Procession from George IV INFORMATION Please listen to event Bridge to Waterloo Place

TORCHLIGHT PROCESSION stewards and use torches and Calton Hill Finale. as instructed. Finale at 8.15pm approx. Always carry torches (Calton Hill access to vertically and be aware Torchlight participants only). of those around you. No access to Calton Hill prior Wax from torches can blow to Torchlight Procession. onto clothing when windy, Viewing areas for the please dress appropriately. Torchlight Fireworks are Top Tip: you can get wax out located at both Waterloo of clothing by placing brown Place and Calton Hill. paper over the wax and then Exchange pre-purchased heating it with a low-iron Torch Vouchers on the day setting. from Parliament Square

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A festive celebration in the candlelit atmosphere of St. Giles’ Cathedral. This year’s concert journeys from Christmas to New Year, and features candlelit the glorious carol melodies of Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on concert Christmas Carols and J.S.Bach’s in St. Giles’ cathedral cantata for New Year’s Day Jesu nun sei gepreiset; the concert concludes with Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de Confessore, with its famous Laudate Dominum soprano solo.

THE BIG WHEEL & CHRISTMAS GARDENS St. Giles’ Cathedral Choir, directed by Michael Harris, with the St. Giles’ Camerata, leader Angus Ramsay, are joined by a stunning array of young soloists.

WEDNESDAY 31 DECEMBER Photo © Grant Ritchie/Real Edinburgh Concert commences 7.30pm THROUGHOUT DECEMBER St. Giles’ Cathedral, 21 NOV 2014 – 4 JAN 2015 The Big Wheel & £16.50 plus booking fee (see page 61) Edinburgh City Centre NOTE: This event is not suitable Christmas Gardens Ticket prices vary for babies or young children The Big Wheel , Star Flyer Throughout December, Edinburgh’s Christmas edinburghshogmanay.com and St. Andrew Square Christmas transforms the city centre into a thrill-seekers Gardens will be open to revellers wonderland with some of the UK’s biggest fun during the Edinburgh’s Hogmanay fair rides towering above Princes Street and Street Party. St. Andrew Square. Visit: edinburghschristmas.com for details on all events The Big Wheel gives you the best views across the city and attractions

and the 60m high Star Flyer will spin you high above Principal funding partner Scott Monument. Not for the fainthearted! All attractions of Edinburgh’s Hogmanay will be open during the Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Street Party from 7pm.

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place throughout the dance moves and relayed on six giant screens Rewinder Stage & screens live the volume Edinburgh’s Hogmanay throughout the arena to 75,000 party people! from 9pm – 1am Street Party! Wristbands - £20.00 administration fee Travel back to 1954, and then Moonwalk, Mashed + booking fee Potato, and Macarena your way through the bells and Not recommended for under 16’s Principal funding partner into 2015 with a banging song from each year. of Edinburgh’s Hogmanay No access to Street Party after 11pm www.hotdubtimemachine.com

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Why welcome WEDNESDAY 31 DECEMBER CHORUS: 2015 with just one Countdown Fireworks For auld lang syne, my dear firework display 9pm, 10pm & 11pm For auld lang syne when you can have Followed by the We’ll tak a cup o kindness yet, For auld lang syne! FOUR spectacular Midnight Fireworks firework displays! Visible across the skies of Edinburgh And here’s a hand my trusty fiere Edinburgh’s Hogmanay -JOIN CROSSED HANDS- The Edinburgh’s Hogmanay And gies a hand o thine welcomes 2014/15 with Fireworks are best seen from hourly firework displays a distance so we recommend We’ll tak a right guid-willie waught, counting down to the that you select a suitable For auld lang syne world famous Midnight vantage point. Please do not CHORUS X 2 approach the launch sites, Moment, which lights up which will be cordoned off. the skies above Edinburgh from the iconic Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill.

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G4S Event Stewards: DO think about how you will get home after the We’re here to assist Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Street Party, see you… edinburghshogmanay.com for transport details DO appreciate that bags may be searched for Edinburgh’s Hogmanay events are enormously security reasons popular and always attract great crowds. They DO let a police officer or steward know if you see anything suspicious are also remarkably safe, we have stewards and DO follow any instructions given out – they are medical officers at all events but remember, for your benefit you can also do your bit to make sure we all DO listen out for announcements. In the event have a happy and safe New Year. of an emergency, you may need to evacuate all or part of the event arena. You will be directed G4S EVENTS has been supplying security and stewarding to the safest exit. Follow directions and leave as quickly and safely as possible. to the Edinburgh’s Hogmanay festival, including the Street DO get to know where the emergency services Party, since it began in 1993. Our team’s priority is to are stationed (see the event map on page 32) make it a night to remember for all the right reasons. G4S personnel are responsible for entrances, thoroughfares and exits to help you enter, walk around the site easily DON’T and safely, and help you leave by the most appropriate route. We check you have a ticket to manage the number DON’T arrive after 11pm – NO ENTRY after 11pm of people entering the Street Party arena and to create a DON’T bring glass (including bottles) into any place suitable for everyone to enjoy the festivities. If we of the event arenas can’t let you in because you’ve had too much to drink, DON’T expect entry if you’ve had too much remember this is for your own safety not because we want to drink – you’ll be refused to spoil your fun. Look out for us, the yellow jackets worn DON’T bring young children or pushchairs by our staff are ‘highly visible’ and we will do everything to the Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Street Party (events on 30 December and 1 January we can to assist you. We want you to be safe and enjoy are for all the family) yourselves and will do our best to answer your questions, DON’T forget your tickets & wristbands – help you out if you have a problem or point you in the right you won’t get into the ticketed arenas direction if you get lost. See you on the 31st. without them

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On the first day of 2015,set your compass and join us on a cosmic journey across Edinburgh’s Old Town, the newly discovered constellation of Scot:Lands.

Incredible new worlds: the very best in music, art and theatre created and curated by Scotland’s most innovative artists and musicians.

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Deeside: a place of THE ARTISTS CHECK IN AND castles, and crannogs; of mountains and munros, Aidan O’Rourke EMBARK ON YOUR fiddles, fine foods, fishing, with Patsy Reid and festivals. and Graeme UNIQUE TRIP A land of standing Stephen stones, highland games Chris Dooks and Royal homes…. AROUND SCOT:LAND come a little closer and Company of Wolves discover a valley world Departure Gate: National Museum of Scotland HEART:LAND alive with innovation Alasdair Roberts and experimentation Departure Times: from 12:30 & 14:00 presented by: Ross Whyte – a place of creative Tickets: Free RODDY HART pioneers, forging new Mel Shand

approaches to old Curator of the famously fabulous and ongoing Alicia Bruce traditions. “Roaming Roots Revue”, Roddy Hart, one of Scotland’s key (musical) players assembles Find music, film and surprising performance. Scot:Land’s will be very popular (again!) so we a stellar line-up of brilliant and emerging Follow the river! home-grown musicians playing both material are asking you to register online. Your journey inspired by a place and paying homage to will still be free but you need to reserve your the great songs that connect them to their place (and time) prior to departure. Scottish roots. An afternoon of hope and edinburghshogmanay.com nostalgia, a unique journey into the Heartland On departure you will journey on foot from land of Scottish contemporary music. to land determined by the spin of a compass. To register and for further details go to Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire edinburghshogmanay.com Withered Hand Andrew Mitchell & Alice Marra (Hazey Janes)

Principal funding partner SCOT:LANDS supported by Louis Abbott & Sarah Hayes of Edinburgh’s Hogmanay () THE Supported through the Scottish Government’s Tommy Reilly ARTISTS Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund 38 39 SCOT:LANDS SCOT:LANDS NEU:LAND HIGH presented by: SCHOOL:LAND NEU REEKIE presented by: www.facebook.com/neureekie STILLMOTION An exhilarating cabaret of life from Neu! www.stillmotion.co.uk Reekie! - Edinburgh’s most celebrated Game on…come play with us! arts collective. Play and experience a series of interactive Find here an eclectic mix, from the best of games inspired by school playgrounds of Scotland’s vibrant music scene to unpredictable the past. Retrace your memories. Be young performances from the City’s thriving spoken and free! word artists; intercut with the vanguard of TIDE:LAND Scottish animation. Live showcases, surprise BLETHER:LAND Following the success of Scotch Hoppers in thrills, wily buskers and a pop-up electro-art and Glasgow at the Commonwealth presented by: exhibition... whit’s not to like!? presented by: Games in 2014, stillmotion bring a remix of EDIT TRACS sparky, spiffing games to kick in the New Year. www.aboutedit.co.uk www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk

One of Scotland’s most talented lyrical THE ARTISTS In the heart of the Old Town (we would musicians Joe McAlinden, overwhelmed by call it Auld) a warm Ne’er’s (you would call the unrelenting power of the sea and how it it New Year’s) Day welcome to all! Wander affected him physically and emotionally, was through a rich gather-round ceilidh of inspired to create a new piece of music: EDIT. music, puppetry, stories and dance in the TeenCanteen rooms and garden of one of the city’s most This remarkable, poignant film, made in historic and atmospheric of hooses: a response to the music, explores the way programme inspired by Sir Walter Scott we discover love and loss, heartache and Birdhead and dark tales of Old Edinburgh. hope. At the heart of EDIT is Joe’s beautiful edinburghshogmanay.com score, which will be partly played live at this Kevin unique screening. Williamson Andy Cannon & The Burns THE ARTISTS Ensemble Wendy Weatherby Music: Script: Shane Connolly Joe McAlinden Martin Michael Pedersen Film: McCardie Stan Reeves Iain Forsyth & Producer: Will Anderson Jane Pollard Katie Nicoll Fiona Herbert

Emelle 40 THE ARTISTS 41 SCOT:LANDS SCOT:LANDS FROM SCOT:LAND HEBCELT:LAND presented by: presented by: FACTION NORTH / CROSSOVER / HEBCELT FESTIVAL: NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND celebrating 20 years in 2015 SCOTTISH SCREEN ARCHIVE www.hebceltfest.com www.fromscotlandwithlovethefilm.com Fàilte chridheal: welcome to one of the most Compiled from Scottish THE ARTISTS atmospheric festivals on the planet. Held Screen film archives with Director: every July on the Hebridean Island of Lewis, artistry and love, director Virginia Heath it comes to the City celebrating its 20 years of Virginia Heath’s film is a Composer: scintillating Celtic music. journey into our collective King Creosote An turas: Join us on the journey across the past. From Scotland with Minch from the mainland and immerse in the WHOLLY:LAND Love explores universal themes of love, 3 on this IS:LAND Stornoway buzz. loss, resistance, migration, work and play. De th’ann: Join some of the artists who presented by: presented by: Ordinary people, some long since dead, have graced the Main Stage in the famous : NATIONAL their names and identities largely forgotten, COMAR stripy marquee. CENTRE FOR DANCE, EDINBURGH powerfully evoke Scotland’s story with an www.comar.co.uk www.dancebase.co.uk acclaimed soundtrack by King Creosote. Stay with us for the Come on over to the magical Island of Mull CLOSING FESTIVAL CEILIDH In a new commission from Dance Base, Commissioned as part of – immerse in its mystery: the right woman, the wrong man, the wrong woman, castles, choreographer Steinvor Palsson has taken Glasgow Commonwealth THE ARTISTS inspiration from Hugh MacDiarmid’s Games Cultural Festival, dungeons, weeping, woollens, songs, tunes, poetry, green skin, red hair, beards, poem ‘Scotland’, engraved into a flagstone here uniquely it will be shown Rura overlooking Arthur’s Seat, within a circle outdoors in an Old Town street, silver side burns, ginger tache, winter stay of stones. The ideas of wholeness, solidity a setting as evocative as the autumn, watching, liquid silver, science or Iain Morrison and transparency infuse an elegiac and film itself. fiction, guitars, fiddle, accordion, drums, Caroline Watt enthralling keys, voices. And shortbread. edinburghshogmanay.com dance sequence specifically created THE THE ARTISTS. Lori Watson for its setting, ARTISTS Kenny Anderson Sorren Maclean one of the city’s Malin Choreographer: Captain Geeko The Hannah most ethereal and Stevinor Palsson the Dead Aviator Fisher Trio world renowned Director: Des Lawson Siôn Parkinson buildings. It will be Morag Deyes performed Gogs

to live music. Organ: Michael Cello: A special screening of The Weepers Harris Atzi by visual artist Rachel Maclean Muramatsu 42 43 THE THE LOONY DOOK LOONY DOOK

THURSDAY 1 JANUARY Welcome 2015 with a splash by taking part in the Check website for breathtaking Queensferry Loony Dook, the annual dip event times in the River Forth in the shadow of the world-famous South Queensferry Forth Rail Bridge. £8 registration – For over a quarter of a century, thousands of people have taken includes donation to the RNLI the New Year plunge, raising tens of thousands of pounds for For registration and charities across the UK. full event details, Take part in the Dooker Parade through the High Street, finishing including public in the freezing Forth, under the gaze of the iconic Forth Bridges. transport to South Queensferry, Spectators are welcome to cheer on the Dookers at various visit: vantage points along the route or down on the beach. edinburghshogmanay.com

TOP TIPS: South Queensferry Last year’s event was Family and friends are has a variety of a total SELL-OUT. Dookers encouraged to get Fancy Dress is BEST! pubs, cafes and must buys a ticket in advance down to the beach early The Loony Dook Wear shoes to enter the restaurants, all open and check-in on the day to support the Dookers. is supported by water (stony beach) on New Year’s Day (no ticket sales at event)

44 45 45 EDINBURGH RUGBY - 1872 CUP RUGBY - 1872 EDINBURGH 1872 CUP Edinburgh Rugby v and its kids for a quid! First foot Edinburgh Rugby FRIDAY 2 JANUARY “A day for all the family and on Friday 2 January 2015 Kick off 7.30pm that’s why we’re offering all when they play Glasgow BT Murrayfield Stadium Warriors in the historic 1872 U18s entry for ONLY £1! Bring Adults FROM £20, the family for a bit of cheer at Cup. Watch as they battle in Concessions £10 the end of the festive season the oldest inter-city rugby U18s ONLY £1 (kids a quid) and enjoy the entertainment derby in the world! CITY Online: www.edinburghrugby.org, we have on offer, before and against CITY, EAST v WEST, By phone: 0131 346 5180 after the match” In Person: Edinburgh Rugby Ticket it’s the biggest club game in Centre, off Roseburn Street, EH12 5PJ David Davies, Edinburgh Rugby Scotland! Managing Director

46 47 A season of filmhouse @ Edinburgh’s Hogmanay SEASON EH2015 FILM great films set Galore in Scotland, The Wicker I Know The Prime Whisky Scotland welcoming the arrival Man: Where I’m of Miss Jean Galore! of the New Year and The Final Cut Going! Brodie saying farewell Thursday 1 Jan 1pm to the old. Tuesday 30 Dec 1pm Tuesday 30 Dec 6pm Saturday 4 Jan 6pm Thursday 1 Jan 6pm Friday 2 Jan 1pm Alexander Mackendrick / Michael Powell & Emeric Ronald Neame / UK 1969 UK 1949 Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9BZ, 0131 228 2688, filmhousecinema.com Pressburger / UK 1945 Cast: Maggie Smith, Cast: Basil Radford, Cast: Wendy Hiller, Robert Stephens, Joan Greenwood, The Illusionist (L’illusionniste) Sunshine What We Roger Livesey, Finlay Pamela Franklin, Jean Cadell, Gordon on Leith Did on Our Currie, Pamela Brown, Gordon Jackson, Jackson, James Holiday John Laurie. Celia Johnson. Robertson. Monday 29 Dec 6pm A headstrong, rather This Oscar-winning Monday 29 Dec 1pm & Saturday 3 Jan 1pm proud young woman classic is set in a Friday 2 Jan 6pm Robin Hardy / UK 1973 travels by train and private school in Andy Hamilton & Guy ferry to the Hebrides, 1930s Edinburgh, Jenkin / UK 2014 Cast: Edward Woodward, there to marry her where Maggie Smith’s Cast: David Tennant, Christopher Lee, Britt wealthy fiancé. But headstrong teacher Saturday 27 Dec 6pm & Sunday 4 Jan 1pm Rosamund Pike, Billy Eckland, Diane Cilento, along the way, she falls ignores the curriculum Sylvain Chomet / UK/France 2010 Connolly, Celia Imrie, Ingrid Pitt. under the spell of the and influences her The story of a ship that Sylvain Chomet’s beautifully animated film is a truly Ben Miller. Generally regarded as Scottish landscape, and impressionable young runs aground carrying magical piece of cinema. Our weary hero is an Doug (David Tennant) one of the best British encounters another charges with her over- 50,000 cases of whisky, over-the-hill magician, complete with less-than- and Abi (Rosamund Pike) horror films ever made. man (Roger Livesey), romanticised world and of the fictional friendly white rabbit. Always in search of a paying travel to the Scottish It’s a movie about with whom she falls view. Todday islanders’ gig, the illusionist treks from to the Western Highlands with their religion, God, and suddenly, passionately attempts to salvage and Isles to Edinburgh – acquiring, along the way, a Sunday 28 Dec 1pm three children for Doug’s the crisis of faith, and in love. A unique, hang on to the cargo. young travelling companion who sincerely believes Wednesday 31 Dec father Gordie’s (Billy on top of all that, it’s magical, dreamlike in his magical abilities. 6pm Connolly) birthday party. bloody scary. work of real and Dexter Fletcher / UK 2013 It soon becomes clear enduring genius. Cast: George MacKay, that when it comes to From Scotland with Love Kevin Guthrie, Peter keeping a secret under Mullan, Jason Flemyng, wraps from the rest of Saturday 27 Dec 1pm, Sunday 28 Dec 6pm Jane Horrocks. & Saturday 3 Jan 6pm the family, their children Dexter Fletcher Aerial View: A Guid New Year with STV Virginia Heath / UK 2014 are their biggest liability... directs this hugely Wednesday 31 Dec 1pm Made entirely of Scottish film archive, ‘From enjoyable adaptation Scotland with Love’ is a feature film by of the successful stage Join us on a trip into STV’s past, as we open the archives to see how the broadcaster celebrated award-winning director Virginia Heath with a musical featuring Hogmanay in 1957 and 1978. STV had been on the air for just four months when it broadcast its first transcendent score by Scottish musician and the songs of the Hogmanay Outside Broadcast in 1957, live from Glasgow Cross. Rai Purdy is your genial host for a composer King Creosote. A journey into our Proclaimers. look back at the year’s news, alongside comedy and interviews with members of the public. Next, collective past, the film explores universal themes fast forward to Cowcaddens in 1978 for the astonishing, disco-infused, Out With the Old In With of love, loss, resistance, migration, work and play. the New, featuring a cameo from the great Rikki Fulton.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT Edinburgh is renowned Festival Director Pete Irvine throughout the world Company/Senior Project Manager warm grey 4 Penny Dougherty for hosting the best ADMINISTRATION Hogmanay celebrations. Project Manager Verity Blanchard As principal funding Project Administrator Cate Williams partner, the City of Programming Coordinator Amy Shirlaw Edinburgh Council PA to Directors Lucy Cardwell looks forward to Book-keeper Sarah Stephenson welcoming you to this three-day festival. PR & MARKETING With the Torchlight Procession, world-famous Communications Manager Al Thomson Street Party, Loony Dook for the hardy, and Press Manager Frances Sutton Press Officer Liam Upton Scot:Lands celebrations on the 1st January Blogmanay Coordinator Charlotte Gosling 2015, there really is something for everyone! Digital Manager Colin Fraser On behalf of the Council I want to thank all Distribution Roland Skinner those who make these fantastic celebrations Marketing Assistant Jasmine May Pittman possible, including Unique Events, Police EDINBURGH’S HOGMANAY STREET PARTY Scotland and G4S security. I am sure you will Producer/Production Manager Rab Randall all have a great time and we look forward to Festival Site Manager John Miller Site & Production Co-ordinator Lesley Strang © Lloyd Smith welcoming you back in the near future. Site & Production Coordinator Katy Fowler Councillor Steve Cardownie, Event Assistant Erin Whyte Festival and Events Champion, Fireworks Manager Sarah Gardiner City of Edinburgh Council Live Screens Producer Tim Franklin Live Screens Technical Manager Nigel Kippax The Year of Homecoming Scotland 2014 kicked off with a bang and we’ve Music & Artist Management Regular Music ltd enjoyed many brilliant moments throughout this year… but there are still Principal funding partner more to come! Be part of it and experience a packed programme of amazing of Edinburgh’s Hogmanay OTHER EVENTS Producer - Torchlight & Scot:lands John Robb winter events and festivals all across the country. There’s so much to celebrate, from Producer - Torchlight & Scot:lands Carrie Hutcheon our spectacular landscapes to tasty food and drink. Whether you’re keen to soak up our THANKS TO - Everyone at The City of Edinburgh Council, Administrator - Torchlight & Scot:lands Murray Boyd Ed Bartlam & Charlie Wood and all at Underbelly, vibrant culture, discover your ancestral heritage, try thrilling activities or experience the Event Manager - Loony Dook Danni Bastien EventScotland, Scottish Government and Police Scotland for country’s creative side, we’re ready to welcome you! their continued support; all funders, supporters, organisations HEALTH & SAFETY and individuals throughout Edinburgh and beyond who assist in bringing together Edinburgh’s Hogmanay, without Festival Safety Advisors MRL Download your free VisitScotland Official Events app today. you it would not be possible, including Edinburgh Festivals DESIGN City, Edinburgh Tourism Action Group and our colleagues www.homecomingscotland.com across the Edinburgh Festivals. Unique Events would also Identity / Brochure / Website / Illustrations Hillside Agency like to thank all our team and everyone who has worked on Website design & build Northcolour Edinburgh’s Hogmanay over the last 22 years! Animations & Countdowns Bryony Day & Susanna Murphy #Homecoming2014 62 63