¶ 2026-08-23 Ingliston, Royal Highland Showgrounds (Scotland) 'Edinburgh Summer Sessions'
¶ Line up
Neil Halstead, Rachel Goswell, Simon Scott, Christian Savill, Nick Chaplin
¶ Setlist
- Star Roving
- Catch the Breeze
- Crazy for You
- Souvlaki Space Station
- Sugar for the Pill
- Kisses
- Alison
- When the Sun Hits
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The Cure / Mogwai / Slowdive / Just Mustard / Edinburgh Royal Highland Centre — Lewis Wade, is this music? (24 August 2026)
Slowdive follow and are welcomed onstage by Brian Eno’s ‘Deep Blue Day’, probably the most relaxed moment of the day. Something from ‘Music For Airports’ may have been more appropriate given the constant streams of planes nearby, but Eno’s more stratospheric work is perfectly apt for the dreamy, spacious walls of sound conjured by the shoegaze legends. The lushness of ‘Sugar For The Pill’ is compounded by the velvety textures of the subsequent ‘Kisses’, the only song from their latest album. A pair of textured cuts from the 1993 classic, ‘Souvlaki’, see us out and seemingly remind everyone it’s time for food, if the queues at the gyros truck are anything to go by.
The Cure: 28 songs and a 34-year wait for Edinburgh — Bryden Churchmichael, Northern Exposure Magazine (27 August 2026)
Slowdive came on at quarter past five with ‘Deep Blue Day’ over the PA before they walked out, and finished on ‘When the Sun Hits’. I’d seen them do ‘Souvlaki Space Station’ at the QMU in Glasgow in October 2023, and I know full well part of what I was doing on Sunday was trying to get back to being eighteen at that gig, an unfair thing to ask of a band while they’re working. Goswell‘s vocals didn’t carry the way it does in a room, though they never disappeared either, and outdoors that’s a fair trade. It isn’t music I dance to, and the sun was still fully up. One of them was playing Perry Bamonte‘s guitar. Bamonte was the former Cure guitarist who died last December, the space Eden Gallup stepped into, and his widow Donna had loaned it to Slowdive for these shows.
The Cure Summer: Sessions, RHSG, Ingliston - Geoff Shaw, RESOUND (1 September 2026)
SLOWDIVE should need no introduction to readers of RESOUND. Having last appeared on these pages for their sold-out headline show at Brixton Academy last year, this is a rare UK appearance as they navigate global festivals at the tail-end of the album cycle for 2023’s excellent ‘Everything is Alive’. With a set confined to “The Hits”, they are clearly relishing the occasion, none more so than singer/guitarist Rachel Goswell with newly dyed peach pink hair and a couture kilt of Witches of Scotland tartan. With a leftie in their midst in Christian Savill, it’s a touching moment when the sparkle guitar of the late Perry Bamonte (a long standing member of THE CURE and fellow leftie) is bought out for use on ‘Alison’ by Perry’s wife, Donna. In Savill’s hands, the guitar sings and raises their set to an even greater height before the inevitable ‘When the Sun Hits’ closes their short time on stage.
¶ Notes
- While performing "Alison," Christian played a guitar lent to him by Donna Bamonte, honoring the memory of her late husband, Perry, who previously owned it.
- Rachel wore a drape kilt from Witches of Scotland —a campaign seeking posthumous justice for the nearly 4,000 individuals (predominantly women) accused of witchcraft in Scotland between 1563 and 1736. The tartan serves as a living memorial, with its design symbolising aspects of the trials.