¶ 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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¶ Reviews
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.
¶ Notes
- During "Alison," Christian played a guitar loaned to him by Donna Bamonte, one that had belonged to her late husband, Perry Bamonte.