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Stars of the Edinburgh Festival set to appear at a new London venue this summer Robert Dex Some of the stand out stars of the Edinburgh Festival could appear at a new London venue this summer. Acts who prove a hit in Scotland will be on stage as part of London Wonderground, which is set to take over the Earls Court 2 Exhibition Centre from July to September. The free-to-enter event includes a mixture of free and ticketed shows as well as bars, fairground rides and an outdoor bea...

Submitting... Billed as “the ultimate staycation playground for Londoners” its new festival will also boast outdoor bars, street food vintage fairground rides. However Underbelly insisted it was still hopeful of staging shows in other venues in Ednburgh this August – if official guidelines for venue operators are eased early enough over the next two months. The plans have emerged weeks after leading venue operators expressed fears over the future of the Fringe over a lack of government su...

At a new site off Oxford Street The Underbelly Festival is set to return  to London this summer - but in a new home. Plans have been submitted to erect a wooden Spiegeltent - rather than the familiar upside-down cow - in Cavendish Square, just behind Oxford Street. If approved, the pop-up festival will run every day from July 1 to September 26, hosting cabaret, circus, variety and family entertainment. Underbelly has been operating  on the Southbank since 2009, selling more than 1.2million ti...

The Underbelly Festival will return to London this summer at a brand-new location. With comedy, cabaret, theatre and more set to be staged at the central London location, the Festival runs from 1 July to 26 September. Underbelly co-director, Ed Bartlam, said: "We are thrilled to bring Underbelly Festival back to London and to be able to bring this much-loved festival to the heart of the Oxford Street District. Our proposed new home in Cavendish Square is perfectly positioned within minutes of...

Will we see performers on Edinburghs Royal Mile again this year? Credit: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Work is intensifying behind the scenes to put together a reduced Edinburgh Festival Fringe – potentially with in-person attendances – in August.  But the heads of the four main Fringe venues – the Pleasance, Assembly Festival, Gilded Balloon and Underbelly – are cautioning that a clearer timetable for the return to normal life in Scotland plus substantial state support are required if it’s...

Edinburgh Hogmanay drone show: Over 3 million tune in from across the world to New Years Eve show The world flocked to Edinburgh virtually on New Years Eve, tuning in for the final drone show from Underbelly Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Dont miss any of Edinburgh Lives biggest stories - sign up to our daily email newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign me up now When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you thes...

Fare Well, a three-part series, sees drones forming images across the skies of Scotland.

  TORONTO -- As part of the Scottish celebration of Hogmanay, the Scots word for the last day of the year, entertainment company Underbelly has shared its spectacular drone show online. The three-part short film called "Fare Well," produced by Underbelly and Edinburgh Hogmanay 2020, reflects on the past year using a swarm of drones to create colourful images in the skies above famous Scottish landscapes including the Highlands, the National Monument of Scotland, and Edinburgh Castle. The f...

Submitting... She is heard reading lines from the poem, while actors David Tennant, Siobhan Redmond and Lorne MacFadyen are among the other Scots to record contributions. The largest block of flats in Edinburgh when it was built, Cables Wynd House was the childhood home of ‘Sick Boy’ in Trainspotting and was used by Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle for some scenes when he shot sequel T2 in locations across the city. The “brutalist” housing block, which dates back to the early 1960s, w...

Shares Edinburgh’s Hogmanay responds to Covid-19 with innovation and the first fully online celebration in the festival’s history Fare Well is a new poem by Jackie Kay that bids farewell to 2020 and wishes a better year for 2021 Narrated by David Tennant and others, Fare Well underscores the UK’s largest swarm drone display, recorded in the Scottish Highlands and cut to spectacular views above Edinburgh Visit www.edinburghshogmanay.com to witness the spectacle for yourselves from 7pm on...