Edinburgh Psych Fest 2024

Edinburgh Psych Fest, the sister festival to the UK’s leading Psychedelic music and arts festival Manchester Psych Fest, returns to Scotland’s capital in September after the sell-out success of its inaugural year.

The psychedelic and psychedelic-influenced festival’s second instalment will bring doom-psych-metal outfit Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, neo-psych-rockers Temples, Irish shoegazers NewDad, retro-indie-psych-pop three piece Juniore, psychedelic rock-and-rollers The Bug Club, and 'surf-noir' Seattle rock band La Luz to Edinburgh this September.

Indie-pop quintet Divorce, DIY trio HotWax, hazy-indie-infused folk singer-songwriter Molly Payton, dream-like alt-country singer and Lana Del Ray collaborator Holly Macve, synth-psych-punkers Crush Of Souls and Edinburgh’s psych-rock-shoegaze outfit Puppy Teeth complete the first wave announcement.

Also joining them are including renowned musician, composer, producer, film-maker and former Super Furry Animal’s frontman Gruff Rhys, hazy indie-pop outfit Lime Garden, frantic experimental rock-jazz two piece O. and Glasgow’s dreamy slowcore duo Cloth. Post-punk quintet Gurries, Edinburgh’s 60’s psych duo Logan’s Close and surrealist punk-poetry-rockers Loose Articles also join the bill alongside Manchester’s 90’s influenced shoegaze outfit TTSSFU, Glasgow’s soupy psych-rock band The Wife Guy’s Of Reddit and the lo-fi psych post-punk sounds of Nightshift.

Taking place across Summerhall and the new 2024 venue addition, The Queen’s Hall, the festival promises another unforgettable day filled with mind-bending sounds, trippy visuals and a celebration of all things psychedelic.