Step into the vibrant world of O2 Academy Edinburgh, where an eclectic array of events promises unforgettable experiences. From the electrifying Bongo's Bingo to the emotive farewell of You Me At Six, the academy hosts a diverse lineup celebrating music, culture, and community. This season is packed with phenomenal performances, innovative themes, and nostalgic nods to musical legends, ensuring there's something for every taste. Whether you're a fan of indie rock, pop-punk, or folk metal, join us as we explore these incredible events and the artists that make them truly special.

Unforgettable Nights at O2 Academy Edinburgh: A Celebration of Music and Culture

Prepare for a musical journey like no other at the O2 Academy Edinburgh, hosting an unparalleled line-up of events. From the iconic fusion of Elvis and Nirvana to the electric energy of The Mary Wallopers, these events promise an eclectic mix. Add to that the enchanting sounds of Heilung and the authentic Nashville vibes of One Night In Nashville, and you have an unbeatable musical adventure awaiting this year.

Explosive Sounds at O2 Academy: A Unique Line-up of Musical Experiences

The O2 Academy Edinburgh is gearing up for an eclectic mix of musical events that promise to captivate audiences with a unique blend of nostalgia, cultural depth, and immersive experiences. From the nostalgic rock ‘n’ roll revival of Elvana, the Elvis fronted Nirvana tribute, to the traditional sounds of The Mary Wallopers, the atmospheric performances of Heilung, and the honky-tonk vibes of One Night In Nashville, these events will offer a diverse range of genres and experiences. Join us as we delve into what each event has to offer and what makes them truly stand out.

A Sonic Celebration: Elvana, The Mary Wallopers, Heilung, and One Night In Nashville at O2 Academy Edinburgh

The O2 Academy Edinburgh is all set to host an electrifying array of events in 2026, promising unforgettable moments for music and entertainment enthusiasts. From the vibrant Bongo's Bingo's Student Special to the soul-stirring Nashville Encore Tour, and the high-energy K-Pop Live Show, there's something for everyone. Featuring global talents like CMAT and legendary acts such as The Charlatans, the lineup also includes a homage to punk rock with Scotland Calling 2026. Dive into this guide to discover what makes each event a must-attend experience.

O2 Academy Edinburgh: A 2026 Extravaganza of Music and Entertainment

Line up - The Exploited, The Rezillos, UK Subs, Anti-Nowhere League, Ferocious Dog, Subhumans, The Meffs, Gimp Fist, Crashed Out, Knock Off, Split Dogs, Voodoo Radio, Fire Exit, The Cundeez, The Guillotines, Bar Stool Preachers, Dirt Box Disco

Scotland Calling 2026

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Billy Gillies

International pop star. Writer of songs. Fearer of bugs. Girlboss of the very sexy CMAT Band. Once, twice, three times a loser at 2024’s BRITs, Mercury Music Prize and Ivors. Her new album, ‘EURO-COUNTRY’, will rectify these errors.

CMAT

K-Pop Live celebrates your favourite K-pop hits, packed with high-energy performances and next-level choreography inspired by K-pop’s most energetic stage shows.

The Ultimate K-POP Live Show Edinburgh

The Streets originally released in 2004, A Grand Don’t Come For Free, entering the UK charts at No.1, the record went multi-platinum and delivered era-defining singles including “Dry Your Eyes”, “Fit But You Know It”, and “Blinded By The Lights”. It cemented front man Mike Skinner as one of the UK’s most original and vital voices, capturing the humour, heartbreak and raw emotion of everyday life with rare poetic clarity.

The Streets

Stars of the iconic hit television series ‘Nashville’ are returning with the ‘Nashville Encore Tour’, featuring stars Clare Bowen, Charles Esten, Jonathan Jackson and Sam Palladio, who will take the stage to perform classic songs from the series as well as their own original material.

Nashville The Encore Tour

After a trail of sold-out shows and unforgettable memories, GirlyPop Live are bringing the glitter, glam and girl power, this one’s set to bring the sparkle.

GirlyPop Live - Featuring The World's Finest Tributes

The Haggis Ceilidh Club: Hogmanay Party

Skerryvore 20th Anniversary Winter Tour 2025 - Edinburgh

Join the world's leading tribute act to country mega star Luke Combs. Get ready to sing along to all your favourite hits with Luke Combs UK.

Luke Combs UK: The Christmas Country Hoe Down

Above & Beyond, or Jono, Tony, and Paavo, as they are better known to their legions of fans worldwide, have been at the forefront of electronic dance music for two decades. Join the group as they return with their 'Bigger Than All Of Us' tour.

Above & Beyond

Corn Exchange Christmas Cracker

Cast are back with their tour ’30 Years of All Change’, celebrating their debut album All Change.

Cast

The Wombats’ return with their sixth, and their most sonically adventurous and superbly melodic album yet Oh! The Ocean.

The Wombats

Holistic Ways Festival: Scotland's Most Unique Health & Well-Being Event

Bongo’s Bingo, the award-winning original bingo rave phenomenon, returns. A twist on the traditional game, expect rave intervals, dance-offs, sing-a-longs, big prizes and loads of surprises. Tickets sell out fast, so don't hang around.

Bongo's Bingo's Student Special - Xmas

One Night In Nashville, featuring Maria Jordan, is the UK's one and only down-town Nashville and honky-tonk experience. Inspired by today’s Nashville music scene, One Night In Nashville offer its audience a true, authentic slice of the Nashville experience, featuring the biggest country hits from some of the finest multi-instrumentalists, established songwriters, musicians, producers and performers.

One Night In Nashville

All tickets include a £1 net donation that goes to Savage Lands, a charity that helps finance reforestation and purchase of land to extend green areas and create sanctuary zones.

Heilung

The Mary Wallopers head out to play their biggest UK live shows to date. With sold tours across the globe, TV appearances and blistering festival sets, The Mary Wallopers tour their latest brilliant EP, Home Boy Home. 

The Mary Wallopers

Elvana is the world’s finest Elvis tribute to Nirvana! From the bowels of Disgraceland, rock ‘n’ roll icons of the afterlife are raised from the dead. Rock ‘n’ roll meets grunge as Elvis fronts Nirvana and gives the band the front man it’s been missing since '94. 

Elvana: Elvis Fronted Nirvana

British rock royalty, You Me At Six, take their final lap of the UK for their farewell tour. Over a career spanning 20 years, YMAS have some amazing career highs including two No.1 albums, world tours, streams that topped over a billion worldwide and faces that have graced the covers of multiple magazines across the globe. These shows mark a celebratory end to their reign as one of the UK's much-loved rock bands.

You Me At Six: The Final Nights Of Six

This outstanding show recreates the magic of Coldplay live featuring lasers, confetti, video screen and LED wristbands, through all your favourite Coldplay hits from the last two decades, including “Yellow”, “Paradise” and “A Sky Full Of Stars”, through to “Higher Power” and “My Universe”.

Coldplace - The World's Leading Tribute to Coldplay

Pop punk legends, the Grammy nominated Bowling For Soup celebrate 20 years of one of their most successful albums, A Hangover You Don't Deserve. Aptly named 'A Hangover You Don't Deserve 20th Anniversary Tour', Bowling For Soup will be playing the album in full, plus a host of other hits from their 30-year career. 

Bowling For Soup: A Hangover You Don't Deserve 20th Anniversary Tour!

A cornerstone of the UK tribute scene, Antarctic Monkeys’ live show has the power, passion and creative edge to whip audiences into a frenzy while delivering the powerful tunes of Arctic Monkeys the way they should be.

Antarctic Monkeys

Paganfest returns after 10 years and is back with a blast. One of the most successful tours of the pagan and folk metal scene, don’t miss this huge line-up featuring Alestorm, Ensiferum, TÝR, Heidevolk and Elvenking.

Pagan Fest 2025

Skerryvore are like no one else. Epic of melody, intimate of feeling and plugged into the roots of Scotland. With a mix of bagpipes, fiddles, accordions and whistles, alongside guitar and vocals, underpinned by driving bass, drums and keys. Their now seven studio albums demonstrate the wide range of influences the individual musicians bring to the mix, a unique fusion of folk, trad, pop and rock.

Skerryvore Winter Tour 2024

The Wonder Stuff hit the road and will be performing two sets each night. Expect HUP in its entirety on its 35th anniversary before a selection of songs from the band’s 21st Century catalogue, and of course the hits for good measure.

The Wonder Stuff

Big Big Christmas Parties are back and are BIGGER than ever before! Christmas party nights will make you feel like a VIP.

Big Big Christmas Party

An Evening Of Darts

Mercury-nominated troubadour Jake Bugg returns with his rock-driven sixth album A Modern Day Distraction, fiery and engaged, the record was born out of a frustration of societal inequality.

Jake Bugg

Shed Seven head out a very special 30th-anniversary tour, delivering a career-spanning set, as well as tracks from their acclaimed No.1 album A Matter of Time.

Shed Seven

Dance pioneers Faithless head out on a huge UK tour, their first run of shows in eight years. With Sister Bliss at the helm alongside a live seven-piece band, Faithless are a force to be reckoned with as they traverse through music old and new, including their eighth studio album, Champion Sound.

Faithless

One of Ireland’s most popular music acts, song-writing and original material is a major part of the success of The Tumbling Paddies, with hit songs include “Pretty Girl”, “Night On The Town” and “The Way I Am”; which topped the Irish charts for 10 consecutive weeks. With an exuberant, energy-filled, live show, they’ll perform a mix of original songs and classic Irish hits, in what promises to be an incredibly uplifting night of live music.

The Tumbling Paddies

Bongo's Bingo: HALLOWEEN THEME

Formed in 2014 as a Nashville tribute band, GlasVille have performed to thousands of country music fans all over the UK. Their repertoire includes hits from artists such as Shania Twain, Luke Combs, Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood and many more. 2024 marks their 10th anniversary and they hit the road for their most ambitious celebration to date.

Glasville: A Night Of Modern Country Music

Boundary breaking artist Käärijä head out on his ‘Euro Tour 2024’, known for his bowl cut and energetic live performance, he mixes various genres in his music and cultivates a unique sense of humour in his lyrics.

Käärijä

Experience the legendary sound, spirit and attitude of the mighty AC/DC with The AC/DC Experience – arguably Britain’s best AC/DC tribute band.

AC/DC Experience

Wallows - Dylan Minnette, Braeden Lemasters, and Cole Preston - are back with their third studio album, Model, the follow on to their 2022 sophomore album, Tell Me That It’s Over. 

Wallows– Model Tour

Formed in Bradford in 1980, New Model Army are storming through their fifth decade touring their sixteenth studio album, 2024’s Unbroken. Released to critical acclaim, it hit the top positions in official album charts all around the world. Full of guitars, searing vocals and an emphasis on bass and drums, Unbroken is as powerful and poetic as ever for NMA fans.

New Model Army

Craig Charles Funk & Soul DJ Set

One of the biggest bands of their era, The Enemy will headline the ‘Indie Til I Die’ tour which features special guests in the shape of trio The Subways and North London indie band The Holloways. Completed with DJ sets from Radio X duo Sunta Templeton and James Hall.

The Enemy + The Subways + The Holloways

Brothers Rocky and Ross Lynch head out on The Driver Era 'X GIRLFRIEND' tour. Known for their signature sound and larger-than-life live gigs, the duo has earned high praise for creating a live show that doubles as a unique party.

Rocky and Ross Lynch Present: The Driver Era - X GIRLFRIEND TOUR

Legendary punk-pop tunesmiths The Undertones emerged from Derry, Northern Ireland in 1974, and learned their trade by listening to mail order records and reading one of the few copies of NME that made it to Derry. Practicing in their bedrooms eventually led to them recording and releasing “Teenage Kicks” in 1978.

The Undertones

Day Fever is bringing the party to town. With perfect party music, personally curated by Jon McClure of Reverend and the Makers and Vicky McClure, Jonny Owen and the gang, they guarantee it’ll be an afternoon of no holds barred party times.

Day Fever

Bongo's Bingo

Drawing inspiration from southern rock, classic blues rock and rootsy vintage country, their 2021 release You Hear Georgia reached the top spot of Billboard’s americana-folk albums chart. For Blackberry Smoke, embracing the light and finding the silver lining are once again at the heart of what they do best.

Blackberry Smoke: Be Right Here Tour 2024

Bongo's Bingo: COUNTRY THEME

They will be joined by the current Progress Men's World Champion Kid Lykos, together with Lykos 2, will also be appearing at this event.

Pro Wrestling NOAH - UK Tour 2024

One of the best loved UK bands of the last four decades, The Charlatans’ career spans 14 albums, 22 Top 40 singles, three Number One albums and era-defining anthems like “The Only One I Know”, “North Country Boy” and “One to Another”.

The Charlatans

2025 has been an epic breakthrough year for The Royston Club but there’s much more to come from the acclaimed Welsh quartet in 2026, starting with their  ‘Songs For The Spine’ headline tour.

The Royston Club

Belfast Brunch Co

Any persons under 16 years old will be refused entry unless accompanied by an adult aged 18 years or over.

Definitely Oasis: 96 Revisited - Celebrating 30 Years Since Knebworth, Loch Lomond & Maine Road

The Undertones: 50th Anniversary Show

Known for their vivid storytelling and deeply personal lyrics, Irish band Picture This continue to explore the complexities of love and heartbreak.

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May 6, 2026

The Charlatans

May 8, 2026

The Royston Club

May 9, 2026

Belfast Brunch Co

Aug 15, 2026

Definitely Oasis: 96 Revisited - Celebrating 30 Years Since Knebworth, Loch Lomond & Maine Road

Oct 3, 2026

The Undertones: 50th Anniversary Show

Apr 25, 2026

Scotland Calling 2026

Apr 11, 2026

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