Tens of thousands of revellers from across the world will be attending Edinburgh’s famous street party which culminates in the traditional firework display above Edinburgh Castle at midnight.<\/p>\n
Organisers will be saving money this year as they will be using some of the fireworks bought for last year’s event which was cancelled.<\/p>\n
The event fell victim to bad weather for the third time since 2003, leaving 45,000 revellers to make alternative plans to see in the new year.<\/p>\n
Will Evans, director of Titanium Fireworks, told BBC Scotland News that this year there would be a six-minute show, involving about 10,000 fireworks, accompanied by a bespoke soundtrack.<\/p>\n
He said an earlier “teaser” display at 21:00 would be celebrating Scotland.<\/p>\n
“It’s a really positive vibe to start the evening with”, he said.<\/p>\n
This year, indie rock band Wet Leg will be headlining the Concert in the Gardens and there will also be performances by Scottish supports acts Hamish Hawk and Lucia & The Best Boys. <\/p>\n
Alternatively, party-goers can select one of three different genres of music to dance to at the Street Party Mega Silent Disco.<\/p>\n
Al Thomson, co-director of Unique Assembly which produces Edinburgh Hogmanay, said: “Things are looking great. Looks like it might be a little bit blustery but we’re confident everything will go ahead as planned.”<\/p>\n
A temporary airspace restriction will be in place covering Edinburgh city centre between 18:00 on Hogmanay and 02:00 on New Year’s Day.<\/p>\n
It will be an offence for any unmanned aircraft to fly below 2,000ft above sea level within one nautical mile of Edinburgh Castle. The restrictions include drones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands of revellers from across the world will be attending Edinburgh’s famous street party which culminates…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-343689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}