Franz Ferdinand to headline Edinburgh’s Hogmanay celebrations

Franz Ferdinand will ring in the new year at Edinburgh’s Hogmanay celebrations for the start of 2019.

Metronomy and Free Love provide the support on the evening. “We’re super excited with the line-up for the Concert in the Gardens at Edinburgh’s Hogmanay,” directors Charlie Wood and Ed Bartlam have said. “It’s going to quite a party! Franz Ferdinand has had a fantastic year with Always Ascending and, in this, their first appearance at Hogmanay, they’re our top choice to get the crowd going into the midnight moment!

“Great support too from top Scottish talent Free Love and dance-floor and festival favourites Metronomy. Edinburgh once more proves itself the best place to be for New Year!”

Franz Ferdinand’s frontman Alex Kapranos has added:

“Hogmanay is the greatest party of the year and there is nowhere in the world like Scotland to celebrate it. Just thinking about bringing in the bells in Edinburgh gets me excited. It’s going to be some night!”