Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Street Party review: Marc Almond, Idlewild and Ninth Wave

“THIS was such a bad idea,” noted the Ninth Wave’s lead singer Haydn Park-Patterson a couple of hours before the bells, of his decision to turn up at this most Caledonian of occasions wearing just a kilt, bare chest and flowing white-blond hair. “I was trying to be really Scottish, but it’s so f***ing cold…”