Edinburgh’s Hogmanay review: Message From The Skies

You’ve heard about the negative aspects of Edinburgh’s Hogmanay; the gates and barriers blocking off streets for the Hogmanay Party, the wristbands for residents trying to reach their own homes, the hugely overblown Christmas Market in Princes Street Gardens, and the £12 Loony Dook at South Queensferry, that even tries to monetize the chilly waters of the Forth. Yet here - spreading beautifully across five locations from Fountainbridge to Leith - is one of the festival’s undoubted upsides; one that is absolutely free to experience, and will still be with us when the rest of the festive glitz and flummery has gone, since it continues until Burns Night, 25 January.