Pete
Irvine is full of surprises. This has long been the case, ever since his early
days putting on gigs with Regular Music, the promotion company he co-founded
with Barry Wright to capitalise on a new wave of musical activity in Edinburgh
and elsewhere during the late 1970s. It was the same when, as head of Unique
Events, he and the company began Edinburgh’s Hogmanay, transforming the capital’s
end of the year celebrations into an international spectacle.
Irvine may be flying solo these days since he departed Unique, now led by director Alan Thomson, but he’s no less interested in events which capture the creative essence of Edinburgh. So it goes with his contributions to Culture Trail, the one-night only city centre wide compendium of artistic activity that forms Unique’s newly constituted Burns&Beyond festival.
As the name suggests, Burns&Beyond is a celebration of Scotland’s national bard Robert Burns, which takes place over six days and nights, and which aims to showcase so…
Irvine may be flying solo these days since he departed Unique, now led by director Alan Thomson, but he’s no less interested in events which capture the creative essence of Edinburgh. So it goes with his contributions to Culture Trail, the one-night only city centre wide compendium of artistic activity that forms Unique’s newly constituted Burns&Beyond festival.
As the name suggests, Burns&Beyond is a celebration of Scotland’s national bard Robert Burns, which takes place over six days and nights, and which aims to showcase so…