Brilliant atmosphere at today's 'Gather Around the Frame: A Celebration of Hand Quilting' event at National Museum of Scotland with an inspiring mix of community and creativity.

Always a blast capturing @strangetownco.bsky.social Young Company and loved their latest show 'Aphrodite Rogue' by Eleanor McMahon (including appropriate flashback fear on joys of flat sharing 🙀). Last chance to see it at Summerhall tonight (Sat 28 Mar 2026) strangetown.org.uk/styc-aphrodi...

Mind / ears blown away by sound wizard Chris Watson's excellent 'Planet Ocean' talk tonight at @edincollegeofart.bsky.social 👏🎧👏🎤👏

Playful night c/o Wavetable #49 at their inaugural @fruitmarket.bsky.social show with mint sets from Steve Davis + @gazwilliams.bsky.social and Three Field Lines 👏 Photo album > rhttps://andycatlin.myportfolio.com/wavetable-49-26-march-2026

Fun day documenting Youth Theatre Arts Scotland's National Convention of Youth Drama and good to see the young team enjoying the movement workshop 😀

First proper bat snoop of 2026 on the Water of Leith @wolct.bsky.social and pure joy seeing Soprano Pipistrelles and Daubenton's getting their spring equinox party on in central #Edinburgh 🥰

Beautiful night at Old Saint Paul's in #Ediburgh with Dr Paul Newton-Jackson directing the vocal consort Mater Matris in a concert of elaborate sacred works from 16th century #Scotland. Photo album > andycatlin.myportfolio.com/mater-matris...

Tuesday Tunes #3 : Another exceptional show from Bathing Suits tonight with Shelf Lives at The Mash House 👏👏👏 Photo album > andycatlin.myportfolio.com/shelf-lives-...

Tuesday Tunes #2 : Excellent, intriguing lunchtime concert from Robin Michael + Anna Michels at Reid Concert Hall at University of Edinburgh @edincollegeofart.bsky.social 👏

Tuesday Tunes #1 : Fun times documenting St David’s RC Primary School visit to the National Museums Collection Centre where they discovered the beginning of the vinyl revival 🎶

Fun time at today's 'Prints & Drawings in Focus | French and Impressionist prints and drawings' @nationalgalleries.bsky.social getting up close with exceptional work including Delacroix, Legros, Redon and a box-fresh new acquisition by Morisot (because you can't have enough cats in art 😻)

Headline of the Day: "Snooker's Mark Williams has serious phobia of tea bags" 😱 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fine evening to be chasing the full Worm Moon across #Edinburgh 🌝

Fab 'Gwen John | Strange Beauties' exhibition at Amgueddfa Cymru which really brings the details of @judithmackrell.bsky.social excellent biography 'Artists, Siblings, Visionaries' to life (especially Gwen's fondness for cats 😻). Scottish pals can see it @nationalgalleries.bsky.social in Aug 2026 👍

Virtuosic, dynamic and sensitive Joel von Lerber harp performance today at @rwcmd.bsky.social 👏👏👏

After a few weeks at the quieter end of the musical fun park, good times tonight mixing it up with a maximalist line-up of THUMPER + Oedipus and The Mama’s Boys + Diet of Worms at Sneaky Pete's 👏 Photo album > andycatlin.myportfolio.com/thumper-24-f...

Class @thenightwith.bsky.social show last night with United Strings of Europe at @fruitmarket.bsky.social including ace 'Spindrift' by Aileen Sweeney that every Scottish group needs to get into their repertoire 👏👏👏 Photo album > andycatlin.myportfolio.com/united-strin...

Lovely set today from Innes White + Ceitlin Lilly + Ellen MacDonald at National Museum of #Scotland as part of the celebrations for World Gaelic Week 2026 #SeachdainNaGàidhlig2026

All-star alumni cast at @weekofsound.bsky.social @edincollegeofart.bsky.social Recording Culture concert celebrating 75 years of the School of Scottish Studies Archives and its remarkable work in both preserving and developing new work 👏 Photo album > andycatlin.myportfolio.com/recording-cu...

What would you do with a camera that can capture two million frames per second? Find out why sticky tape screeches, obviously 🤔 www.science.org/content/arti... via @science.org

After last week's session in the recording studio, good time catching up with Blackstar Falling live last night at Whistlebinkies 👏

Sharp young minds at work today taking part in the Giant Geometry Challenge at National Museum of #Scotland as part of their free half term family activities celebrating the latest exhibition 'Giants' www.nms.ac.uk/events/giant...

Alternative Valentine's Day fun at @cmvm-edinburghuni.bsky.social Anatomical Museum's heart-themed Public Open Day as part of their 300th anniversary celebrations (and way better than overpriced petrol station chocs'n'flowers 😍)

Cracking afternoon taking photos with Blackstar Falling who are recording their new album at Mark Morrow Audio - catch them live at Whistlebinkies in #Edinburgh on Wed 18 Feb 2026 🎶

Fascinating 'Defamation and Desire | Edinburgh’s Sapphic Scandal' talk today from writer & researcher Indigo Dunphy-Smith at @nationalgalleries.bsky.social as part of LGBTQ+ History Month, rich in detail about the city's neighbourhoods, people and history 👍

Lovely wee set today from Kristina Leesik + Séamus Ó’Baoighill at National Museum of Scotland in partnership with @livemusicnowscot.bsky.social 👏 More free live music coming up → www.nms.ac.uk/events/live-...

Wild, dirty, unhinged, DIRTY gig tonight at Corsica Studios from Big Sexy Noise (AKA Lydia Lunch / James Johnston / Ian White) 👏👏👏

Back-to-back joy from a packed line-up at the inaugural Cowgate Block Party in #Edinburgh celebrating discovery, emerging artists and local culture. Bumper photo album > andycatlin.myportfolio.com/cowgate-bloc...

Still fizzing after Saturday night's @thenightwith.bsky.social bold and kinetic show with Haptic + Stef Conner at @fruitmarket.bsky.social 🧨 Photo album > andycatlin.myportfolio.com/the-night-be...

My, what big teeth you have! Sneak preview encounter with Livyatan melvillei at the excellent @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social 'Giants' exhibition at National Museums of #Scotland which showcases the colossal prehistoric creatures that lived after the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Cracking gig tonight from Boston's Scottish Fish at Sneaky Pete's - haste ye back 👏 Photo album > andycatlin.myportfolio.com/scottish-fis...

Week of Sound @weekofsound.bsky.social returns to Edinburgh for 2026, with a packed programme of concerts, talks, and workshops on the theme of music, technology, and society. Events are free and open to all - full details at www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/week-of-s...

We’re back - Save the Date! In 2026 we Pedal on Parliament for a cycle-friendly Scotland, on Sat 30th May at 11.30am - Middle Meadow Walk to Holyrood, Edinburgh on closed roads. #ThisMachineFightsClimateChange #pop26

Braving the elements today documenting many hands making light work as @edinburghnapier.bsky.social MSc Wildlife Biology & Conservation students visited the East Lothian Council Ranger Service at Levenhall Links in Musselburgh 💪

Had the pleasure of working on the photography for this one - don't miss the shows 'Jackals' & 'Walking on Eggshells' when they open in Paisley & Edinburgh this April & May 👏

Ace time documenting today's Sensory Sunday, the National Museum of Scotland's programme of sensory play sessions for children with additional support needs and disabilities and their families (also got to read dinosaur storybooks in-between taking photos which sadly doesn't happen at every job 😀).

"An old parking meter and a Pi make beautiful music together" You can't turn a parking enforcement officer into a jukebox... or can you? www.theregister.com/2026/01/16/p... via @theregister.com

Blinding 'Sgeul is Seirm' gig tonight from Mairi Callan with Màrtainn Sken + Max MacIntyre at Reid Concert Hall @edincollegeofart.bsky.social - exceptional mix of contemporary and traditional 👏👏👏

Every cloud has a silver lining, right?

Good to see the residents of @edinburghzoo.bsky.social starting the New Year with best intentions - extra credit to buff-cheeked gibbon, Northern Luzon giant cloud rat, Visayan spotted deer & Prevost's squirrel for keeping a healthy diet and staying hydrated 👍 (no mention of Dry January though...).

Any Blue Monday despondency demolished by Monster Chetwynd's joyful and freewheeling talk tonight @edincollegeofart.bsky.social covering - amongst a zillion other topics - Halloween parties, handsome vets and the Sean Connery legend that is Zardoz 🤩

Good to see and hear so many impassioned voices at today's Hands Off Venezuela protest at the US Consulate General in #Edinburgh 👏🇻🇪👏 Photo album > andycatlin.myportfolio.com/hands-off-ve...

Gorgeous set tonight from Resol String Quartet at @nationalgalleries.bsky.social c/o @livemusicnowscot.bsky.social with gold stars all round for including Caroline Shaw's exquisite 'Plan and Elevation' 👏

"reimagines candy as an audio interface, embedding bone-conduction technology into a lollipop stick to deliver music directly through the teeth and jaw" Well, seven days in and that's 2026 ruined stereogum.com/2484405/musi...

After a year of cloud cover wash-outs, a promising start to 2026 with a gorgeous Wolf #supermoon scooting around the Balmoral Hotel and Nelson Monument in #Edinburgh 🌝

Fully charged for 2026 by today's Sprogmanay shenanigans at National Museum of #Scotland as part of Edinburgh's #Hogmanay with challenge accepted by the Unicorn Dance Party + Tricky Ricky + Hip Hop Story Stop ⚡️

This is who I spent #Hogmanay with as I documented some of the epic #Edinburgh street party 😀 Hope y'all had a good night and may 2026 be all you want it to be 🤞

It’s that time of year again. Here - in no particular order - are my favourite 25 Albums of 2025. Go give them a listen 👏

Humdinger of a show from LAU tonight at @stgilescathedral.bsky.social as part of Edinburgh's #Hogmanay 🍾 Photo album > andycatlin.myportfolio.com/lau-by-candl...

Positive to see two #Edinburgh bands - Swim School + Waverley - bossing the big stage at last night's Vitamin C Club at Edinburgh's #Hogmanay 👏 Photo album > andycatlin.myportfolio.com/vitamin-c-29...