Alba New Music Festival: Edinburgh Napier University, Merchiston Campus, 10 Colinton Road

A series of concerts and events celebrating complex and experimental new music from some of the UK's leading practitioners including Neil Heyde, Richard Craig and John Wall.

Sleaford Mods: The Liquid Room, 9c Victoria Street

Electro punk duo from Nottingham, whose music deals in working class life and culture and austerity-era Britain.

Influenced by mod culture, the Wu-Tang Clan, rave and black metal, lead vocalist Jason Williamson's vocal style has been compared to John Cooper Clarke and Ian Dury.