Edinburgh Summer Sessions Tickets

The Edinburgh Summer Sessions hit the highest notes

The Edinburgh Summer Sessions is an absolutely massive, vaguely alternative music festival held annually at Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh. It's a top-notch event, with headliners and support bands drawn from the household-names pool. The organisers have always tried to include popular Scottish groups on the bill as well. You can expect a good variety of bands that you'll definitely want to see when you buy or sell Edinburgh Summer Sessions tickets on StubHub.

A line-up of celebrated alternative bands

The Edinburgh Summer Sessions have usually coincided with The Edinburgh Military Tattoo. This world-famous pageant takes place at the adjacent Edinburgh Castle, so why not take advantage of this to organise a family trip to Scotland? The younger lot can hit the music festival, while those with more formal inclinations split off next door. The Edinburgh Summer Sessions debuted with quite an unusual format for a music festival. Instead of paying a single entry price and drifting around taking in various bands during the event, you purchase separate tickets for each headline act, so you only end up paying for the bands you really want to see. Be prepared, though: you'll want to see pretty much all of them, as well as their individual supporting acts. Bands performing there have included the latest indie stars, like Florence and the Machine, sharing the limelight with hugely popular performers from previous decades, like Scotland's very own Primal Scream. You're guaranteed to see bands of this quality when you book your Edinburgh Summer Sessions tickets.

From Chvrches to The Courteeners

The Edinburgh Summer Sessions are always excellently run, with strict security to ensure a good time for everyone without it being at all heavy-handed. The venue is in the centre of the city, so transport to and from Princes Street Gardens is plentiful, affordable and easy to find. The festival has become renowned for its friendly atmosphere, with age restrictions carefully applied to ensure that younger fans are accompanied by guardians, ensuring a great mix of teens as well as older music lovers. The music reflects this diversity – teens can happily flock to watch artists like Chvrches, while the oldies after a bit of nostalgia will hone in on the likes of The Cure and Manchester's alt-pop intellectuals James. The more adult-themed gigs of bands like The Courteeners are usually age-restricted. As you can see, getting hold of some Edinburgh Summer Sessions tickets promises a music festival with a difference, one that's about as far a cry from the mud-fest of Glastonbury as you can get, but with bands that are every bit as famous. Check out the full festival line-up on StubHub.