Edinburgh's Hogmanay lines up Simple Minds to headline new year festival — guardian.co.uk

Edinburgh will mark its 20th year of hosting one of the world's largest new year parties with a series of artistic, musical and sporting events to celebrate the onset of 2013. Up to 80,000 revellers are expected to descend on Scotland's capital for a three-day Hogmanay festival. The Scottish band Simple Minds will headline a concert on New Year's Eve and 7,000 torchbearers will march to Calton Hill. On New Year's Day there will be theatrical and musical performances sharing the theme of luck, in a nod to the number 13.

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