Wee will rock you: Scotland market report

Despite ranking in the lower half of European countries in terms of population, Scotland hits way above its weight when it comes to live music success

Lewis Capaldi playing at DF Concerts' TRNSMT Festival in 2019 © Ryan Johnston

Let’s talk about Scottish independence. We’re referring, obviously, to Gerry Cinnamon, the staunchly indie, Glaswegian guitar-basher who has packed a career’s worth of touring milestones into the past two or three years.

There was the pair of sold-out shows at Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom in 2017 – the first unsigned artist to manage such a feat. Then Cinnamon really went up in the world, with two Christmas 2019 gigs at Glasgow’s SSE Hydro and one at Aberdeen’s 15,000-capacity…

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