The Paper Factory: Venue Launch Party (Friday edition)

Information

Hidden Door has secured our biggest site yet! The Paper Factory is a 15 acre site occupied by the former Saica paper and cardboard manufacturing facility on the western edge of Edinburgh.

The site features a mix of warehouses, factory floors, offices and outhouses. Bounded by the Edinburgh Gateway tram and rail station, there are excellent transport links to the city centre as well as to Glasgow and the west.

Hidden Door is a registered charity and ALL ticket sales go straight into putting on our events and ensuring all of our creative contributors are fairly paid.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Hidden Door will transform the entire site for a full-scale multi arts festival in spring 2025, with a special venue launch party this November to give audiences a preview of some of the extraordinary spaces within.

Friday 22 November sees experimental electronica from Exterior, the heartfelt alt-pop of Paige Kennedy, post-punk edginess from Trout and the ever-evolving avant-electropop of Jane Weaver.

Alongside the live music, audiences can explore some of the huge factory spaces featuring the work of over 20 artists. A diverse range of media and artforms will be presented, including sculpture, performance, installation, painting, printmaking and large-scale works.

Between the live music, look out for pop-up dance and laser shows and an utterly unique light and drumming performance.

Hot street food from Fat Flamingo and Chicken Skoop, coffee by Brew 52 and bars stocked by Bellfield Brewery and Jack Daniels.

Subject to licence. Over 18s only.

TRAVEL INFO

The Paper Factory is well served by a variety of public transport links, with frequent bus, tram and train services all stopping nearby, making it easy to reach us from anywhere in the city. See our website for more travel info. Please note there is no parking on site so please consider public transport if you can.

TIMINGS

18:00 - Doors open
18:00 - Exterior
18:30 - Laser and dance show
19:15 - Paige Kennedy
19:45 - Laser and dance show
20:30 - Trout
21:15 - Laser and dance show
21:25 - Light show w/ Sativa Drummers
22:00 - Jane Weaver
00:00 - Doors close

MORE ABOUT FRIDAY'S LINE UP

Visitors to The Paper Factory are set to enjoy an utterly unique gig experience; a vast industrial space once echoing with the sound of heavy machinery, now reborn with live music, lights and projections.

Singer songwriter Jane Weaver returns to Hidden Door having performed at King Stables Road in 2016. Abusing, evading, and obliterating 20 years of whimsical pop trends, her reputation as a truly independent and resilient experimenter commands respect and inspiration in equal measures.

Paige Kennedy brings their unique brand of banging alt-pop and heartfelt storytelling to Hidden Door. Listeners will be captivated by their danceable basslines, quirky lyrics and hook-laden songwriting challenging notions of acceptance, self-possession and gender expectations.

Modern alternative meets 90s grunge, Trout's influences include the poetic songwriting genius of Adrianne Lenker, the layered vocals of Warpaint, and Sorry’s seamless blend of post-punk with idiosyncratic electronic motifs.

Promising "synthesised music with a human touch", Exterior (AKA Doug Macdonald) returns to Hidden Door to present a live performance of HOLOCENE, a stunning body of work emerging from three years of studio and live experimentation. Expect seamless reimagining of electronica which collapses the purported distinctions between dance and rock.

Hidden Door is supported by The National Lottery through Creative Scotland.