Edinburgh Tattoo: preview for 2025 show

Edinburgh Evening News

The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo will celebrate its 75th anniversary this summer - with the milestone show taking audiences on a journey through the Tattoo’s history.  Titled, The Heroes Who Made Us, this year’s show will look back at the iconic event’s history to date, and feature memorable Tattoo acts from previous year’s alongside new show elements including a special musical performance ‘Now That’sWhat I Call Tattoo 75’.

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00:00so the 75th anniversary show is called the heroes who made us and it looks to do two things the

00:27first of which is celebrate 75 years of heroes who have made 75 years of shows so we're talking

00:31about the military musicians our volunteers and tattoo performers our audiences our international

00:36guests the scottish weather edinburgh castle and and to kind of do a collected hit of 75 years in

00:44a way that hopefully will be refreshing for audiences but the second thing it looks to

00:47do the second type of heroes is those that touch our lives every day those who turn our societies

00:53into communities the people who volunteer the people who set the example through their behavior

00:56we're looking to celebrate them as well

01:14it's a tremendous honor to be part of the tattoo it's been a part of my childhood for quite a long

01:19time spending a lot of time watching on the telly with my parents and so to be able to be here in

01:23person is phenomenal i trust alan blaine completely the artistic director of the tattoo and i trust

01:29that he will create such a phenomenal show when he talked it through with me it was incredible so yeah

01:35i was just i'm excited to be able to take part and be a small cog within this huge machine that is the

01:42edinburgh tattoo i start this job firstly as a fan i loved this show when i was a kid and i've loved it

01:48ever since and so this for me is an act of homage you want to come and you want to make a show that

01:54if you've seen every single show for 75 years and some people have then you go oh yeah of course that's

01:59what they were going to do in the 75th year but also something that if you've never seen the show

02:03before is really exciting and that's the challenge that's what makes a job really exciting you've got

02:07to honor the past you've got to understand where it come from you've got to understand what makes the

02:11edinburgh tattoo the best show in the world and then you've got to do something the audience didn't know to

02:16ask for and that's the challenge i think we're there we're going to find out in august

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