Major drive-in festivals to be staged at Ingliston and Dalkeith Country Park

An image showing what the Live From The Drive-In event at the Royal Highland Showground could look like.

Two major new drive-in events are to be staged in Scotland this summer.

The Royal Highland Showground, near Edinburgh Airport, is the only location in Scotland lined up for a series of live drive-in concerts which will be staged at 12 sites across the UK from the middle of next month.

Ash, Beverley Knight, Brainiac, Brand New Heavies, Embrace, Gary Numan, Jack Savoretti, Lightning Seeds, Nathan Dawe, Russell Watson, The Snuts and The Streets will all be playing Live From The Drive-In shows at the Ingliston showground in August, coinciding with the city’s traditional summer festival season.

All of the shows, which are being masterminded by entertainment giants Live Nation, will have a capacity of around 300 vehicles.

Around 300 vehicles will be allowed at each event at Ingliston.

Live Nation said each concert would boast “concert-quality sound from a live stage, with a full state of the art sound system, lighting rig and high definition LED screens.”

Meanwhile a new festival billed as ‘Scotland’s biggest ever drive-in tour’ is to be staged in six locations across the country.

Dalkeith Country Park, in Midlothian, will host the launch of The Parking Lot Social in August, which will feature film screenings, live music and comedy, ‘car-a-oke’ and bingo and quizzes at a pop-up arena with 40 ft screens.

The touring arena, which will have a capacity for 250 vehicles at each location, will also visit yet-to-be-announced sites in Glasgow, Perth, Aberdeen, Dundee and Inverness.

The festival, which will see each ticketed event run for between two and three hours, is being planned by the Glasgow-based events company XL Event Lab, which says it has been “designed with social distancing at its heart.”