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{"source_url": "https://www.heraldscotland.com", "url": "https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18131992.mark-ronson-rocks-hogmanay-party/?ref=rss", "title": "Mark Ronson rocks the Hogmanay party", "top_image": "https://www.heraldscotland.com/resources/images/10853823/", "meta_img": "https://www.heraldscotland.com/resources/images/10853823/", "images": ["https://www.heraldscotland.com/resources/images/4001920.png", "https://www.heraldscotland.com/resources/images/sitelogo/", "https://www.heraldscotland.com/resources/images/monogram/", "https://www.heraldscotland.com/resources/images/sitelogo/?r=dsB2CHr5", "https://www.heraldscotland.com/resources/images/10853823.jpg?display=1&htype=0&type=responsive-gallery", "https://www.heraldscotland.com/resources/images/10853823/"], "movies": [], "text": "Edinburgh\u2019s Hogmanay Concert in the Gardens Neil Cooper ****\n\nBroken hearts were everywhere onstage for Mark Ronson\u2019s headlining slot in a DJ-only show to see in the new year as part of Edinburgh\u2019s Hogmanay\u2019s main event.\n\nTwo pieces of a giant silver construction sit like a collapsed mirrorball, dwarfing the midas-touch producer as he sits inbetween, where his desk-top console resides.\n\nBehind him, a twelve-strong all-female string section featuring Scottish Chamber Orchestra violinists Aisling O\u2019Dea and Siun Milne, plus cellist Niamh Malloy swish out the sort of lush clusters barely heard since the Biddu Orchestra turned disco into a classical gas.\n\nOther hearts are either framed in red as neon shapes zigzag about them, or else spiral round like Joe 90 might hatch like a Kinder toy.\n\nRonson moves through a set of the last decade\u2019s bangers at a gallop.\n\nHe only pauses to don guitar for a brief guest slot from Daniel Merriweather, whose Ronson-produced mash-up of the Smiths and the Supremes on Stop Me remains sublime, despite his patter suggesting ambitions to be an international peace envoy.\n\nWarm-ups came care of the vintage punky reggae party of Mungo\u2019s Hi-Fi sound system and the old skool hands-in-the-air vibes of Rudimental\u2019s Leon \u2018Locksmith\u2019 Rolle, accompanied by free-styling trumpeter Mark Crowney.\n\nThere are more hearts here, as Rolle gets the audience to make shapes with their hands.\n\nAll of which fits in with this year\u2019s Be Together theme.\n\nNot that there\u2019s been much togetherness in responses to what some see as the serious mismanagement of Edinburgh\u2019s Winter festivals.\n\nThe resultant brickbats raise serious questions regarding the event\u2019s future - if it has one \u2013 that must be addressed.\n\nIn the meantime, Ronson\u2019s medley of his own hits synchronised to the turn-of-year fireworks is a work of eye and ear-popping razzmatazz.\n\nAs are his slightly spooky closing renditions of Back to Black and Valerie.\n\nThe power of Amy Winehouse\u2019s disembodied vocal is heightened by the image of her bee-hived visage that covers the stage wall.\n\nWinehouse\u2019s face is bent down, as if acknowledging the broken mirrorball below. All heart, as ever.", "keywords": [], "meta_keywords": [""], "tags": [], "authors": ["Neil Cooper"], "publish_date": "Wed Jan  1 14:28:08 2020", "summary": "", "article_html": "", "meta_description": "Edinburgh\u2019s Hogmanay Concert in the Gardens Neil Cooper ****", "meta_lang": "en", "meta_favicon": "/resources/images/5752176/", "meta_data": {"viewport": "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no", "OMG-Verify-V1": "4389-366acdfc-5224-4c07-bb70-f74d8fbfc2db", "og": {"url": "https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18131992.mark-ronson-rocks-hogmanay-party/", "site_name": "HeraldScotland", "image": {"identifier": "https://www.heraldscotland.com/resources/images/10853823/", "width": 1080, "height": 1241}, "title": "Mark Ronson rocks the Hogmanay party", "type": "website", "name": "Mark Ronson rocks the Hogmanay party", "description": "Edinburgh\u2019s Hogmanay Concert in the Gardens Neil Cooper ****"}, "twitter": {"image": {"src": "https://www.heraldscotland.com/resources/images/10853823/"}, "card": "summary_large_image", "title": "Mark Ronson rocks the Hogmanay party", "description": "Edinburgh\u2019s Hogmanay Concert in the Gardens Neil Cooper ****"}, "fb": {"app_id": 612240812916784, "pages": 285985008233564}, "medium": "news", "title": "Mark Ronson rocks the Hogmanay party", "description": "Edinburgh\u2019s Hogmanay Concert in the Gardens Neil Cooper ****"}, "canonical_link": "https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18131992.mark-ronson-rocks-hogmanay-party/"}