Just eight weeks to go to HowTheLightGetsIn 2018. And they’ve got a whole lot of brand new experiences and events coming your way. Heading the list is a spectacular new riverside festival site stretched along the banks of the glorious River Wye, just a stone's throw from the Globe Site.

The new Riverside site is twice the size and now hosts all of the biggest festival events.  The headline music venue, the Hat, is joined by Riverside Disco, their first non-stop dance venue and The People's Front Room with live favourites from a stellar musical collective.

Then there's the Arena, a brand new debate and comedy venue, the Art and Cinema tent, and The Waterfront Bar & Kitchen with live music throughout the day in a great spot facing the river.  And there will be all the regular favourites and so much more; vintage rides and a sandpit for the children, Pacha Mama's chill out zone, and the Spiegel Circus with our late night Masked Balls.   

25 / 26 / 27 / 28  MAY

Quiet as a Mouse are an Edinburgh based indie/alternative band formed by Alex Moran (singer/songwriter), Darren Irwin (lead guitar), Eamon Gilson (guitar) and Martin Patrick (bass) and Graham Longbottom (drums) in 2012. The group’s live reputation has quickly grown as they have supported Hinds (Deers), The Orwells, Palma Violets, The Big Moon, The Orielles, Coasts and The Crookes. These performances have earned them “Gig of the Day” from Ruth Kilpatrick at Amazing Radio, airplay support from Tom Robinson (BBC 6 Music), Vic Galloway (BBC Radio Scotland), Chris Martin, Charlie Ashcroft and Jim Gellaty at Amazing Radio.

On the back of the free download track ‘An Accident Waiting To Happen (Awoo Woo Woo)’ the band released their debut single ‘Home Is The Hardest Place To Find’ in August 2013. Quiet as a Mouse released their next single ‘Casketcase’ in February 2014. ‘Casketcase’ like ‘Home Is The Hardest Place To Find’ was produced by Marcus Mackay (Frightened Rabbit, Snow Patrol) and mastered by Chris Potter (Arctic Monkeys).

In August 2014 QAAM released their debut EP ‘British Flag’ which was engineered and mixed by Liam Watson (The White Stripes) at Toerag Studios in London and mastered by Noel Summerville (The Clash, Aphex Twin). The band released their 2nd EP, Memorybox (recorded at Ca Va in Glasgow), in April 2015, which was coincided with launch shows in Edinburgh, Glasgow & London.

Quiet as a Mouse are releasing their debut album, Is It Funny When It Hurts?, (part-funded by Creative Scotland and produced by Kris Pohl (Idlewild) at Post Electric Studio in Leith), on April 27.

Glasgow at The Hug & Pint on 26th April

Edinburgh at Leith Depot on 27th April

London at The Old Blue Last on 29th April