The Edinburgh Playhouse is a former cinema in Edinburgh which now hosts touring musicals and music concerts. This summer the world famous ‘The Buddy Holly Story’ a juxebox musical visits the theatre on July 11 – 16. Serviced City Pads supply serviced apartment accommodation throughout Edinburgh, please contact the reservations team on 0844 335 8866.

Buddy Holly the musical was conceived by Londoner Laurie Mansfield, who pitched the idea to film producer Greg Smith and writer Alan Janes in 1988. Paul Elliot, a West End producer took on the project, and support from Paul McCartney ensured the show’s creation. Opening in 1989, the musical initially ran in London’s West End for over 12 years, and also a brief broadway production, with numerous subsequent tours and productions continuing to run around the world. Serviced City Pads.
Buddy Holly the musical in two acts with a book written in two acts with a book written by Alan Janes, and music and lyrics by a variety of songwriters. Based on the life and career of early rock and roller Buddy holly, the musical hews closer to Holly’s actual life story, the show mostly consists of songs of Holly and early other rockers. Serviced City Pads.

In Lubbock, Texas, 19 year old Buddy Holly is an up and coming country music singer. He and his two friends, Joe and Jerry want to experiment with the new and controversial style of music called rock n roll. They struggle for a time in Texas and then in Nashville, where producers want Buddy to record country and western music, ignoring Buddy’s pleas to ‘do it his way’. The escalating argument almost results in a fist fight between buddy and the Decca producer, thus ending Buddy’s Decca relationship. Hipockets Duncan, a local DJ and friend of Buddy’s, knowing that Buddy is frustrated, puts him in contact with an up and coming Producer who will let him play his music his way. Serviced City Pads.

A contract with pioneering record producer Norman Petty results in string of hits, including the 1957 hits ‘That’ll be the day’, and ‘Peggy Sue’. The group then appears at the Apollo theatre in Harlem where the theatre musicians were expecting a black group, resulting in The Crickters being the first white group to perform there, where they were enthusiastically received. Serviced City Pads.Following these successes, The Crickets begin to record in New York City, where Buddy meets and impulsively marries Puerto Rican record receptionist Maria Elena Santiago. After the break-up with The Cricketers, Buddy starts a solo career, leading to his hits being signed as one of the headliners on the 1959 ‘Winter Dance Party’. Fed up with the terrible weather and tired of travelling by tour bus, 22 year old Holly breaks a promise to his pregnant wife not to fly. Following a February 2, 1959 concerts depart on a small plane during a blizzard, a fateful decision that places them in musical history books in an unexpected and tragic way. Serviced City Pads.

The city of Edinburgh is home to some of Scotland’s best pubs, night clubs and party venues. As well as being the 2nd most visited city in the UK, Edinburgh is also very popular destination for stag and hen groups or people generally just looking for a good time. As well as having some of the best bars, pubs and clubs in Scotland the locals are also renowned for knowing a good time and are always welcoming.

 If you walk through the centre of Edinburgh at night on a weekend, you will be amazed by how many pubs, night clubs, restaurants and even parties appear that you would probably not even notice during the light of day. The city takes on a completely different form when the sun sets and for anyone looking for a great time in safe but beautiful surroundings; Edinburgh is the place to be!

If you have decided to have your stag night, stag weekend, hen night or hen weekend in Edinburgh, you will be looking for some accommodation in Edinburgh during your stay. The city of Edinburgh has a vast selection of hotels as does every other major city. However Edinburgh also boasts a large selection of serviced apartments which are an increasingly popular option for groups travelling to the city. A serviced apartment gives the group much more space to relax and enjoy their stay. Having larger apartments as opposed to small hotel rooms also gives the group a chance to get together for a few pre-night drinks.

 Serviced City Pads have a great variety of Edinburgh apartments suitable for large groups. Whether your group is a tight-knit bunch of 5 best friends or boisterous party of 30 animals, we can find the best Edinburgh accommodation option for your stay. With prices ranging from just £35 per person, per night, why not take your weekend up a notch and go for an Edinburgh apartment on your stag or hen do. Give Serviced City Pads a call on 0844 335 8866 or email your enquiry to info@servicedcitypads.com to see what we can offer you to help your party weekend be as memorable as possible. (But you probably won’t remember much of it!)

Stay in Edinburgh this weekend and have an Audience with Howard Marks at Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh from 8.30pm. Serviced City Pads supply short and long stay apartments throughout Edinburgh.
Dennis Howard Marks (was born 13 August 1945 in Kenfig Hill, near Bridgend, Glamorgan, Wales) is a former teacher, drug smuggler and author who achived notoriety as an international hashish smuggler through high-profile court cases, supposed connections with groups such as the IRA, and the Mafia, and his eventual conviction at the hands of the American Drug Enforcement Administration. At the height of his drug career, he was said to have controlled 10% of the world’s hashish trade.

Marks attended the Graw Grammar School in Pontycymer, followed by Balliol College, Oxford between 1964 and 1967 to study Natural Science, Physics (B.A.,Oxon). Among his friends at Balliol was the epidemiologist Julian Peto, and journalist Lynn Barber. After this he studied at the University of London (1967 to 1968). Then back to Balloi, Oxford (1968 to 1969) to study History and Philosophy of Science and then to the University of Sussex (1969 to 1970) to study Philosophy of Science.

He spent seven years in the Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute, Indiana. During his smuggling career, he claims not to have used violence and to have refused to deal with hard drugs. Both he and his now ex-wife Judy Marks were extradited from Majorca, Spain to Florida. They have three children together, Amber, Francesca and Patrick. He also has an older daughter, Myfanwy, from a 5 year relationship with Rosie Lewis.

Since his release from Prison, Marks has published a best-selling autobiography, Mr Nice which has been translated in many languages. Along with Mr Nice Howard has compiled an anthology called the Howard Marks Book of Dope Stories and more recently a follow on from his autobiography Senor Nice:Straight Life From Wales to South America. Marks is a campaigner for the legalisation of cannabis and tours the world with a one-man show. He appeared in the documentary Stoned in Suburbia which aired on Sky 1 in the UK.

Judy Marks has also written her autobiography of their life together entitled Mr ansd Mrs Nice.

Marks stood for election to UK Parliament in 1997, on the single issue of legalisation of cannabis. He contested four seats at once: Norwich South (against the future Home Secretary Charles Clarke), Norwich North, Neath and Southampton Test. The average vote was over 1%. This led to the Legalise Cannabis Alliance (LCA) by Alun Buffry in 1999.Serviced City Pads.

Marks has a role as a customs officer in the planned film Ecstasy, based on the bestselling book by Irvine Welsh and also made a cameo appearance in the 1999 film human traffic.Serviced City Pads.

In 2010, he played a fictional role in the imfamous ganagster movie Killer Bitch. He is also subject of an upcoming biopic starring Rhys Ifans as Marks entitled Mr Nice, named after his autiobiography of the same name. Chloe Sevigny will play the role of his wife Judy. The film is slated for release in 2010.Serviced City Pads supply Serviced Apartments.

Since 1861 when the society was only 6 weeks old, the EPS has had an annual open exhibition. It is one of the most highly regarded international exhibitions in the UK, typically attracting over 3000 entries from all around the world. Unlike some exhibitions, they only accept what can be displayed, around 200-220 prints, which makes it highly competitive to gain acceptences. Serviced City Pads supply apartments throughout Edinburgh.

This trend goes some way towards explaining why the consistently excellent entry for the Edinburgh Photographic Society’s international exhibition, which only accepts prints, is down for the fourth year in a row – its 1,755 entries being just over half of the 3,477 it attracted in 2006.

One of the most arresting images is the sensitively composed, superbly lit Gypsie Girl by Andrea Martini of Italy, which won one of the three Federation Internationale be l’Art Photographique (Fiap) gold medals. Surrounded by a stack of rough-looking broom heads the crouching girl is pictured with her arms wrapped protectively around her naked figure, doe-eyed look on her grubby face. Selector Judy Boyle said ‘The lighting focuses the viewers eye on the main subject, which makes this a first-class environmental portrait’. Serviced City Pads short and long stay reservations team can be contacted on 0844 335 8866.
Among an excellent selection of animal shots, the brilliantly captured Great Gey Owl by Mick Durham of Scotland was highly commended. Picked out against a white backdrop, the owl, looking like an aeroplane about to take off, stares full on at the viewer, its penetrating black pupils in its yellow eyes at the centre of a stunning splayed-winged form.

Durham’s similarly razor-sharp Brown Hare in Morning Dew is so close up you feel you could almost touch the fleet-footed animal, which is picked out amid the long, droplet covered glass, yellow buttercups and the smudged whites and pinks of daisies. Apartment accommodation in Edinburgh through Serviced City Pads.A contrasting soft focus lends an ethereal quality to English photographers Peter Ree’s Venice Dawn – a painterly portrait of Italy’s lagoon city, seen in a misty haze. Awarding it Fiap robbon, selector Steven Le Provost said it has ‘bags of atmosphere’.

One of the most natural-looking images is of a thick-armed man, crouching on one knee amid the straw of a farm shed, being kissed by a gorgeously golden-coloured sheep. The Kiss, David Wheeler of England, which was awarded a Fiap ribbon, has a warm, earthy feeling.

Forty three per cent of the entries were mono, with arguably the best being the seemingly casually composed Fiap gold-medal winning Bike Rack, by Alan Brown of England. In it, a bicycle leaning on a street sign forms th focal point of a snowy landscape, with nine black slabs evenly spaced out behind it, and a flat-roofed, academic-looking building and trees half-obscured in a whitened background. It is simple but stunning.Serviced City Pads supply apartments in Edinburgh.

Finally a photograph which captures the innocent excitement of youth amid the contrasting warmth of a sandscape. In He Tripped and Fell Down, by Tak Cheong Pun of Macao, five youngsters charge down a rich ochre sand dune, with another falling headfirst downhill – big splodges behind them and long shadows in front. The image is energetic and playful – full of joy and life.

It’s that time of year when stags and Hens start to plan their wedding days for the forthcoming summer. The Stag and Hen weekend (as it has become) is an industry that has flourished over the last decade. Gone are the days when you would go for a couple of pints down the local pub with a few friends the night before your big day. Stag and Hen Do’s often involve a weekend city break to UK cities such as Edinburgh, Glasgow and Liverpool.

A weekend in Edinburgh, for example, is a great excuse to get all of your old friends together and regale old tales from when you wre growing up. You might want to enjoy some luxury pampering (probably more for the girls!) or a pub crawl around Edinburgh where the best man will try and press friends of the groom for any juicy secrets that should be brought up in the Best Man’s speech on the wedding day!

So where should you go drinking in Edinburgh? Some of the best bars include Mathers, Cloisters and Malt Shovel. If you are looking for a nice restaurant in Edinburgh then you would do worse than booking a reservation at The Witchery, The Tower or Rhubarb. Some of the tourist attractions that you might want to see during the daytime are Edinburgh Castle, the Palace of HolyroodHouse and the gleaming Scottish Parliament. For some more detailed information check out the Serviced City Pads Edinburgh Out and About section.

Edinburgh would certainly be considered to be a classy choice for your hen or stag do. It is a great city to visit for the weekend with lots of bars, restaurants and Tourist attractions in Edinburgh to see.

Serviced City Pads will be delighted to help organise your accommodation for your stag do in Edinburgh or your Edinburgh hen do. We have a wide selection of serviced apartments in Edinburgh that will be suitable for your Edinburgh visit. You can have a look at the apartments we can offer on www.servicedcitypads.com, although we would suggest you call us on 0844 335 8866 to ensure we get you the best deal for your stay. We find that managing bookings for large groups in Edinburgh is easier done one on one over the phone. This allows us to really understand what it is you want from your visit and how much you would like to spend. Our serviced apartments in Edinburgh can suit a wide range of budgets and some are suitable for large groups, while others are more family orientated. Groups of girls often find it preferable staying in an Edinburgh apartment rather than a hotel in Edinburgh. There are are number of reasons for this. Apartments allow girls to get ready together before they go out. The additional space that a serviced apartment offers means that you can enjoy a bottle of champagne together in the living area, watch tv, play some music or just chat to one another. You just wouldn’t have the space to do this is if you were staying in a number of hotel rooms. An apartment is also a less formal envionment than a hotel and many groups also like this, a feeling of a home away from home and somewhere they can relax for the weekend.

So, give Serviced City Pads a call on 0844 335 8866 so we can help organise your hen or stag do in Edinburgh. The Reservations team will be delighted to take your call!