City scenes is our journey through the music scenes of different cities around the world as we move through the alphabet and look at a different city each week. This week we’re on the letter E and we’ve landed in the capital of Scotland, Edinburgh.

While Edinburgh doesn't have the epic musical legacy of places like Detroit and Chicago, there has been some great music to have come out of the city and we’re going to hear some of the most famous bands to have come out of the city. We start off this episode with one of the most famous Scottish bands of all time, the Proclaimers.

Another one of the most famous bands to come out of edinburgh is a group that are known for their worldwide teen idol popularity in the 1970s, the Bay City Rollers. They have been called the "tartan teen sensations from Edinburgh" and one of many acts heralded as the "biggest group since the Beatles".

Edinburgh college of art has been the breeding ground for some great bands over the years. In this episode we feature two of them, the country teasers and Django Django.

In the 1990s Edinburgh saw the surfacing of a mysterious duo made up of two brothers called Boards of Canada. They shot to fame with the release of their debut album, 'Music Has The Right to Children', which came out in 1998 on Warp Records and since then have released 3 other albums that received huge critical acclaim, despite the fact that they very rarely appear live and have remained largely anonymous. They are known for their unique brand of downtempo ambient electronic music made on vintage electronic equipment, taking influence from hip hop and drone music, which is said to invoke a feeling of psychedelic nostalgia.

Finally, Young Fathers are a band that symbolize the future potential of the Edinburgh Music Scene and that have already achieved huge things for such a young band, winning the mercury prize in 2014 for their first album ‘Dead’.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this week’s City scenes, we’ll be back next week for F and we’ll be in either Firenze or Frankfurt.