Dead Pony - La Belle Angele, Edinburgh 27.05.2026

Dead Pony came, they saw, they kicked our asses and then, just when we thought we couldn’t take any more, they kicked them some more and not one person complained because this was as good a gig as I’ve seen all year.

If you haven’t seen Dead Pony yet you’re missing one of the most visceral, energetic, exciting and entertaining live acts that the UK has produced in a very long time!

The Glasgow bands brand of rock and metal is a full on aural experience with some brilliant crowd interaction and front woman Anna who could not be any better at what she does.

They can play, they can sing, they can get the mosh pit going but, more importantly, they have the songs. After one brilliant studio album, several EP’s (including one I reviewed for this site last, go read that review if you want to know what I thought of it) and a number of stand alone singles the band are surely on the verge of breaking big.

I suspect this is the last time I will get to see them in this brilliant Edinburgh venue which, Anna was clear she has long had an ambition to play, and they will soon graduate to much bigger venues.

I’ve never seen the crowd so full so early, both support bands played to a full crowd, but it was all about Dead Pony, they gave us an hour of adrenaline filled music which would reanimate a corpse. They walked off the stage having left nothing on it and they made sure they wiped the floor with this crowd. Sing alongs, mass jumping from down on the ground into the air, mosh pits and crowd that went off into a lovely Edinburgh night knowing they had just seen a band totally in control of their craft.

If I have two gripes the first is simple, I would have loved to have been there for longer, for them to have played every song they have and for the whole thing to never stop. We only got 12 songs; they have a lot more than that and one of them as a cover of \You Oughta Know' it was really only 11 of their songs. The second grip was the three guys who turned up just before Dead Pony came on, drinking cans of red stripe and then kept talking to each other instead of watching the gig, they were seriously annoying, I just don’t get why people go a gig, especially one this good and then won’t shut up, rant over!

The tour continues but this really hard working band will surely be playing a gig or supporting another artist somewhere near you soon, don’t miss out, go see them, go bounce, go sing but just go, and, as Anna so politely asked, go see her ‘sister’ at the merch stall as this is exactly the kind of band with masses of talent that we really need to support and nurture.

Dead Pony

Review - Iain McClay