great distance between the fans and the pitch. Meadowbank Thistle announced their intention to leave the stadium and relocate to the new town of Livingston in 1995, when their lease expired. Their last game as Meadowbank Thistle was played in May 1995, although they continued to play at Meadowbank Stadium as Livingston until their new Almondvale Stadium was ready in November of that year. Edinburgh City moved into the stadium after Meadowbank left – their first fixture there as an SPFL club in July 2016 happened to be against Livingston in the Scottish League Cup – and they were joined there by Leith Athletic (from the East of Scotland League). Hibernian have also played some of their reserve team matches at Meadowbank. Edinburgh City (now renamed F.C. Edinburgh) moved back into Meadowbank in July 2022 after it reopened, along with the Hibernian women's team. Music Meadowbank was used as a 25,000 capacity concert venue during T on the Fringe, an annual music festival. Muse, My Chemical Romance, Snow Patrol, Radiohead, Pixies, Foo Fighters, Nine Inch Nails, Kaiser Chiefs and Razorlight all played the venue between 2005 and 2007. In 2008, T on the Fringe was renamed The Edge Festival and the stadium was no longer used as one of the main venues. In 1989, Simple Minds played Meadowbank on their Street Fighting Years Tour after switching from Murrayfield. The switch was due to the band's passionate anti-apartheid beliefs clashing with the Scottish Rugby Union's decision to play in South Africa at the time. Rifle Meadowbank housed both a 10metre airgun range and a 50metre indoor range for smallbore rifle shooting in the 1970s and 1980s. The range was closed in 1990 but refurbished in 2014 ahead of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow for use as a training venue by Scottish Target Shooting's High Performance Squad. The range remained in use until the site's closure in 2017. The new Meadowbank plans do not include facilities for target sports despite Edinburgh athlete Seonaid McIntosh having earned one of TeamGB's first quota places to the 2020 Summer Olympics. Basketball Meadowbank stadium had basketball facilities in three of its large halls, but they were only rarely available to the public. Edinburgh Rocks basketball team used one of the large halls until they moved to the Braehead Arena, and were renamed Scottish Rocks. Track cycling Meadowbank velodrome was home to the East of Scotland