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Quickly rising to be one of the most exciting names in UK electronic music, Jasper Tygner presents his ‘Off Season’ EP via LG105. Featuring Art School Girlfriend, ‘Ready’ is a match made in heaven exploring glitchy keys, ambient synths and ASG’s captivating vocals. The EP also features Australia’s DJ BORING on their 2nd collaboration this year, and a remix from fast-rising Australian talent Pretty Girl.

Jasper has had a busy 2023 performing at Glastonbury, Secret Garden Party, CORE Festival, Warehouse Project and Oya among others plus a US debut with a 7-date headline run showcasing his live show.

Supported heavily on BBC Radio by the likes of Jaguar, Sarah Story, Pete Tong, The Blessed Madonna and Jack Saunders, Tygner is set for 2024 to be his biggest year yet.

Founded by Joe Laycock and Jack Sharp as a successor to theatrical punk group Cheap Teeth, the pair birthed the project from their joint love of immersive, beat-driven soundscapes and an exploration of subtle shifts. Featuring members of Catholic Action and Pressure Retreat, the band aims to urge the listener’s ear into progressively choppy waters whilst simultaneously grounding them in firm lyrical soil.

Having built up an archive of songs over the past year, the band is set to peek their head above water with lead single “Halfway to Hockney”. Recorded by Matt Peel at the Nave in Leeds, the track is centred forgivingly around an individual’s thirst for meaning, as the protagonist falls perilously from the tree of self-identity, grasping at every characteristic branch on the way down, desperate to not be swept away by their impending crisis.

At our next Sneaky Pete’s night, we invite fellow radio head, host of the One Glove Breakfast Show on NTS, Macca!

A purveyor of eclectic leftfield disco, jazz, and soul, Macca’s wide ranging tastes and playful audience interaction on his show are sure to translate to a warm, fun and musically varied night.

On support we have EHFM Mornings presenter and station archduke St Sunday, joined by returned resident OT, presenter of Hardly Worming.

“Dark, powerful and mysterious.” Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music

Midnight Ambulance are an alternative rock duo from Scotland. In 2021, they were shortlisted for BBC Introducing Scottish

Act of the Year, and in 2022 released their debut EP ‘Smoke and Sweets’ at a sold out headline show at Sneaky Pete’s and The Caves (Edinburgh). They were featured on BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio Scotland (‘Single of the Week’), Apple Music (‘new in rock’), in the iTunes Top50 album charts and by Blackhall Records who released the EP on vinyl. Inspired by artists such as Portishead and Sylvan Esso, their music explores the peculiar force of our internal worlds. 

Amelia (vocals, drums) and Fraser (guitar, vocals) began collaborating several years ago after a chance encounter in Paris. Fraser, guitar technician for bands First Aid Kit and Sam Fender, was on tour in the city, while Amelia was pursuing a career in international PR with a French creative agency. Having briefly met on the Edinburgh music scene ten years prior, they discovered a captivating familiarity as they began to collaborate. What started as a cathartic outlet soon turned into something more, writing over 70 songs in a matter of weeks.

Carla J. Easton is an award nominated singer-songwriter, releasing 3 critically acclaimed albums, writing for TeenCanteen, Belle & Sebastian, BMX Bandits, Hen Hoose & National Theatre Scotland. Championed by BBC6 Music, she has performed at festivals across the UK and internationally touring the UK with Camera Obscura, The Vaselines and Aidan Moffat.In 2018, she released the SAY Award Shortlisted ‘Impossible Stuff’, produced by Howard Bilerman (Arcade Fire/British Sea Power/Leonard Cohen) which featured singles that achieved Record of the Day, Guardian Track of the Week and BBC Scotland Single of the Week.Her third album ‘WEIRDO’ was released in 2020 via Olive Grove Records – a record that Bandcamp Daily described as “all volume needles buried in the red, glitter bursting from every chorus.” The Line of Best Fit praised its “maximalist” tendencies while hinting that Scotland has found its own answer to the pop titans Carly Rae Jepsen and Taylor Swift and Pitchfork called it “bubblegum pop [with] the scrappy glamour of a homemade theatrical production”.Her latest project Poster Paints was formed with Simon Liddell (Frightened Rabbit) during 2020. Their critically acclaimed self titled debut album was released by Ernest Jennings October 2022. Her fourth studio album ‘SUGAR HONEY’ will be released 20th October via Olive Grove Records and features the singles ‘One Week’, ‘Blooming 4U’ and the album title track ‘Sugar Honey’.

From Futuristic Retro Champions, through indie pop upstarts TeenCanteen, a record under the name Ette, to the solo albums Impossible Stuff (shortlisted for the 2019 SAY Award and produced by Arcade Fire cohort Howard Bilerman) and WEIRDO , Carla J Easton writes essential indie pop.

Sitting proudly alongside The Vaselines, BMX Bandits (who have covered her songs) and Belle & Sebastian, with whom she co-wrote the track “Best Friend” , collaborating with Honeyblood and Solareye she is considered alongside the best Scottish music has had to offer over the past few decades.

WEIRDO is a record that Bandcamp described as “all volume needles buried in the red, glitter bursting from every chorus.” The Line of Best Fit praised its “maximalist” tendencies while hinting that Scotland has found its own answer to the pop titans Carly Rae Jepsen and Taylor Swift and Pitchfork called it “bubblegum pop [with] the scrappy glamour of a homemade theatrical production”. Finding her voice, Carla J Easton is in the position now where she is consistently releasing music that’s talked about in terms of albums of the year garlands in Scotland, and beyond.

Following on from January’s dance with Creep Woland Volens Chorus returns for a residents night on the 1st of February.

All your favourite Volens selectors together in one place playing the best in Jersey club, Footwork, Baille and whatever other bass heavy tunes come to their head while behind the Sneaky Pete’s decks.

£5 all night lets go.

With his love of music set alight by listening to Motown records in the car with his mother, corrupted by hard rock records handed down by his father, and finally formed by his own forays into jazz, folk and experimental music of decades past, Nicholson is a cathartic songwriter, an impassioned singer, and a gifted guitarist.

Nicholson’s latest album, Birthday Suit, comes after years of searching and longing. It serves as a dysfunctional self-portrait and a love letter in equal parts, dancing from electrifying guitar solos to naked vulnerability, as it brings the listener into the world of someone who has recently been diagnosed with autism.

If there’s a romance attached to the changing seasons, there’s inevitably a sadness that sweeps through with it. For Zoe Graham, every note of her crystalline electronic pop is imbued with that bittersweet feeling; on her new single ‘Gradual Move’, the past is something constantly reshaped by increments, no matter how sudden some of life’s departures may seem.

Kicking off 2024, ona:v proudly presents the legendary Stephen Brown!

A celebrated figure in the techno world, Edinburgh’s own Stephen Brown has graced stages at venues like Panorama Bar, Tresor, Fabric and more. His performances across the globe cemented his status in the Scottish techno scene. Stephen’s discography includes acclaimed releases on labels such as Djax-Up and Transmat. His sound is a masterful blend of groovy plus Detroit techno.

Join us for a techno masterclass!

MF Tomlinson is an Australian-born, London-based artist who, with his collaborators the MFs, crafts sonic worlds that draw upon acid folk, prog, jazz and ambient music – lying somewhere between Bill Callahan, Yo La Tengo, and Leonard Cohen. His second album, We Are Still Wild Horses, was released in February ‘23 on PRAH to a remarkable critical reception (???? The Times, Uncut, Mojo, The Line of Best Fit).

MF and the MF’s will play a slew of festivals across the UK and Europe including The Great Escape, The End of the Road, and Epäjohdonmukaisten Tanssiaisett with more to be announced. In the past they have supported Dry Cleaning and Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever. Tomlinson refers to this project as his final incarnation, the sum of a lifetime working on his practice which has led him (in previous incarnations) to share stages with Warpaint, Amen Dunes, Franz Ferdinand, The Polyphonic Spree and Justice and play alongside members of Metronomy, Friendly Fires, Klaxons, Tusks and Trees.