Sneaky Pete's

Club Sylkie celebrates a year of Cowgate clubbing with a scary, pre-halloween special.

Making the perilous journey up to Edinburgh is London’s mi-el. Mi-el first caught our eye with her mixes on Leipzig’s Callshop Radio and has held our attention ever since. We’ve loved hearing her tear things up on NTS, Balamii, Keep Hush, KINDRED, HöR and her very own Late Night Shopper. As co-booker of the ever infamous Venue MOT in South London, mi-el is a real taste maker of the UK’s club circuit. We were delighted to have her contribute to our first sylkie broadcast on EHFM, and we’re beyond excited to host her as we celebrate one year of fast tunes, queer excellence, and big bassy sounds.

Beforehand, Moray Leisure Centre makes her Club Sylkie debut. A real party starter with a finessed hand in breaks, techno, and percussive sounds, we are ecstatic to have the EHFM resident and Pretext Records co-founder take to the booth to get our birthday bash off to a furious start.

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Club Sylkie and Sneaky Pete’s both operate safer space policies, with staff and residents having received training from Good Night Out and Crew 2000, respectively. Club Sylkie is a night run by queer people, for queer people, and any form of hatred or discrimination will not be tolerated. If you feel at all uncomfortable or unsafe, please speak to a member of the bar team or a Club Sylkie resident who will not hesitate to assist you.

Don’t be a dick! No pricks allowed!

The full Overground resident trio are back in the Sneaks’ booth for an all night B3B showcasing a diverse range of underground musical styles from esoteric scenes across the globe.

Expect Hard Drum, Ghetto House, Post-Punk Disco, Grime, Baile Funk, Darkside Hardcore, Miami Bass, GQOM, Juke, and a tasteful sprinkling of pop edits throughout. Free B4 12 tickets are live for the next 12 hours, after which they can be purchased for a reasonable £3/5.

Our RaveSafe? Harm reduction services will not be available due to the lack of space, however we still maintain our original safety policy we’ve implemented since the very early days. This is a zero-tolerance policy on harassment of any form. Examples of which include, but are not limited to: invasion of personal space; discrimination of any type; deliberately causing offence; predatory behaviours; violence and aggression. If you encounter any instances of such acts, please inform the DJs immediately.

When Detroit-based musician Ian Ruhala started his borderless alt-indie project Hala, he was recording in the storage room of his parents’ house on a shoddy computer program. By the time he put out his gorgeous, retro, genre-hopping 2020 full-length Red Herring via Cinematic Music Group, he was co-producing and soaking up advanced techniques of engineering in a professional studio.

Now, a new chapter starts as Ruhala returns to his roots as an independent musician, keen to learn, evolve, and explore every corner of his own sound. “With life, and music, you gotta try everything once,” says Ruhala. “Red Herring had hints of rock, singer-songwriter, pop, country, and more. But I think the beauty of this project is I haven’t found my one particular sound, and I don’t plan on doing so.”

We are giving non-House and non-Techno, Disco not Disco, band-driven music a fresh pair of Sneaks. Every Tuesday, Nick, Peaky and special guests mix…

Arthur Russell, Baxter Dury, Bodega, Blondie, Brian Eno, clash, Bowie, Diana Ross, Fat Whites, Fela Kuti, Grace Jones, Iggy Pop, Janaelle Monae, Khruangbin, LCD Soundsystem, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Mac Demarco, MC5, Minor Threat, Parquet Courts, Pixies, Ram Jam, The Slits, Sugarcubes, Tame Impala, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, White Denim and Frank Zappa.

“Charlotte Cornfield is a songwriter like few others, so able to deftly create in her songs an emotional resonance that when plugged in, hits us all right where we can share in her memories.” – SPIN

“Highs in the Minuses is the kind of record you can tie your heart to; sharp, honest, and full of light.” – Gold Flake Paint

“What’s most striking about Highs in the Minuses is how Cornfield delves through crushing pain, disappointment, and anxiety without expressing a hint of bitterness or angst. The songs are raw but graceful, with an unrelenting openness that adds a strange sweetness to even Cornfield’s most harrowing memories and heartbreaking lines.” – All Music

“one of the year’s best records” – The Alternative

“There’s something deeply universal about the music Charlotte Cornfield makes, like the great story-telling songwriters she invites you into her world, and invites you to be a part of her stories. Her words resonate as if she’s dipped into your head and pulled your thoughts out to place them onto her lyrical page. If all of the Highs In The Minuses are this thrilling this could be a truly magical record.” – For The Rabbits

“‘Headlines’ is rootsy and warm and builds to a twisting chorus.” – Stereogum

“The beautiful thing about Charlotte Cornfield’s music is how she is able to make stories so personal to her, feel personal to you. On her fourth record Highs in the Minuses, Cornfield is her usual candid self, but she sounds steadier and her experiences are even more in focus.” -Exclaim!

For their October edition at Sneaky Pete’s, Morrison Street welcome up and coming duo Matrefakt to make their Edinburgh debut!

The boys have a wealth of impressive driving dancefloor house within their discography, including releases on Warehouse Music and Of Unsound Mind.

They come to Sneaky’s on the 24th to showcase these sounds during a 1-3 headline set, with the Morrison Street on warm up as usual.

Dylan Wilson is a bad guy.

He hates Edinburgh music. He can’t stand jazz, and funk really isn’t doing much better. Don’t even get him started on The Beatles.

A long time ago, Dylan dreamt of living in Edinburgh and getting involved in Scotland’s capital’s music scene. Today, he dreams of setting Edinburgh on fire and starting the whole thing again. This is Edinburgh Punk 

Edinburgh Punk is a new musical movement about to take Edinburgh by storm. While Edinburgh Council tries to silence any real music scene, and cover bands playing the same old stuff night in, night out, punk rock anarchism is needed more than ever. 

Dylan Wilson began his mission with the release of ‘Calculated’ on September 9^th, 2022. Calculated was a musical riot and the first shot fired to highlight how boring and uninspired Dylan feels towards Edinburgh’s music scene. The message was heard loud and clear and saw Dylan’s profile raise higher before and saw regular airplay from Jim Gellatly and Amazing Radio. 

Arran Gregory and Harry Johnson play the bass and drums in Dylan’s band. The hardest rocking rhythm section in Scotland, the trio are unlike any other group in Edinburgh. Cool, fast, and angry: these are the champions of Edinburgh Punk. When you see Dylan Wilson live, you hear real music for real people.

Edinburgh Punk is the voice of the voiceless. Music made for people who truly want to feel alive. Music made for outsiders who just want somewhere to belong. Dylan Wilson, his band, and his growing fanbase are all bad guys living in bad times. But, as one outsider once famously said: “Bad times don’t last, but bad guys do.”

Sending it into the start of next week every Sunday at Sneaky Pete’s.

Postal is our weekly Sunday session with cheap tickets for the hottest names in underground dance, and our pick of Scotland’s finest selectors.

THIS IS THE ONE THING WE DIDN’T WANT TO HAPPEN PRESENTS:

Leftfield pop promoters THIS IS THE ONE THING WE DIDN’T WANT TO HAPPEN persist in their Sisyphean mission to bring the weirdest, wonkiest pop acts from across the country together and stick them in a room together just to see what happens. For this simply delectable instalment, we are joined by:

PETER CAT

A full band outing for Glasgow’s suavest coat stands, who have recently discovered that everything looks better in velvet and sounds better in the minor seventh. Fresh off of 2022 EP ‘The Magus’, singles from which received steady airplay on BBC Scotland, 6Music and Amazing Radio, Peter Cat are hitting the road for a select run of UK dates in October. The band will be road-testing a selection of new material from forthcoming records in addition to performing old favourites from ‘The Magus’ and debut LP, ‘The Saccharine Underground’.

FFO: Pulp, Sparks, The Divine Comedy, John Grant, Gus Dapperton.

“Ten minutes ago I was laughing, five minutes ago I was crying…it’s pulled together with great panache and sounds quite unlike anything else I can put my finger on right now” I Said Yeah

“A jaunty trip through the familiarly twinned emotions of admiration and envy…sung at such a speed and with hardly a pause for breath that’s reminiscent of early Scott Walker” The Morning Star

“Irreverent and smart pop music in the mold of Neil Hannon, Jarvis Cocker, Luke Haines and a sprinkling of Scott Walker…Peter Cat casts a wry eye over the world, and is moved to make music to match” Scots Whay Hae!

GEFAHRGEIST

With captivating vocals and beautifully layered production, Gefahrgeist emerged in 2020 to great acclaim. The electronic duo first crossed paths studying Popular Music at Edinburgh Napier University, but only really got to know each other on joining function band The Apollos.

Fiona told me: “Niall would often stick on beats he was writing on long drives to gigs.

“I’d offer to sing on them only to be told ‘No’ several times!

“It was only when I sent him a vocal demo of what I was thinking for one of the tracks that he agreed to form Gefahrgeist with me.”

FFO: Massive Attack, Kate Bush, Moby

JANE BLANCHARD

jane blanchard & stefan westner creating songs that are fierce & poetic — sensitive & savage // fredericton, nb & edinburgh, scotland