Sneaky Pete's

Come and dance with us at a queer party for all sorts of folk. A night by Annafleur & Sweet Philly + Friends @ Sneaky Pete’s.

Nottingham born, Indie/ Post-punk four-piece Cucamaras are described by Dork as “A band stamping their authority on the next wave of alternative guitar music”. The band were named on the NME 100 in 2023, and gained multiple spins throughout the year on BBC Radio 1 and 6 from last year’s Buck Rogers Time EP.

The last year has seen the band establish themselves as a live force across the UK and Europe, playing festivals such as The Great Escape, Reeperbahn and Eurosonic. The band are fresh off their 2023 tour dates, supporting the likes of Sundara Karma, The Amazons and Hotel Lux, as well as selling out their own headline shows in cities such as Nottingham, London, Paris and Barcelona.

The band have recently finished recording new music in the studio, and 2024 looks to be a seismic year for the four-piece; an EU tour, the band’s US debut, a hectic festival season in the UK and much more to be announced.

We return to Sneaky Pete’s for our first party of 2025.

Du Blonde ‘s swaggering, heart-on-sleeve rock came into being when musician, composer, animator, and video director Beth Jeans Houghton reinvented her music. On albums including 2019’s self-produced Lung Bread for Daddy, Houghton matched the heavy sounds of punk, blues, garage rock, and soul with cathartic songwriting. Later, she let some glimpses of pop peek through on 2021’s Homecoming without sacrificing any of her music’s bravery or honesty about heartbreak and mental illness.

“The grunge-pop guitar don is throwing a hell of a party–and you’re absolutely invited too” – NME

“Made me feel excited about listening to new music again” – Loud & Quiet

“Unstoppable as a lava flow” – MOJO

“Heartfelt, raucous pop-rock”- Uncut

“An artist who finds energy in constantly moving and shaking things up”- The Line Of Best Fit

Du Blonde releases fourth LP ‘Sniff More Gritty’, out today (November 15th) via Daemon T.V.

Spawning acclaimed lead singles ‘TV Star’, ‘Blame’, ‘Next Big Thing’ and ‘Solitary Individual’, ‘Sniff More Gritty’is an album of many faces, some belonging to Du Blonde, others belonging to a host of characters from past loves, to record industry executives, each played with humour and heartbreak in a one-man pantomime of glam-rock, punk, and a single, acrylic nail adorned middle finger. The glimmers of pop teased on 2021’s acclaimed ‘Homecoming’ LPbecome firework displays that illuminate stories of missed connections, anxiety, controlling relationships and hard earned peace. In spite of darkness, Du Blonde is choosing fun.

Having self-produced her third album, after years of working relationships with record labels and industry producers, Du Blonde found herself able to finally express herself musically in a way that her previous situation would not allow. The freedom that came with her return to production and engineering opened up a new sonic world for Du Blonde, one that is arguably catchier, more colourful and more exciting than anything she had been allowed to bring forth previously. Aside from live drums, played by Chris McManus, ‘Sniff More Gritty’ is entirely performed, engineered and produced by Du Blonde, and also features unique collaborations with Skunk Anansie’s Skin, Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace, Maximo Park’s Paul Smith and The Futureheads’ Ross Millard.

Throughout the record, Du Blonde revels in solitude and stares down assumptions about her life choices. On ‘Solitary Individual’, a folk-punk freakout featuring Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace, she touches on the glee of ignoring societal pressures to socialise, and embracing a hermitic lifestyle, celebrating ’Pants off, late nights and lie-ins’. ‘Radio Jesus’ is a love song to the media platforms Du Blonde enjoys in her private time – television, radio, podcasts… She is joined by Maximo Park’s Paul Smith and The Futureheads’ Ross Millard for a divine ‘Hey Jude’ coda set to induce joyful audience singalongs. ‘Yesterday’, with its Fleetwood Mac gloss, is a song Du Blonde regards as the most comedic song she has ever written. A self-deprecating ribbing of her tendency to fall rapidly in love with charismatic fuckboys with zero substance, its cathartic silliness is typified by the slapstick thwack! that accentuates her references to swatting a fly. Indeed, audio sampling is a technique found throughout ‘Sniff More Gritty’. From ‘Yesterday’ and ‘Dollar Coffee’, to ‘TV Star’, thunderclaps, car screeches, steam and even the heavy sniff of a cokehead adorn the tracks at opportune moments, part decoration, part audio documentary.

With widespread acclaim circulating throughout the press community in recent years (The Guardian, The Times, The Sunday Times, Pitchfork, Brooklyn Vegan, NME, MOJO, Uncut, The Line of Best Fit, Clash, Loud & Quiet, Crack, Wonderland, Under The Radar, The Needle Drop, Guitar World), as well as considerable attention across the BBC 6 Music (Steve Lamacq – ‘Homecoming’ was his 2021 album of the year, Chris Hawkins) airwaves, Du Blonde has certainly become a formidable presence within the indie landscape and will be taking her scintillating live show on the road in January and February 2025 (incl. a Scala, London headliner), showcasing ‘Sniff More Gritty’ in full.

Speaking ahead of the LP release, Du Blonde stated: “”I’m so excited to be releasing ‘Sniff More Gritty’ into the world. It’s been fun expanding on the more theatrical side of songwriting, and having the freedom to make more left-field decisions with performance and production has resulted in one of my favourite albums I’ve ever made. It was a joy to make and I hope the listening experience will be just as fun for someone else out there.”

Du Blonde’s ‘Sniff More Gritty’ (LP) is out now via Daemon T.V and available on all digital platforms. 

Refreshers is here, holding down the fort we have none other than Edinburgh’s finest Smiff and prime import Bastiano.

Great night of music inbound.

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

GRAMMY nominated, platinum-selling record producer Paul Woolford aka Special Request has been redefining and reinventing all shapes of UK dance music for over 20 years.

As Special Request, Woolford restlessly fuses the spirit of jungle, hardcore, techno, house and UK garage into devastating new shapes: a carnage-inducing blend of feral breakbeats, seismic basslines and otherworldly rave euphoria.

With decades of experience DJing on the world’s finest dancefloors – and a devastating amount of secret weapons to match – it’s about time we brought this legendary, fearlessly creative artist to Sneaky Pete’s.

Brought to you by Morrison Street in collaboration with Free Time.

For the first party of the year Club Mediterraneo’s head Honcho Andrea Montalto takes control behind Sneaky’s booth for an all nighter.

Expect a journey through House, Disco, Jazz, organic grooves and cosmic sounds.

Edinburgh-based 5 piece Sullen Kink blend uplifting close harmonies with big catchy hooks and a high-energy live presence. Together they deliver a set of songs that alternate between wistful nostalgia and joyful exuberance, all written with vulnerability and aggressive punk-rock sentiment.

Bee Asha is a spoken word artist born and living in Edinburgh. Between Rap and Poetry her work is a cathartic outlet that she uses to explore loss, love and the difficulties of life. Her first EP ‘From Girl to Men’, won the SAMA’s best newcomer in 2022, was featured in YWCA 30 under 30’s, was shortlisted for BBC introducing Scottish act of the year 2024 and was highly commended at the Scottish Sikh Awards. Her new album, Goodbye, Gracious has been longlisted for Scottish Album of the year 2024.

Irish singer-songwriter Sarah Owens has that mystical, ethereal quality to her songs that could only be found in the wee hours in the back of an Irish pub off the beaten track. Soulfully written and sung with a haunting sincerity that’s sure to send chills up your spine. 

Emerging into 2025 we’re thrilled to welcome Glasgow bass merchants xivro and chicha aka Libra Esterlina to Sneaky Pete’s.

As the minds behind Club Sylkie and Chispa respectively, xivro and chicha have been throwing some of the sickest parties in recent memory with DJs like EMA, Beatrice M., Miss Jay, NVST and hedo hyrd8 playing for them, as well as mashing up dancefloors all over the central belt themselves. So it only felt only we invited them over for a dance at our place to kick the new year into gear!

As always they’ll be joined by by our residents Dansa, J Wax and Provost

Bass, techno, global club and more genre-bending rhythms all night long