Sneaky Pete's

The First thing to know is this is Johnny from DMAs’ younger brother’s band, and that the two bands share some musical as well as fraternal DNA. The Second thing is that they are just as good!

Sydney rock/pop outfit PLANET is the culmination of several years of trial and error in songcraft, performance and production. They were first brought together by their shared love of music: old and new, foreign and domestic. Drawing influences from past and present the four-piece combine pop laden guitar hooks with soaring vocal melodies. The result is a sound which is reminiscent of Britpop but remains undeniably Australian.

We love New Zealand four-piece The Beths (there’s a new member not in the picture lol). They channel their long- time friendship into high-energy guitar pop with a smart lyrical bite.

They overflow with joyful 60s pop vocal harmonies, explosive guitar riffs and infectious indie-rock hooks.

2019 promises to be a breakout year for The Beths – this show surprised us by selling out in a just couple of days, months ahead of the show date!

Hunter & The Bear are touring small intimate venues this May.

Join Full Fat, Dixie Fried and The Violent Mood Swings at Sneaky Pete’s for a night of Rhythm and Blues.

After over 15k votes from fans, slowthai is touring the UK… and tickets are 99p each! For early access to tickets head to shop.slowthai.com

Sneaks wins Music Week Grassroots Music Venue 2019!

The Music Week Awards are the most prestigious awards for the UK music industry, and we are more than thrilled to announce that we have won their award for best small venue!

We are cock-a-hoop happy about this and we can’t give enough praise to the brilliant musicians who play here, nor to you our amazing gig and club goers. Edinburgh really is a music city!

The full title of the award is ‘Grassroots Music Venue: Spirit Of The Scene’, and that reflects not just the quality of the venue, but also the work we have done over the past years to improve the lot of all music venues in Scotland and the UK.

A quick summary of some of that work, since we don’t make a song and dance about it, is:

– Successfully campaigned to change the unfair ‘inaudibility clause’ in Edinburgh’s licensing policy

– Successfully campaigned, at great length and at close quarters, to change the forthcoming Planning Act (Scotland) to include amendments to introduce the Agent Of Change principle which will protect Music Venues from noise complaint issues caused by new developments.

– Contributed to Music Venue Trust’s evidence to DCMS’s Enquiry into Live Music at Westminster, an enquiry whose recommendations directly led to a £1.5m ringfenced fund for Grassroots Music Venues from Arts Council England.

– provided written and oral evidence to the Culture Committee at Holyrood to argue for a similar ringfenced fund for Scottish Venues

come help us celebrate the launch of our new single “tonic youth”, we’ll be joined by the incredible golden arm and fast approaches.

HAVVK produce a haunting and dynamic sound that steers the listener from moments of immersive shoe-gaze to thrashing punk rock, all fronted by a soaring, bewitching vocal. Gritty slices of indie grunge meet with shimmering delicacy. It hits you in the heart and the gut.

Julie Hawk’s founded the band as her solo project in London in 2014, before the group relocated to Berlin and broke away from the singer-songwriter niche. Having worked with producers behind Wolf Alice, And So I Watch You From Afar, Placebo and The Horrors, they redeveloped as a remarkable act with far more atmosphere, punch, and political edge than before.

We’ve chosen really promising supports for this one, so get down early for Medicine Cabinet and Magpie Blue.

Australia’s These New South Whales are many things:

• A BAND FROM AUSTRALIA wearing nipple tape and coughing up sonic hell-scapes with deeply-pitched vocals, jarring loops, and screaming guitars (“restless and raw” – Rolling Stone)
• A TV SHOW with 3 series on Comedy Central, with funny and weird cameos from The Cure, CHVRCHES, Metz, DMA’s and DZ Deathrays
• AN EXPERIENCE
• A PHENOMENON.

With season three of the TV show in the works, new music being recorded, and another European tour in tow, the band’s 2019 is looking set for good things.

Hamish Hawk & the New Outfit are joined by local surrealist heroes Paul Vickers & the Leg and London-based indie kids Home Creatures, in celebrating the release of their new vinyl EP, ‘Laziest River’.

Hamish Hawk (& the New Outfit):

A charismatic figure at the forefront of Scottish pop, Hamish Hawk is an Edinburgh songwriter and frontman of Hamish Hawk & the New Outfit. Deft lyricism, irresistible melodies, and an emotional range that sets him apart from his contemporaries, Hawk offers a confident live show, shapeshifting from pop songster to lilting crooner; from masterful storyteller to wild-eyed lunatic and back again. His new 8-track EP, Laziest River, showcases his lyrical maturity against a balladesque backdrop of piano, bass and drums. Hamish Hawk & the New Outfit have appeared in session for Marc Riley (BBC Radio 6 Music) and Vic Galloway (BBC Radio Scotland), and Hawk has opened for This is the Kit, King Creosote, Idlewild and James Yorkston.

Paul Vickers & The Leg:

The Leg’s Live performances have been described as ‘Verfremdungseffekt’ (Neil Cooper, The List), ‘eternally brilliant’, as well as ‘buckfasted-up psychopaths’ and ‘possibly dangerous’. Paul Vickers ‘creates wonderlands of weird’ (Kate Copstick, The Scotsman) and ‘has verbal ideas flying from him like sparks from a Catherine Wheel with voice flipping from abrasive gargle to sneering panto-dame witch’ (The Herald). They had more John Peel sessions back in the day than Wile E. Coyote has sticks of dynamite.

Home Creatures:

Home Creatures write songs about loss, landscape and memory. Simultaneously poignant, cathartic, and celebratory, the London-based indie band do the hardest of things, express loss in an uplifting way. Influenced by bands like Frightened Rabbit, Pinegrove and Bright Eyes, they will be releasing their debut single, A Healthy Way to Cope, in May 2019.