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Infusing brit pop and post punk influences from the likes of Oasis, Courteeners and The Verve, indie rock quartet Skylights are building a palpable buzz in the North. Following on from their debut What You Are.

Off The Record returns November 6th for a showcase of Scotland’s most exciting emerging artists at Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh.

Age Limit: 14+
Ticket Price: £6 General Admission + booking fee

Leeds-based indie-rock quintet Apollo Junction have supported legends and inspirations Shed Seven, Kaiser Chiefs, Richard Ashcroft, Blossoms, Manic Street Preachers and Doves.

Fresh from releasing their charting album What In The World (Number 6 Record Store Chart, Number 8 Independent Album Chart), Apollo Junction continue to build on their reputation for unforgettable live shows.

“When the first track you hear by a band is a huge anthem, you know they’re something special.” – Chris Hawkins, BBC 6 Music

“Apollo Junction are destined for big things – their anthemic sound and electrifying live shows mark them out as one of the UK’s most exciting new bands.” – Daily Mirror.

Dusky return this November for an early DJ set at Free time – Sneaky Pete’s day party series.

Quiet Light (AKA Riya Mahesh) is a Texas-based producer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist. Her songs are, in her own words, “dream sequences” – her Lynchian, liminal electropop sounds are both frozen in time and built to withstand its weathering, weaving sharp, sparse songwriting with gossamer strands of ambient, electronic, and folk.

Her 2020 self-titled debut EP Quiet Light foregrounded a virtuosic run of independent, self-produced records, including 2023’s Blue Angel Sparkling Silver and Fourth of July, Going Nowhere (2024), and Pure Hearts (2025). Along the way, she’s earned critical acclaim from outlets like The FADER, been co-signed by Iggy Pop, and provided direct support for Cameron Winter, Erika de Casier, Nilufer Yanya, and Chanel Beads on tour.

Now, with her forthcoming mixtape Blue Angel Sparkling Silver 2, her debut release on True Panther (Oklou, Jawnino, Grace Ives), she proves she’s a generational voice that’s here to stay. The tape plays out like a dreamy smash cut of the places, faces, and influences that brought Mahesh here as she delivers her most assured project yet, following her own inner compass to new, revelatory heights. As she puts it: “This record is for people who dream about what their life could be like.”

“Building to grand, ragged rock catharsis. If you like Car Seat Headrest, this one is for you.”
Stereogum

“Big Red’s impressive debut ‘Isn’t He Funny?’ is a howl from the soul”
Clash

Big Red – the solo writing vehicle of Joseph Scarisbrick – introduce themselves with their immediate and tense debut single “Isn’t He Funny?”. Originally conceived as a home for songs that sat outside the world of his other project, The Orchestra (For Now), the band has evolved into a three-piece alongside drummer Charlie Hancock and bassist/vocalist Millie Kirby.

With more music to be announced this year, the new single marks something of a new chapter for Scarisbrick. Where his previous work frequently relied on dense references and literary allusion across The Orchestra (For Now)’s Plan 75 and Plan 76, this new endeavour takes a more direct approach. The writing is confessional and brutally honest, the music stripped back and candid; a band playing together in real time.

Emerging from Merced, California, 60juno leads the Central Valley’s post-punk scene with deep, nostalgic melodies – a sound shaped by the mid-2010s Southern California DIY indie-rock scene and the synchronous SoundCloud era of underground rap.

Over their 6 years as a band, seven-piece Keg have garnered attention for their frenetic live performances and unwavering commitment to experimenting with their sound ever since their conception.

Channeling influences from hardcore punk to Steely Dan-style crooning, their new album ‘Relaxing Near the Hospital’ evokes Ween in its commitment to a noncommittal sound. What feels new is a level of vulnerability which has often been hinted at in previous releases, but here feels fully established.

The band have released two critically acclaimed EPs ‘Assembly’ (2021) and ‘Girders’ (2022), praised by Loud and Quiet, NME, Dork, So Young and supported by BBC Radio 6 and Radio X, but it’s the live arena where Keg is understood best – they’ve earned their stripes at festivals like Greenman, Latitude and End of The Road among many others, building a loyal following of fans across the UK and Europe.

Chrissy Meechan is a Scottish DJ, producer, and radio presenter from West Lothian, known for blending commercial dance music with UKG, house, and feel-good club energy.

With over 1.6 million streams across platforms, Chrissy’s music has gained support from BBC Introducing, Apple Music editorial playlists, KISS Dance Future Anthems, Don Diablo, Alesso, Claptone, and a growing list of tastemakers across the dance scene.

Recent releases have earned widespread radio support and editorial placements, while his track ‘Falling in Love’ reached #21 on The Official Big Top 40 and topped the iTunes Dance Chart.

Alongside his productions, Chrissy has performed at major events and festivals including TRNSMT, EH1 Festival, Skyline Scotland, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone for Red Bull, and has supported artists including Jazzy and ALTEGO.

Whether behind the decks or in the studio, Chrissy continues to build a reputation for delivering high-energy records and memorable dancefloor moments, with new music landing throughout 2026.

GOO is 6 hours of Daniel Avery & Richard Fearless on a Sunday afternoon.

Trippy records, small room, big sound, endless love.

Back for round 2 after last year’s sellout show!

Parviz’s self-titled debut album is slated for 2026, evoking the spirit of Iran’s pre-revolutionary ’70s music scene. Lead single “Azadeh” — a female given name meaning free spirit & independence — nods to the “Woman Life Freedom” movement and the recent mass uprisings in Iran, with the artwork by Rana Fadavi emphasising their urgency. Its follow-up “Sappho’s Fragments” has aired on BBC Radio 6 and totalled more than half a million streams since its release.
Flowery, kaleidoscopic and contemplative, it’s like an old taping of Iran’s beloved music show Rangarang brought back to life — with added DIY aesthetics and a certain indie flair. Fierce psychedelic guitars and flowing detuned synths infuse each track with emotion and nostalgia, resulting in a debut that’s both rooted in Persian culture and distinctly modern.
After a successful UK tour earlier this year that included 5 sold-out shows, Parviz will be back for the second leg of his Khorshid Khanoom Tour, and will play at Sneaky Pete’s on 17th November.

Wiffeney is the brainchild of two best friends: Grammy-nominated drummer and producer Jai D (Jay Z, Tyler The Creator, Haelos) and renowned animator Steph Hope (FX Networks, Haruomi Hosono). The band’s sound is soulful vocals over infectious rhythms, sprawling guitars and gloopy synths, along with their trademark psychedelic visuals.

Ormella heads out on her debut UK tour. The London songwriter makes ethereal indie folk that runs darker than it first lets on: close, narrative songs carried by a deeply emotive voice. It follows her record Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea on Sweat Entertainment — a seven-track study of heartbreak, distance, and the slow resurfacing that follows. “Ethereal folk with real weight” (BBC Introducing); “captivating and devastating in equal measure” (She Makes Music). The first chance to catch the songs live across the UK.

“Expect the unexpected.” The motto of Tomi Ungerer, Strasbourg’s enfant terrible, could have been written for Pales. Born in the depths of a cellar in 2021, the quintet has no time for classifications: they forge a raw, visceral sound where industrial, noise and trip-hop collide.

Brought to European attention with their EP CRUSH, the band have built their reputation on stage, where their performances induce an irrepressible trance, constantly skirting the boundaries of chaos. The sound hits hard, hypnotises, triggers spasms and conjures up the smells of cosmetics and burning rubber.

The Field redefined electronic dance music with his euphoric, wall-of-sound productions on Kompakt. 2027 will mark 20 years since his landmark 2007 debut album From Here We Go Sublime, a masterpiece that became the best-reviewed record of the year and remains a touchstone for modern electronic music.

The Field is the acclaimed ambient techno moniker of Swedish producer Axel Willner. Blending a teenage background in punk and moshpits with a passion for pop micro-sampling, classic shoegaze, and ambient drone, Willner crafts hypnotic, looping soundscapes anchored by steady minimal beats.

The Volts return to Edinburgh on Friday 20th November, bringing you new music and their most energetic live set so far! With the release of their debut EP imminent, this is not one to miss out on. Support comes from Aberdeen post-punk/alt rock outfit, Intowada.

14+ this show is for all persons 14 years and over standing only. Under 18s MUST be accompanied by an adult. Doors 7pm curfew 10pm. IF you have access needs or the price of a ticket is a barrier please contact us. Venue is on the ground floor.

Hailing from the Highland capital Inverness, Malachy Mackintosh, Callum Wilson, Rory Brown, William Scully and Vincent Peteranna make up the promising young indie rock group The Demographic. For fans of The Strokes, DMA’s, and Catfish & the Bottlemen they’ve toured both with youth music project Hit The Road, well-known for helping develop artists such as Lewis Capaldi and Be Charlotte, then again with Off Axis. They headline Sneaky Pete’s in EDINBURGH on Saturday 21 November 2026

Erol’s back for two shows (night and day) this November.

Saturday 21 November (night) – To The Rhythm
Sunday 22 November (day) – To Another Rhythm

Faith in Strangers are a five-piece indie-folk band hailing from Bristol.

Defined by rich three-part harmonies, soaring strings and expansive guitar-led arrangements, the band’s emotionally charged sound has drawn comparisons to Ben Howard, Nick Mulvey and Mumford & Sons. Their songwriting weaves together nostalgia, romance and youthful optimism, brought to life through captivating live performances rooted in atmosphere and connection.

Following a string of sold-out hometown shows and festival appearances at Wilderness, Dot to Dot, Bristol Harbour Festival and Neighbourhood Weekender, the band embarked on their debut Headed Out tour in September, culminating in a sold-out London headline show at The George Tavern.

With momentum continuing to build, Faith in Strangers are set to head out on a northern UK tour in November, rounding off the year with a headline show at Bristol’s Strange Brew on 1st December.

The band release their debut single, Just Like Me, on 21st October, marking the beginning of an exciting new chapter. Their debut mixtape, recorded and produced with Kev Jones, is set for release in spring 2027.

The Empty Page are an alternative punk band from Manchester making energetic, anxious songs for our times via shimmering guitar lines, fuzzy riffs and catchy melodies. Rapidly building momentum from each new release (catching attention from Shirley Manson, Courtney Love and Erykah Badu), this hard-working independent band has toured the UK and beyond for a decade, now joining us for their debut this November at Sneaky Pete’s.

“Brash and uncompromising alt-punk for the greyest of skies and the toughest of times” GODISINTHETV

“Immensely powerful.” Tom Robinson BBC 6 Music

“Informed by likes of Bikini Kill or Veruca Salt, early 90s alt rock, [and] recalling Fugazi’s righteous fury.” Clash Magazine

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For fans of: Fcukers, Confidence Man, Adult DVD, Getdown Services

Dutch trio Parker Fans channel the energy of your favorite cassette mixtape, translating it into a boisterous pop sound that leans on a foundation of drum samples, synths, and ultra-groovy bass to shuffle styles with a magpie’s spirit. The main directive is simple and altruistic: get people to dance their bleeding hearts out.

Appearing at festivals like Best Kept Secret, Left of the Dial, Into The Great Wide Open, and Eurosonic-as well as opening for Altin Gün, Pip Blom, and Jungle By Night-Parker Fans have built a reputation for maximum mayhem in grubby clubs, major festivals, and every reputable or questionable establishment in between. Aware of the futility of having too much fun, their infuriatingly catchy songs survey the stirrings of nightlife through a cracked lens.

The Herons are probably the best Franco-Anglo-Uzbek punk trio in the world. An elusive Parisian blogger described their music as “a reminder of what rock and roll should be,” while others have described them as “hypnotic,” “absurdist,” and “a bit much for me, to be honest.” They have built a reputation for chaotic live shows, selling out venues in London, Edinburgh, and Paris alongside acts like Witch Post and Spacestation. There’s only one way to find out if high-energy punk songs about porridge, Indian food, and love were made for you.

Thrush are Scotland’s first-ever Post-Indyref band-and they would know. Instagram creators first and musicians second, Thrush have produced some of the most critically acclaimed Instagram stories on the East Coast of Scotland of all time. Sweet, sensitive, weird, and expansive, they shimmer-literally shimmer and shake-across stages and screens. Having supported emerging bands Glasshouse Red Spider Mite and Newbuild, 2026 has been a breakout year for the six-piece from Fife.

Link to music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1vY8fuL3kdwvvfdoMHwvsX?si=2BaLftg4TSW1VJ1ufl-OnA

Mildred are a band that happened the way the best things do – slowly, naturally, without any grand design. Four friends in Oakland, California: four singers, four songwriters, four voices with equal say. Singer-guitarists Henry Easton Koehler and Jack Schrott, singer-bassist Matt Palmquist, and drummer and producer Will Fortna started playing music together in a living room before and after dinner, the kitchen and the practice space sharing the same open air.
Nobody appointed a leader.

Nobody drew up a plan. Songs just came.

What makes Mildred genuinely unusual is not just the music – though that is quietly extraordinary – but the people making it. Jack is a PhD student in sub-atomic physics. Will is an environmental lawyer. Matt is an architect who spent a year in a Benedictine monastery. Henry works in affordable housing and helps his dad grow beans. These are not people chasing fame. These are people who found something real together and had the good sense to follow it.
Their debut EP mild earned praise from The Guardian, The Line of Best Fit, Clash, DIY, and Uncut. Their debut album Fenceline, released in 2026, has been called one of the year’s most endearing sleepers — melodic folk-rock with sharp, literary lyrics, gorgeous vocal harmonies, and a warmth that feels lived-in rather than constructed.

Mildred are proof that the best bands don’t always arrive with a bang. Sometimes they just appear, fully formed, from someone’s living room.

One of the best voices in British Rock working with some of the UK’s best songwriters. A barber by day but surely not for much longer.

For fans of Bruce Springsteen, The Killers, Meatloaf, The Darkness

Feedback is a new event series focusing on some of the most exciting emerging talent from Scotland and beyond!

Launching November 27th and 28th at Nice N Sleazy and Sneaky Pete’s, the inaugural line up will feature some brilliant Scottish acts: Lupercalia, Porcelina, Rufus Case Stone, Voitures, Oh Romance, So Boring, Tomorrow Kid, Vexations.

Get along and discover your new favourite artist, and keep an eye out for future announcements!

Dimitris Loizos brings his debut album tour to Edinburgh for an intimate evening of atmospheric guitar music, storytelling and immersive live performance.

Originally from Athens and based between Greece and London, Dimitris has built a dedicated audience through his blend of expressive guitar playing, atmospheric textures and honest songwriting, drawing inspiration from artists like Pink Floyd, BB King, Peter Green and RY X.

This intimate live performance will feature music from his upcoming debut album alongside audience favourites and selected earlier releases.

Built around guitar, vocals, dynamics and space, the evening is designed as a listening experience. No distractions, no rush. Just music shared in a small room, up close.

Expect an intimate atmosphere, improvisation, stories behind the songs and a night focused on connection and feeling.

Drawing on the post-punk and European art rock pioneers of the late 70s and early 80s, Bauhaus, Joy Division, Neu!, Suicide, Swans, The Sick Man of Europe re-tools those influences for the present moment. The same fears, new context. Motorik drum machines propel languid basslines and pulsing sequencers forward; vocals sit somewhere between Ian Curtis’ melancholic baritone and something altogether more experimental, phrases repeated like mantras until the words take on entirely new meanings.
The name itself is doing serious work, a diplomatic slur first coined in 1833 to describe the Ottoman Empire, more recently applied to post-Brexit Britain. The music carries that same ambiguous, shifting power: a state of the nation commentary for a world where cold war maps are being redrawn and geopolitical tensions are ratcheting upward by the day.
Their debut album on The Leaf Label was one of 2025’s most uncompromising and vital underground records. Second album The Intermittent Signal arrives in September 2026.

Dublin-based 3 piece Bucket seemingly appeared from nowhere with a tape-exclusive debut album in the latter half of 2021, breeding the DIY ethics of garage and punk rock, and soon endowing a reputation for their sweaty live shows. The band’s debut headline saw them sell out The Workman’s Club, soon playing an array of wall-to-wall DIY shows across Ireland.

Soon embracing elements of noise rock, hardcore and industrial to forge a unique and shockingly abrasive sound – Bucket are often referred to as the loudest band in Ireland, a reputation earned by the band’s aim to test the limits of volume and intensity, delivering a punishing live show.

Most recently, the band released the sophomore EP ‘Mosaic’ alongside performances supporting Knocked Loose, and at festivals across Europe and the U.S., including ESNS (NL), New Colossus (NYC, USA), Supersonic Block Party (Paris, FR), and Primavera Pro (Barcelona, ES).

“(Bucket) should come with a warning label.” – Nathan Shepard, BBC 6Music

“The loudest band I’ve seen in 40 years of gig-going. You’ll be hearing more from them, like it or not” – Paul Brannigan, Louder / Metal Hammer

“Thundering and bleak – teeth-grinding bass distortion and relentless power… among the most pummelling and progressive noise-rock acts right now.” – AL Noonan, DIY Magazine

Rebel Folk trio MOBIUS LOOP are heading out on their most rambunctious tour yet, the RIGHT TO ROAM tour!! This Lancashire grassroots activist band are fast becoming one of the most viral and polarising independent bands in the UK, drawing both praise and criticism for their want to rise above political, religious and cultural divisions by welcoming all people to dance and sing together for unity and peace!

Mobius Loop’s message of compassion, love and empathy pulsates from their lyrics whilst tackling taboo subjects such as anti-monarchy, animal rights, female orgasms and calling out the billionaires!

Come join in the riotous, rebel energy of this northern band that raises the roof with their foot stomping, world-music-inspired peace-anthems of our times!

The Rabbitts craft music that blurs the lines between folk, alternative, and atmospheric pop. Known for their delicate harmonies, immersive arrangements, and a sound described as “ethereal and understated” (BBC Radio 6), they create songs that feel both intimate and cinematic. Critics have called their work “hypnotic… crafting a meditative spell” (Obscure Sound) and “intricately lush and completely captivating” (Podcart).

The Norwich-based band began 2026 with an immersive and isolated creative retreat in the mountains. They now have a new album set for release on November 13th 2026. This show is part of their UK album release tour, where songs from the new album will be performed for the first time alongside a few old favourites. This tour follows on from their 2025 tour which sold out multiple shows around the UK, and the release of ‘Orbital Collection’, a series of four EPs the band released over the course of 12 months. The Rabbitts are an ever-evolving group who are constantly creating and rarely staying still.

“The Rabbitts approach folk and indie from an almost experimental perspective, drawing from other genres with ease” – Analogue Trash

Tickets On Sale 10am Friday 7th August

For more than a decade, the South East London visionary, Kid Bookie, has been tearing down the walls between UK rap, alternative rock and heavy music, carving out a sound entirely his own.

From earning early recognition on BBC Radio 1Xtra to becoming a MOBO Award nominee for Best Alternative Music Act, Bookie has continually challenged expectations, building a career on fearless creativity and total authenticity. Having already sent shockwaves through the alternative world with the emotionally devastating “Prettier,” the Corey Taylor collaboration “BLAME,” and the groundbreaking “Rose McGowan” featuring Rose McGowan herself, Kid Bookie returns with perhaps his most explosive statement yet.

Cheaper Than Therapy II, is Bookie’s most ambitious and accomplished work to date. The eleven-track album is the definitive evolution of its acclaimed 2021 predecessor, seamlessly blending trap aggression, massive hooks and brutally honest storytelling. Whether confronting difficult truths, blurring genres beyond recognition, or delivering arena-sized hooks wrapped in chaos, Kid Bookie continues to prove that there is nobody else making records quite like this.

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Indoor Foxes returns with “Superfan”, a song about pure obsession and the strange places it can take you. Written after a conversation with a friend who had a stalker, the track explores both sides of obsession and the uncomfortable recognition of how easily intense feelings can become irrational. “I sort of related to their point of view, but I also felt like, in seeing the messages they’d had, that maybe I’d acted like that before. It’s a song about pure obsession, holding both points of view concurrently.”

Superfan lives in that messy space where wanting someone becomes all consuming. It’s rereading old conversations months later, looking for an ex in everyone else and trying to find something that feels like love in the aftermath. Known for her blend of grunge grit and pop glamour, described as “Courtney Love meets Paris Hilton,” Indoor Foxes has quickly established herself as one of Scotland’s most exciting emerging artists. Recent years have seen her perform at Reading & Leeds, TRNSMT and Waves Vienna, sell out headline shows at King Tut’s and Paper Dress Vintage, and receive national airplay across BBC Radio 1, Radio 2, 6 Music and BBC Scotland.

Having previously supported the likes of Sports Team and Fatherson, Indoor Foxes will next support The Libertines and appear at Hitchin Live at the Priory, continuing a run that has also seen her sign with Primary Talent International and become a finalist for BBC Introducing’s Scottish Act of the Year. Following the heartbreak and fury of Feet On The Dash, Superfan turns towards what happens when you can’t quite let somebody go.

Downtown Boys have pushed relentlessly forward as an artistic and political project since their founding. Over years of touring and three acclaimed albums, including Full Communism in 2015 and Cost of Living (their Sub Pop debut in 2017), Downtown Boys have continued to grow as artists, musicians, and organizers.

Now, the band has arrived with Public Luxury, an enthralling album that keeps politics front and center while summoning the band’s most urgent and powerful sound to date.

Following on from their SAY Award winning debut album, Kai Reesu’s long-awaited sequel KOMPROMAT VOL II has precipitated a jaunt round the central belt in celebration. Darker and more intentional than the first iteration, with references to the canon of jazz, steeped in hip-hop mythology and finished with the bands unique style, K2 is set to make heads explode.

Mr. Scruff returns to Sneaky Petes for another extended session, this time alongside Glasgow-based ButhoTheWarrior, the Jaiva resident who plays all strains of House music, Jazz, Psychedelic, Disco, Electronic and African music.

These two will be sharing the DJ booth for the whole night, bouncing off each other. Get down early and join them for the whole journey!

Mississippi punk blues one-man band Bob Log III returns to Sneaky Pete’s in all his helmeted glory for the first time in over a decade.

Sheherazaad is an American composer and theatre artist, whose cinematic blend of dystopic folk-noir and experimental pop laced with South Asian musical sensibilities has established her as one of the most distinctive new voices in contemporary music.

Raised in California in a second-generation immigrant household and now dividing her time between India and Brooklyn, her richly poetic songwriting explores broken tongues and unbelonging through immersive, genre-defying soundscapes.

Since the release of her acclaimed ‘Qasr’ EP, she has toured internationally, composed for New York’s Off-Broadway stages, and collaborated with artists including Arooj Aftab (who produced ‘Qasr’), all while continuing to wield her multidisciplinary practice across music, theatre and the written word. Her self-produced debut full-length album, ‘Khudgarzi’, arrives November 20 via Erased Tapes.

LA five-piece Dummy push their hazy guitar pop into electronic and downtempo territory on their third album do you love the color of the sky? (Polyvinyl) – moving through dreampop, breakbeat and trip-hop to explore the climate crisis, AI, and the spread of surveillance.

Cowgate Block Party returns on 30th January 2027 at Sneaky Pete’s and The Mash House.
4 amazing editions in 2026 featured 60 of the best new bands from across the country including Bathing Suits, Bikini Body, Body Horror, Doss, Ellis D, Girl Group, Gossip Queens, Lucky Iris, Monks, Morn, Mount Palomar, Native James, Silverwingkiller, The Heart Shaped Aces, Ugly Ozo and many more.

“Cowgate Block Party is why we named Edinburgh one of the UK’s best places to visit in 2026” – TimeOut

“First-of-its-kind Cowgate Block Party surges through Edinburgh’s Old Town for a showcase of the best new bands” – Clunk Magazine

“If this is what grassroots music looks like in 2026, then good” – The Golden Bough

The line up will be announced soon and early bird tickets are on sale now!!

Tummyache comes to Sneaky Pete’s on February 1st touring their new album ‘repeat in reverse’

Since its inception in 2018, Tummyache has carved out a space in the DIY scenes of both the United States and the UK, resonating with listeners who feel the weight of systemic struggles and societal expectations. Soren Bryce’s music pulls no punches; her lyrics confront issues of class, privilege, and inner conflict, inviting listeners to face the harsh realities she lays bare.

‘Repeat in Reverse’ – the fourth album out October 16th, 2026 – is an in-depth examination of the after effects of grief, through the personal experience of Soren losing her father two years ago. From intimate tape recordings from her flat to visceral screaming, it captures the cyclical nature of grief and it’s ability to invade and infect day to day life – how there is no light without dark, no acceptance without breaking, and no love without growth.

Gold Panda comes to Scotland this February for two early DJ sets at Free Time – Sneaky Pete’s day party series in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Emerging in the late ’00s with a series of raved-about remixes for Bloc Party, HEALTH and The Field, Gold Panda (Derwin Dicker) broke through in 2010 with his award-winning and zeitgeist-defining debut record, Lucky Shiner.

Now after a string of critically-acclaimed follow-up records, a celebrated DJ-Kicks mix and collaborations with Fort Romeau, Simian Mobile Disco’s Jas Shaw and Anoushka Shankar, Gold Panda returns in 2026 with TON UP, his brilliant new album for Studio Barnhus.

Made with Dicker’s unmistakable sampler-bashing touch, the tracks on TON UP carry the raw knock of old-school hip-hop instrumentals, pushed through pumping house-music machinery and ready to cause absolute trouble on any sound system.

We’re delighted to have him join us at Sneaky Pete’s this February.

MAQUINA. blends dance culture with heavy-hook songcraft. Drawing inspiration from Krautrock and Industrial Techno, MAQUINA. fearlessly explores the boundaries of these genres by incorporating elements of rock and electronic music into their distinctive lean and heavy sound: pulsating beats, scuzzy bass riffs, and noisy guitars. Challenging norms and pushing the limits of conventional music, they have successfully carved out a distinctive identity.

“Pushing sounds together to make noise and pushing noise together to make sounds.”

One of the most exciting live bands in the UK, British Birds combine the garage-punk energy of Billy Childish, the wry English sophistication of XTC and the witty pop inventiveness of The Lovely Eggs.

Forged from a fireless market town with Tolkien-esque hills and Lowry style mills, British Birds straddle the landscape of Northern life through their colourful garage rock song, like a dawn chorus in an apocalyptic smog. Stories of personal experience and ‘the everyday’ flow through their songs like the nearby canal networks. Hues of psychedelia tint their music like the confusion of modern day life, with a sombering melancholy seeping from its pores like a quintessential Northern drizzle, and their pop heartbeat thumping on like the industrial hammers.

The band has toured with BC Camplight, The Lovely Eggs and The Bug Club, and have self-released two albums and an EP; In Search Of Mr Rykyn (February 2024), Sucking Funny EP (August 2024) and Silence Daedalus (June 2025).

Their first album for Skep Wax Records, Murmurate, Oscillate, will be released on 16th October 2026.

Bathing Suits are surging into clubland armed with a battery of abrasive guitars and pummelling techno. Drawing as much from the frenetic energy of contemporary post-punk acts like Model/Actriz and Psychotic Monks as from the raunchy sensibilities of early 2010s pop, their debut EP ‘KILL BATHING SUITS’ was released via Underplay Recordings earlier this year to critical acclaim.

Bathing Suits’ reputation has grown rapidly through their feverish early releases and live performances (including three shows at The Great Escape where they were named winners of the festival’s prestigious Steve Strange Award), earning support from BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 6 Music, KEXP, Rolling Stone UK, Bandcamp, NME, DIY, So Young, COLD Magazine, Far Out, Louder Than War and more.

“The UK’s most exciting new band” – The Line Of Best Fit

“You can’t pin Bathing Suits down, and nor should you want to.” – NME

“Leeds’ Always Dancey, Always Loud, Always Sexy Electro-Noise Outfit – Cold Magazine

Etaoin is an Irish-British singer-songwriter whose raw, pitch-perfect voice and deeply emotive songwriting has already caught the attention of a growing army of loyal and eager fans.

Raised between London and Ireland, Etaoin (pronounced Attain) blends ethereal folk-pop with introspective, poetic lyricism reminiscent of Dermot Kennedy, Lizzy McAlpine, Phoebe Bridgers, and Holly Humberstone. Her music is melancholic yet warm, intimate late-night confessions wrapped in cinematic melodies with a quiet, mystical edge.

A former child prodigy in traditional Irish music, Etaoin became the youngest-ever winner of the prestigious Fleadh Cheoil All-Ireland songwriting competition at just 11 years old. She has performed with her choir at London’s Royal Albert Hall and solo at the massive St. Patrick’s Day concert in Trafalgar Square in front of 40,000 people. Festival appearances include The Great Escape, Germany’s Haldern Pop, and Italy’s Kaltern Pop Festival. She has supported The Ting Tings, The Dreggs, Gavin James and proving music runs deep in her blood, she performed with the legendary Finbar Furey at the tender age of nine.

Etaoin sold out her first three UK headline shows, most recently her forthcoming one at the iconic St Pancras Church on 21 May 2026.

Her music has already landed on major Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon playlists, earned her Amazon One To Watch status, and attracted personal interest from Rick Rubin and Quincy Jones Management, who flew her to Los Angeles for intensive writing sessions.

With UK and European support tour dates already confirmed and her own label Manic Pixie Records (through Universal) gaining momentum, Etaoin is poised to break through in 2026 with her signature blend of vulnerability, honesty, and spellbinding live delivery.

The Howlers, Led by frontman Adam Young have never strayed from an open and honest approach to the bands career propelling the band’s 2024 Debut Album to a UK Official Charts Top 10 position and multiple chart positions across mainland Europe, often citing Young’s personal experiences as influences on the bands music

We are the official Scottish Twenty One Pilots tribute act ‘Twenty More Pilots’ and we are coming near you for our East Is Up tour in Edinburgh! |-/

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Family Stereo is the indie-folk project of London based singer-songwriter Blake Watt, established in 2018. With several self-released EPs to his name, his sound combines rich lyrics and an intricate, finger-picked style with distorted folk-rock, alt-country and dreamlike soundscapes. Family Stereo’s debut album is set for release in Summer 2026.

London instrumental quartet Dog Unit’s reverb-drenched post-rock and electronica leans just as heavily on the tune-first, purist pop qualities of Burt Bacharach or The Strokes as much as it does the groove and ambiance of their post-rock forebears like Tortoise or Stereolab.

Championed from the outset by the likes of Steve Lamacq on 6Music and John Kennedy on RadioX, Dog Unit’s forthcoming second album Runners was made over the first four months of 2026 at the band’s studio in Limehouse, East London, and saw them work alongside producer Mark Estall, as well as a string quartet and reappointed experimental bass clarinetist Heather Roche. 

“A different type of musical texture, and a very pretty and moving thing it is too” – Steve Lamacq, BBC 6Music

“Propulsive and mesmerising… makes you wish more bands explored music without vocals” – Dan Cairns, The Sunday Times

he realest-deal storyteller in indie-rock today is the Tampa-born, New Orleans-based singer and poet Thomas Dollbaum, and his second album Birds of Paradise is his most powerful and dynamic work yet. Accompanied by MJ Lenderman on drums, occasional guitar and backing vocals, here Dollbaum fine-tunes his storytelling instincts against a backdrop of bracing heartland rock.

Following up his critically acclaimed Wellswood (Big Legal Mess, 2022) and Drive All Night EP (Dear Life Records, 2025), Birds of Paradise is a goodbye letter to lost loved ones and former selves. These songs find Dollbaum searching for acceptance in the transient in-between places: Florida’s pine flatwoods, backroads leading to I-95, where birds fly across the water. And even though the ghosts of his alt-country predecessors Townes Van Zandt and Jason Molina are definitely present, on Birds of Paradise, Dollbaum emerges from their shadows – waving to the past, sounding all the more like himself.

“There hasn’t been a more exciting burst of Southern-inflected guitar rock this year than this full-length from the New Orleans-based songwriter Thomas Dollbaum.” – Rolling Stone’s Best Albums of 2026 So Far

“If Dollbaum’s music once painted a vivid portrait of all the low places he’s been, then on Birds of Paradise, he sounds all the more confident in showing us where he wants to go next.” – Pitchfork, 7.8

“exceptionally deep and lovely-dusky, melodic, just a little bit dangerous-sounding” – The New Yorker

“Dollbaum’s lyrics are like Southern gothic short stories, the sort that don’t end well” – Mojo ****

NEONLEX brings Scotland’s electronic music culture into the present, celebrating the past, present and future of rave, techno and trance.

Rooted in Scotland’s rich rave heritage, we’re bringing the sounds, energy and spirit of the scene to the dancefloor.

Mosh Spice is the world’s first metal tribute to the Spice Girls, a high energy mashup of pop anthems and headbanging metal attitude.

Cactus Lee is the project of Austin songwriter Kevin Dehan — a musician operating at his own pace, on his own terms, in one of American music’s richest traditions. Steeped in the classic sounds of Texas country and folk, Dehan draws on a lineage that runs from Townes Van Zandt and Gene Clark to John Prine and Tom T. Hall, filtering those influences through a sensibility that is entirely his own: childlike and dreamy, sharply witty, and quietly profound.

Since 2019, Cactus Lee has released with a relentless and rare creative momentum — six albums, two EPs, and a live record, self-written and self-recorded on a four-track before being brought to life with rotating Austin musicians. It is the output of a songwriter who writes because he has to, not because the industry demands it.

His latest album Lee’s Dream, released in 2026 on Western Vinyl, is his most fully realised work yet — communal, lived-in, joyous and melancholy in equal measure. Conceived on a month-long solo tour and recorded with producer Billy Horton, it is an album steeped in Texas mythology: Lone Star beer, the Armadillo World Headquarters, the wide open roads between one small town and the next. Dehan writes like a historian and a dreamer simultaneously, crafting melodic fever dreams that feel instantly familiar.
In a music landscape obsessed with novelty, Cactus Lee is something rarer — an artist building a body of work that will only deepen with time.

Known for intimate, disarmingly funny performances and quietly devastating songs, Welsh/Irish Dan Bettridge isn’t your typical Folk/Americana singer-songwriter. Balancing melancholy with warmth and unexpected humour, Bettridge has gently found his way into hearts around the world racking up millions of streams. Personally selected by ‘Whispering’ Bob Harris as his favourite new artist and named Acoustic Magazine’s ‘Next Big Thing’, he has had continuous support from BBC Radio, an appearance in Rolling Stone, four invites to the famous SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas, and two sold out nights at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire with Band Of Horses.

“Everything he touches turns to gold” – Bronwen Lewis, BBC Radio presenter & singer

Having spent time co-writing for other artists from Nashville to London, this 2027 UK tour sees Bettridge return with his own, much anticipated sophomore album, ‘Everything, absolutely’. An evolution that saw him collaborate with some of the UK’s best folk/bluegrass musicians, including Rhodri Viney on pedal steel, David Grubb on strings and Darren Eedens on banjo. The album also includes a feature from multi-platinum, award winning indie-folk artist Novo Amor.

“Feels like a soft hand reaching through the dark” – Atwood Magazine

While charming audiences worldwide, Bettridge’s M.O. has stayed true to his humble beginnings – creating a space where stories, connection and song are the star of the show. His shows are quiet revelations that will stay with you long after the last note has rung out.

Mouth Ulcers are the fast-rising London four-piece redefining modern goth through a lens of post-punk revivalism and cinematic atmosphere, quickly evolving from a spontaneous studio experiment into one of the UK’s most talked-about acts.

Blending the stark emotional minimalism of Joy Division with the romantic gloom of The Cure and the angular intensity of Bauhaus, Mouth Ulcers craft a sound built on melodic basslines, wiry guitars, and cavernous baritone vocals, and have already attracted praise across the press landscape from the likes of The Line Of Best Fit, So Young, Rolling Stone UK, Rough Trade, Under The Radar and Louder Than War as well as significant radio plays including BBC 6 Music (Lauren Laverne, Chris Hawkins, Steve Lamacq, Deb Grant) BBC Radio 1 (Daniel P. Carter), KEXP and Radio X.

“Drawing from the shadowed architecture of 80s post-punk and goth, Mouth Ulcers have quickly become a new fixture in the corner of London’s moody underground, selling out early UK and Netherlands shows while still in their infancy as a band.” – Line Of Best Fit

“the new wave of ’80s gothic at its core… a dispossessed madman’s dream.” – The Indie Scene

Lonely The Brave return in their original and most cherished form – a decade since the beloved Cambridge band and their extraordinary founding vocalist, Dave Jakes, last shared a stage together.

Once heralded as leading lights in a new wave of British rock, following the release of debut album The Day’s War and its follow-up Things Will Matter, the band have shared stages with Deftones, Biffy Clyro and Bruce Springsteen, and performed at festivals across the UK and Europe including Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds, Download France. Tastemaker champions including BBC Radio, The Guardian, Kerrang!, NME and more.

NASHVILLES David Graham is bringing the greatest Honky Tonk show on earth to EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND for the first time as part of the 2027 UK & Ireland Tour.

This reckless and manic show has been battle tested and polished from over 275 shows a year, both in the honky tonks of Nashville’s historic Lower Broadway with Residency in Laylas and monthly shows in Memphis on Beale St. David also gigs extensively throughout the USA. The band have toured the UK & Europe the past 3 years boasting sell out shows while earning new fans and support this side of the Atlantic with his unforgettable shows.

What to expect – Original authentic music from his albums HANDS & KNEES, TWO, newly released critically acclaimed album DOWNTOWN as well as covers of your country favourites the David Graham way – fast, fun and LOUD.

Join us for a chance to see a real Hinky Tonk Show straight from Brodway! Expect some foot stomping, knee slapping, high-octane, authentic Hillbilly Rock’N’Roll. Doors at 19:00.