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TONIGHT! This will be a cracker... 10pm doors 10.15pm - 10.40pm- Vegas Speed Scandal 10.45pm- 11.10pm 11.25pm - 11.55pm - Headlight Then DHC DJs + MWX on till 2am. Club Snafu | Aberdeen Nightclub Home x

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DHC presents @ Snafu Thursday 26th May 10pm 3.00 THE LED BRONTO SKY LIFT HELLHOUSE THE LED psycho disko (LED remix) by embryonik on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free The Led are an electronic act formed from the ashes of TheatreFall from Inverness. After being told not so long ago that The LED were worth keeping an eye on. News has reached us that more original tracks will be with be coming soon. The band are well suited to the late night DHC vibe and are in their early stages of playing lilve as we speak! BRONTO SKY LIFT bronto skylift | Free Music, Tour Dates, Photos, Videos Bronto are a mighty force to be reckoned with! Recently visiting SXSW and generally leaving peril in their wake their live show is to be seen to be believed! "Loud and unhinged." - Vic Galloway, Radio 1) "Dazzling Glaswegian beat combo. Live, they will set your face on fire." - The Skinny "Their live show can be regarded as a treat in itself... a surprise assault on the senses staying just this side of chaos." - The Bluesbunny "The sound of a thousand angry bears running amok in a salmon farm." - Glasgow Podcart HELLHOUSE HellHouse | Free Music, Tour Dates, Photos, Videos Also on the bill is local support from new band Hellhouse. Find out more about them on their mypace page - expect heavy blues, rock and lots of it. Club Snafu | Aberdeen Nightclub Home

DHC presents @ Snafu Thursday 19th May 10pm 3.00 MIDNIGHT LION + support from THE MYKE BLACK BAND MIDNIGHT LION: Midnight Lion | Free Music, Tour Dates, Photos, Videos Peenko: Ones to Watch in 2010 - #7 Midnight Lion Comprised of ex Drive-By Argument members, Midnight Lion are a synth-pop duo from Glasgow who have been compared to a "21st century version of The Associates" Having only recently released a few home-recordings they are already generating quite a buzz and were even recently tipped as one of Vodafone Ones to Watch. THE MYKE BLACK BAND Myke Black | Free Music, Tour Dates, Photos, Videos A well know singer songwriter on the Aberdeen scene, this show will be Mykes first DHC with a full band! Details: Club Snafu | Aberdeen Nightclub Home

DHC presents @ Snafu Thursday 12th May HEADLIGHT + SHY JAMES 10pm - 2am 3.00 HEADLIGHT: Headlight Wall | Facebook Headlight | Free Music, Tour Dates, Photos, Videos A well kept secret but maybe not for much longer, Headlight are currently putting the finishing touches to their debut EP. Watch this space as these guys will go far. Well received slots at the Wizard festival among others have helped the band establish a good fan base at home and in 2011 they will be venturing further afield with their distinct brand of indie alternative rock sound. SHY JAMES: Shy James - Tour Dates. | Facebook Shy James is a project of three talented musicians fronted by Jamie Rodden.. Jamie has always been a performer of one kind or another. He has always been interested in singing and started teaching himself to play guitar at the age of 17. Now front man for up-and-coming band SHY JAMES, Jamie still enjoys playing solo acoustic gigs and thrives on entertaining an audience. Club Snafu | Aberdeen Nightclub Home

Thursday 5th May @ Snafu Dirty Hearts Club Following on in both Snafu and DHC's regular tradition of supplying the cities more savvy music lovers with an option for a good time- May continues in style with the following night kicking things off on the 5th... DIRTY HEARTS CLUB RESIDENTS NIGHT: Steven Milne + MWX 11pm till 2am 3.00 Steven Milne (DHC DJs) Long standing resident of DHC and having previously warmed up for the likes of Aeroplane, Optimo, Calvin Harris, Zane Lowe, MSTRKRFT, Holy Ghost, Juan Maclean and many more. Expect a mix of indie, disco, funk, punk, soul and classics. With a little bit of the more tasteful electro side of things on top. MIXTAPE here (new one to follow shortly!): Mixtape! by Dirty Hearts Club on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free Adding another string to the DHC bow is the addition of... MWX A new addition to the DHC team - MWX comes armed with her bag full of vintage italo and high NRG electronic beasts which come highly reccomended. Check out this recent mix here: MWX in the mix by snafusoundsystem on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free FREE PASSES FROM THE ATHENEUM So come to Snafu and Enjoy it - its much better than all the generic alternatives on offer and youll have a stomping good time without hurting your wallet! Tickets and listings: Club Snafu | Aberdeen Nightclub Home

hey dudes, 5 entry to the gig OR email me at stevenmilne82@hotmail.com if you want on the 4 guestlist. Email has to be in by Wednesday 5pm.

Hi everyone, Hope your all well. After a wee break over the last while to write, record, rehearse and generally get our shit together...The Little Kicks have some things to report. FREE SINGLE: As of today, we have released a free single (available online) entitled "Call of Youth". The song preceeds the release of a new album (details to follow) which we have recently recorded in The Depot,Edinburgh. Were pretty excited about the new album as its very different to our older material - the free single is likely the closest sounding song to the days of old. You can grab the song from the following sites: Call Of Youth (MP3) by THE LITTLE KICKS on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free THE LITTLE KICKS Welcome to Facebook - Log In, Sign Up or Learn More VIDEO: Call Of Youth by The Little Kicks on Vimeo Aside from that we have a fair few gigs coming up with the most relevant one for here being a headline show at the Lemon Tree in July. The show goes on sale on Monday with tickets available from One Up, Aberdeen Box Office, and here: THE LEMON TREE STUDIO : Productions : The Little Kicks If you want to check out any of the other dates or generally what were up to we have a blog HERE: THE LITTLE KICKS Thanks for the support. Hope to see you all at a show soon and that you enjoy the single. Steven M x

Well looking forward to this. I think it has the chance to be something really special. As for our set, itll be nice to play Tunnels - been a while and looking forward to it!

Although, just re-read your post - they are quite expensive. Maybe best to do what the others said re gumtree. I saved up for mine with 1months wages + 5 really CRAP sell your soul DJ gigs in order to afford it. So you could also do that! Frosty Jack DJ set at Codonas etc...

I have a nord electro which id reccomend - even though its not fully weighted. If its just a piano sound your after = then maybe not for you as it does various things. But the piano sounds are good and can be modified also if you need to. The Rhodes and Organ sounds are amazing and the thing isnt too heavy - handy for gigging as its not that heavy to take on the bus/ train. It does do midi also. Anyway, thats my 2 cents.

Yo dudes! Stage times for next week: 8.00pm - Doors 8.30pm - Steven Winton 9.15pm - Bwani Junction 10.00pm - The Little Kicks Get our free single on our bandcamp page / soundcloud page now!!! THE LITTLE KICKS's sounds on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free THE LITTLE KICKS

this will be magic! Unfortunately for me my girlfriend has organised a royal wedding party at 10am the next day in my flat - so ill likely be cursing a hangover round about then.

Ka Bump! This week folks: 10pm Doors: 10.15pm -Chris Lamb 10.45pm Pre-Teens 11.30pm - Iain Mclaughlin + DJs till 2am!

Fair enough- maybe didnt word that last post the best way-wasn't meant to sound snipey. I just always get a little defensive in these situations when our name is mentioned and am always keen to set record straight.

This festival looks like a great thing to happen to Aberdeen and im glad to see that people are supporting it. Kudos to those all responsible for making it happen- must take a lot of work and effort. Whether you like the line up or not - which i firmly DO - it helps put Aberdeen on the map in a big way this Summer which will have knock on effects for touring bands/ agents radars im sure. Im really glad to see all the majority of posts being positive comments. As for Little Kicks getting preferential treatment - i can assure you it doesn't happen. We only ever get to play if we suit musically, have been asked to play or have asked ourselves and on the rare occasion they can they'll fit us on the bill. Weve been admittedly quite lucky in our time with some slots coming our way but i dont think i have to defend that so i wont. Fortunately for us were pretty commercial, pretty reliable, dont play Aberdeen too often and usually try to promote all our shows as much as possible to bring a crowd- so maybe for those reasons we get asked quite a lot to play but thats the path we choose to follow so ach weel.

This will be smashing: 10pm doors 10.15pm - Robin Adams 10.50pm - Deportees 11.30pm - Washington Irving 12pm - 2am - DHC DJs Email me for guestlist: stevenmilne82@hotmail.com

Theres no way itll get moved to AECC. Unless im very much mistaken they wouldnt fill AECC and the costs in putting on wouldnt make sense to the promoter so theyll likely stick at Music Hall im sure.

Dirty Hearts Club presents THURSDAY 14th APRIL 10pm 3 entry OVER THE WALL + support Over The Wall | Free Music, Tour Dates, Photos, Videos In an industry bloated by the mundane, Glasgows Over the Wall make for a refreshing slap in the jowls. For those in need of a little entertainment, todays music industry is often the wrong place to be. Saturated with po-faced, generic Indie rockers tripping over their mile-long frowns, its a climate obsessed with the bottom line. Theres no room for quirky showmanship, audience interaction or, god forbid, rock n roll tomfoolery; its a wham, bam, thank you for buying our merchandise man era. And, boy, it sure aint fun. What this dawning of banality needs is an antidote, an act to bowl us over with pervasiveness and honesty. A band like Glasgow duo Over the Wall, perhaps? We just want people to enjoy what they are watching as much as possible and a lot of what we do would be classed as gimmicks, says co-conspirator Ben Hillman as he discusses the groups core principles. We also manage to talk a lot as well. This instantly makes us very un-cool because as soon as you open your mouth on stage you are no longer mysterious. But the strong silent type does not constitute esoteric cool (just look at Glasvegas), what Over the Wall have is something that cant be taught in rock school strategy meetings: Character. After years of scouring alone for the perfect sound, Hillman and cohort Gav Prentice hooked up while putting on shows at Glasgow venue Stereo. As Prentice tells it, the chemistry was immediate: It was the response to the two of us onstage that made us think wed obviously stumbled into something really good, plus the freedom afforded by just having the two of us made it really fun. The lure is in their ear for arrangement. Bold in both structure and content, the pairing skewer starlit symphonies with cerebral themes to create a thrilling mixture of textured, clued-up pop. We discuss politics a lot and I was brought up in a house where politics was important, explains Prentice. A lot of our lyrics are about finding your place and coming to terms with getting older...so it makes sense to reference the political legacy of the years that immediately followed our births, especially seeing as that legacy is something were still paying the price for to a large extent now. Yet as refreshing as these intellectual leanings are, Over the Wall seem distinctly out of step with their more docile contemporaries. Ive always felt like were kind of outsiders and have had to work harder than some says Prentice. Hillman continues: It is true that many bands around have a much bigger sound than we do, but then there are ones with a much smaller sound doing very well too. We wouldn't try and change anything simply to sound like a successful band, or an unsuccessful one for that matter. Success, however, is there to be grabbed. Recently signed to Motive Sounds, Over the Wall have garnered steady acclaim since their ebullient EP The Rise and Fall of late last year (which sees a re-release this month). I guess everyone in the media and entertainment industry probably feels like they are beating their head against a wall a lot of the time, says Hillman, wearily accepting his bands new status. More frequently than not, the tables won't turn your way and everything is not hunky dory but sometimes they do. It's great when people take an interest, but nothing lasts forever.

DHC presents THURSDAY 28th APRIL 10pm - 2am 6.00 entry OPTIMO + DHC DJs The night before the royal wedding = most of us are off on the Friday! Snafu have managed to pull a corker of a night out of the bag for all of us! We dont need to sell you the hard sell on the Optimo guys, itll be a cracking mix of disco, house, electro, punk, funk, indie, classics and just about anything they can think of! But for the uninitiated- see below: Optimo (Espacio) ('Optimum Space') was a weekly Sunday-night club based in Glasgow, Scotland at the Sub Club on Jamaica Street, as well as a collective moniker for the night's resident DJ duo. Having run every week since it was founded in 1997, on Thursday 11 March 2010, it was announced on the official facebook page that the weekly nights would come to an end on Sunday 25 April 2010. However, JD Twitch and JG Wilkes continue to tour, promote and release music as Optimo. For mixes/ content: Optimo • Home Tickets in advance from: Club Snafu | Aberdeen Nightclub Home

Dirty Hearts Club presents THURSDAY 28th APRIL 8pm 11pm (Pre-Optimo Early show) 5 entry (includes entry to Optimo) THE LITTLE KICKS BWANI JUNCTION STEVEN WINTON With Optimo DJing from 12pm till 2am and the majority of the country off for the royal wedding the next day- this should be a great chance for a cracking night out! Hope to see you there. THE LITTLE KICKS | Free Music, Tour Dates, Photos, Videos The Little Kicks may have seemed quite quiet of late but in truth they have been busy working on new songs and planning for a new release in 2011 to follow up their debut album Boxing Clever. The band are touring in May over Scotland so this gig will see an outing of a lot of new material which will be aired for the first time. Come and see the band in their favourite venue and keep your eyes peeled for a Little Kicks free single around the time of this show! Bwani Junction | Free Music, Tour Dates, Photos, Videos Bwani Junction are a cracking live band who are currently doing the rounds in the UK picking up a fair word of momentum. Regularly played on BBC Radio Scotland + Radio 1 the band have been tipped for big things in 2011 by those who are in the know! Steven Winton | Free Music, Tour Dates, Photos, Videos As well as being lead singer in Kashmir Red + electro poppers/ DHC Faves Fridge Magnets Steven Winton plays solo shows in his own right all over town and further afield. A cracking live performer with a great voice, come and see Steven play a mixture of his own material and a few choice covers too.

Dirty Hearts Club presents THURSDAY 21st APRIL 10pm 3 entry IAIN MCLAUGHLIN + THE OUTSIDERS PRE-TEENS CHRIS LAMB Iain McLaughlin & The Outsiders | Free Music, Tour Dates, Photos, Videos Iain McLaughlin and the Outsiders Iain is a singer / songwriter from Inverness who is fast becoming a well known name on the touring circuit. Touring with his band and sometimes solo, this will be Iains second time at the DHC after a sterling show last year in late 2010. pre teens | Free Music, Tour Dates, Photos, Videos Actually post-teens. Or teens maybe. They make music typified by jangly guitars propelled by unpredictable drumming. They sound a bit like The Strokes at times, they recall Pavement's mellower tunes at others. Chris Lamb | Facebook Chris Lamb is singer, song writer who spent a long time as a bedroom musician before founding a band call "Cook House Heroes", a Indie/rock influenced band. After a number of gigs and a lot of learning he then decided to focus on writing and performing his own material. He can be found regularly performing in venues around Aberdeen. Chris' is sound is contemporary acoustic based music and he continues to develop new songs, with a view to developing

Dirty Hearts Club presents THURSDAY 7th APRIL 10pm 3 entry WASHINGTON IRVING DEPORTEES ROBIN ADAMS Washington Irving | Free Music, Tour Dates, Photos, Videos Washington Irving are an indie folk band from Glasgow who are already well on their way to becoming a well known figure on the touring and live circuit. The Deportees | Free Music, Tour Dates, Photos, Videos The Deportees are a 5-piece folky-rocky-country-ish tune*ful out*fit from Aber*deen. It would be unfair to lump them into a spe*cific genre, hence the rather linguistically-incorrect intro*duc*tion, but they cer*tainly have a dis*cern*ible folk influ*ence with a strong emphasis on vocal har*mon*ies. Theyre recently formed and deserve check*ing out. Robin Adams | Free Music, Tour Dates, Photos, Videos Robin is a fantastic singer / songwriter from Glasgow who has just released his debut album in 2011.