25/01/2013
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Coalition, born back in April 2008, is a weekly Edinburgh based club night thrust into existence on the back of one simple concept - What is there to do on a Sunday if youre not done with your weekend and crochet two weeks on the trot with granny simply wont do?
It is the simplest concept from the simplest heads, which has snowballed mainly by word of mouth with following into a notoriously messy wee night of ridiculous banter and filthy alternative noise in a slap up wee rave-cave. A collaboration of like minded gentlemen (and yes, we are gentlemen), a Coalition if you will - already involved in various levels of the Edinburgh club scene with one similar shared goal: Smash it up.
The music policy is relatively flexible, DJs will offer a rotating electronic barrage varying from Breaks, Dubstep, UK Bass, Bassline and D&B - whatever gets the floor moving.
The aim is to offer the undeniably abundant local talent a platform from which to play what they feel they want to play, not what they should - nurturing the local scene and allowing some level of tangential scope to the sets you may expect to hear. The ideals of the residents can be exercised fully on a regular basis, and the roster is almost wide open to have a go heros. DJs have come from across the board in Edinburgh and indeed Glasgow and beyond to tear up our humble yet renound home venue of Sneaky Pete's, with sets from the residents of locally run yet nationally regarded nights such as Audacious, Xplicit, Az Tek, Bass Syndicate, Split, Damage, Sugarbeat and Volume to name a few. Guests to date have included low Hz junkies such as Trouble&Bass's AC Slater, Z-Audio's Riskotheque and Chasing Shadows on a dubstep tip - to the mighty Tigerbass's own Kid606 doing what he does best, with Dolby Anol and Genuine Guy thrown in the mix for good measure, Brooklyn's very own Drop the Lime, a bass heavy special from Baobinga, the smooth sounds of Girl Unit and Oneman who absolutly killed it.
Door policy is equally simple. Its weekly, and completely and totally free.
NB: WITH *occasional* exception.
As much as most guests are just as free as the residents nights, if we book big, we WILL shunt on a wee door tax (normally about £3), which usually leaves us on a sell out or lose out footing. We dont like doing it, but were a club, not a fu***ng charity. =]
In short:
COALITION.
FREE ENTRY.
SUNDAYS @ SNEAKY PETES.
73 COWGATE.
Drinks promos galorre. (Its sunday for f***s sake!)
Get in.