Chef's Specials for week ending 19th April 2009

Hi folks and welcome back to The Chef's Specials. If quality underground music, friendly crowds and rocking, party atmospheres are your bag then there are quite a few great nights on again this weekend here in Edinburgh.

FRIDAY 17TH April 2009

TELEFUNKEN presents HUDD TRAXX PARTY with EDDIE LEADER
@Cabaret Voltaire

TELEFUNKEN returns to Cabaret Voltaire this Friday with special guest Eddie Leader.
Eddie's Huddersfield based record label HUDD TRAXX is one of the UK's leading stables renowned for that bumpin, swingin sound of pure house music and with artist like DJ Sneak, Iz & Diz, JT Donaldson, Lil’ Mark, Phil Weeks and Brett Johnstone on their rosta its no wonder they're hot property.

As one third of the production trio Slum Science which he founded with friends Danny White and Rucky, Eddie has released tracks on other labels too, such as Black Cherry Recordings, Icon, Deep Future, Good Family, Green House, Hudd Traxx and more. Last year he released a string of solo tracks and he's also been busy working on collaborations with Hector Moralez and Jason Hodges

His skills on the ones and twos have led him to play gigs as far afield as Las Vegas, Chicago, Frankfurt and Paris and the Telefunken camp are thrilled to have him join them for another bumper house fueled jam.

Support will come from Alan Gray and Nick "Hoss" Wilson

Doors 11pm - 3am

Tax £7/6

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Hudd Traxx




STEPBACK presents RADIOACTIVE MAN
@ Sneaky Pete's

Ex-Lone Swordsman Keith Tenniswood will be joining Keyte and Wolfjazz down at Sneaky Pete's on Friday for what is surely gonna be an insane sweatfest. Keith is widely regarded as one of the true pioneers of electronic dancemusic in the UK. From his early days as a sound engineer for Sabres Of Paradise, through to his ten year working partnership with Andrew Weatherall, Keith has been producing some of the most hauntingly beautiful and blatantly groundbreaking electronic tunage. While Andy was away djing most weekends Keith would spend his time in the studio laying down tracks which he would eventually release under his Radioactive Man moniker. To date his solo career has seen him release 3 albums, various eps and loads of top remixes for artists such as Freq Nasty, Meat Katie and Red Snapper.

The Stepback guys are properly excited as kids on Xmas eve about this night and who can blame them? Sneaky Pete's only has around 100 capacity and this is expected to be sold out by opening time so to make sure you get in get yourself a ticket from....

ticket web or Ripping Records

Tickets are priced at £10/8

Doors open 10.30pm


SATURDAY 18TH APRIL 2009

ULTRAGROOVE with Gareth Sommervile, Neil Bethune, Simmone Black
and Isla Blige @ Cabaret Voltaire

Ultragroove, Cabaret Voltaire's other heavyweight House Music emporium is back on its fornightly Saturday slot again this week and will feature dj sets from local lad Neil Bethune in the front room alongside resident Gareth Sommerville. Back room funk, soul, and disco bicuits will be served up by two of the most glamourous djs in the country, Simmone Black and Isla Blige

Doors 11pm - 3am
Tax £8/6 NUS

SUNDAY 19TH APRIL 2009

CHEF DE PARTY'S BIRTHDAY MADNESS!!!!

Yes guys and gals it is indeed my 31st this comin sunday and to mark the occasion I've gone and got myself into a right old mess, if for the right reasons. You see this year I thought I'd do something a bit different for a change so instead of just gettin crazy and clubbing every night for a month I've rather crazilly agreed to do an ABSEIL off the FORTH RAIL BRIDGE!!! Now I don't even know if I suffer from vertigo, I didn't when I was a kid but in the last 10 years i think the highest i've been is probably the landing at the top of my stairwell so to say i'm a bit nervous is without a doubt the century's biggest understatement.

I am however doing it for a good cause. Namely the Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland charity. These guys do a very wothwhile job offering advice, support and caring for victims of heart disease and strokes. They really need our help, as to function properly they need to raise around £5,000,000 per year. I'm hoping i can raise around £500 for their cause by doing this abseil on Sunday so all i need is 100 of my mates or kind generous souls to donate a fiver each.

To sponsor me please click on the link below and pledge as much as you can.

Sponsor Chef to cheat death

Chest, Heart and Stroke, Scotland

Thanks folks.