Epic 26 (live)

Hobbes & Erik d'Viking (Trouble DJs, getintotrouble.com)

Kris Wasabi (Wasbi Disco)

Simonotron (Club For Heroes)

Following Devil Disco Club's bonus date to celebrate its first birthday with Silver Columns, the club night moves from bi-monthly Fridays to monthly Saturdays (on a four-weekly rotation) starting on Saturday 4th September at Edinburgh's Bongo Club.  This date will feature local live hot-shots Epic 26, who have established a devout following across the Scottish capital for their new wave rock sound.

The Devil Disco Club is about going back to basics, embracing your dark side and letting it all hang out. It's about listening to some of the most exciting new dance music out there alongside the classics and it's about checking out a buzzing new live act that will move your feet and engage your mind. It's about doing all of this alongside some of your favourite people in one of your favourite venues: the Bongo Club

EPIC 26

It's not about coming to SEE Epic26, it's about being PART OF Epic26. It's not about us flogging some half arsed performances to you, in some creepy venues at extortionate prices to make a quick $, it's about you guys coming along and having an amazing time, making a conversation with us and telling us what you want Epic26 to do!  It's about hugging sweaty randoms whilst at the edge of pure euphoria at an Epic26 gig after you’ve had the shitest week at work.  It's not about who you know and who you don’t know, its about who you're going to meet, and how much of a stinking good time you're going to have when you meet them. It would be easy for us to tell you about how we met and what our subliminally political motives are…but we’d far rather you came along and found that out for yourself!

‘Epic26 are in pole position as one of the new Scots bands to watch..the groove of Blondie with synths from Hazel O’Connor’s Breaking Glass. And Stuck In Time’s psycho billy stomp is the tune Babyshambles always threatened to play.’  (Rick Fulton, The Daily Record)

http://epic26.com

http://www.myspace.com/epic26

HOBBES & ERIK D'VIKING (Trouble DJs)

In eight of hosting Edinburgh's Radio 1 award-nominated Trouble club night (originally Trouble At The Bluenote) and holding down spots all over Scotland (Cabaret Voltaire, Bongo Club, The Voodoo Rooms and the Jazz Bar/Blue Note in Edinburgh; Slabs Of The Tabernacle/Glasgow; Snafu/Aberdeen; The Reading Rooms/Dundee), Trouble DJs have also toured the globe, from tiny sweat-boxes and after-hours affairs in London to super-clubs in Shanghai and Beijing, Rob Da Bank's massive Big Top tent at Bestival to wee hot-spots in Warsaw, Sardinia, Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Derry, Ghent, Zadar (Soundwave) and Belgrade, not to mention other UK festivals such as the Big Chill, T in The Park, Knockengorroch and Secret Garden Party.

Trouble DJs have worked with myriad names from across the soul/dance spectrum: Marlena Shaw, Horace Andy, Ashely Beedle, Norman Jay, Jazzie B (Soul II Soul), Daddy G (Massive Attack), Dego (4hero), Fat Freddys Drop, The Black Seeds, Mr Scruff, Greg Wilson, Gilles Peterson, Rainer Truby, The Unabombers, Mark Rae, Jazzanova, Crazy P, The Nextmen, Quantic, Alice Russell, Horse Meat Disco, The Herbaliser, Aim, Ben Westbeech, Dixon, Ame, The Revenge, Bugz In The Attic, DJ Vadim, Kyoto Jazz Massive, Domu, Mark Pritchard (Harmonic 313), Kirk Degiorgio, Ian O'Brien, The Bays, Patife, Drumagick, Fernanda Porto, Craig Smith, Lucky Me...See the full list here.

KRIS WASABI (Wasabi Disco)

Kris Walker, aka Kris Wasabi, cut his teeth as tour/support DJ for Edinburgh's acclaimed and innovative (new) new wave progenitors, XVECTORS, before going on to provide support DJing for Optimo's first forays into the capital at The Venue and then Ego, some four-five years ago and then moved west to Glasgow, where he held down a monthly Saturday-night spot at the city's world-renowned live music boozer, Nice N Sleazy's. Since moving back to Edinburgh in 2007, Kris has rekindled his own clubbing fires, with the ace, wee Wasabi Disco ('disco that's hot n spicy!') night doing the honours for Sneaky Pete's since late 2008. Kris's penchant for the dirtiest, scuzziest punk, funk, disco and soul alongside the rawest beats is the perfect foil for some of the smoother sounds espoused by the rest of the crew on occasion and also a good companion piece to Hobbes's subversive side (as one half of the Black Spring DJs behind the capital's acclaimed 'live music dance party', Limbo). In short, Kris makes up this DJing quartet with all guns blazing and more aces in the hole than a poker champion.

SIMONOTRON (Club For Heroes)

Simon is on a neverending mission to blow minds and move feet through the power of his heavy disco sounds. After spending several years playing underground parties in central Scotland, where he was affectionately known as 'the Larry Levan of Stirling'.

Simonotron came to Edinburgh in 2004 and has been rocking the capital ever since. People really started taking notice when Simon played regular guest slots at the debauched Glaswegian queer disco Utter Gutter, which inspired him to start the much-loved Club For Heroes in Edinburgh in 2008. The open-minded music policy and mixed crowd of beatniks, homos, geeks, ravers and goths attracted guest DJs from clubs such as Optimo, Death Disco and Melting Pot.

Simon doesn't limit himself to one style of music, and his definition of "disco" is basically anything that makes him want to dance. Kick-drums, high-hats and hand-claps rule the Simonotron school. His sets are a wild sonic spectrum of gay high-NRG, acid house, electro, and left-field pop classics, mixed together in a way that always makes perfect sense on the dancefloor.

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11pm-3am.  The Bongo Club, 37 Holyrood Road, Edinburgh EH8 8BA.  Tel 0131 558 7604

Entry £4 b4 12, £5 after

Advance tickets from: The Bongo Club: | www.thebongoclub.co.uk

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"DDC DJs totallly rocked Sneaky Pete's.  They're a must-see!" (Nick Stewart, Sneaky Pete's, Feb 2010)

“Sick of clean, safe clubbing and shiny superstar DJs? Top Embra duo Trouble are back 'in black' and promising the perfect antidote. Their dark new night is all about the buzz of hearing great new music, be it soul, rap, disco, electro, house or boogie.” The List, August 2009

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TROUBLE DJs' MIXES CAN ALL BE STREAMED FROM THESE SITES:

http://www.mixcloud.com/hobbes

http://www.mixcloud.com/erikdaviking