Ascetic Practices

09/01/2026

You can listen back to our first radio show on now via mixcloud and SoundCloud! We're back every first Wednesday at 8pm 🌙

Resident DJs .girl and played tracks by .band .love.object .cry.music and much more!

Listen back via our story and stay tuned for more special guests and features in the future! 🌒🕯️🍷

19/12/2025

Four zines, five parties and countless great times! Huge thanks to everyone who came down to support us in our first year and to our collaborators , , 🖤🖤🖤

Next year we'll be back with some exciting new projects and parties 🦇

Slide 1: our launch party in West Port Oracle
Slide 2: .dss live at wee red bar with Braw Gigs
Slide 3 & 4: our issue 2 launch in Banshee Labyrinth
Slide 5: issue 3 launch in Leith Depot with
Slide 6 & 7: Our Halloween party in People's Leisure Club with and .klear

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10/12/2025

Issue 4 picked up today from looking fresh!

This Friday we and welcome .dss to the Wee Red Bar 🩸

This is your chance to pick up a copy, as always they will never be digitised or reprinted so don't miss out. This issue features an interview with , poetry by and art by YOU! (The esoterick scribbles left by the talented attendees ov our August party)

Come down on Friday to support local DiY music kvlture 🤘 tickets where you'd expect 👆

29/10/2025

🩸🖤🍷 SPOILS 🍷🖤🩸

If our grand hostess of the night .glamoor deems your costume to be the most impressive on Saturday, you'll be handsomely rewarded with a bottle of 🍷, all 3 print editions of Ascetic Practices (2 of which are out of production and not available anywhere else) AND if you choose, you will be photographed and printed in the next issue of the zine, immortalised in blood-red riso, for all eternity. ⚔️

28/10/2025

And for the final announcement for our Halloween soiree we introduce .glamoor , our spooky and kooky darling of the dusk. She'll be darkening our doors and your curious minds, with tarot readings available on the night. 🩸🖤🩸

Also in the darkest hour she will be passing judgment upon the revellers in costume, declaring a victor and bestowing untold riches (to be announced soon)

🦇 Come and dance with us this Saturday 🦇

24/10/2025

02/10/2025

Officially announcing our next party! It’s a big old Halloween bash in Edinburghs freshest club space .leisure.club ❤️‍🔥 Suit up and grab a £🪙🪙🪙 🦇 early🦇 bat 🦇ticket while they still last via our bio. We've got ⛓️ gothic drag gogo dancers and .klear ⛓️ Tarot Readings by the capitals queen of the night .glamoor ⛓️ and crates full of dark brooding beats from the usual suspects to keep you stomping your docs off all night ⛓️ prizes will be awarded for the best dressed 🧛‍♀️🧛