October (Week 5) Clubbing Listings: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Dundee

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 Featured Club of the Week: Mixed Bizness presents How's Your Party?
Venue: Sub Club
Date: Friday 29th October

Mixed Bizness’ How’s Your Party? celebrate their 3rd birthday the night before at the Sub Club with Carte Blanche (DJ Mehdi and Riton), whose Black Billionaires EP whips up funk and disco with energised electro, and A La Fu returns after a production hiatus to reveal his works.

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11pm-3am, £12 / £10 adv.

More info: The very next night at the same venue, Mixed Bizness secure the rest of your weekend with a special live dubstep performance by Magnetic Man, the trio composed of Benga, Skream and Artwork. Boom Monk Ben, Katy B and Profisee support. 7.30pm, £12 advance.

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Edinburgh

Club: She-Bang Rave Unit
Venue: Wee Red Bar
Date: Friday 29th October

For their Halloween ball special, the all-girl She-Bang Rave Unit present The Tokyo Bitches’ (DJ Rob Dylan and Dr Dempsey the ‘Virgin Surgeon’) house and techno, especially reforming for this event. Miss Penny Pornstar performs as She-Bang hostess for the genre-bending night, all supported by the She-Bang DJs Pretty Vacant (Vicki Watson), Mrs Wee (smells like Kirstie Paton), AbadabaDisco (Abi Cornwall), Tracy Island (Tracey Stewart) and M.C.(certainly not squared) Mary Collins. Warning - typing in Tokyo Botches online leads to some seriously pornographic websites; I was expecting techno not anal.

10.30pm-3am, £7 / £5 in fancy dress

Club: Sugarbeat
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Friday 29th October

Doorly and Purple Pop join The Utah Saints for Sugarbeat - a sweet mix of breaks, electro, house and anything that tingles the spine.

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11pm-3am, £8

Club: Karnival
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Saturday 30th October

It’s difficult to escape the fancy dress parties this weekend - and why would you? Cheaper entry and CDs / future guest lists for best costumes! Karnival and Fuse lockdown Voltaire for a night of ‘haunting house and terrifying techno’. Still, doubt they’ll be playing witch house.

11pm-3am, £8 / £6 before midnight / £5 in fancy dress

Club: Samhuinn Afterparty
Venue: The Bongo Club
Date: Sunday 31st October

If you need to further your Halloween / Samhuinn celebrations, the Beltane Fire Society are hosting an afterparty of not-so-Celtic-traditional dubstep, dnb and balkan dance with DJ Tactus, Covalent and Anonymi.

11pm-3am, £7 / £5

Glasgow

Club: Fortified
Venue: The Glasgow School of Art
Date: Friday 29th October

Two celebrations at once! It’s Electric Eliminators fourth birthday and Halloween (dubstep) Ball with Rinse FM’s Oneman, Ben UFO, Elijah & Skilliam, and of course regulars Electric Eliminators and B.A.S.S. Ethereal dub seems just the ticket for these dark nights.

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11pm-3am, £12 / £10 adv.

Club: Pressure
Venue: The Arches
Date: Friday 29th October

One of the more distinctly non-Halloween clubs of the weekend, Pressure returns with Slam and special guests Ben Sims, Cassy, Fergie and Tricky for five hours of top techno.

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11pm-4am, £13

Club: Huntley & Palmer’s Presents
Venue: Stereo
Date: Saturday 30th October

Huntley & Palmer’s returns from London to its homeland for a one-off special and techno and electro from Oni Ayhun, Alex Smoke, Veronica Vasicka and TVO. Put some wonk on it!

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11pm-4am, £12 / £10 adv.

Club: Lost in Space
Venue: Soundhaus
Date: Saturday 30th October

Courtesy of Specialitee, the Soundhaus is having a special Halloween Party featuring DJs from many of its clubs including Camouflage, Off the Records, Shift, Inner City Acid and more. There’s prizes for the best spaceman, alien or superhero to win a prize!

10.30pm-3am, £tbc

Club: Spectrum
Venue: Blackfriars
Date: Saturday 30th October

Renamed Spooktrum for the evening, electroo and technoo will be blasted by residents B-Tone, Leigh Miles and Aymard.

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11pm-3am, £5 / £4 students

Club: Terrorfest
Venue: The Universal
Date: Saturday 30th October

Technofest (the predominant genre is hinted by the title) becomes Terrorfest for Halloween, and usurps its own name by welcoming deep house maestro Silicone Soul as headline guest! Profits go towards the un-ghoulish cause of Cancer Research, and there’s even a pre-party from 8.30pm at the CCA Terrace Bar. Support on the night comes from resident DJs Adrian M, Gary J, Kyle McArthur, and Lee Goomes, while Clyde Productions and Mr Mofis guide the lights and visuals.

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10pm-3am, £10

Aberdeen

Club: Let it Bleed
Venue: The Forum
Date: Friday 29th October

They carved themselves a popular niche in the 90s, firmly imprinting ‘electronique dance Francais’ on awe-struck synth and key enthusiasts and now Cassius make a special Halloween appearance to infuse the north with electro-house.

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10pm-3am, £20 / £15 adv.

Dundee

Club: Neon Nights
Venue: The Reading Rooms
Date: Friday 29th October

Electro dawns on Neon Nights for their Halloween horror party (yep, fancy dress with prizes), with Human Life mashing disco, electro, pop, bassline, house to create monster beats. Residents Beastmaster2000 and Is_Kill support the horror show.

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10.30pm-late, £8 before 11.30pm (more on door)