Wednesday 15 December 2010

December (Week 3) Clubbing Listings: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee

There is no individual featured club of the week, this week, as everyone's gearing up for Xmas celebrations and pulling out all the stops!


Edinburgh

Club: Ill Behaviour
Venue: Liquid Room
Date: Thursday 16th December


Digital dub-lovers, ready! Toddla T fans, ready! Forget the Thurs night comedy schedule on TV and head to the thunderous bass of Ill Behaviour and hang on the words of MC Serocee. Boisterous dubstep, ragin’ ragga, and similar musical alliterations come from residents Taz Buckaster, Cadenza, A Meldrum, Tekkerz and more tba.

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10.30pm-3am, £6

Club: Souloco
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Friday 17th December


Souloco vacate the second floor Speakeasy for the roomy halls of Cab’s mainstage to celebrate their first birthday of deep tech-house with special guest Jozif (Fist or Finger) and Fuse in the backroom.

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11pm-5am, £8 / £4 before 12am or students all night

Club: Xplicit
Venue: Bongo Club
Date: Friday 17th December


Another great headliner from Xplicit, as they welcome Dillinja and Loadstar (Xample and Lomax) to the Bongo. One of the men behind the Valve Sound System, you know Dillinja is going to bring the heavy dnb, and you’ll be catching Loadstar ahead of their debut LP, due for release on Ram Records early next year.

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11pm-3am, £10

Club: Musika
Venue: Liquid Room
Date: Saturday 18th December


It’s one of the first official Christmas parties of the year, and to help Musika on their to a banging night they welcome the return of Joris Voorn, Danny Howells, and the Musika debut of Edwin Oosterwal - Santa would want you to celebrate with tech-house, progressive and generally lovely electronic music!

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10.30pm-5am, £16 / £12

Club: Big’n’Bashy
Venue: Bongo Club
Date: Saturday 18th December


I fully expect a Big’n’Bashy birthday for their third birthday, and to make sure of it the crew are getting in the Messenger Sound System to blast their four deck mix of reggae, dubstep, dancehall, jungle and generally bouncy beats.

11pm-3am, £5

Club: Burger Queen & Yip Yap Reunion
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Saturday 18th December


Making a welcome return for the house community of Edinburgh - for one night only - Burger Queen and Yip Yap cross the Atlantic divide to bring you US house. Huggy and Gareth Sommerville take you back in time with classic house grooves.

11pm-5am, £8 / £5 advance

Club: Wasabi Disco
Venue: Sneaky Pete’s
Date: Saturday 18th December


Another trip down memory lane for Edinburgh when DJ Brainstorm of Pure fame ditches the techno for a ‘no holds barred disco death match’ - same dude, different discs!

11pm-3am, £3 / members free

Glasgow 


Club: Deadmau5 - Cancelled due to bad weather conditions
Venue: Braehead Arena
Date: Friday 17th December



Not content with just any venue, Deadmau5 brings home the idea of stadium electro-house, when he hits the Braehead Arena for a packed show featuring Zane Lowe, Magnetic Man, and Calvin Harris. The party doesn’t stop at midnight, however, continuing without Deadmau5 and Magnetic Man at the O2 Academy for the official Aftershow. Pete Tong and Annie Mac join them.


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6pm-12am, £22.50. After-show until 3am, £24

Club: Numbers
Venue: Sub Club
Date: Saturday 18th December


One third of indie-rockers The XX, Jamie XX presents a special Xmas party DJ set. Numbers’ regulars Nelson and Goodhand support the jangly electronic feast.

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11pm-4am, £10

Club: Radio Magnetic Winter Rave
Venue: SWG3
Date: Saturday 18th December


If you’ve spent all your money on the Xmas shopping, the RM Winter Rave presents a bargain option - featuring four, count em, four guests for £5 over 6 hours. The internet radio station invites FOUND (Chemikal Underground), The Blessings (LuckyMe), S-Type (Phuturelabs) and Boom Monk Ben (Mixed Bizness), all blasting over the Radio Magnetic Soundsystem. Gear up for electro-pop, p-funk, hip-hop, new jack swing, rnb and jumpin’ electronica.

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9pm-3am, £5

Club: Death Disco
Venue: The Arches
Date: Saturday 18th December


The electro, house and sick disco party celebrate a special XXXmas Party with Burns, Zombie Nation, Unicorn Kid, and residents Wavy Graves, Hush Puppy, Josh Jones and Mingo-go. Techno-electro star Zombie Nation makes his second DD appearance, and Burns is better known as the UK electro-house producer and Calvin Harris’ tour DJ. Local star Unicorn Kid has been blowing away crowds since his mid-teens and has just completed tours with The Pet Shop Boys and Hadouken.

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11pm-3am, £14 / (£7 with a voucher from the Death Disco online mailing list)

Club: Mungo’s Hi Fi
Venue: Art School
Date: Saturday 18th December


It’s their farewell event to the Art School venue and to make sure it’s an affair to remember the Mungo’s crew will be playing an all residents special of dancehall, dub plates, grime, ragga, reggae and more. Do not fear however, Mungo’s returns next year at their new home of Stereo in Glasgow.

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11pm-3am, £5 advance and for Art School students; £8 on the door

Club: Subculture
Venue: Sub Club
Date: Saturday 18th December


Detroit soulful house flavours hit Subculture, taking on the form of 90s legend Terrence Parker this week. Personally, I really hope he still uses a telephone as a headphone! Harri and Domenic support.

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11pm-4am, £10 / £8

Club: Tronicsole
Venue: The Admiral
Date: Saturday 18th December


Residents HiRO and Steven Coyle welcome special guest Rozzo, founder of the Mountain People label, and a man of interesting monikers (Peter Dildo anyone?). Deep house grooves will be delivered Swiss-style. Part of me hopes that means house music served with chocolate.

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11pm-4am, £10 / £9 members

Club: Hung Up!
Venue: Sub Club
Date: Sunday 19th December


Special guests Honey Soundsystem are a collective of like-minded DJs and musicians, bringing the flavours and history of San Francisco gay dance culture to Subculture. They may call it queer house and disco, but it’s just damn good listening.

Sounds like:

11pm-3am, £5 / £4 before midnight

Dundee

Club: The Book Club
Venue: The Reading Rooms
Date: Thursday 16th December


When’s a book club, not a book club? When it’s a techno, disco and electro night.

10.30pm-2.30am, tbc

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