At Aberdeen’s Snafu the weekend starts
early with a Thursday 7 June performance from Claude Vonstroke, undoubtedly
Snafu’s favourite DJ, US-flavour drenched house and techno beats, or so a
little dirty bird told me (11pm-3am, £8 adv / £7 early bird).
At Aberdeen’s Snafu the weekend starts
early with a Thursday 7 June performance from Claude Vonstroke, undoubtedly
Snafu’s favourite DJ, US-flavour drenched house and techno beats, or so a
little dirty bird told me (11pm-3am, £8 adv / £7 early bird).
How was everyone’s clubbing experience last weekend? No time to breathe as another weekend rolls in and the Jubilee-infested holiday rolls on out… correlating figures tell me that pageantry and massive techno nights must go hand in hand, so unless someone puts on a parade this weekend it’s a lighter selection of treats for Scotland.
Edinburgh is all worn-out after that massive line-up across the venues for the start of the month, all filled up on Landstrumm, Traversable Wormholes and Silent Servant. Take this weekend to a) recuperate b) visit another city for techno or c) broaden your music taste and slide some breaks, electro, and dubstep into your Sunday night with Coalition at Sneaky Pete’s (10 June, 11pm-3am, £free).
If you chose option b), invest some interest in Glasgow who never take a techno-breather. La Cheetah welcomes Tribute for a free entry dive through techno, house and electro (Friday 8 June, 11pm-3am) as an aperitif to the mighty Jeff Mills at Sub Club’s Subculture on Saturday 9 June with support from Telford (11pm-3am, £10). If you like a younger and deeper vintage, check out Eric Cloutier and John Osborn at Wax Works (Chambre69, 11pm-3am, free before midnight / £5 after) – some serious competition for your ears in the Weeg over the coming days.
At Aberdeen’s Snafu the weekend starts early with a Thursday 7 June performance from Claude Vonstroke, undoubtedly Snafu’s favourite DJ, US-flavour drenched house and techno beats, or so a little dirty bird told me (11pm-3am, £8 adv / £7 early bird).
On his whistle-stop tour of Scotland, Dave Clarke checks in with Edinburgh again to see if they missed his eyeliner and brand of techno since T in the Park. Pulse Residents Darrell Harding, Andy Problems, Ritchie Bryson, Muzza B, and Andy Borthwick support in Room 1. In Room 2 there’s a Substance / Audio showcase, with Forward Strategy Group’s Patrick Walker (Perc / SA) and a special DJ set of pressurised dub-techno, and devastating rhythms. Substance resident Gavin Richardson supports.
Extra: Dave Clarke appears in Aberdeen the night before, on Friday 9th at Liebe in Snafu. 11pm-3am, £tbc
Edinburgh
Club: Telefunken Venue: The Store Date: Saturday 10th September
Filter’s DJ Q returns to the Telefunken stage, having last wowed the crowd when the club was still playing out of the Jazz Bar! The venues have progressively changed, but the favoured house style of Telefunken hasn’t, and DJ Q will remind why his jackin’ loops are so seductive. Residents Alan Gray, Nick Wilson and Harvey (We Play House) support.
Club: Betamax Venue: Studio 24 Date: Saturday 10th September
New club Betamax launches with special guest HRH, cranking out the moody punk-electronica. New wave, disco, post-punk, and full on analogue synths ring out from residents Chris Fast, Gig Gus, and Jake Barnes going through the vinyl back catalogues to dig out what was the cutting edge of the 80s.
Sounds like:
11pm-3am, £5 / £4 / Free before 11.30pm
Club: Edit Venue: Hawke & Hunter, Green Room Date: Saturday 10th September
Everyone likes to joke about the rivalries between Edinburgh and Glasgow (what passes as an East and West side feud in Scotland), and Edit are hosting their own musical version with Glasgow DJs Geoff Montford and Al Kent exchanging disco beats with Edinburgh’s John Tokyoblu and Future B.
10pm-3am, £8 / £6 before midnight or students
Round up
Get rolling with Animal Hospital at Sneaky Pete’s at a budget-busting free entry for minimal tech (11pm-3am) on Friday 9th, and Musika host a residents’ house, techno and electro special with Derek Martin, Laurie Neil, Jamie McKenzie and Kirk Douglas on Saturday 10th (Liquid Room, 10pm-3am, £MOTD / £5 before 11.15pm). Over at the Bongo, Messenger Sound System with MC Ras Echo deliver another round of roots music (11pm-3am, £7 / £6 before midnight).
If you’re still going by Sunday 11th, Bass Syndicate provide another free session at Sneaky Pete’s with heavenly breaks (11pm-3am, £3 non-members) from G-Mac, Believe and Silver Storic. Fancy a boat trip sail out the weekend? Heavy Gossip host a high seas adventure on the Firth of Forth, picking up from the Newsroom at 5.30pm. Disco, house and more via two modes of transport from Craig Smith and Nick Yuill! (3pm-late, £20 / £15 adv)
Glasgow
Club: Warp Presents Venue: The Arches Date: Friday 9th September
Glasgow just can’t get enough of Africa Hitech it seems. Having recently stormed it at Fortified back in June, the Detroit and Jamaican blenders headline this special Warp event, with Rudi Zygadio, Anxst and supporting artist Point to C. The theme for the event is ‘African music from the future’, with an infusion of Warpitude – namely acid, dub, digital, ragga, garage and more. It’s an early start gig, so if you check this out you’ll still have time to hit the clubs later!
Club: No Sleep Venue: Chambre 69 Date: Saturday 10th September No Sleep host a special 10 Years of Secretsundaze party, featuring Giles Smith, George Fitzgerald and Brawther, with support from residents Adam Watt and Jonathan Carroll. The London party brings Secretsundaze founder Giles to reinvent the daytime house and techno groove for the Glasgow nightlife, and fresh talent George Fitzgerald, who recently dropped his ManMakeMusic release pitching a balance between softer dubstep beats and futuristic garage-house.
Club: Electric Frog September Weekender Venue: SWG3 Date: Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th September
After being unable to deliver the goods at SWG3 due to refurbishment, the Electric Frog Weekender returns to its revamped venue with an enhanced line-up. Day One of the mini- urban festival features Derrick May, Jeff Mills, Levon Vincent, Len Faki and Slam on the Pressure Street Stage for the techno faithful, and on the 10 Years of Melting Pot Stage, Frankie Knuckles, Joe Clausell, Bob Jeffries and Andrew Pirie take up the house guard. It’s a calmer, melodic line-up for Day Two, with live Music from Mogwai, Wild Beasts, The Fall, Mount Kimbie, The Orb, Errors, Jimmy Edgar, Organs of Love and Konx-Om-Pax fill your desire for post-rock, electro rhythms, indie and experimental electronics.
More info: The Electric Frog can’t exist without an after-party, so each night you can head to The Arches for the official after-show. Only £5 with a Electric Frog wristband (10.30pm-3am).
Club: Shake It Venue: Chambre 69 Date: Saturday 10th September
Layo and Bushwacka take over Chambre 69 to dominate the entire four hours with their club Shake It and a DJ set. That’ll be one hour of dance mash-up for ever year since they’ve last visited the city, described by them as the “UK Detroit”.
Sounds like (a higher quality version of):
11pm-3am, £10
Round up
Soothe your Soul with Jelly Roll at La Cheetah on Friday 9th with their residents’ special of house inspired by the likes of Theo Parrish (11pm-3am, £5), and after a quick kip you can start all over again at Wax Works Vs Equalised at The Old Hairdressers from 1pm-1am, for their all day techno party for freeeeeee. House and techno go mann gegen mann for a heated and deep party. New club Freaky Freaky launches at Nice’n’Sleazy with special guests S-Type and Éclair Fifi (Saturday 10th, 11.30pm-3am, £3), and supported by resident Sam Murray, spinning electronics and rnb slants. Remedy Nites Presents Baktrack on the same evening at La Cheetah with special guest Tom Budden, with AdrianM, Rab Hendo and Steven Fair at this brand new house night (11pm-3am, £8). Over at Blackfriars, Osmium with DJs Blair and Gary delights with disco, funk, italo and more (11pm-3am, £3). Dirty Beautiful Science flip the dubstep, electro and techno with residents The Black Price, Vik Vector, and AlessioOo (Blackfriars, 11pm-3am, £tbc).
Aberdeen
Club: Mothership Venue: Snafu Date: Saturday 10th September
Mothership
keeps its regular notch in Aberdeen’s clubbing calendar with another
instalment of house, techno, electro, disco and lots in between with
residents Adam Ackers and Fuad.
11pm-3am, £tbc
Dundee
Club: Mixed Bizness Venue: Reading Rooms Date: Friday 9th September
Mixed Bizness make their irregular visit to Dundee and bring the Glasgow club that has entertained so many. Live guest HaHaHa delivers his unique twist of house and techno, tweaking the heart strings with melodic patterns.
There were two Egyptian themes in the 80s – the Bangles’ ‘Walk Like an Egyptian’, and Greg Broussard aka Egyptian Lover. But luckily we’re talking Banjax instead of Bangles, so warm up those legs for electro hip-hop master Egyptian Lover! With support from Dave Shades, Tommy & McGarvatron, and Data Rape.
Sounds like:
11pm–3am, £10
Edinburgh
Club: Sugarbeat
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Friday 25th March
It’s a residents’ party at Sugarbeat, starring the Utah Saints and Trilogy for an unusually cheap entry fee – there be no inflation rises here!
11pm-3am, £5 / £3 before midnight
Extra: New deep house and soulful disco club, Studio 100, opens upstairs on the same night in the Cab’s Speakeasy. 11pm–3am, £7 / £5 before 1am
Club: Club 10-86
Venue: Lane Nightclub
Date: Saturday 26th March
Jamie Bissmire and Ben Long aka The Space DJz make a squelchy and hard techno descent on the Lane nightclub, ripping up the floorboards with the pounding beats.
Sounds like:
10.30pm-3am, £7 / £5 before midnight
Club: Karnival
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Saturday 26th March
Bugged Out’s Justin Robertson continues the strong techno theme of the weekend, mixing up the acid house, balearic and dub to move those bodies.
Round-up
Start your Friday 25th March with low-end bass at Wee Red Bar’s Dubstar for grimy dubstep and dnb (11pm-3am, £tbc), and the dub continues over at LuckyMe’s art collective event at Sneaky Pete’s (11pm-3am, £tbc), with extra dollops of hip-hop and funky flavours.
Glasgow
Club: Killer Kitsch Venue: Sub Club Date: Friday 25th March
Soulwax tour DJ Paul Chambers and techno artist in his own right takes the headlining spot at Kitsch’s Sub night. Residents Euan Neilson and David Sinclair spin electro, synth, and more in support.
Sounds like:
11pm-3am, £8 / £6 before midnight
More info: Killer Kitsch also appears in Edinburgh with the residents on Sunday 27th March, at Cabaret Voltaire. 11pm-3am, free
Club: Pressure Venue: The Arches Date: Friday 25th March
Pressure continues their techno domination of the last Friday of the month with a headline set from legend Jeff Mills and a FOUR hour set from duo Pan Pot. Slam supports.
Sounds like:
10.30pm–3am, £17 adv.
Club: La Cheetah Presents Pusch 79 Venue: La Cheetah Date: Saturday 26th March
If you want disco to finish, then walk away, but if you want Finnish disco and house, come on down to the basement for the Pusch 79 duo.
11pm-4am, £10
Club: Dum Dum Venue: Bacchus Date: Saturday 26th March
Attention dark electro and dystopian lovers, Galaxian is playing live at Dum Dum, coming to you from the future of heavy IDM.
Sounds like:
10pm–3am , £8 before 11pm and students all night; £10 after
Round up Co-Op starts the weekend early on Thursday 24th March at the Sub Club (11pm-3am, £tbc) with electronica courtesy of special guest Wardy. On Friday 25th, house and techno night Dirt Box at Stereo invites Calvertron and Last Japan to go head to head (11pm-3am, £10), and then it’s a chocabloc Saturday 26th, starting with Bad Mouthin’. This monthly Chicago disco party stars Rick Wilhite (3 Chairs) at SWG3 with support from residents Al Kent and Rahaan (10pm-3am, £10 / £8 adv.). Jilted takes the Soundhaus on the same night for tech-house and electro with Frostfire, Captiv8, Daniel Donnelly and Harvey Anderson (9.30pm-4am, £6), and Maneuver performs at Ad Lib with guests Simon Stokes and Unique for bouncy techno bass (11pm-4am, £6). Tronicsole for bouncy techno bass (11pm-4am, £6). brings Saturday to a close with their second birthday party at The Admiral. House producer Shur-i-Kan (Freerange) spins to celebrate (11pm-3am, £10 / £9 members).
Aberdeen and Dundee
Club: Monism Venue: Reading Rooms, Dundee Date: Friday 25th March
The filthily named DJ Moneyshot headlines this new funk, breakbeat and hip-hop night for Dundee.
Sounds like:
10.30pm–2.30am, £7 / £5 before 11.30pm
Club: Zazou Venue: Kage, Dundee Date: Friday 25th March
Harking back to the 70s and 80s wave of synth sounds, DJs Il Discotto and Stefan Blomeier give Dundee a taste of past electronics.
11pm-2.30am, £4
Club: Let it Bleed Venue: The Forum, Aberdeen Date: Saturday 26th March
Nu-disco, cosmic disco, electro, house and more will seep in your brain with Italian-Belgian duo Aeroplane leading the charge, and Mash and Steve Milne supporting.
Sounds like:
11pm-3am, £12 / £10
Round up CTRL-ALT-DEFEAT electro-fies the Reading Rooms in Dundee on Friday 25th March from 10.30pm-2.30am (£tbc), and keeping to the same venue, Autodisco rides again on Saturday with more electro, funk and disco (10.30pm-2.30am, £tbc).
