Featured Club of the Week: Subculture
Venue: Sub Club
Date: Saturday 15th January
If you dig the soulful and deep house sounds of Âme (Sonar Kollektiv), absorbing Detroit and jazz influences, then you’ll be excited about their first ever live show in Scotland! The German duo head to Harri and Domenic’s Subculture to wow Scots crowds with their smooth sets.
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11pm-3am, £10
Edinburgh
Club: Animal Hospital
Venue: Sneaky Pete’s
Date: Thursday 13th January
Ease yourself into the weekend with techno, minimal and house in the Animal Hospital - minus the sickly beasts, but there’s no accounting for finding some wandering the streets of the Cowgate!
11pm-3am, free
Club: Bedbug
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Friday 14th January
This is the kind of bedbug you want to find! New dubstep, techno and baaaaassss club with special guests Hostage and Jigsaw to suck out any blues.
Sounds like: Hostage December Mix 2010 by HOSTAGE
11pm-3am, £tbc
Extra: What happens if you get there and are not sure about the music? Then head upstairs for other new club, Bound For Glory, taking over the Speakeasy. This new monthly night features Fudge Fingas, Kris Wasabi, Colvin Cruickshank, Beefy and Flyin’ Saucer with funky house and electro fare to raise funds for Oxfam. 11pm-3am, £4 / £3 before 12am
Club: Big’n’Bashy
Venue: Bongo Club
Date: Saturday 15th January
Reso (Pitch Black) and Doctor P spin four decks of dancehall, jungle, reggae, dubstep and big’n’bashy hyperactive bass through the Elecktrikal Sound System, teaming with lasers and dancers! It’s like a Major Lazer comic strip come true. I’m still not sure which other clubs in Scotland, if any, have pole dancers onstage.
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11pm-3am, £10 / £8 before midnight or if you have a vagina.
Club: We Own
Venue: Liquid Room
Date: Saturday 15th January
There’s been surprisingly little press about this event, which is a shame since Tempa T and Shy FX are coming to town! Grime MC Tempa and dnb star Shy get the beats on for a night that owns!
Sounds like: I apologise for the inclusion of Tim Westwood in this video. However, the idea of him sleazily ordering prostitutes tickles my funny bone.
11pm-3am, £tbc
Club: Ultragroove
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Saturday 15th January
Ultragroove returns for their first event of the year, spinning, deep, funky and soulful house, disco and electro with special guest Harry Bennett.
11pm-3am, £8 / £5 before 12am or students
Glasgow
Club: Hispanic Panic Presents Jungle Fever
Venue: Stereo
Date: Friday 14th January
For something a little bit different, the Glasgow Hispanic Society have organised ‘Hispanic Panic - Jungle Fever’, bringing some sunshine into winter months with live music, tropical DJ sets and themed decoration.
11pm-3am, £5 / £4 in jungle themed fancy dress
Club: No Divide
Venue: Soundhaus
Date: Friday 14th January
The new nights just keep rolling in! Soundhaus welcome another techno night, courtesy of resident Soundex Phonetic.
Sounds like: Southsider by SoundexPhonetic (Espee)
10pm-3am, £tbc
Club: Return to Mono
Venue: Sub Club
Date: Friday 14th January
Slam dominate the schedules in Glasgow, and have done so for several years, so it’s no surprise that for their first RTM Jan date, the duo are treating house, techno and electro fans to a special four-hour set!
Sounds like: Slam - Hot Knives (Slam Remix) by Slam :: Paragraph
11pm-3am, £5
Club: Death Disco
Venue: The Arches
Date: Saturday 15th January
Get your electro-house, post-punk and disco loop needs filled with the arrival of French talent Yuksek, while Acid Washed makeover dance fusions with vintage machines and Visions of Trees get you all woozy and high on nature, man, dreamscaping their way through lo-fi psychedelics. It’s another packed Death Disco, scouring the roster of music’s next big thing. In fact, maybe change their motto to ‘you heard it here first’? Hush Puppy and Josh Jones support.
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11pm-3am, £14 / £7 with a half price pass.
Club: Loop
Venue: La Cheetah
Date: Saturday 15th January
Loop are back for the first bi-monthly show of 2011 with house, techno and more from Polymath, Mykol Blyth, Jamie Knox, Neill Murphy, and John Clark.
Sounds like: Slicefnk by POLYMATH
11pm-3am, £4
ATTENTION, SOME PRESS HAVE LISTED MUNGO’S HIFI WITH SOOM T AND DISRUPT AS THIS WEEKEND. IT TAKES PLACE ON THE 22ND, AND NOT THE 15TH AS STATED.
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