June (Week 4) Clubbing Listings: Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen

 Featured Club of the Week: Let’s Go Back
Venue: Stereo
Date: Saturday 25th June

Hark ye back to the time of Shades Of Rhythm... well, actually you don’t need to hark that far, as the acid-house and techno heyday of the late 80s comes to you! Catch Nick Slater, Kevin Lancaster (Lanx) and Rayan Gee at Let’s Go Back for their live PA set, reminding you how the lengendary raves of yore are really supposed to sound. Bosco and Rob Mason support.

Sounds like: 07 Shades Of Rhythm - Waxin Taxin - ZTT - Vinyl by ShadesOfRhythm

11pm-3am, £12 

Edinburgh

Club: Diamond & Rush vs Hush Hush
Venue: The Store
Date: Friday 24th June

The Diamond & Raw record label launches next month to bring the next gen of dubstep, house and garage, and you can catch their talent in the run up at Giles Walker’s Hush Hush club. Guests Oktavists and Nautical Nightmare journey through melodic bass, and Giles supports on the main floor, meanwhile VanDerBeak and Sam Jones take the bar room to space disco heights.

Sounds like: HUSKY RESCUE // SOUND OF LOVE [OKTAVISTS REMIX] by OKTAVISTS

11pm - 3am, £4 / £3

Club: Karnival and Friends
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Saturday 25th June

Kapital, Wired and Tokyo Blu join forces to showcase the venue’s resident DJs: Kapital’s Barry O’Connell and Brad Charters; Wired’s Mick MacNeil and Hans Kato and Tokyo Blu’s Stevie Nobad. Mike Pinkerton, Stu Todd and the Oxygen Junkies complete the line-up for a whirlwind of house, techno, electro, and lots of great bass rumbles.

11pm-3am, £8 / £5 students

Club: Heavy Gossip
Venue: Hawke & Hunter
Date: Saturday 25th June

Craig Smith (6th Borough Project) joins Tornado Wallace and Nick Yuill for another Heavy Gossip, fast becoming the only place in Scotland to catch Craig Smith when he’s not touring the world with 6th Borough! Australian Tornado Wallace (Delusions of Grandeur / Sleazy Beats) spins deep house and “disco bombs” so hold onto your trendy hats. The Green Room will definitely not be chinese whispers, when Kris Wasabi, Kipps and Mastercaird take charge.

Sounds like: Craig Smith (6th Borough Project) Live @ Development, Manchester - 28-05-2010 by R_co

10pm - 3am, £10 / £8 before midnight or students all night

More info: Pre-party at the Newsroom from 8pm with Barry Fell

Club: Playdate
Venue: Sneaky Pete’s
Date: Saturday 25th June

Steven and Stewart invite Brian d’Souza (aka Auntie Flo) over for a Playdate, still riding high on his afro-inspired ‘Goan Highlife’ release, and chasing up his second EP ‘Oh My Days’ coming later in June on Huntleys and Palmers.
  

Sounds like: H&P 002 - Oh My Days / Choosing Love by Auntie Flo

11pm - 3am, £3

Round up

LuckyMe curate another night in Edinburgh at Teviot Underground on 24th June (10pm-3am, £9 / £7 adv) as part of the Edinburgh International Film Festival – expect the freshest beats, and similarly at Numbers on the 25th at Sneaky Pete’s. The Glasgow club returns to Edinburgh for its bi-monthly event, pumping the future bass (11pm-3am, £5 / £3). Sugarbeat hold a T in the Park warm-up session, featuring a selection of DJs from Cab Vol’s on the 24th (11pm-3am, £5), and Xplicit prescribe your regular dose of dnb at the Bongo Club (11pm-3am, £tbc). Finally, on Saturday 25th June She-Bang hold a beach party at the Voodoo Rooms with DJ Brainstorm, with a beach party dress code (they don’t mention which beach, so I’m assuming washed up crisps packets, turds and condoms with a bit of raggedy sea-weed.) from 8pm-1am, £5.


Glasgow

Club: Bigfoot's
Venue: Sub Club
Date: Friday 24th June

Bigfoot’s are long-time fans of Edinburgh’s own Simon Stokes, and welcome him back for a live set of bassy techno. Christopher Kelly, Dave Scott, Daniel Hedley and redux (visuals) support.

Sounds like: Simon Stokes - Canoodle EP by SimonStokes
 

11pm-3am, £5

Club: Phonic
Venue: La Cheetah
Date: Friday 24th June

Phonic invite Ben Spaander aka Cosmic Force (Clone / Marguerita) for their first birthday, securing a fully analogue set from the electro, hip-hop and techno specialist. Headspeath, Paul Bendoris and Dave Shades support.

Sounds like: The Lions Den by cosmic force

10.30pm – 3am, £8 / £6 before midnight

Club: Crème Organization Label Night
Venue: La Cheetah
Date: Saturday 25th June

Dutch label, the Crème Organization hosts an artist special of electro and jackin’ house, with label boss TLR spinning out extra layers of synth-disco with several nods to the American west coast. Marco Bernardi and The Wasp are the finishing touches to the line up.

Sounds like: zero'' // podcast #022 - DJ Mix: TLR - Crème Organization by zero-inch

11pm – 3am, £6 / £5 before midnight

Club: Itch!
Venue: The Saint
Date: Saturday 25th June 

Fans of Crosstown Rebels’ brand of house will welcome newest signing Russ Yallop, making his Glasgow debut with nu-school house beats. Dave Cuthbertson and Heerah support.

Sounds like: Russ Yallop ACT NATURAL@Cargo 8.4.11 by Russ Yallop

11pm-3am, £7 / £5 adv.

Round up

Mzuka Bass performs at the Afro Caribbean Centre on 24th June (11pm-4am, £6 donation) with sets from DJ Zhao (Ngoma), DJ Kokoro (B.A.S.S/Neo Tokyo Bass), Towerblockrockerz, Zeb Mc Queen and VJ George, touted as a “Afrophuturist Berlin Bass Fusion Collusion”. No drink on sale, free to bring your own cans and plastic bottles, and proportion of the profits go to Samoudhi beehives for Palestine project. Catch the launch night of Glass at Club 520 on the same evening (11pm-3am, £6 / £5 students / £4 guestlist – email sound@club520.co.uk) with Barrientos, Esq, Discetro and Dave Sinclair for upbeat house, techno and electronica. Veteran DJ Andrew Weatherall joins Domenic for another addition of Subculture at the Sub Club (11pm-3am, £10 / free before midnight) on Saturday 25th, and keep to the Subbie for a special Skank and Grind edition of Hung Up! On 26th June with JD Twitch’s Jamaican 7” Soundsystem (11pm-3am, £5 / £4 before midnight), featuring ska, reggae, dub, sleng teng and dancehall through the 20th and 21st century.

Aberdeen

Club: Dot To Dot presents Liebe
Venue: Club Snafu
Date: Friday 24th June
According to the Liebe DJs’ manifesto, they’ll be using Snafu as way to showcase and break new music, stretching across a range of styles pumped over a Funktion1 Soundsystem. Join Dot to Dot for a new music experience!

11pm - 3am, £4 / free before 12.30am

Club: Mothership
Venue: Snafu
Date: Saturday 25th June
Fresh from the Off:Sonar parties, Luke Cassidy and Adam Ackers return to the Mothership to fuel Aberdeen’s need for deep house, tech-house, and the most jackin’ beats in the city.

Sounds like: ACKERS @ Mothership (December 2010) by Ackers

11pm - 3am, £5 / free before 12.30am

March (Week 1) Clubbing Listings: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee

Art Department

 Featured Club of the Week: Rendezvous
Venue: Lane Nightclub
Date: Saturday 5th March

Rendezvous score a double whammy with their first birthday party and special guests Canadian duo Art Department, launching their debut techno and house album, ‘The Drawing Board’. The Crosstown Rebels Kenny Glasgow (with over 20 years in the business) and Jonny White also scored number one track of the year on Resident Advisor with 2010’s ‘Without You’ - catch them at their Edinburgh and Glasgow exclusive shows.

Sounds like:
Art Department (Crosstown Rebels) - Promo Mix - July 2010 by R_co

11pm-3am, £12 / £10

More info: Art Department appear at Glasgow’s Ticatactoe club at The Arches on Friday 4th March. More minimal house and techno comes courtesy of resident Andrew Doran. 11pm-3am, £10 / £8

 
Edinburgh

Club: Xplicit
Venue: Bongo Club
Date: Friday 4th March
Xplicit are definitely on a roll, following up Andy C with Hospital Records’ Sigma, supported by ENO and Taz Buckfaster. The Breakbeat Kaos star maps the drum and bass subgenres in revitalising rhythms mixed with a side of subs.

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11pm-3am, £8

Club: We Own presents Pete Tong and Afrojack
Venue: Ocean Terminal
Date: Friday 4th March

We Own, the rather slick online youth clothing site, is launching a new website and clothing line with DJ support from house spinners Fred Lilla, One Dollar Dave and Jordan Cochrane. Special guests for the event are Pete Tong - no introduction needed, come on, there was a film named after him - and young dutch DJ and electro house producer, Afrojack.

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10.30pm-3am, £50 VIP / £25

Edinburgh round up:
Friday 4th March sees a whole host of talent coming, and residing in Edinburgh. First up, Jackhammer enter The Caves with Soma and Pressure’s Slam duo for heated house and techno (10pm-3am, £tbc), and new club Mad Caravan introduce world music flavours to Studio 24 (10pm-3am, £5). The prolific Kris Wasabi guests with Henry Bennet at Tokyoblu (Cabaret Volatire, 10pm-3am, £8 / £5) for warped disco, electro and Chicago house, supported by John Hutchison and Iain Gibson; and on Saturday 5th March, 6th Borough’s Craig Smith returns to deep and soulful house haven Ultragroove at Cabaret Voltaire (11pm-3am, £8 / £5).


Glasgow

Club: Sensu
Venue: Sub Club
Date: Friday 4th March

Ricardo Villalobos is Sensu’s award winning guest, tipping the deep techno and house and showing you why he’s earned the first place of Resident Advisor’s Top 100 DJs of The Year, twice. This is a booking Sensu have long been waiting for!

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11pm-4am, £20 / £15

Club: Nomad
Venue: The Art School
Date: Friday 4th March

New night for you, folks, from Club 69’s Ivan Kutz (Seasons), loading your ears with minimal and tech-house and special guests Heartthrob (M_nus) and deep and dubby Rossko (not to be confused with Rosko), who ‘s responsible for London’s Cerca Trova and Found parties. Chilean DJ Heartthrob has enjoyed the support of stars like Richie Hawtin and Magda and developed a ‘stream of consciousness’ style - check out his live set.

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11pm-3am, £12 / £10 adv.

Club: Melting Pot
Venue: The Admiral
Date: Saturday 5th March

I remember when I first started writing about Melting Pot - hard to believe they’ve now reached ten years, and to make sure it’s an extra special genre bending set, they’ve invited disco legend Joaquin 'Joe' Claussell (Body & Soul) straight from NY. Support comes from Glasgow's own Billy Woods and Thunder Disco Club.

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10pm-3am, £12 adv.

Club: Subculture
Venue: Sub Club
Date: Saturday 5th March

Scottish artist The Revenge - recently appearing on Steve Bug’s jackin’ Poker Flat compilation Forward to the Past - makes his debut at Subculture Scotland's finest export makes his house debut at Subculture.

Sounds like: Get The Curse Mix by The Revenge

11pm-3am, £10

Club: Highlife
Venue: La Cheetah
Date: Saturday 5th March

This bi-monhtly is a collaboration between Slabs of the Tabernacle and Huntleys & Palmers Audio Club, and this month sees the H&P record launch party for Auntie Flo’s debut. Also featuring T Williams and the afrobeat, italo, electro, latin and jackin’ Highlife sounds.

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11pm-3am, £7

Glasgow round up
Starting with Friday 4th of March, The Art School sees Bass Warrior Sound System take on Riddim Tuffa and J Bostron for reggae, dancehall and jungle, with DJ Dirtsman at the helm (11pm-3am, £6 / £5), and the newest talent in electro, techno, house and trance DJs is being found on the same night at The Soundhaus with the FreshLICK DJ Competition (10pm-1am, £6). The Arches host house legendary night Colours, featuring Wolfgang Gartner, AN21 (Steve Angello’s younger brother!), and Max Vangeli; the latter duo have recently launched new night Parliament. (10pm-3am, £15). .Finally, Jelly Roll Soul (a night inspired by Charles Mingus and Theo Parrish) welcome Eglo Records’ FunkinEven to La Cheetah to add the acid, disco and funk to their well-fired house (11pm-3am, £10).

Saturday 5th March kicks off with Pass The Peas at Stereo, featuring funk and soul with special live guests Federation of the Disco Pimp (11pm-3am, £5), but there’s a sweeter touch round the corner when Subcity have their Sweet Sixteen at The Arches. The event celebrates the University of Glasgow’s radio station and it’s birthday, with guests Beat Beneath, Chungo-Bungo, Datarape, Dim Sum, HaHaHa vs Raksha, Jackie Your Body, Kaleidoscope, One More Tune and Synth (11pm-3am, £10 / £8 adv).


Aberdeen and Dundee

Club: Chase & Status
Venue: The Forum, Aberdeen
Date: Friday 4th March

Bridging the mainstream and the underground with their hard, yet accessible drum and bass. This live show comes hot on the trail of their new LP ‘No More Idols’, released at the end of January. Support comes from MC Rage and Giles Walker.

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10pm–3am, £20 / £15 adv.

Club: Do It! x Dødpop
Venue: Snafu, Aberdeen
Date: Friday 4th March

Fans of skweee are underserved in Scotland, but Norway is bringing the genre from one of their best known labels directly to punters. This event supports the launch of Beatbully’s debut LP, and features live sets from Dødpop members Beatbully, Melkeveien, and Sprutbass. Do It! residents Uraki Riddim, Kid Bell & White Chocolate support.

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8pm-late, £7 / £5 before 10pm

Club: The Book Club
Venue: Reading Rooms, Dundee
Date: Saturday 5th March

The Book Club is Reading Rooms disco, techno and electro event with nary a text in sight. Is_Kill, Beatmaster 2000 and Teesee spin the experimental beats.

10.30pm-2am, £6 / £4 before midnight

Dundee and Aberdeen round up
Headway spins the deep, dubby and sometimes disco beats with house and techno at Dundee’s Reading Rooms on Friday 4th March. 10.30pm-2.30am, £6 / £4 before midnight. On the same evening, further North in Aberdeen’s Snafu, A La Fu (Big Dada) hosts All Neon Like, a ‘smorgasboard’ of wonk, disco, italo, electronica and techno all plattered up. 11pm-3am, £6 / £3 before midnight.






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December (Week 1) Clubbing Listings: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee

This week we have a rare double-header of featured clubs of the week

Ambivalent

Featured Club of the Week: Bigfoot's Tea Party

Venue: Glasgow School of Art

Date: Friday 3rd December

Bigfoot celebrate their second birthday party with special guest Ambivalent (M_nus) in a traditional venue (a change from fish factories, laundrettes and recording studios!) for techno and electronica fun. Ambivalent will be rockin’ the throbbin’ techno, but has also been invited to cut the Bigfoot birthday cake! The club also have a brand new sound system from Tannoy and rig from CPE Lighting to boost the hardware spec for their special event. Support comes from Faux Pas, Marmalade Man and visuals from Redux.

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11pm-3am, £10 / £8 advance or for GSA students

More info: Join the pre-party fun which starts at Offshore’s basement (Gibson St) for audio-visual art installations and music [2pm-8pm], followed by an official party of beats, vodka jelly and BYOB from 8pm-11pm.

Featured Club of the Week: Subculture Live

Venue: Sub Club

Date: Friday 3rd December

Just before they go head to head with Melting Pot, house legends Subculture have a special live event featuring Mervin Granger / Esa, Octave One, and Milton Jackson. You’ll better know Esa as Subculture’s resident but tonight you can get to grips with his alter-ego Mervin, and his deep grooves and bombastic basslines, while Detroit techno brothers Octave One show why they’re still banging it after 20-odd years. Milton Jackson brings more local flavour with his house head-ticklers.

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11pm-3am, £10 / £8

Edinburgh

Club: Hot Mess
Venue: Wee Red Bar
Date: Friday 3rd December

DJ Simonotron strikes out from Clubs for Heroes and Devil Disco Club for his own venture into acid house, Hi-NRG, disco, italo and electro at this sizzling gay club.

11pm-3am, £3

Club: Tokyoblu - The CD Grab
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Friday 3rd December

Tokyoblu are back with another CD Grab - every DJ playing at the night will have 50 copies of their own mix CD - and you just have to ask! Select a mix from one of the DJs, which includes John & Iain Tokyoblu in room 1, and David McGeorge, and Tokyoblu bros Niall and Denis McKervey with funky house all night.

11pm-3am, £7 / £5 guest lists - see here for guest list info.

Club: Ultragroove
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Saturday 4th December
Right this is going to be interesting, logistically, given that resident Gareth Sommerville is also playing at a Melting Pot event in Glasgow on the same evening! He’s lined up for soulful house and disco in the backroom, while Craig Smith of 6th Borough takes the front room with Stephen Rodgers (Elements of Soul) for a selection of house, techno and disco. Martin Valentine, Lel Palfrey and Carina Ramos support.
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11pm-3am, £8 / £5 before midnight or with student ID

More info: Melting Pot vs Subculture at the Sub Club on 4th December for house and disco grooves featuring Andrew Pirie, Harri, Domenic and of course Gareth Sommerville on his cross-country venture.

11pm-3am, £10 / £8 before midnight

Club: Messenger Sound System
Venue: Bongo Club
Date: Saturday 4th December

Special guests The Educators join Messenger Sound System for reggae, dub and roots basslines to shake the snow from your hoods. Comprised of Burning Bush, Errol T and Mr Fabulous, The Educators will bring fresh dubs to accompany the lyricisations of MC Ras Echo.

11pm-3am, £7 / £6 before midnight

Club: Volume!
Venue: Sneaky Pete’s
Date: Saturday 4th December

Not only is this event free, it features special guest DFRNT, the Echodub label owner and bassline / dubstep producer. The Volume! crew bring up the rear with roots, electro, Baltimore, crunk and more.
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11pm-3am, free


Glasgow


Club: Mixed Bizness
Venue: Vic Bar, Glasgow School of Art
Date: Thursday 2nd December

Tonight is the launch party for the new Medusa EP from Glasgow’s S-Type, appearing on electronic label Phuturelabs. A mix of electronica, grime, p-funk, and hip-hop, Phuturelabs are delighted with the new release. Catch S-Type with fellow guest Ninja Tune’s Hint, host Profisee and resident Boom Monk Ben to kick off your weekend.

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11pm-3am, £4 /Free for GSA students before midnight

Club: Killer Kitsch, Muck and Dirty Noise
Venue: Stereo
Date: Friday 3rd December

Coalitions are a theme this year - even if the Con-Dem pact ain’t working at least our clubs can shown them how it’s done! Armed with an extra late night licence, Killer Kitsch, Muck and Dirty Noise join forces to secure an appearance from Reset! (Cheap Thrills) who are promoting their new fidget house / turbofunk EP. Fellow guest Ado (Blood Music) will blister the eardrums with his brand of electro.
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11pm-4am, £7

Club: Supernova
Venue: The Arches
Date: Friday 3rd December

Slovenia isn’t usually picked out for its music scene by the mainstream press, but the techno community knows that hard beats lie there! Valentino Kanzyani crosses Europe to take the Arches with the Hell DJs for bubbling electro-house, techno and tech-house to cover your bass bases!
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10pm-3am, £12

Club: Symbiosis
Venue: The Admiral
Date: Friday 3rd December

Symbiosis bring Lahndahn north when drum and bass producer Data (Metalheadz / Tempa) has all hands on deck for the Admiral. Resident DJs Calaco Jack and Alcane are first and second mates of the evening.
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11pm-3am, £7 / £5 students

Club: Slabs of the Tabernacle
Venue: La Cheetah
Date: Saturday 4th December

He’s an International Deejay Gigolo, but goes by the more sedate name Mick Wills - a master and lover behind the decks - he whips up a blend of house, techno, italo, Hi-NRG (the recurring buzz-word of 2010!) and electro; perfect for the Slabs crew.
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11pm-3am, £7

Club: Tiga
Venue: The Arches
Date: Sunday 5th December

Are you going to want him? Well Tiga is all yours on the finishing Sunday of the week when he has the Arches all to himself, for a night of himself. Support is to be announced, but if you want to wear your sunglasses at night to Turbo-charged electro, Tiga is in the house!
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9pm-3am, £12.50


Dundee


Club: Ctrl-Alt-Defeat
Venue: Reading Rooms
Date: Saturday 4th December

Electro guests Hey Today!, Clouds and Ado (who was performing in Glasgow on the previous night!) bring the big beats for Crtl-Alt-Defeat. Surrender now!

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10.30pm-2.30am, £tbc