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

Featured Club of the Week: Death Disco

Venue: The Arches
Date: Saturday 18th June

Death Disco welcome back DJ Mehdi, eager for more hip-hop and electro thrills, as well as special guests Mighty Mouse and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. Disco, house and downright party tracks boom courtesy of residents Husy Puppy, Josh Jones and Wave Graves.


Sounds like:   18Carat - IMPERIAL (DJ MEHDI NEXT REMIX) TRIPPY ! by Dj Mehdi TV

11pm-3am, £14 / £7 Death Disco mailing list


Edinburgh

Club: Fisheye
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Friday 17th June

Fisheye launches as a combined gig and DJ experience, featuring live psych-rock and punk sets from Death by Misadventure and The Method One, as well as art installations and indie DJ sets. Great for fans of Evol and Sick Note.

11pm-3am, £tbc

Club: Wonky
Venue: Teviot Underground
Date: Friday 17th June

Hobbes and Wolfjazz go back to back for the Film Festival, spinning UK funky, hip-hop, dubstep, afrobeat, and more with live visuals from Smudge.

11pm-3am, £9 / £7 adv or with Edinburgh International Film Festival ticket stub.

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

One of the first Summer parties of Edinburgh, Musika hold a house and electro special with DJs Derek Martin, Kev Wright, Blair and Ryan Harrower.

9pm-3am, £10 / £8 / free before 11.30pm

Club: Messenger Sound System
Venue: Bongo Club
Date: Saturday 18th June

Messenger Sound System welcome MC Afrikan Simba for another blast of dub, reggae, roots and sweet bass beats with Mc Ras Echo.

11pm-3am, £7 / £6 before midnight

Round up
Saturday, Sa-tur-day, saatttuuurrdaaay starts with Wasabi Disco at Sneaky Pete’s, filled with spicy peas of house and disco (11pm-3am, £3 / members free), and continues over at Cabaret Voltaire with Ultragroove when Harry Bennett (Edinburgh Boat Party) guests behind the deep house decks with Gareth Sommerville (10.30pm-3am, £8 / £5 before midnight or students). Finish off with Coalition on Sunday 19th at Sneaky Pete’s with your free dose of dubstep and breaks (11pm-3am).


Glasgow

Club: Argonaut Sounds Reggae Soundsystem
Venue: Blackfriars Basement
Date: Friday 17th June

Argonaut welcome a Manchester special guest this week, when MC Kwasi Asante joins the dancehall, reggae, dub and roots – much preferable to ‘Madchester’ artists in my opinion!

11pm-3am, £3

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

Subculture host a Soma Records house special with headlining duo Silicone Soul taking it deep and dark. Esa and Telford support.

11pm-3am, £10 / free before midnight

Club: ShipRect
Venue: Courtyard
Date: Saturday 18th June

For those with a lengthy stamina on Saturday, ShipRect kick off at 2pm at the Courtyard, and from there it’s a bus ride to a party on the shores of Loch Lomond in an old paddle steamer. The mini-festival features techno, electro, house and trance with a splash of samba band, from over 20 artists. More entertainment and a BBQ later lead to a secret afterparty in Glasgow.

2pm-3am, £22

Round up
Rescheduled from a previous booking, the DJs DJ, Paul Chambers guests live at Sub Club’s Killer Kitsch on 17 June (11pm-3am, £8 / £6 / £5 before midnight) for techno a la Belgique! Pi-Eyed continue their free breakcore, dubstep and techno party at La Cheetah on Friday with Herv, Drokkr, and Parliamentalist (11pm-3am, free).

Aberdeen

Club: Gray’s Degree Show Party
Venue: Snafu
Date: Friday 17th June

For those celebrating their degree, or simply just enjoying the degree show, head to the afterparty at Snafu, for the hottest music from HaHaHa (Mixed Bizness), Bang Bang (live), Sarah J Stanley (Project Slogan), and Krazzy Martin (Snafu).

10pm-3am, £5 / free entry with wristband from degree show

Club: Mothership
Venue: Snafu
Date: Saturday 18th June

Mothership sits astride their FunktionOne Soundsystem for another blast of jackin’ tech-house and deep, rolling beats courtesy of Simon Smith and James Tones.

11pm-3am, £5 / free before 12.30am


Dundee

Indie and metal haven across the board, not so much for dance music! Any DJs/promoters putting on dance music nights, feel free to get in touch and make me tell the people!


Shorter listings this week.... as I went to go meet my grandad for lunch instead of writing them. The heart-warming excuses are always the most satisfactory.

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

The Egyptian Lover in '87 sporting a Soul-Glo do

Featured Club of the Week: Banjax

Venue: La Cheetah

Date: Friday 25th March

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.

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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.

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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.

Sounds like:   JUSTIN ROBERTSON-LIVE @THE QUEEN OF HOXTON MARCH 2011 by justinrobertson/deadstock

11pm–3am, £10 / £8 before midnight or students

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).