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

Featured Club of the Week: Highlife's Witchdoctor Dance
Venue: La Cheetah
Date: Saturday 3rd September 

Highlife continue their reach across the continents for top-notch guests, this time setting their sights on the Ivory Coast’s Raoul K for a Witchdoctor Dance with African beat stylings and tribal rhythms against the techno wireframe. More afrobeat, funky, jackin’ house, Latin and electro come from resident Auntie Flo.

Sounds like: Mr Raoul K feat. Iklwa Brothers - Black Sky by Mr Raoul K

11pm-3am, £6


Edinburgh  

Club: Funky Doodle Do
Venue: Bongo Club
Date: Thursday 1st September

DJRed6’s newest night delivers classic hip-hop, funk and soul sounds, guaranteed plenty basslines and beats and the odd horn section.

11pm-3am, free

Club: Devil Disco Club
Venue: Bongo Club
Date: Saturday 3rd September

It’s disco on all fronts at DDC this time, when Edinburgh-based Discopolis guest for a live set of eh, electro, indie and house music. They delighted crowds at the recent Reading and Leeds Festival with their lush synth onslaught. Even if you can’t get your disco fix from Discopolis, residents the Trouble DJs and Giles Walker spin vintage disco, electro funk, and New York grooves.

Sounds like: Discopolis - Zenithobia by discopolismusic

11pm-3am, £3

Club: Superlovers
Venue: Liquid Room
Date: Saturday 3rd September

I’m not sure how they’ve managed to keep the reported 5am license now that Edinburgh winds down it’s party season, but whatever – Fever and Lovechild team up to create Superlovers for their final festival party, starring main Lovechild resident Alessandro Londra, and Fever resident’s Brian Fisher and Mark Price, with Miss Chris. There will be a special live PA from Novena, singing the lighter side of vocal house, who has been a hit on the gay club scene and charts.

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11pm-5am, £12 / £10 adv.

Round up
It’s a very light weekend for Edinburgh, as people recover the last month of their lives living from dusk till dawn at the Festival: Cab Vol Stars host Believe vs Trilogy at their next instalment in Cab Voltaire on Friday 2nd (11pm-3am, £5 / free before midnight), and Fake returns to Sneaky Pete’s on the 3rd, with house, techno, breaks and more (11pm-5am, £3 / members free)


Glasgow  

Club: Traktion
Venue: Basura Blanca 
Date: Friday 2nd September

Residents Colin Forbes and Chaz Johnston host special guest and Slave to the Rhythm radio show host, Domm, spin deep house and techno for the Tracktion faithful, drawing on a dearth of material featured on his Subcity Radio slot.

10pm-2am, £5 / £3 NUS

Club: Jak
Venue: Ad Lib
Date: Friday 2nd September

Cranking out the releases for almost 17 years, DMX Krew aka Ed DMX guests at Jak, on the launch night of one of the newest acid-house, Chicago vibes and electro grooves clubs to hit Ad Lib. Residents Signal_! And beatPHreak support.

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11pm-3am, £8 / £6

Club: Numbers
Venue: Sub Club
Date: Friday 2nd September

This month’s Numbers sees James Blake take to the stage again with a DJ set of experimental bass, post-dubstep, and warped and melodious keys. Residents Goodhand and Nelson support with dub-techno, hot electro, and a plethora of juke, hyphy and more.

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11pm-3am, £7 adv

Club: Substanz Kelburn Party 
Venue: The Arches 
Date: Saturday 3rd September 

Originally due to be hosted at the infamous Kelburn Castle, the Substanz Kelburn Party is keeping the name and moving to The Arches due to licensing restrictions. Headliners and DJs Clive Henry, Subb An, Silicone Soul and Chris Duckenfield and Mash spin minimal, tech-house, electronica and deep beats.

11pm-3am, £12

Club: Melting Pot
Venue: The Admiral
Date: Saturday 3rd September

After their summer break, Melting Pot return to the good ship Admiral, the finest nautical on-land venue. The British house master special guest Joey Negro opens the first of the Autumn / Winter season while residents Andrew Pirie and Simon Cordiner rock the disco house.

Sounds like: Joey Negro Live In The Southport Weekender Connoisseurs Corner 2009 by Joey Negro

11pm-3am, £10

Round up
Now that Glasgow is back on top for the sheer range of club nights, what with the Edinburgh Festival finishing, the weekend starts here on Thursday 1st at Club 520 with Walk n Skank, courtesy of Mungo’s Hi Fi with reggae, dancehall, jahtari and more (11pm-3am, £4 / £3). On Friday 2nd, David Barbarossa’s Thing at Nice ‘n’ Sleazy with more reggae, disco, electronica and post-punk (11.30pm-3am, £3), and ReFrame launch at The Admiral on the same evening, with DJs Haunted Code and Martin Lindinger spinning house and techno (11pm-3am, £5). On Saturday 3rd, Front to Back return to Club 520, carrying on the emergent reggae theme for the first weekend of the month in Glasgow. Residents Chungo Bungo, DJ L-I-A-M, Marquee DJs and La Bamba play (11pm-3am, £7 / £5). Subculture take their usual slot of fresh and classic house with residents Harri and Domenic (11pm-3am, £10 / free before midnight), and Instruments of Rapture close the weekend on Sunday 4th at the Sub, as part of the Sub Club's series of one-off Sunday specials, featuring choice tracks from the nu-disco label, Instruments of Rapture (11pm-3am, £tbc).


Dundee  

Club: Headway
Venue: Reading Rooms
Date: Friday 2nd September

Ahead of their appearance at the Substanz Kelburn Party, Silicone Soul headline Headway at the Reading Rooms for electronic bliss.

Sounds like:   silicone soul dj set @ the slam tent, t in the park, scotland 2011 by siliconesoul

10.30pm-2.30am, £tbc

Aberdeen

Club: Dot to Dot and Okoru
Venue: Snafu
Date: Friday 2nd September

The Germans are coming again, when David August (Stil Vor Talent) enthrals the crowd with house and electro swathes ahead of his debut LP, due to drop in 2012. Gary Smith supports.

Sounds like: David August - East Side Story Mix - May 2011 by davidaugust

11pm-3am, £10 / £8 adv.

Club: Mothership
Venue: Snafu
Date: Saturday 3rd September

Radio hosts Nocturne take over the basement of Mothership for house and techno frequencies. You can hear Nocturne every Friday, 8-10pm on shmu radio/99.8fm.

11pm-3am, £tbc

Club: Hot City
Venue: Snafu
Date: Sunday 4th September

New night Hot City bring the disco to Aberdeen, with Hush Puppy of Glasgow’s Death Disco, and Delusions of Grandeur.

Sounds like: http://vimeo.com/27776798

11pm-3am, £tbc

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.

December (Week 4) Clubbing Listings: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee (plus Inverness!)

Derrick Carter

Featured Club of the Week: Co-Op

 Venue: Sub Club 

Date: Thursday 23rd December

Co-op, the collective of four Glasgow clubs (Orderly Disorder, Dirty Noise, Mount Heart Attack and Scrabble) have invested in their first guest, and it’s none other than Derrick Carter; Chicago-house DJ legend peppering his sets with flirtations of jazz, disco, soul and funk. The Co-op residents support, with visuals from Mediaheroic.

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(Lovin’ DJ Sneak’s ‘stand-beside-Carter-and-point-and-smoke’ routine)

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

Extra: Derrick Carter stays in Scotland to appear at Aberdeen’s Mothership club at Snafu, on Boxing day. He’s joined by Adam Ackers. 11pm-3am, £15 / £12 advance / £8 members

Edinburgh

Club: Taste’s Escape Xmas Party
Venue: Liquid Room
Date: Saturday 25th December

Taste return for their annual festive fixture of ‘Escape Xmas’ - generally the ONLY club in Edinburgh to go to on Christmas day for a packed to the gunnels dance party. Fisher and Price play what is to be the last Christmas escape so leave a little room from the turkey to ensure dancing legs!

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10.30pm-5am, £10

Club: Karnival’s Boxing Day Soma Party
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Sunday 26th December

Karnival host a six hour party of deep house and techno from Slam and Silicone Soul of Soma Records. Put down those Quality Streets and feel the beats vibrate the excess!

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11pm-5am, £12

Club: Mutiny
Venue:The Store / GRV
Date: Sunday 26th December

Hardcore techno and breakcore for a most unholy boxing day; Mutiny invite DJ Producer, Scamp and Dr Um for dnb, hard beats, dubstep and a pinch of gabba.

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11pm-5am, £5


Glasgow

Club: Let Your Elf Go!
Venue: Sub Club
Date: Wednesday 22nd December

A bumper collaboration of clubs and DJs, Let Your Elf Go! is the Sub Club’s Xmas Party, featuring Sensu, Jackmaster (Numbers), Pro Vinylist Karim, the Cotton Cake DJs, and DJ Pumpio & The Groundskeeper. There’s no strict music policy, just good music!

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11pm-4am, free

Club: RPZ
Venue: Stereo
Date: Wednesday 22nd December

Gus Da Hoodrat (Modular Recordings), one of the founders of Australia’s Bang Gang DJ duo, visits RPZ for disco, punk, baile funk, electro-house and techno mixes to knock yer socks off. Melt your mind (and the snow from your shoes) with 80s pop art visuals at this mid-week adventure hosted by resident Hushpuppy.

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11pm-3am, £8 / £6

Club: SpiritAid presents Free
Venue: Òran Mór
Date: Thursday 23rd December

Feel like getting in some charity action after splurging on Xmas presents? This special one-off event invites donations in return for a night’s entertainment of house music from Harri (Subculture), Jasper, Bob Digital and special guests tba.

11pm-3am, donations requested

Club: Colours Winter Party
Venue: The Arches
Date: Sunday 26th December

Colours love their festive winter parties, and once again they’re pulling in the line-ups for wide-ranging tastes. Appearing will be: Sander Van Doorn, Mauro Picotto, Fergie, Menno De Jong, Dave Spoon, D Ramirez, Jon Mancini, Gio Ferri, Alan Belshaw and Chesco Ferri! A veritable platter of genres to pick from.

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9.30pm-4am, £25 / £20 Pre-Early Bird tickets

Club: Darkside meets Infexious
Venue: Soundhaus
Date: Sunday 26th December

The hardcore and hardstyle fans feeling their needs aren’t entirely met by the festive tv and radio schedules can indulge in this Boxing Day Special with Neophyte, The Beholder (TiLLT Records), and Tymon (Industrial Strength Records) headlining. Local hard-heads Al Twisted, Mikey Motion, Rob Da Rhythm, Joe Craig and more will support the extravaganza.

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10pm-3am, £12

Club: Der Supermax Boxing Day Blowout
Venue: Basura Blanca
Date: Sunday 26th December

Taking their cue from early NY disco-scenes, Der Supermax host a boxing day special with DJ Billy Woods, and featuring the Bozak - Balmain Sound System.

As Der Supermax says:

Double fisted
In flagrante
Should not be
Counted
Out

10pm-2am, £5

Club: Hung Up!
Venue: Sub Club
Date: Sunday 26th December

JD Twitch and JG Wilkes form the deadly DJ duo of Hung Up!, killing off cells of bad taste with the best tracks in dance music.

11pm-4am, £5 / £4 before midnight

Dundee

Club: Crtl-Alt-Defeat
Venue: Reading Rooms
Date: Sunday 26th December

No firm details of guests yet, but this is the best option for Dundee clubbers over the festive period - Crtl-Alt-Defeat programmes in the electro, techno and house.

10.30pm-3.30am, tbc

Inverness

Club: Funk D'Void
Venue: Ironworks
Date: Sunday 26th December

Fingers crossed Lars appears, followers of Twitter may have noticed his bid to drive through the snow of Scotland in a 4x4 to make sure he can play in Inverness. If he's going to that effort, can't be too hard for the Inverness house fans to make their way to the Ironworks! Rouse the huskies.

10pm-4am, £tbc

October (Week 5) Clubbing Listings: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Dundee

Carte Blanche

 Featured Club of the Week: Mixed Bizness presents How's Your Party?
Venue: Sub Club
Date: Friday 29th October

Mixed Bizness’ How’s Your Party? celebrate their 3rd birthday the night before at the Sub Club with Carte Blanche (DJ Mehdi and Riton), whose Black Billionaires EP whips up funk and disco with energised electro, and A La Fu returns after a production hiatus to reveal his works.

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11pm-3am, £12 / £10 adv.

More info: The very next night at the same venue, Mixed Bizness secure the rest of your weekend with a special live dubstep performance by Magnetic Man, the trio composed of Benga, Skream and Artwork. Boom Monk Ben, Katy B and Profisee support. 7.30pm, £12 advance.

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Edinburgh

Club: She-Bang Rave Unit
Venue: Wee Red Bar
Date: Friday 29th October

For their Halloween ball special, the all-girl She-Bang Rave Unit present The Tokyo Bitches’ (DJ Rob Dylan and Dr Dempsey the ‘Virgin Surgeon’) house and techno, especially reforming for this event. Miss Penny Pornstar performs as She-Bang hostess for the genre-bending night, all supported by the She-Bang DJs Pretty Vacant (Vicki Watson), Mrs Wee (smells like Kirstie Paton), AbadabaDisco (Abi Cornwall), Tracy Island (Tracey Stewart) and M.C.(certainly not squared) Mary Collins. Warning - typing in Tokyo Botches online leads to some seriously pornographic websites; I was expecting techno not anal.

10.30pm-3am, £7 / £5 in fancy dress

Club: Sugarbeat
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Friday 29th October

Doorly and Purple Pop join The Utah Saints for Sugarbeat - a sweet mix of breaks, electro, house and anything that tingles the spine.

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11pm-3am, £8

Club: Karnival
Venue: Cabaret Voltaire
Date: Saturday 30th October

It’s difficult to escape the fancy dress parties this weekend - and why would you? Cheaper entry and CDs / future guest lists for best costumes! Karnival and Fuse lockdown Voltaire for a night of ‘haunting house and terrifying techno’. Still, doubt they’ll be playing witch house.

11pm-3am, £8 / £6 before midnight / £5 in fancy dress

Club: Samhuinn Afterparty
Venue: The Bongo Club
Date: Sunday 31st October

If you need to further your Halloween / Samhuinn celebrations, the Beltane Fire Society are hosting an afterparty of not-so-Celtic-traditional dubstep, dnb and balkan dance with DJ Tactus, Covalent and Anonymi.

11pm-3am, £7 / £5

Glasgow

Club: Fortified
Venue: The Glasgow School of Art
Date: Friday 29th October

Two celebrations at once! It’s Electric Eliminators fourth birthday and Halloween (dubstep) Ball with Rinse FM’s Oneman, Ben UFO, Elijah & Skilliam, and of course regulars Electric Eliminators and B.A.S.S. Ethereal dub seems just the ticket for these dark nights.

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11pm-3am, £12 / £10 adv.

Club: Pressure
Venue: The Arches
Date: Friday 29th October

One of the more distinctly non-Halloween clubs of the weekend, Pressure returns with Slam and special guests Ben Sims, Cassy, Fergie and Tricky for five hours of top techno.

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11pm-4am, £13

Club: Huntley & Palmer’s Presents
Venue: Stereo
Date: Saturday 30th October

Huntley & Palmer’s returns from London to its homeland for a one-off special and techno and electro from Oni Ayhun, Alex Smoke, Veronica Vasicka and TVO. Put some wonk on it!

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11pm-4am, £12 / £10 adv.

Club: Lost in Space
Venue: Soundhaus
Date: Saturday 30th October

Courtesy of Specialitee, the Soundhaus is having a special Halloween Party featuring DJs from many of its clubs including Camouflage, Off the Records, Shift, Inner City Acid and more. There’s prizes for the best spaceman, alien or superhero to win a prize!

10.30pm-3am, £tbc

Club: Spectrum
Venue: Blackfriars
Date: Saturday 30th October

Renamed Spooktrum for the evening, electroo and technoo will be blasted by residents B-Tone, Leigh Miles and Aymard.

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11pm-3am, £5 / £4 students

Club: Terrorfest
Venue: The Universal
Date: Saturday 30th October

Technofest (the predominant genre is hinted by the title) becomes Terrorfest for Halloween, and usurps its own name by welcoming deep house maestro Silicone Soul as headline guest! Profits go towards the un-ghoulish cause of Cancer Research, and there’s even a pre-party from 8.30pm at the CCA Terrace Bar. Support on the night comes from resident DJs Adrian M, Gary J, Kyle McArthur, and Lee Goomes, while Clyde Productions and Mr Mofis guide the lights and visuals.

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10pm-3am, £10

Aberdeen

Club: Let it Bleed
Venue: The Forum
Date: Friday 29th October

They carved themselves a popular niche in the 90s, firmly imprinting ‘electronique dance Francais’ on awe-struck synth and key enthusiasts and now Cassius make a special Halloween appearance to infuse the north with electro-house.

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10pm-3am, £20 / £15 adv.

Dundee

Club: Neon Nights
Venue: The Reading Rooms
Date: Friday 29th October

Electro dawns on Neon Nights for their Halloween horror party (yep, fancy dress with prizes), with Human Life mashing disco, electro, pop, bassline, house to create monster beats. Residents Beastmaster2000 and Is_Kill support the horror show.

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10.30pm-late, £8 before 11.30pm (more on door)