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■ Black Tent at Nice’n’Sleazy. 22 Apr, 11.30pm–3am. £3. Errors and Rock Action DJs playing indie, house and techno and all genres in between. ■ Level Thirty Two at La Cheetah. 22 Apr, 11pm–3am. £tbc. A night of old skool acid house and hardcore rave classics from residents Twonko and Pasty. Guest-starring AGT Rave Cru. ■ Lock Up Your Daughters at the Flying Duck. 22 Apr, 11pm–3am. £4–£5. Ass-shaking session from the LUYD fanzine pitched as ‘a response to the boredom and brain dead stagnation that plagues modern gay culture’, with residents DJ Suezz, Lock Up Your DJs and Skeleton Boy. This month promises a Hella Gay dance party. ■ Nightwalk at the Arches. 22 Apr, 10pm–2am. £16 (£15 if booked in advance). Showcasing fashion, electronic music, visual art, performance art and photography, Nightwalk is a celebration of Glasgow’s night culture. Proceeds go to local charity St Margaret’s Hospice. Weekly ■ Audiofilth at Common. Weekly 9pm–3am. Free before 11pm; £7 (£5 students) after. Friday nights are getting dirty with Ross McMillan and Big Al orchestrating some of the filthiest house, electro, hip hop and indie. ■ Ballbreaker and Vice at the Cathouse. Weekly 10.30pm–3am. £5 (£4). DJs Billy and Martin Bate play a selection of rock, metal, emo and even hip hop over two floors. ■ Bespoke Fridays at O’Couture. Weekly 10pm–2am. £6 (£3 students). Indie, dance, pop and cheap drinks at this club from residents Rob Etherson, Jenny and Mash. ■ Boho Fridays at Boho. Weekly 9.30pm–3am. £6. Fridays at Boho are funky, with DJ Robin B. ■ Canvas at Arta. Weekly 11pm–3am. Free before 11pm; £5 after. Live bands plus DJs Martin Black (Fri) and Norman Robinson (Sat) playing funk and party classics. ■ Cheesy Pop at Queen Margaret Union. Weekly 9pm–2am. £3–£4 (£2 members). After many years, rampant hordes of mucky-minded, vodka-fuelled urchins still flock to hear DJ Toast’s edam selection. ■ Crash at the Shed. Weekly 10.30pm–3am. Free before 11pm; £5 after. Euan and Andy play all the party tracks you know and love. ■ Damnation at Classic Grand. Weekly 10.30pm–3am. £5 (students Free). Rock, metal, punk and emo. ■ Famous at Kushion. Weekly 4pm–3am. Free before 11pm; £7 (£5 students) after. James Lithgow and DJ Status take it through to 3am with indie, electro, house and hip hop. ■ Friday at Milan at Milan. Weekly 10.30pm–3am. £tbc. House and electro at this mainstream party night. ■ Hummingbird Friday at Hummingbird. Weekly 10pm–3am. Free before 10.30pm; £5 (£3 students) after. Carlo Carozzi and Andrew Melrose take charge of two rooms of house and party tracks. ■ Lip Service at FHQ. Weekly 6pm–3am. £tbc. Long-running lesbian club night with a focus on all things sensual. Includes facepainting, dressing- up box, spin the bottle booths and a ‘sexual postbox’. Ooh-er. ■ Music For Pleasure at Bamboo. Weekly 10pm–3am. Free before midnight with a matric card; £5 after. Gavin Sommerville, Gerry Lyons and Andy Wilson play R&B, hip hop, house and pop. ■ My Mum Told Me I Could DJ at the Viper Bar & Club. Weekly 11pm–3am. Free before 11pm; £5 (£4 students) after. The West End comes alive with Friday-night chart and party sounds from DJs Nelson and Richie McColm. ■ NOW Fridays at Òran Mór. Weekly 11pm–3am. £6 (students £4). Chart, R&B, house and electro from Dave M.
■ Old Skool at the Buff Club. Weekly 11pm–3am. £6 ; £3 entry through the Butterfly & Pig. Funk, soul and disco. FREE Only Fools and House at Flat 0/1. Weekly 10pm–2am. Tom, Anton and Ewan play a fine selection of New York and Chicago house, cosmic Italo disco and classic 80s electro. ■ POP Junkie at the Polo Lounge. Weekly 11pm–3am. Free before 11pm; £5 (£3 students) after. DJs Steven and Suave Gav inject your ears with pop sounds. ■ Propaganda at O2 ABC. Weekly 10.30pm–3am. £4. Indie Friday nighter. ■ REplay Fridays at Play. Weekly 4pm–3am. Free before 11pm; £7 (£5 students) after. Will Ruane plays R&B and chart in room one, while Craig McHugh and Dave Wilson have the house anthems covered in the back room. ■ Riot Radio at Maggie May’s. Weekly 9pm–2am. £5. DJ Dan South presents indie rock’n’roll from the 60s to the present day. ■ United Nations of Dance at the Tunnel. Weekly 11pm–3am. £8. Clubland anthems, hip hop and R&B from Scotty Boy, Marc Anderson, Steve Clarke, John Thomson and more.
Glasgow Saturday Monthly & One-Off Events ■ All Tore Up at Blackfriars. 2 Apr, 10pm–3am. £5. Maximum rhythm and blues, rock’n’roll and rockabilly at this 1950s record hop. With guest DJ Miss Pearly Lee. ■ Colours at the Arches. 2 Apr, 11pm–3am. £20. Scotland’s biggest commercial club night presents an array of massive names. Guest-starring Above & Beyond, on their Group Therapy world tour. ■ Divine at the Art School. 2 Apr, 11pm–3am. £4–£5. Glasgow’s longest- running club residency brings you a monthly dose of northern soul, heavyweight funk, Tamla Motown, 60s freakbeat, dynamite ska, easy listening and psychedelic soundtracks. ■ Elements of Soul at Basura Blanca at the Brunswick Hotel. 2 Apr, 9pm–2am. £7. Deep and soulful house music from residents Nick Ferrara and Stephen Rodgers. With guest Craig Smith (6th Borough Project). ■ La Roche Rumba at Pollok Ex- Servicemens Club. 2 Apr, 10pm–1am. £tbc. The usual funked-up, down-and- dirty mixed bag of sounds from the Rumba DJs Vince Docherty, Slimjim and Dad Savage. This will be the fifth birthday party, with all manner of unconfirmed special guests planned. ✽✽ Melting Pot at the Admiral. 2 Apr, 11pm–3am. £10. All things disco- house from residents Andrew Pirie and Simon Cordiner. With special guest DJ Bill Brewster (Low Life), who played the very first Melting Pot a decade ago. ■ Orderly Disorder at the Flying Duck. 2 Apr, 11pm–3am. £6 (£5). Off- the-wall eclectic, electric, dirty beats from Dance Junkie and NIC303, with Mediaheroic on visuals. ■ Pandemic at Nice’n’Sleazy. 2 Apr, 11.30pm–3am. £3. Noj, Mark, Johnny Shrapnel and Gil Scott Heroin play indie, 60s garage, soul, rock’n’roll and ‘The Fall at least once.’ ■ Remedy at the Art School. 2 Apr, 10pm–3am. £8 before midnight; £10 after (students £5). A brand new techno night from residents Adrian M and Gary J. With guest Psycatron (live). All proceeds go to Cancer Research UK. ■ Slabs of the Tabernacle at La Cheetah. 2 Apr, 10pm–3am. £10. Exploring the realms of disco, Italo, house, techno and beyond with Andrew Ingram, Brian d’Souza and the Slabs team. For this third birthday party, the Slabs boys welcome Detroit’s Buzz Goree aka DJ Clandestine (Mixworks, Underground Resistance), who’s making a special UK appearance as part of the Mixworks ‘Warriors of Rhythm’ tour.
■ Bass Warrior Sound System at the Art School. 9 Apr, 10pm–3am. £8 before midnight; £10 after (students £6). DJ Dirtsman brings you a blazin’ night of total reggae dancehall, with a bit of jungle thrown in to keep you on your toes. With guest Aba-Shanti-I and support from J Bostron. ■ Beatitude! at Basura Blanca at the Brunswick Hotel. 9 Apr, 10pm–2am. £4. A basement party with DJs Craig Fox, Lewis Park and Jonny Dobbie providing minimal, house, and techno. ■ Danse Macabre at Nice’n’Sleazy. 9 Apr, 11.30pm–3am. £2 before 1am; £3 after. DJs Pasta and Catnip spin old- school goth rock and classic disco, along with Italo, sleazy synth pop and the best alternative rock tracks of the 80s. ■ Hotwire at the Flying Duck. 9 Apr, 11pm–3am. £5. Playing girl-made music with a live performance from all-female band Maximum Bob and DJs Peter, Roz and Manda Rin (Bis). Free tea cakes and magician Chris Dinwoodie also feature. ■ Innuendo: Emalkay at the Arches. 9 Apr, 11pm–3am. £12. The Birmingham-based dubstep producer comes to the Arches. ■ Mount Heart Attack at La Cheetah. 9 Apr, 11pm–3am. £8 (students £6). A regular club with a wide-ranging taste in electronic party music and a fine line in special guest stars. With guest Falty DL (Rush Hour, Ramp, Planet Mu) and Pro Vinylist Karim. ■ Pass the Peas at Blackfriars. 9 Apr, 11pm–3am. £3 before midnight; £5 after. Andy Taylor (Resense, Wack Records) and weeG (Four Corners, Electrikal) play four solid hours of the international funk and soul scene’s very best tracks. With guest DJ Krash Slaughta. ■ Tictactoe at the Arches. 9 Apr, 9pm–3am. £5. The minimal house and techno night returns, with resident Andrew Doran. This is the second birthday party, with Stevo Doran, Domm, Anna Gram and Brazz. ■ Wrong Island at Nice’n’Sleazy. 9 Apr, 11.30pm–3am. £3. Electro, techno and all kinds of mash-ups at this bassment party from the Wrong Island DJs Dirty Larry and Teamy. ■ Bottle Rocket at Nice’n’Sleazy. 16 Apr, 11.30pm–3am. £3. A night for dancing to indie-pop, post-punk, Motown, twee and anything else that gets feet tapping. ■ Deadly Rhythm at La Cheetah. 16 Apr, 11pm–3am. £8 before midnight; £10 after. Launched in London, a new dubstep, house and future garage night for Glasgow. With Instra:Mental and residents. ■ Death Disco at the Arches. 16 Apr, 11pm–3am. £14; £7 with half-price pass through DD mailing list. Electro, house, disco and gauche party tracks with residents Hush Puppy, Josh Jones and Wavy Graves. With Jesse Rose (Made To Play), Burns and Xinobi & Moullinex. ■ Friday Street at the Admiral. 16 Apr, 10.30pm–3am. £7 advance; £10 on the door. Classic mod sounds, 60s psych and northern soul at Scotland’s premier mod club, with regular DJs Mikey Collins and Paul Molloy. This is a special edition aftershow for this evening’s solo Steve Cradock gig at King Tut’s, with the Ocean Colour Scene guitarist himself on the decks. ■ Mungo’s Hi Fi at Stereo. 16 Apr, 11pm–4am. £6 advance; £8 on the door. Dancehall, grime, ragga and dubstep for your pleasure. This month we’re told to expect ‘intense 60s ska, digital 80s dancehall, righteous 90s roots revival and primitive ragga from around the millennium’, as Mungo’s welcome Denmark’s Rootsman HiFi crew. ■ Upside Down at the Flying Duck. 16 Apr, 10.30pm–3am. £4 before midnight; £5 after. A new night from Creation Records co-founder Slaughter Joe Foster and Brian McNeill, playing rock, pop, soul, glam, punk and psych. This launch night will be a David Bowie special, playing music from and inspired by the Thin White Duke.
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Lovers Rock adj romantic style of reggae music cultivated on the London reggae scene, c 1975–1985.
While contemporary strands of reggae (dub, roots, rocksteady etc) were becoming increasingly politicised and serious, lovers rock maintained a clearer focus on more lightweight, romantic topics, taking its cue mainly from Philadelphia and Chicago’s soul and R&B templates. ORIGINS Cultivated principally by British artists in south London during the late-70s and early-80s, lovers rock is said to have begun in earnest with 15-year-old Louisa Mark’s 1975 hit, ‘Caught You in a Lie’.
KEY FIGURES Unsurprisingly, it was popular with women: Janet Kay, Carroll Thompson, the young Mark and ‘queen of lovers rock’ Deborahe Glasgow. Kay worked with key producer Dennis Bovell (of British reggae dons Matumbi and also the engineer at Dip Records – later re-named Lovers Rock) – to record ‘Silly Games’, a UK number two in 1979. A teenage Glasgow worked as Debbie G with Neil ‘Mad Professor’ Fraser (most famous for the Massive Attack remix album, No Protection) at the start of his own career, before cutting her definitive, eponymous album almost a decade later in 1989. This record included the song ‘Champion Lover’, which Shabba Ranks consequently re-worked as ‘Mr Loverman’, scoring a massive hit in 1994. Maxi Priest and Aswad are perhaps the most famous male British artists associated with the style. (hobbesmusic.co.uk) ■ You’re likely to hear some lovers rock at Messenger, the Bongo Club, Sat 23 Apr; Passa Passa Reggae Night, Wee Red Bar, Sun 24 Apr (both Edinburgh) and Mungo’s Hi Fi, Stereo, Glasgow, Sat 16 Apr.
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