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Glasgow Thursday
One-Offs ✽✽ Glasgow Mod Weekender at Various Venues. 23 Jun,
8pm–midnight. Glasgow’s annual Mod extravaganza returns. The summer weekender of mod sounds is back with more live bands, DJs and vintage stalls at the following venues. Thu evening: live band What the Heroes Say and Friday Street DJs at McChuill’s (free). FREE Nude Noir at Nude. 23 Jun, 9pm. A night of fun and titillation as Nude’s monthly burlesque night returns. Dressing up is positively encouraged. Part of the West End Festival. Booking essential. ■ The Pump Club at Nice’n’Sleazy. 23 Jun, 11pm–3am. £3. Throbb, The Falconi Bros, Von Trapp and guests present an electronic workout. ■ Cheap & Nasty at Nice’n’Sleazy. 7 Jul, 11.30pm–3am. £3. Everything from disco to indie and electro to funk, with Matthew Craig of One More Tune and Define Define. ■ Cryotec at Classic Grand. 7 Jul, 11pm–3am. £3; free with SOM gig ticket. Playing the best in EBM and industrial. Sisters of Mercy aftershow party. ■ Best in Show at Nice’n’Sleazy. 21 Jul, 11.30pm–3am. £3. Like Crufts, but with men (and Findo Gask DJs) instead of dogs. ■ Teenage Lust at Nice’n’Sleazy. 14 Jul, 11.30pm–3am. £3. A mutant disco of wedding standards, 80s and 90s indie and American punk from the Aberdonian night, now relocated to Glasgow.
Weekly ■ Bitter Glitter at the Polo Lounge. Weekly 11pm–3am. £3. Madame S (Utter Gutter) and Fraser Bone (Lock Up Your Daughters) launch a new weekly party, playing a mix of homo-disco, electronic treats, jackin’ house and tech beats. ■ Bump at Hummingbird. Weekly 11pm–3am. £tbc. R&B and hip hop from DJs Naeem and Sketch. ■ Classic Grand Thursdays at Classic Grand. Weekly 11pm–3am. £3 (students Free). DJs Barry, Dec and Young Blood provide a mix of rock, electro, emo and industrial. ■ Common Room at Common. Weekly 10pm–3am. Free before 11pm; £5 (£3) after. DJs Craig Kelman and Craig McHugh play party tunes in a house party style. ■ Dirty Sexy Money at O’Couture. Weekly 11pm–3am. £tbc (free for students before midnight). That Tall Guy Scott plays cheese, pop and R&B. ■ Eureka at Bamboo. Weekly 11pm–3am. £4 (free with a matric card). DJ Toast plays rock, indie, dance and hip hop. FREE Feel My Bicep at Flat 0/1. Weekly 11pm–3am. 80s sleaze, analogue funk, old school house, disco flexx and sweat on the walls. FREE Laid Back at the Polo Lounge. Weekly 9pm–3am. DJ Suave Gav presents a party that’s anything but laid- back. ■ Onederful at Play. Weekly 5pm–3am. Free before 11pm; £5 (£3) after. Party sounds from DJ Chris Stewart and Tobin. FREE Pour Homme, Pour Femme, Pour Queens at FHQ. Weekly 9pm–3am. New weekly night from TLC Glasgow with DJ Shawn Roberts, free entry and a whole lotta tunes.
■ Rubbermensch and Jellybaby at O2 ABC2. Weekly 11pm–3am. £4. A night for indie lovers with Andy Wilson in charge. ■ Rumble Thursdays at the Garage. Weekly 11pm–3am. Free before 11.30pm; £5 (£3) after. Chart, pop, indie, R&B and hip hop fight it out for your aural affections. FREE Salsa Tumbao at Boteco do Brasil. Weekly 8pm–3am. Salsa and dancing with Farah Portela Alonso and Tumbao Salsa School. ■ Skint at the Viper Bar & Club. Weekly 9pm–2am. Free before 11pm; £5 (£3 students) after. Stephen Foy plays indie dancefloor anthems, pop hits and classic house. ■ Skint and Vengeance at the Cathouse. Weekly 11pm–3am. £3 (£2 students). DJs Billy and Colin play rock, emo and pop-punk in the main room, while DJ Q Ball has the sickest black metal, death metal and thrash in the back. ■ Sol’s Club at Sol’s Club. Weekly 10pm–3am. £5. Bollywood, Latin, Afro- Caribbean and reggae club nights. ■ Soul Glo at the Buff Club. Weekly 11pm–3am. £3. DJ Snafu scratches funk, soul and old rhythm and blues. ■ Sub Thursday at the Sub Club. Weekly 11pm–3am. Free before midnight; £tbc after. Some of the city’s best DJs and producers as residents, including Bunty (Mixkings, 90s Hip Hop), Noface (Mixkings, Mixed Bizness, Electrikal), Homebass DJs (Jakebeats, Mixkings, Homebass), Floyd (Bangers & Mashup, Sub Friction), Foley (Voltaic) and more. ■ Thursday at Milan at Milan. Weekly 11pm–3am. £tbc. DJ Naeem and DJ Sketch present a night of sleek and sexy urban tracks to get you moving. ■ Vibe at Boho. Weekly 10.30pm–2am. £5 (£4, students free before midnight). DJ Bobby B, DJ Gully and Mr Vin mash up hip hop, R&B, house and club classics. ■ iDJ at the Shed. Weekly 11pm–3am. £2. DJ Li’l Rich plays party sounds to start the weekend early. Monthly special events include bouncy castles, karaoke nights and the famous/infamous Shed roller disco. ■ Walk’n’Skank at Club 520. Weekly 11pm–3am. £4 (£3). The brand new night from the Mungo’s Hi-Fi crew, playing reggae and dancehall every Thursday. Also featuring DJ Kokoro and Breezak in the front room, and rotating monthly guests Metropolis Sounds, Mixkings, Matthew Craig and Ali T in the back.
Glasgow Friday
One-Off ■ Bigfoot’s at the Sub Club. 24 Jun, 11pm–3am. £5. An eclectic techno and electronic music party. Simon Stokes plays his new live set. ■ Black Tent at Nice’n’Sleazy. 24 Jun, 11pm–3am. £3. Errors and Rock Action DJs playing indie, house and techno and all genres in between. ✽✽ Friday Street at Blackfriars. 24 Jun, 11pm–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. With guest DJs Frank Popp (Berlin), Lee Miller (Leeds) and Davie Quinn (Friday Street). Part of the Glasgow Mod Weekender.
✽✽ Luftfunk at Hummingbird. 24 Jun, 11pm–3am. £3. A new monthly
night of cosmic, space, Italo, funk and disco from Den Haan. With Jack Jones of Death Disco. ■ Mzuka Bass at Afro Caribbean Network Centre. 24 Jun, 10pm–5am. £5 donation. An evening of Afro bass fusion from Berlin-based, Beijing-born DJ Zhao – the ‘international ambassador of boom’ – who brings contemporary and classic dance music together from all five continents, with a focus on Africa.
■ Phonic at La Cheetah. 24 Jun, 11pm–3am. £6 before midnight; £8 after. A monthly electronic night with a broad remit. Expect Detroit techno, electro and synth-pop influenced sounds from residents Paul Bendoris and Headspeath. A first birthday party with live guest Cosmic Force (Clone/Marguerita). ■ Pinup Nights at the Flying Duck. 24 Jun, 11pm–3am. £5. Glasgow’s biggest indie night, with regular local, national and international guest DJs and live bands representing the best of Glasgow’s scene. ■ Reactor at Soundhaus. 24 Jun, 9pm–3am. £10. Hardcore, gabber and hardstyle from the Twisted & Brainfire team. The Lethal Theory Hardcore Innovators tour with Joey Riot and more. ■ Craig Charles’ Funk & Soul Show at the Old Fruitmarket. 1 Jul, 11pm. £10. The DJ, actor and TV presenter mans the decks. Featuring a live set by the Federation of the Disco Pimp. Part of Glasgow International Jazz Festival 2011. ■ David Barbarossa’s Thing at Nice’n’Sleazy. 1 Jul, 11pm–3am. £3. Barbarossa, one of the leading DJs on Glasgow’s scene and a sometime Hung Up! resident, brings his new night to Sleazy’s. ■ Eyes Wide Open at Blackfriars. 1 Jul, 11pm–3am. £5 (students £4). Garage, psych and freakbeat brought to you by EWO DJs Holly and Sarah, plus live and DJ guests. With guest DJ Mikey Collins (Friday Street/Glasgow Mod Weekend). ■ Numbers at the Sub Club. 1 Jul, 11pm–3am. £tbc. One of Glasgow’s most eclectic clubbing successes goes from strength to strength each month, with rotating residents and a diverse array of dubstep and techno-playing special guests from around the globe. Help Numbers celebrate their eighth birthday and best year yet, with old favourite Floating Points and resident DJ Spencer. See preview, page 48. ■ Point 4 at Soundhaus. 1 Jul, 11pm–3am. £6 (members £5). A co-op of nights for the discerning clubber, from residents Simon Stokes (Darkroom Dubs, Rekluse), Charles Turtle (Animal Farm, Off The Record) and Colin Henderson (Techno Terrorist). ■ Pressure at the Arches. 1 Jul, 11pm–3am. £7. More techno action from Slam at their monthly Arches residency, featuring some big-name guests. With a four-hour set from the residents. FREE Revolver Bears at Revolver. 1 Jul, 8pm–1am. A new club night for Glasgow gents in search of a little furry company, courtesy of the Bearscots team. As well as that, there are drinks promotions, chocolate and tunes from DJ Corky. ■ Superfly at the Flying Duck. 1 Jul, 11pm–3am. £5. Duncan Superfly and Gregor Emond ‘Keep On Keepin’ On’ in a new venue, providing a sweltering mix of sweet soul, sexy assed funk, 60s psyche rock, hip hop, post punk and new releases. ■ Wax Works & EQD at the Admiral. 1 Jul, 11pm–3am. £8 ; £5 advance. A four-hour set of underground techno from Eric Cloutier. ■ Common People at the Flying Duck. 8 Jul, 11pm–3am. Free before 11pm; £3 before midnight; £5 (£4) after. The 90s are fair game for a nostalgia night now that a decade has passed, says this monthly night, and who are we to argue? With 90s bingo from 9pm. ■ Kino Fist at Nice’n’Sleazy. 8 Jul, 11.30pm–3am. £3. Night of cross-genre delights, new wave, Krautrock, spiky pop and freak beat from Charlotte and Rafla. ■ Primitive Painters at the Flying Duck. 8 Jul, 11pm–3am. Free before 11pm; £3 before midnight; £5 (£4) after. Indie-popping on the second Saturday of the month in the Kitchen Bar. ■ Lebowski Fest 2011 at the Flying Duck. 15 Jul, 9pm–3am. Free before 11pm; £3 before midnight; £5 (£4) after.
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Balearic, or Balearic beat, adj: Spanish origin but formally cultivated by British DJs, Balearic came to be identified with a certain kind of mid-tempo (i.e. 100 – 120 BPM) dance music. ORIGINS Pioneered by key DJs on London’s nascent acid house scene, the term Balearic was coined after a trip to Ibiza in the summer of 1987, and initially meant a much more eclectic mix of music than any of them were used to hearing, as exemplified by a certain island taste-maker, Alfredo Fiorito. Witnessing the Argentine DJ, then resident at Amnesia, mixing up some out- there indie records alongside soul, Italo disco, Chicago house, EBM, new wave, punk, reggae, plus the odd weird pop tune, they decided they’d discovered The Next Big Thing. The meaning later became more obscure and more closely affiliated with mid- tempo club records exhibiting a funky beat more akin to hip hop than the straighter four-four beats of house.
KEY FIGURES Trevor Fung, Paul Oakenfold, Danny Rampling, Johnny Walker, Nicky Holloway, plus oft-forgotten ladies Lisa Loud and Nancy Noise, all watched Alfredo in action in Ibiza, christened his style and took it back to Blighty. Oakenfold and Fung compiled Balearic Beat Volume 1 – The Album (FFRR) with Radio 1’s Pete Tong. And Balearic has remained a staple for left-leaning DJs with an ‘anything goes’ attitude, or who prefer not to get stuck in a 125 BPM house groove, from Soul II Soul’s Jazzie B and Bristol’s Wild Bunch crew to the likes of The Chemical Brothers, Harvey and the Idjut Boys. (hobbesmusic.co.uk) ■ You’re likely to hear some Balearic at Subculture, Sub Club, weekly Sat; Highlife, La Cheetah, Sat 2 Jul (both Glasgow); Ultragroove, Cabaret Voltaire, Sat 2 & 16 Jul; Devil Disco Club, Bongo Club, Sat 9 Jul; Heavy Gossip, Hawke + Hunter, Sat 25 Jun; Wasabi Disco, Sneaky Pete’s, Sat 16 Jul (all Edinburgh).
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