list.co.uk/clubs GLASGOW
Events are listed by city, day, type then alphabetically by name. Submit listings at least 16 days before publication to david.pollock@list.co.uk. Glasgow listings are compiled by David Pollock. ✽✽ Indicates Hitlist entry
Thursday
One-Offs ■ 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. ■ Mount Heart Attack at La Cheetah. 21 Jul, 8pm–3am. £7. A regular club with a wide-ranging taste in electronic party music. In association with La Cheetah, MHA present a live set from Ottawa dancehall duo Bonjay, whose work includes remixes for Mad Decent, Ninja Tune and Ghetto Arc. Weekly ■ Bitter Glitter at the Polo Lounge. Weekly 11pm–3am. £3. Madame S (Utter Gutter) and Fraser Bone (Lock Up Your Daughters) playing a mix of homo- disco, electronica, 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 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. ■ 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 Shed roller disco. 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. 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 black 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, Noface, Homebass DJs, Floyd, Foley 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. ■ 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.
Friday
One-Offs ■ Alibi at the Flying Duck. 22 Jul, 11pm–3am. £7; £5 for those who ‘like’ the Facebook page. Electro, techno and fidget from Alibi residents Dirty Basement. ‘Another 3D tranny party,’ because we can never have too many of them. With DJs PC (2mankyDJs), Crocky Daman, Dirty Basement, HaHaHa, Sven Dirty, Spill and a mystery guest. ■ Hum & Haw Presents Alex Smoke at La Cheetah. 22 Jul, 11pm–3am. £tbc. A live set from Alex Smoke (Hum+Haw, Soma). See preview, page 44. ■ JJC at Azure. 22 Jul, 11pm–3am. £7 (students £5). The Nigerian-born rapper, producer, songwriter and former Big Brovaz member comes to Glasgow following the release of his new track ‘We Are Africans’. ✽✽ The Sensu Boat Party at Glasgow Science Centre. 22 Jul, 7–11pm. £25. This summer boat party features a live set from three-quarters of Visionquest (Lee Curtiss, Shaun Reeves and Ryan Crosson), with entry to the afterparty at the Sub Club afterwards included. The boat leaves from the Science Centre. ✽✽ The Sensu Boat Party Afterparty at the Sub Club. 22 Jul, 11pm–3am. £12. You won’t be on a boat any more, but you’ll still get to see three- quarters of Visionquest (Lee Curtiss, Shaun Reeves and Ryan Crosson) and you can buy afterparty tickets separately. FREE Texas Fever Rock’n’Roll High School Reunion at Black Sparrow. 22 Jul, 9pm–midnight. A one- off return night for the 80s indie and punk rock club. ■ Dum Dum at Bacchus. 29 Jul, 10pm–3am. £6. Expect anything from experimental and electro to techno and IDM, with residents DJs Stochastic and Ian Wilson. With Skeksi, S>D and Konx- Om-Pax, all with live sets. ■ Friday Street at Blackfriars. 29 Jul, 10pm–3am. £8 ; £5 advance. Classic mod sounds, 60s psych and northern soul at Scotland’s premier mod club, with regular DJs Mikey Collins and Paul Molloy. This 11th birthday party and tribute to the late friend of the club Alan ‘Garfield’ McQuillan will feature guest DJ Dave Edwards.
✽✽ How’s Your Party? at the Sub Club. 29 Jul, 11pm–3am. £6 before
midnight; £8 after. Funky, dubstep, bassline and more at this well-respected party, with resident Boom Monk Ben. With one of this year’s new stars of house Riva Starr (Made To Play) and Glasgow’s own HaHaHa. ■ Intenzifi at Soundhaus. 29 Jul, 8.30pm–3am. £15. A UK hardcore and gabber night with a reliably huge line-up of residents and special guests. With Squad E, Dyprax, Scott Brown, MC Whizzkid, MC Ribbz and many more.
■ Luftfunk at Hummingbird. 29 Jul, 11.30pm–3am. £3. A new monthly night of cosmic, space, Italo, funk and disco from Den Haan. ■ Mondo Scuro at Nice’n’Sleazy. 29 Jul, 11pm–3am. £3. ‘Occult sexmusic for insomniacs and rubber freaks’ played live by Organs of Love (El Rancho Records) with DJ support from GK Machine. ■ Nicolas Jaar and Valentin Stip at the Arches. 29 Jul, 7.30pm–3am. £8. Dubstep-influenced melancholia in the same ballpark as James Blake and Jamie Woon from Jaar, who reckons that ‘everyone who goes to a club is heartbroken’. With an afterparty until 3am with the Highlife DJs and special guests. See Music preview, page 65. ✽✽ Piece Together at Chambre 69. 29 Jul, 11pm–3am. £8 advance; £10 on the door. A regular house party in this intimate venue. With big-name special guests Japanese Popstars with a mix of electro, house and breaks. ■ Pinup Nights at the Flying Duck. 29 Jul, 9pm–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. ■ Stay Plastic & Jelly Roll Soul at La Cheetah. 29 Jul, 11pm–3am. £10. Two of La Cheetah’s finest join forces. With special guest Marcellus Pittman (Unirhythm Records – Detroit). Weekly ■ Audiofilth at Common. Weekly 7pm–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 9pm–3am. £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 10pm–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. ■ Fashion Fridays at oVo. Weekly 11pm–3am. Free before midnight; £5 after (£3 students). Chart and club sounds from DJs Paul Rea, Kash and Asim. ■ 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.
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B-more or Bmore adj: Uptempo (120-140 BPM) hip hop/breaks originally from Baltimore, with an 8/4 time signature, using short, repetitive vocal samples – often call-and-response- style raps/chants – over drum breaks, staccato snares and heavy bass.
ORIGINS Laying the now- ubiquitous drum break from Lynn Collins’ ‘Think’ over a vocal sample from A Tribe Called Quest and some jazz- style scatting, Scottie B & DJ Equalizer’s ‘I Got The Rhythm’ is the record usually credited with establishing a template exclusive to Baltimore, in 1989. Shawn Caesar’s ‘Yo Yo Where The Hos At’ is another, with both tunes inspired by the flourishing hip house movement in Chicago. Scottie B and Shawn Caesar went on to launch the Unruly label in 1994, releasing a slew of B-more records and compilations throughout the late 90s and the early 00s. KEY FIGURES Rod Lee (Club Kingz) is also widely perceived as one of B-more’s original dons, while DJs Patrick, Kenny B, Class, Diamond K, Technics, Frank-Ski, Miss Tony and Spen all had a hand in cultivating B-more in the 90s, plus Booman, KW Griff and K-Swift (RIP) in the 00s. The sound only really spread beyond the city in 2005, blowing up internationally after it was embraced by Diplo (from Philadelphia) and MIA (from London). Assisted by DJ Low Budget, Diplo’s magpie influence was felt primarily via mixtapes and consequently B-more remixes commissioned for his Hollertronix and Mad Decent labels. (hobbesmusic.co.uk) ■ Now effectively rinsed to death in the UK, you may still hear the occasional B-more track at clubs such as Big’n’Bashy, Bongo Club, Edinburgh, Sat 30 Jul.
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