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GLASGOW Events are listed by city, day, type then alphabetically by name. Submit listings at least 14 days before publication to david.pollock@list.co.uk. Glasgow listings are compiled by David Pollock. ✽✽ Indicates Hitlist entry
Glasgow Thursday
Clubs ■ Bitter Glitter at the Polo Lounge. Weekly 11pm–3am. £3. Madame S (Utter Gutter) and Fraser Bone (Lock Up Your Daughters) with a weekly party, playing a mix of homo-disco, electronic treats, jackin’ house and tech beats. ■ 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. ■ Dirty Booty Butter at Nice’n’Sleazy. 18 Aug, 11.30pm–3am. £3. Resident DJ Otis plays hip hop, breakbeats, Afrobeat, funk and deep house. 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 Salsa Tumbao at Boteco do Brasil. Weekly 8pm–3am. Salsa and dancing with Farah Portela Alonso and Tumbao Salsa School. ■ 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), Homebass DJs (Jakebeats, Mixkings), Floyd (Bangers & Mashup, Sub Friction), Foley (Voltaic) and more. ■ Teenage Lust at Nice’n’Sleazy. 11 Aug, 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. FREE The 4.45 Club at the Flying Duck. Weekly 4.45pm. The weekend starts here, with classic 45s from 4.45pm in the kitchen bar and rather generous drinks promos. ■ Walk’n’Skank at Club 520. Weekly 11pm–3am. £4 (£3). The 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. Chart & Party ■ Bump at Hummingbird. Weekly 11pm–3am. £tbc. R&B and hip hop from DJs Naeem and Sketch. ■ 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.
Back Tae Mine Having taken an extended time out from the scene, indie club the Flying Duck’s cosy house party is back once more to keep regulars dancing to the jingliest of tracks. Now every Saturday night, regular residents will include Singles Night’s Andy Divine and Chris ‘Beans’ Geddes, with former resident DJ Gavin Dunbar (Camera Obscura) returning for a one-off set this weekend. Flying Duck, Glasgow, weekly Saturdays.
Men & Machines Third Birthday After three years of excellent special guests and memorable nights, the club twin of the Radiomagnetic podcast is closing its doors for good. Before it goes, enjoy a four-hour residents special of house, techno, disco and more. Stereo, Glasgow, Fri 12 Aug.
Kollektiv Already an established techno and house night, Kollektiv add another genre to their palette here with the appearance of guest Ben UFO, the alias of Londoner Ben Thompson. Alongside old uni friends Pangea and Ramadanman he’s the boss of the first- rate and nationally lauded dubstep label Hessle Audio, and a renowned DJ in his own right. Admiral Bar Basement, Glasgow, Fri 12 Aug.
Bigfoot’s Formerly the location of Glasgow’s first and only curry’n’karaoke joint, this site on the banks of the River Clyde will play host here to a special indoor and outdoor all-day party from the Bigfoot’s team. On the menu will be a barbecue, shisha pipes, vodka jelly and cutting- edge sets from DJs like Simon Stokes, Brian D’Souza (Highlife’s Auntie Flo) and Quail (Animal Farm).100 Stobcross Road, Glasgow, Sat 13 Aug.
Return to Mono You can see and hear Glasgow house overlords Slam every month at this Sub Club residency, but it’s not often you get to enjoy them for the whole night. This date will feature an epic four-hour set from the duo. Sub Club, Glasgow, Fri 12 Aug.
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. ■ 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. ■ 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. ■ 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. Glasgow Friday
Clubs ■ 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. ■ Common People at the Flying Duck. 12 Aug, 9pm–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. Includes entry to Primitive Painters. ■ Damnation at Classic Grand. Weekly 10.30pm–3am. £5 (students Free). Rock, metal, punk and emo. ■ Kino Fist at Nice’n’Sleazy. 12 Aug, 11.30pm–3am. £3. Night of cross-genre delights, new wave, Krautrock, spiky pop and freak beat from Charlotte and Rafla. ✽✽ Kollektiv at the Admiral. 12 Aug, 11pm–3am. £tbc. Doug Behaviour and Marco Calzone welcome a range of special guests playing house, techno and more. With British producer Ben UFO, co-founder of the Hessle Audio label. See preview, page 113.
✽✽ FREE Men & Machines at Stereo. 12 Aug,
11pm–3am. Disco, house and more from Men and Machines at this irregular but worth waiting for night. The wait for the next M&M will be a long one, sadly. This third birthday residents party will also be the last date thanks
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still hear the Men & Machines monthly podcast on Radiomagnetic. FREE Only Fools and House at Flat 0/1. Weekly 11pm–3am. Tom, Anton and Ewan play a fine selection of New York and Chicago house, cosmic italo disco and classic 80s electro. ■ Primitive Painters at the Flying Duck. 12 Aug, 11pm–3am. £3 before midnight; £5 (£4) after. Indie-popping on the second Saturday of the month in the Kitchen Bar. Includes entry to Common People. ✽✽ Propaganda at O2 ABC. Weekly nighter. ■ Return to Mono at the Sub Club. 12 Aug, 11pm–3am. £7 (£6). A first-class house and techno party from residents Slam. With a four hour set from the hosts. 10.30pm–3am. £4. Indie Friday
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Moombahton (moom- bar-tonn) proper noun. Midtempo style (105-115 BPM), characterised by the same shuffling rhythms of reggaeton and dancehall with heavy bass and beats, plus electro/rave motifs such as build-ups, break-downs, horns, sirens, bleeps, whistles and vocal snatches often of a trashy or comical nature. The derivative styles favour samples/themes from soul (Moombahsoul) and dubstep (Moombahcore/ Moombahstep). ORIGINS In Autumn 2009, Washington-based DJ Dave Nada was invited to play at a ‘skipping’ party (thrown by and for kids playing truant) in a friend’s basement, but instead of his conventional style (hard, fast, ravey electro), they were listening to reggaeton and Latin American music. Rising to the challenge, he opened his set with one of his regular tunes – DJ Chuckie & Silva Cuomo’s ‘tropical’ electro shuffler, ‘Moombah’ – pitched right down to the 110 BPMs of reggaeton: the party went off and, in barely 18 months, Moombahton has gone global.
KEY FIGURES Dave Nada and Matt Nordstrom record together as Nadastrom and run the Moombahton Massive night in Washington with DJ Sabo. LA’s Dillon Francis and North Carolina’s Dave Heartbreak are fellow US champions alongside Philadelphia’s Diplo. Never one to miss a trick, Diplo has just released a Moombahton compilation by Dave Nada on his Mad Decent label. French electro star Brodinski and Sheffield’s Toddla T are currently its highest profile European purveyors. (hobbesmusic.co.uk) ■ You’re likely to hear some Moombahton at Walk’n’Skank, Club 520, weekly Thu and Bass Warrior Sound System, Stereo, Sat 13 Aug (both Glasgow); Wonky, Bongo Club, Fri 12 Aug and Volume, Sneaky Pete’s, Sat 13 Aug (both Edinburgh).
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