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Glasgow Thursday Monthly & One-Offs FREE Danse Macabre at Nice’n’Sleazy. 23 Aug, 11.30pm–3am. DJs Pasta and Catnip spin old-school goth rock and classic disco (how does that even work?), along with Italo, sleazy synth-pop and the best alternative rock tracks the 80s had to offer. ■ Holy Other and Vessel at Stereo. 23 Aug, 11pm–3am. £8. Soulful, minimal electronica in the James Blake vein. Plus DJ set from Fort Romeau.
Weekly ■ The Afterparty at the Buff Club. Weekly 11pm–3am. £4 (£3). DJ Euan Neilson plays classic R&B and hip hop. ■ BOOM! at the Garage. Weekly 11pm–3am. Free before 11.30pm; £5 (£3) after. Gerry Lyons gives you exactly what you want and Andy R throws R&B and 90s hip hop into the mix. ■ 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. ■ Jellybaby and Rubbermensch at O2 ABC. Weekly 11pm–3am. £5 (£3). A night for indie lovers with Andy Wilson in charge. FREE Salsa Tumbao at Boteco do Brasil. Weekly 8pm–3am. Salsa and dancing with Farah Portela Alonso and Tumbao Salsa School. ■ Sol’s Club at Sol’s Club. Weekly 10pm–3am. £5. Bollywood, Latin, Afro- Caribbean and reggae club nights. ■ Taking Back Thursdays at the Cathouse. Weekly 11pm–3am. £4 (£2). Rock, metal and emo with DJ 32 and DJ Muppet. ■ Thursdays 520 at Club 520. Weekly 11pm–3am. £5 (students £4). Mungo’s Hi Fi and Bunty Beats playing reggae, dancehall and hip hop. Also featuring rotating monthly guests Mixed Bizness, Sleaze Records, Mix Kings and Djamba in the back room. FREE Up the Racket at Maggie May’s. Weekly 10pm–3am. DJ Paddy plays indie, rock, disco and pop. ■ Walk’n’Skank at Club 520. Weekly 11pm–3am. £4 (£3). Some of the best bass music Glasgow has to offer, with residents Mungo’s Hi Fi, DJ Kokoro (Neo Tokyo Bass) and Breezak (BASS Alliance). ■ Zipper at Stairway Club. Weekly 5pm–3am. Free before 10pm; £5 after. Classic rock’n’roll including Rolling Stones, Hendrix, The Who and Muddy Waters. With live bands.
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Monthly & One-Offs ✽ Clash Presents at Chambre 69. 24 Aug, 11pm–3am. £8; £5 advance.
In association with Zeroten x Palace, the music magazine presents a dubstep party. With Shackleton (Skull Disco) and Kuedo (formerly one half of Vex’d). ■ EQTV at Berkeley Suite. 24 Aug, 11pm–3am. £5. House and techno night with big name special guests. This one’s a Wolf Music label party with Medlar and Matt & Stu. ■ The Sensu Boat Party at Venue TBC. 24 Aug, 7–11pm. £25. Another rave on the waves from the Sub Club’s house masters Sensu. With special guests Tale of Us.
■ The Sensu Boat Party Afterparty at the Sub Club. 24 Aug, 11pm–3am. £12. You won’t be on a boat any more, but you’ll still get to see the guests, or you can buy afterparty tickets separately. Also featuring the boat party’s special guests Tale of Us. ■ Strictly House at Saint Judes. 24 Aug, 10pm–3am. £6. Quality house from residents Raymond McDonald, Markio, Jonny Whyte, Peter McLaughlin and David McLaughlin. With special guest Pete Lewicki from Inverness. ■ Dirty Disorder at Flat 0/1. 31 Aug, 11pm–3am. £tbc. Orderly Disorder and Dirty Noise team up for a night of free techno. FREE Future Days at Berkeley Suite. 31 Aug, 7 Sep & 14 Sep, 11pm–3am. African disco, liquid funk, digi R&B, psych synth and yacht rock. ■ Motor City Electronics at La Cheetah. 31 Aug, 11pm–3am. £10. A new series of clubs at La Cheetah presenting the biggest and best classic names in Detroit techno. This first edition features a ‘history of Detroit techno’ set from Eddie ‘Flashin’ Fowlkes (Detroit Wax, Metroplex). ■ Phantasy Sound at the Sub Club. 31 Aug, 11pm–3am. £14. Guest label night featuring Erol Alkan and Daniel Avery, the former making his long- overdue first Subbie appearance. ■ Pressure at the Arches. 31 Aug, 10.30pm–3am. £12. More techno action from Slam at their monthly residency, featuring some big-name guests. Returning after a summer off with Marcel Dettmann (Ostgut Ton). FREE ReFrame at Basura Blanca at the Brunswick Hotel. 31 Aug, 8pm–2am. The brainchild of resident DJs Martin Lindinger and 27B, bringing you some fine quality house and techno. The first birthday party. FREE Samba Loca at Arta. 31 Aug, 10.30pm–3am. DJ Steve Le Mash plays remixes of club and chart anthems mixed with Latin carnival rhythms, Chris Whitehouse is on the drums and the Eletricat Samba Dancers shake all night long in full carnival costumes.
✽ Animal Farm at the Sub Club. 7 Sep, 11pm–3am. £7. A semi-regular house and techno party from the Animal Farm team. This month AF launch their very own record label with a set from Swedish DJ and producer Bleak. ■ Banjax at La Cheetah. 7 Sep, 11pm–3am. £10. A bi-monthly night from Dave Shades, Tommy & McGarvatron and Data Rape aka Full Phat. This second birthday party features two past guests in Jerome Hill, who played the first Banjax and the first Birthday, and Neil Landstrumm. ■ Lucid at FHQ. 14 Sep, 11pm–3am. £tbc. Old skool tunes for lovers of Sash, Tiësto, Paul Van Dyk and DJ Sammy. ■ Return to Mono at the Sub Club. 14 Sep, 11pm–3am. £10. Slam’s monthly house residency with Soma’s own Deepchord, celebrating the release of his Sommer album. ■ Tribute at La Cheetah. 14 Sep, 11pm–3am. £tbc. Representatives of Glasgow nights Stay Plastic, Pest Control, All Caps, Scrabble and Jelly Roll Soul team up for a club which will focus on ‘electronic funk’. Detroit house maestro and ex-Slum Village drummer Andres makes a guest appearance.
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. FREE Badseed at Slouch. Weekly 11pm–3am. Heather McCartney plays indie, rock‘n’roll and electro. ■ Bespoke Fridays at O’Couture. Weekly 11pm–3am. £6 (£3 students). Indie, dance, pop and cheap drinks. ■ Boho Fridays at Boho. Weekly 9.30pm–3am. £6. Fridays at Boho are funky, with DJ Robin B.
FREE Budda’s Big Friday at Budda. Weekly 9pm–3am. A big night of music, DJs and drinks promotions. ■ Buff Fridays at the Buff Club. Weekly 11pm–3am. £6. Gordie and Jack play old school jazz, funk and soul upstairs, while downstairs it’s John Ross and Alex O with everything from funk to punk. ■ Cathouse Fridays at the Cathouse. Weekly 10.30pm–3am. £6 (£5). DJs Billy, 32 and Chopsie play rock, metal, punk rock and emo. ■ 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 11pm–3am. £6. Rock, metal, punk and emo. ■ Elysium at Audio. Weekly 11pm–3am. £5. Progressive house with Crawford Lambie and Michael McMurray. ■ 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. FREE Fortune Fridays at Gala Merchant City Casino. Weekly 10pm–4am. DJ Tomczyk spins chart dance, electro, funk and house. ■ 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. ■ Jamming Fridays at Maggie May’s. Weekly 11pm–3am. Free before midnight; £5 after (students £3). Indie and rock’n’roll from the 60s to the present day. ■ 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. ■ NOW Fridays at Òran Mór. Weekly 11pm–3am. £6 (students £4). Chart, R&B, house and electro from Dave M. ■ Propaganda at O2 ABC. Weekly 10.30pm–3am. £5 (£4). UK-wide indie Friday nighter, with Afrocentric playing hip hop and R&B in the ABC2 on the last Friday of every month. ■ Shake Appeal at Bar Bloc+. Weekly 10pm–3am. Free before midnight; £2 after. Hip-shakin’ rock’n’roll, punk, blues, rock and metal. ■ Sound at Club 520. Weekly 11pm–3am. £6 (£5). A collection of some of the finest DJs in Glasgow and beyond, with Derizen playing bass influenced party sets in T1 and the house sound of Biba Nights in T4. ■ Tardis at Stairway Club. Weekly 5pm–3am. Free before 10pm; £5 after. Northern soul, classic indie tracks and more from Gavin Dunbar (Camera Obscura), featuring live music. ■ Tech at Re-Play. Weekly 3pm–3am. Free before 11pm; £5 after (£3). Ray Woods and Craig McHugh play R&B, house, hip hop and electro. ■ 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-Offs ■ Back to the Future at the Arches. 25 Aug, 10pm–3am. £15. A customarily huge night of hardcore, rave and old skool at this established large-scale event. With Dutch hardcore’s fieriest female DJ Korsakoff.
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Scouse House aka Donk, UK Bounce proper noun, 130–140 bpm Relentlessly, um, bouncy and uplifting strand of hard dance/house/trance music, characterised by banging kicks, speedy snare rolls, basslines which (literally) go ‘donk’, gaudy synths and clichéd vocals sampled from happy hardcore, house, hip hop, R&B and pop hits. Most popular across the North of England and Glasgow in the early 90s, as well as holiday destinations such as Magaluf (Majorca) and Malia (Crete).
ORIGINS The staff of 3 Beat Records in Liverpool found themselves in something of a bind in the early 90s. Resident at local club 051, DJ Lee Butler had been playing a poppier variant of hard dance but no one had come up with a name for this new subgenre. In a meeting with his staff one day, manager Pezz jokingly referred to it as ‘Scouse House’. Bingo. 051 was forced to close in 2005 but, like the proverbial cockroach, the music endures.
KEY FIGURES Local trio Ultrabeat hit No 2 in 2003 with ‘Pretty Green Eyes’, following it up with a string of top 40 hits before releasing Ultrabeat: The Album in 2007, collaborating with happy hardcore pioneer-cum-trance player Darren Styles on commercial dance anthem ‘Discolights’ in 2008. Australian DJ Alex K and solo DJ/producer Hypasonic are also significant, while Mickey Modelle vs Jessy had a UK Top Ten hit, in 2006, with ‘Dancing In The Dark’, which had originally appeared as a white label called ‘Donk In The Dark’ by Ignostikz vs The White. (hobbesmusic.co.uk) ■ You might hear some Scouse House at Back to the Future, the Arches, Glasgow, Sat 25 Aug.
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