CLUBS
■ Nightrave at La Cheetah. 21 Feb, 11pm–3am. £5 before midnight: £7 after. Top-shelf bass music from ghettotech to grime from Nightwave and featuring Jubilee (Mixpak, Trouble & Bass) and Shox (Rinse FM). ■ Numbers at the Sub Club. 21 Feb, 11pm–3am. £10. One of Glasgow’s most eclectic clubbing successes goes from strength to strength. Midland and Galcher Lustwerk guest with resident DJ Spencer. See preview, right. ■ Peter Hook (DJ set) at Firewater. 28 Feb, 10pm–3am. £6 (£5). New Order’s Peter Hook entertains.
✽Pressure at Arches. 28 Feb, 10pm–5am. £23. Len Faki, Joris
Voorn, Carl Craig, Claude VonStroke and J.Phlip join residents Slam for an epic late show. ■ Return to Mono at the Sub Club. 14 Mar, 11pm–3am. £tbc. Slam’s monthly house residency, with top-line house and techno guests and a set from the residents themselves. Mark and Nic Fanciulli feature on the decks for the evening.
✽ Ron Morelli at La Cheetah, 14 Mar, 11pm–3am. £tbc. Label head of revered New York imprint L.I.E.S. brings the sound of Brooklyn’s underground to Glasgow. ■ SAMAs Afterparty at Bloc+. 7 Mar, 10pm–3am. Free before midnight; £2 after. Post-awards bash for the Scottish Alternative Music Awards. ■ Sensu at the Sub Club. 7 Mar, 11pm–3am. £tbc. A typically great house, techno and electro night from the Sub Club with guest DJ Koze. FREE Symbiosis at Audio. 21 Feb, 10.30pm–3am. Drum & bass and dubstep, with resident DJs including Calaco Jack, Yellow Benzene, Hex and Alcane. DJ Dominic Petrie (Ingredients/ Lifestyle/Nerve) and the Kryptonic Sound Kollective (Dumfries) guest. ■ Thunder Disco Club at the Sub Club. 28 Feb, 11pm–3am. £8 in advance; £10 on the door. Nineties house, techno and ‘sex disco’ from Jube and Rory at one of Glasgow’s finest young parties and a special three-hour set from Maurice Fulton. ■ Tommy Trash at the Arches. 7 Mar, 10pm–3am. £24.50. Australian electro house superstar Tommy Trash (Axtone, Fool’s Gold, and Mau5trap), one of the biggest names in EDM at the moment, comes to Scotland. FREE Tremors at Flat 0/1. 21 Feb, 11pm–3am. Resident DJ hits the decks with house, techno, disco and garage. ■ Violate at Ivory Blacks. 21 Feb, 11pm–3am. £8. Fetish club with play, socialising, dancing and live music.
Saturday Glasgow ■ #notsosilent at La Cheetah. 22 Feb, 11pm–3am. £8–£10 in advance; £12 on the door. Future garage and bubbling dubstep sounds. German duo Session Victim join the residents for a three- hour set. ■ Chase & Status (DJ set) at O2 Academy. 22 Feb, 10pm–3am. 22.50. London duo Chase & Status with MC Rage journey through the best in drum and bass, garage and house. ■ Code at La Cheetah. 15 Mar, 11pm–3am. £6–£10. A well-established techno night, which started at Paisley’s Club 69, celebrates its fourth birthday with Droid Behavior label co-founder, Droid Recordings founder Drumcell and DJ Nick M. ■ Crimes of the Future at Berkeley Suite. 22 Feb, 10.30pm–3am. £5 before midnight; £7 after. Andrew Weatherall associates Scott Fraser and Timothy J Fairplay embark on a new project, playing Krautrock, electronica, dub and everything in between. DMX Krew (live) join them. ■ Dave Seaman at 69 Below. 1 Mar, 10pm–3am. £11. Having decided to become a DJ aged eight, Dave Seaman carries on pulling out all the stops on the decks.
44 THE LIST 20 Feb–20 Mar 2014
HOUSE/TECHNO GALCHER LUSTWERK Sub Club, Glasgow, Fri 21 Feb
Somewhere between 100% Galcher, an hour-long journey of snippets and longer tracks, and the release of his debut EP Tape 22 last May, hype for Galcher Lustwerk has settled into place. Across many darkened bedrooms, fans of deep house, soft techno and understated hip hop have been united. ‘I’m surprised,’ Galcher admits. ‘Not just at the impression it’s made in the UK, but all over. It feels good and I just hope I can continue to impress as more music gets released.’
Lustwerk’s modesty is as seductive as his sound. Releasing on White Material Records, one of a clutch of red-hot house and techno imprints blossoming in New York over the past few years, his tracks are a celebration of the label’s motto of ‘Working Man’s Techno’: music offering up both a rhythmic and conceptual counterpart to a week of hard graft. Sitting alongside releases from label owners Young Male and DJ Richard, Galcher’s escapist narratives could not be more appropriate.
Starting out in rap and hip hop, he only really found his sound once he’d taken both genres’ penchant for exaggerated storytelling, teamed it with deep, atmospheric techno-flecked house, and tightened it with a sensitive, narcotic pulse. The result is a series of cinematic, late-night universes where fantasy and reality blend; it’s this slightly unreal sense of anything-goes spontaneity that informs his unrestricted record choice behind the decks: ‘Whatever I feel like playing at that moment, I’ll put on,’ he insists. ‘I don’t stick to one genre per set.’
He’s joined by the equally eclectic-headed Leeds-based producer Midland, making his Numbers debut after an incredible year that kicked off with the release of arguably one of the biggest club tracks of 2013, ‘Trace’. Prepare for a dynamic foray into house, techno and whatever else ensnares their imaginations. (Rosie Davies)
■ Deathkill4000 at Bloc+. 1 Mar, 11pm–3am. Free before midnight; £2 after. An industrial rock noise party. ■ Fantastic Man at Bloc+. 8 Mar, 11pm–3am. Free before midnight; £2 after. Gender-bending macho metal. ■ Fedde Le Grand at the Arches. 15 Mar, 10pm–3am. £17–£21. The Dutch DJ and producer spins house, tech house and electro from his extensive back catalogue. FREE Get the Records On! at CCA. 1 Mar, 8pm–midnight. A selection of psychedelic rock, rhythm n’ blues, garage and soul, with a touch of Latin, ska and jazz, from DJs Craig Reece and Aitor Zair. ■ Hollywood Boulevard at Blackfriars Basement. Weekly 11pm–3am. £5. Boogie on down to soul, electro, funk and celebrate the music no matter what time of year. ■ Hot Mess at the Poetry Club. 8 Mar, 10pm–2am. £4 before 10.30pm; £6 after. Gay club night describing itself as ‘an irregular party for irregular folks’, where
the focus is on the music, which is a heady mix of disco, hi-NRG, acid house, Italo and electro from the safe hands of DJ Simonotron (Club for Heroes/Devil Disco Club). ■ Houndin’ the Streets at the Flying Duck. 22 Feb, 11pm–3am. £5 (£3). Jer Reid and Martin Law play punk, post-punk, hip hop and anything else from late 70s and early 80s New York. ■ Let’s Go Back . . . Way Back! at La Cheetah. 1 Mar, 10pm–3am. £10 in advance; more on the door. Old-school house, rave and dance music from the genres’ early days, with residents Bosco and Rob Mason, featuring London duo Carl ‘Smiley’ Hyman and Philip ‘PJ’ Johnson (aka Shut Up & Dance) as guests.
✽ Melting Pot at the Admiral. 1 Mar, 10.30pm–3am. £12 in
advance; £15 on the door. All things disco-house from residents Andrew Pirie and Simon Cordiner and guest Joaquin ‘Joe’ Claussell for their 13th
birthday celebrations. ■ Pistols at Dawn at La Cheetah. 8 Mar, 11pm–3am. £8 in advance; £10 on the door. Retro house, downtempo and electronica. Chicago house and disco maestro Rahaan joins the team for the evening. ■ Pretty Ugly at the Admiral. 8 Mar, 11pm–3am. £5–£6. The Pretty Ugly girls play sexy, glamorous indie rock’n’roll, electro beats and 60s soul, experimenting with some new artists to get everyone in the mood for dirty dancing. FREE Rip This Joint at Slouch. Weekly 11pm–3am. DJ Jopez plays indie, rock’n’roll, blues, soul and funk. ■ Sound Affect at the Flying Duck. 22 Feb, 9pm–1am. Free before 11pm; more after. Vinyl classics to kick start your Saturday night. ■ Subculture at the Sub Club. Weekly 11pm–3am. £10. Glasgow’s well-established house institution continues to reign supreme, with residents Harri and Domenic