CLUBS GLASGOW
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Thursday Glasgow
✽Awesome Tapes From Africa at CCA. 31 Jul, 11pm. £5–£7. Since 2006 Brian Shimkovitz’s Awesome Tapes From Africa blog has been shedding light on obscure sounds from across the continent. As a DJ he brings the blog to life with sets that blend folkloric pop, dancefloor gems and hip-hop. See preview, right. FREE Beat Surfing at Stereo. 24 Jul, 9.30pm–1am. Funky electro, swing, nu jazz and balkan. ■ Jelly Baby and Rubbermensch at O2 ABC. Weekly 11pm–3am. £5 in advance; £6 on the door. A night for indie, electro and pop lovers. ■ Sub Rosa at the Sub Club. Weekly 11pm–3am. £5. House-led student night from residents Spittal, Junior G and Ray Vose. Upcoming guests include Groovement (16 Jul) and Moxie (23 Jul). ■ Walk ‘n’ Skank with Mungo’s Hi Fi at Berkeley Suite. Weekly 11pm–3am. £3 before midnight; £5 after. Reggae and dancehall session with residents Mungo’s Hi Fi and guests.
Friday Glasgow
■ Argonaut Sounds Reggae Soundsystem at the Poetry Club. 11 Jul, 10pm–2am. £5. The Argonaut Sounds team return playing roots, reggae and dancehall all on vinyl. ■ Cymatic Response at the Poetry Club. 1 Aug, 10pm–2am. £5. All analogue party with Perseus Traxx and Marco Bernardi.
✽David Rodigan at the Arches. 25 Jul, 10pm–3am. £12. Reggae from the
MBE award holder. ■ Fantasma and Auntie Flo at the Arches. 18 Jul, 10pm–3am. £5. South African supergroup Fantasma and Highlife’s Auntie Flo join together to celebrate Nelson Mandela. ■ Glue at the Flying Duck. 25 Jul, 11pm–3am. £5 (£3). Indie, old and new punk and electro with the Glue lads. ■ Gui Borrato at SWG3. 15 Aug, 10pm–2am. £15. Electronic music from the Brazilian. ■ Intergalactic at the Flying Duck. 18 Jul, 11pm–3am. £5 (£3). Far out dancing. No Klingons allowed.
✽Numbers at the Sub Club. 18 Jul, 11pm–4am. £10. One of Glasgow’s most eclectic clubbing successes goes from strength to strength and celebrates their 11th birthday with Paul Johnson & Spencer. See preview, page 68. ■ Strangeways at the Admiral. 1 Aug, 8pm. £5. A regular tribute night to The Smiths and Morrissey, with a proud fan club atmosphere and aesthetic, uninhibited dancing and more daffs/ gladioli than you can shake a stick at. All proceeds raised go to charity. ■ Too Nice at the Art School. 11 Jul, 11pm–3am. £5. Phonk, hip hop and R&B party with Bessa, J Leslie and Heckter. ■ We Should Hang Out More at La Cheetah. 1 Aug, 11pm–3am. £5. Expect a night of disco in all forms.
Saturday Glasgow ■ Birdcage at Saint Judes. 19 Jul, 9pm–3am. £5–£7 in advance; £10 on the door. See LGBT listings. ■ Crimes of the Future at Berkeley Suite. 19 Jul, 11pm–3am. £5. Andrew Weatherall associates Scott Fraser and Timothy J Fairplay embark on a new project, playing Krautrock, electronica, dub and everything in between.
66 THE LIST 10 Jul–21 Aug 2014
WORLD AWESOME TAPES FROM AFRICA Saramago Café, CCA Glasgow, Thu 31 Jul; Summerhall, Edinburgh, Fri 1 Aug.
Awesome Tapes From Africa began when ethnomusicology student Brian Shimkovitz decided to share the music he’d collected on his travels. ‘When I first went to West Africa in 2002, there were almost nothing but tapes in the markets,’ he explains. ‘When I heard something cool on the radio and asked what it was and searched for it, it was always on tape. After I spent a year in 2004 / 2005 doing research on hip hop in Ghana, I moved to Brooklyn. I was sitting in my apartment one day with my roommate looking at these hundreds of tapes I’d brought back from West Africa and I just said, “I am gonna start a blog called Awesome Tapes From Africa”.’
The blog, and now label, has become a portal to obscure and amazing sounds from across the continent: hip hop to juju, griot to ethiojazz, gospel to house. ‘Bottom-line for me is I love music that has this indescribable energy. It can be acoustic or electronic, modern or traditional. But my focus on posting tapes revolves around these questions: is this music famous where it comes from? Does this music sound completely different from what we normally get on our record store shelves outside the continent?’
Shimkovitz never imagined he’d become a DJ, but he loves ‘taking the sounds to humans in a live context. I play 100% on tapes and it’s a pain sometimes to get good decks at clubs but it’s super fun!’ Having played Optimo’s New Year party, he’s looking forward to these latest Scottish dates. ‘Everyone was happy and friendly and dancing like crazy. I guess that’s New Year’s Eve, but it’s also Glasgow and Scotland from what I can tell. So I have a feeling Edinburgh and Glasgow this time around will be pretty exciting.’ (Stewart Smith)
■ David Guetta at Bellahouston Park. 16 Aug, 4pm. £55. Big hands in the air dance beats from one of the biggest names in EDM. Part of Glasgow Summer Sessions. ■ Deception’s First Birthday at Audio. 2 Aug, 7pm–3am. £8–£10. Help them celebrate in style. ■ Heartbeat at 69 Below. 26 Jul, 9pm–4am. £6. Number 81 in the top 100 DJs in the world. ■ 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. ■ Melbourne bOz at 69 Below. 19 Jul, 11pm–4am. £6–£10. Scotland’s first night dedicated to Melbourne bounce presents Uberjak’d.
✽Ostgut Ton Showcase at the Art School. 2 Aug, 6pm–3am. £20-
30. Techno collective Animal Farm present the first label showcase in Scotland for the Berlin behemoth ■ Pretty Ugly at the Admiral. 9 Aug, 11pm–3am. £5–£6. The Pretty Ugly girls play sexy, glamorous indie rock’n’roll, electro beats, 60s soul and experiment with some new artists to get everyone in the mood for dirty dancing.
■ Subculture at the Sub Club. Weekly 11pm–3am. £10. Glasgow’s well- established house institution continues to reign supreme, with residents Harri and Domenic and occasional big-name guests. Upcoming guests include Jasper James (19 Jul).
✽Shoot Your Shot at the Poetry Club. 2 Aug, 10pm–2am. £4. A
new, hi-NRG jolt to the Glasgow scene, celebrating the more outrageous side of clubbing. See column, page 67. TYCI at Bloc+. 19 Jul & 16 Aug, 11pm– 3am. Free before midnight; £2 after. A club and live event from TYCI, a Glasgow collective run for women by women. Live sets from pop outfits Thee AHs (19 Jul) and Swim Team (16 Aug). FREE Valhalla at Ivory Blacks. Weekly 11.30pm–3am. Heavy metal, power metal, black metal and death metal. Basically all the metal you could ever want. ■ The Warehouse at SWG3. 9 Aug, 10pm–2am. £8–£10 in advance. Guest nights from good DJs including Dopplereffekt and Objekt (9 Aug) and Jimmy Edgar & Sensu (23 Aug).
Sunday Glasgow ■ Disco Badger at Bamboo. Weekly 10.30pm–3am. £tbc. DJ Kash, Alfredo
Crolla, Dominic Martin and Gerry Lyons play hip hop, house, funk and electro. ■ For the Record at La Cheetah. 10 Aug, 11pm–3am. Free before midnight; £5 after. House and techno night featuring Dominic Martin (Lost My Dog) back-to- back with Illyus & Barriento. ■ Sunday Roaster at the Garage. Weekly 11pm–3am. £4. DJs chuck tunes at you while you dance wildly. Monday Glasgow
■ Burn at the Buff Club. Weekly 11pm–3am. £3 (free with trade wage slip). Burn provides all the disco songs you’ve forgotten about and the ones you can’t forget. Presented by Normski, Zeus and Mash. ■ Heat at Viper. Weekly 9pm–2am. Free before 10.30pm; £5 after (£3). Urban, house and student anthems from DJ Ross McMillan. FREE Soul at Ad Lib. Weekly 11pm–3am. Felmonious Munk spins 45s from the 60s and 70s. Tuesday Glasgow
■ #tag at the Garage. Weekly 10.30pm–3am. £6 (£4). Party anthems to cure the soul.