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Thursday Glasgow
FREE Beat Surfing at Variety Bar. Weekly 8pm–midnight. Funky electro, swing, nu jazz and balkan. ■ Hip Hop Thursdays at the Buff Club. Weekly 11pm–3am. £3. Euan Neilson bringing you classic R&B and hip hop every Thursday. FREE Struggle at Bloc+. 4 Dec, 9pm. DIY punk label Struggletown present their monthly live club. FREE Teenage Riot at Bloc+. 20 Nov, 9pm–3am. 29 Nov, 11pm. Alternative club night from United Fruit. With Obliterations and Skullwizard. Friday Glasgow
■ 2ManyDJs at O2 Academy Glasgow. 5 Dec, 9pm. £20.81–£25.31. Mash-up mayhem and cutting edge tunes from Belgium’s Dewaele brothers, the men behind Radio Soulwax. ■ Andre Crom at Saint Judes. 14 Nov, 11pm–3am. £5–£8. OFF Recordings label boss who has a laid back approach and focuses on music’s essence. ■ Brian Not Brian and House of Traps at Nice’n’Sleazy. 28 Nov, 11.30pm. £4. Back to back set from the owner of Going Good records and Lindsay Todd (aka House of Traps). ■ La Cheetah Club’s 5th Birthday at La Cheetah. 14 Nov, 11pm–4am. £10 in advance (£12 on the door). A six-hour set from Theo Parrish to help celebrate La Cheetah’s half decade. See preview, page 50. FREE Club Olum at Bloc+. 21 Nov, 11pm. Brainchild of live music promoter and label owner Peter Rooney and Deathkill4000’s Marc Lawson aka Dirty Marc.
✽ Dusky at the Arches. 5 Dec, 10pm–4am. £10. The London-based
GARAGE CIRQUE DU SOUL Liquid Room , Edinburgh, Sat 22 Nov
‘Taking over one venue at a time for a night of circus-themed debauchery,’ is what Cirque Du Soul co-founder Will Weaver describes as the club’s overriding ethos. Founded in Leeds at the turn of 2013, it’s already found its way to nine cities across the country, including Newcastle, Nottingham, Bristol and Manchester. There’s no question it offers something different, with musicians, acrobats and fire-breathers included among the group who run it, and in November it makes its first appearance in Scotland with a date at Edinburgh’s Liquid Room. ‘We’ve been wanting to come to Edinburgh for a while,’ says Weaver.
‘We’re really looking forward to Scotland and can’t wait to get stuck in.’ He tells us that the club is an immersive experience for those in the crowd, and not just because of all that’s going on around them. ‘The first thing you need to do after you’ve bought your ticket is sort your outfit. The more outrageous the better, but you have to play by the rules of the circus, and make it weird and wonderful. As to what goes on inside, you’ll just have to wait and see.’
Of course, a high-concept club like this wouldn’t fly without good
music, and Cirque Du Soul’s history of guests includes Groove Armada, Greg Wilson, Jackmaster, Dimitri From Paris and Bondax. For their Edinburgh date they’re bringing DJ EZ, a UK garage icon and the man behind the Pure Garage mix series and last year’s Fabriclive 71: ‘he’s easily one of the best DJs we’ve come across,’ states Weaver. The knife throwers and lion tamers might get people excited to see
what’s going on, but it’s by booking good DJs people want to hear that Cirque Du Soul has made its name. And before you ask, the Liquid Room doesn’t let you bring lions or knives in . . . (David Pollock)
duo of producers Nick Harriman and Alfie Granger-Howell performs house and techno with touches of soul. FREE Enjoyable Moment at Bloc+. 14 Nov, 11pm. Cosmic Dead chaps host an evening of rolling krautrock DJing. ■ The Hot Club at Nice’n’Sleazy. 14 Nov, 11.30pm. £3. Rafla and Wako play garage, punk, psych and rockabilly, with occasional live bands and art interventions. ■ Kele at SWG3. 28 Nov, 10pm. £15. Lead singer of Bloc Party, Kele has been branching out onto the decks in a new DJ/Producer section of his career. ■ Let’s Bounce at the Arches. 21 Nov, 10pm. £23. The Let’s Bounce tour features Will Sparks and Joel Fletcher, whose unmistakable sound promises to blow the roof off. ■ Mouse & Reservoir Ducks at the Art School. 14 Nov, 11pm–3am. £7 (£5). Part of Glasgay!. See LGBT listings. ■ Nick Curly’s TRUST at SWG3. 14 Nov, 10pm–3am. £10–£15. Curly spins big house and techno with help from Tobi Neumann and Matt Tolfrey. ■ Pressure at the Arches. 28 Nov, 10pm–3am. £16–£20. The night turns sweet 16 with sets from Ben Klock, Slam, Laura Jones and Subb-An.
✽ Secondcity at SWG3. 5 Dec, 10pm–2am. £10–£15. DJ best known
for number 1 hit ‘I Wanna Feel’.
Saturday Glasgow ■ Adventures in Paradise at the Admiral. 15 Nov, 11pm–3am. £5. Soul, funk and disco from Glasgow label Big Break Records (BBR) and residents
Wayne Dickson, Malcolm McKenzie and Roddie Gibb. ■ Bobby Tank at Broadcast. 22 Nov, 11pm. £5. A glitchy electrofunk electronica mash-up.
✽ Boysnoize Records Party at the Arches. 15 Nov, 10.30pm–3am. £14–
£16. Boysnoize Records evening featuring Boys Noize himself, plus SCNTST and POL Style. See interview, right. ■ Code at La Cheetah. 15 Nov, 11pm–3am. £6–£10. Techno night featuring Pfirter (MindTrip, CLR) and Nick Morrow. ■ The Complete Stone Roses Aftershow at O2 ABC. 29 Nov, 11pm. £6.05. Lots of Stone Roses tracks to keep the fans happy post-gig. ■ The Gatsby Club at Glasgow University Union. 29 Nov, 7.30pm–2am. £14 for the full night; £5 from 11.30pm. 1920s-themed club night of live jazz, swing, music hall, comedy, burlesque, cocktails and retro tunes. No jeans or trainers. ■ HausDimension at Nice’n’Sleazy. 22 Nov, 11.30pm. £3. Alternative club night with underground house, left-field disco and lo-fi techno. ■ Headstrong at the Art School. 22 Nov, 11pm. £10 (£7). Presented by Animal Farm and Clouds. With Tessela, Eomac and Clouds. ■ Houndin’ the Streets at the Flying Duck. 29 Nov, 11pm–3am. £3–£5. Jer Reid and Martin Law play punk, post- punk, hip hop and anything else. ■ Ibiza Sessions: Kilties Reunion at the Arches. 29 Nov, 10pm–3am.
£16.50. Sets from Mallorca Lee, Calvin Logue, Rosko and Jack Eye Jones. ■ Love Music at O2 ABC. 15 Nov, 22 & 29 Nov & 6 Dec, 11pm. £6.05. Soul, rock’n’roll, indie and electro. ■ Nu Skool at the Buff Club. Weekly 11pm–3am. £7 (£6). Nick Peacock, John Ross and Alex O provide a fine line in disco, northern soul and all things funky. ■ Playpiece at Stereo. Weekly 11pm–3am. £4 Eclectic, nostalgic playlist, including indie, riot grrrl, punk and disco. ■ Singles Night at the Flying Duck. 22 Nov, 11pm–3am. £3–£5. Andrew ‘Divine’ Symington and Chris ‘Beans’ Geddes (Belle & Sebastian) play strictly 45s all night. ■ Strange Paradise at Nice’n’Sleazy. 15 Nov, 11.30pm. £3. David Barbarossa spins ‘drunk disco’, exotic funk and post-punk. FREE TYCI at Bloc+. 15 Nov, 11pm–3am. See LGBT listings.
Sunday Glasgow
■ Nicky Romero at O2 ABC. 30 Nov, 11pm. £28.12–£33.75. Dutch DJ, producer and label head known for ‘I Could Be The One’ with Avicii. Monday Glasgow
■ Burn at the Buff Club. Weekly 11pm–3am. £tbc. Normski, Zeus and Mash provide all the disco songs you’ve forgotten about and the ones you can’t forget.
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A big, blow-out night dancing to Boys Noize seems as much a part of the Glasgow annual clubbing calendar as waiting in a windswept queue trying to locate your friends. And understandably so: there’s something about his intensely 4/4, synapse-addling, quasi- novelty electro that appeals to the city’s hedonistic psyche.
Not content with firing out hit after hit, and creating one of the most distinctive new sounds of the 00s, Alex Ridha started the Boysnoize Records (BNR) label in 2005, and returns to Scotland now with some of his signings. SCNTST is a particularly exciting one, his tracks displaying the balance of trashy electro and deep, continuous techno that Ridha so often favours in his own sets. We caught up with Ridha between flights to get a glimpse of life on tour for one of the world’s most geographically mobile DJs. Favourite festival to play
I Love Techno in Belgium. Favourite club to play
Lux in Lisbon.
Favourite city to chill out in
Berlin.
Favourite city to party in
Glasgow! Favourite city to eat in
Tokyo.
Three essential items on your rider
Postcards, Haribo, chocolate. First thing you do to relax
Take a walk with my dog.
Three things you miss when you’re on tour
My own bed, my own pillow, sleep. Three things you don’t miss when you’re on tour
I don’t know . . . the internet? Track you can’t stop listening to right now
A new track I made last week. Best part of being a DJ
Getting to do what I love most. Worst part of being a DJ
I guess it’s the travel: I think I spend one month of each year on planes. (Interview by Rosie Davies) ■ Boys Noize plays the BNR party at The Arches, Glasgow, Sat 15 Nov.
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