list.co.uk/clubs Sub Club Sundays
You might have noticed that Optimo’s Hung Up! appears to be missing from this issue’s listings, but that’s not an oversight on our behalf but the Sub Club have announced that ‘for the first time since the fire back in 1999 the Sub Club will be temporarily shutting on a Sunday.’ But don’t fret, the Subbie has some interesting new plans up their sleeves: Twitch and Wilkes will be back on a semi-regular basis with their Optimo Presents series starting with Ivan Smagghe (pictured) on 28 Aug followed by Horse Meat Disco (25 Sep), while Thunder Disco Club (11 Sep) and Highlife (18 Sep) will also be taking over the Sabbath slot plus new night Instruments of Rapture (4 Sep) hosted by Ali Offt and The Revenge and perhaps most excitingly a new monthly event from Derrick Carter (details tbc). Sundays aren’t quite dead yet in Glasgow. ■ Sub Club, Glasgow, Sundays.
Glasgow Saturday Clubs ■ Back Tae Mine at the Flying Duck. Weekly 9pm–3am. Free before 11pm; £5 after. Going out is the new staying in, as this night offers booze, tea, toast, bands and DJs. And it’s back on weekly Saturday nights at the Flying Duck, with rotating resident DJs including Andy Divine and Chris ‘Beans’ Geddes from Singles Night and Jamo from Freakbeats. This week it’s 7” singles all the way with the Singles Night boys. ■ Bottle Rocket at Nice’n’Sleazy. 20 Aug, 11.30pm–3am. Free before 11.30pm; £3 after. A night for dancing to indie-pop, post-punk, Motown, twee and anything else that gets feet tapping. ■ Depthcharge at Ad Lib. 20 Aug, 11pm–3am. £5. A night of underground house from residents Frazer Devine and Jaya. This month’s party will celebrate Glasgow’s Scenic Tones label, with label boss Julius Funkhouser and Tronicsole’s Steven Coyle both appearing. ■ Front to Back at Club 520. Weekly 11pm–3am. £7 (£5). Bouncy reggae business from Chungo Bungo, DJ L-I- AM on beat patrol, the Marquee DJs, La Bamba and more. ■ Live & Underground at Soundhaus. 20 Aug, 8pm–2.30am. £tbc. Diversify
and Monkey Business present a night of DJs and live bands. With live bands Break Glass Emergency, Lost Society, Rank Berry, Echo Base, Subsine and Strange October, and DJs including Switchdoctor, Lindsay Green & Kendal Baird, Kenny Marshall, Serotonic and Kieran B. ■ Love Music at O2 ABC. Weekly 11pm–3am. £7 (£5). Soul, rock’n’roll, indie and electro with Gerry Lyons. ✽✽ Menergy at Stereo. 20 Aug, 11pm–3am. £6; free for drag queens. Monthly Italo disco and Hi-NRG gay dance party, hosted by Lady Munter and Vanity Von Glow, with Kid Zipper and The Niallist on decks, live performances and more. With Slabs of the Tabernacle DJ Brian d’Souza. ■ Nu Skool at the Buff Club. Weekly 11pm–3am. £6; £3 entry through the Butterfly & Pig. Nick Peacock, John Ross and Alex O provide a fine line in disco, northern soul and all things funky. ✽✽ Oh My Days at La Cheetah. 20 Aug, 11pm–3am. £7. A brand new club night with residents Martin Moffatt and Euan Neilson. This will be the debut night, featuring the fiercely cutting-edge Latin house sound of French Fries (Young Gunz). See preview, page 98. FREE Power Tools at Flat 0/1. Weekly 11pm–3am. Korben Dallas and
Nushta Droganova play Italo, disco and house. ■ Saturdays at the Cathouse. Weekly 10.30pm–3am. £6 (£5.50). DJs Eric and Muppet offer classic and current rock on level one, while DJ Billy and Framie belt out emo and metal on level two.
✽✽ 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 rolling residents Junior, Telford and Esa. With special guest Dixon (Innervisions) on 20 Aug. ■ Sugar Rush at FHQ. Weekly 6pm–2am. £tbc. Pop, house and dance from DJ Devine. ■ Swinga Sambaby at Blackfriars. 20 Aug, 8–11pm. £2; £3 with samba class. Vintage and traditional 70s sambas with DJ and dancers, hosted by Eletricat. With a beginner’s samba class at 8.30pm. ■ The Rock Shop at Maggie May’s. Weekly 8–11pm. Free before midnight; £5 (£3) after. Resident Lee Craig plays a selection of rock, indie and metal classics in Maggie’s basement. ■ Voodoo at the Cathouse. Weekly 4–9pm. £6 (£3). Under-18s club, featuring two floors of rock, metal, punk, emo and requests with DJs Framie and Am-y.
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Footwork aka [Chicago] Juke (see also [Detroit] Jit) proper noun: so-called because of the associated dance crazes – essentially a contemporary form of break dance; wildly uptempo (140–170 BPM) with syncopated beats laced with manically looped, pitched up (or down) vocal samples, usually from soul/reggae/hip hop records, or film dialogue.
ORIGINS The crucibles of house and techno in the 80s, America’s windy and motor cities have also laid claim to their own, respective ghetto/booty house and ghetto tech/booty bass since the early 90s. In the last decade, the pitched-up Juke and Jit strains have emerged to take frenzied precedence, where Juke focuses almost entirely on the feet, hence ‘footwork’, and Jit encourages the dancer to move his/her arms as well. Hip hop is also integral, with the vocal hook from Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s ‘Baby C’Mon’ being sampled for RP Boo’s pioneering 1997 hit, ‘Baby Come On’. KEY FIGURES Among the old school are Chicago DJs Funk and Deeon; Detroit DJs Assault and Godfather, plus Ann Arbor’s Disco D (RIP). DJ RP Boo first raised the Juke bar and Traxman, PJ, Clent, Spinn, Rashad, Roc and Nate have followed suit since the late 90s. Dude ‘N’ Nem’s ‘Watch My’ Feet got brief MTV airplay in 2007; Ghettophiles released Overkill, a Footwork compilation, in 2010; while British electronic experimentalist Mike Paranidas, aka µ-Ziq, put out Bangs & Works Volume 1 on his Planet Mu label last year. Bristol’s Addison Groove and London’s Girl Unit have consequently been incorporating elements into their productions. (hobbesmusic.co.uk) ■ You may hear some Footwork at clubs such as Coalition featuring Girl Unit, Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh, Sun 21 Aug.
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