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Monthly & One-Offs ■ Cryotec at Classic Grand. 1 Mar, 11pm–3am. £3. DJs Tailz and Effigy bring you a night of industrial and EBM. ■ A Love From Outer Space at Berkeley Suite. 1 Mar, 10pm–3am. £7. Andrew Weatherall and Sean Johnstone bring their out-there club night to Glasgow for a bi-monthly residency. ■ Danse Macabre at Nice’n’Sleazy. 22 Mar, 11pm–3am. £3. 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. ■ Korn Aftershow Party at Classic Grand. 29 Mar, 11pm–3am. £3; free with Korn ticket stub. Metal/dubstep aftershow. Weekly ■ BeastMoves at Chambre 69. Weekly 11pm–3am. £tbc. A soundtrack of house, techno and funky, bassy tunes that won’t be hard on your wallet. ■ Bump at Hummingbird. Weekly 11pm–3am. £tbc. R&B and hip hop from DJs Naeem and Sketch. ■ Common Room at Common. Weekly 10pm–3am. Free before 11pm; £5 (£3) after. DJs Craig Kelman and Craig McHugh play party tunes in a house party style. ■ Dirty Sexy Money at O’Couture. Weekly 11pm–3am. £tbc (free for students before midnight). That Tall Guy Scott plays cheese, pop and R&B. ■ 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. ■ Hot Swap at Chambre 69. Weekly 11pm–3am. £4; free before midnight. Local DJs and occasional guests from further afield play everything from hip hop and R&B to UK bass and classic house, including some almost-forgotten- about anthems. ■ Jellybaby and Rubbermensch at O2 ABC2. Weekly 11pm–3am. £5 (£3). A night for indie lovers with Andy Wilson in charge. ■ Love Music at O2 ABC. Weekly 11pm–3am. £7 (£5). Soul, rock’n’roll, indie and electro with Gerry Lyons, with a different club each week in the ABC2, featuring Now But Northern playing northern soul and Motown on the first Saturday, Beats, Rhymes and Life playing hip hop on the second, Flipsville playing 50s and 60s rock’n’roll on the third and FTW’s cross-genre dance party on the fourth. ■ The One at Re-Play. Weekly 6pm–3am. Free before 11pm; £5 (£3) after. Geddes and Ross McFadyen play dance, chart and R&B, with a quiz from 6pm. ■ Onederful at Play. Weekly 5pm–3am. Free before 11pm; £5 (£3) after. Party sounds from DJ Chris Stewart and Tobin. ■ Rumble Thursdays at the Garage. Weekly 11pm–3am. Free before 11.30pm; £5 (£3) after. Chart, pop, indie, R&B and hip hop fight it out for your aural affections. FREE Salsa Tumbao at Boteco do Brasil. Weekly 8pm–3am. Salsa and dancing with Farah Portela Alonso and Tumbao Salsa School.
■ Skint at the Viper Bar & Club. Weekly 9pm–2am. Free before 11pm; £5 (£3 students) after. Stephen Foy plays indie dancefloor anthems, pop hits and classic house. ■ Skint and Vengeance at the Cathouse. Weekly 11pm–3am. £3 (£2 students). DJs Billy and Colin play rock, emo and pop-punk in the main room, while DJ Q Ball has t black metal, death metal and thrash in the back. ■ Sol’s Club at Sol’s Club. Weekly 10pm–3am. £5. Bollywood, Latin, Afro- Caribbean and reggae club nights. ■ Soul Glo at the Buff Club. Weekly 11pm–3am. £3. DJ Snafu scratches funk, soul and old rhythm and blues. ■ Thursday at Milan at Milan. Weekly 11pm–3am. £tbc. DJ Naeem and DJ Sketch present a night of sleek and sexy urban tracks to get you moving. ■ Thursdays 520 at Club 520. Weekly 11pm–3am. £5 (students £4). Mungo’s Hi Fi and Bunty Beats playing reggae, dancehall and hip hop every week. 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. ■ 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.
Glasgow Friday Monthly & One-Offs ■ Fierce at Audio. 2 Mar, 11pm–3am. £5 (£3). Residents Tommy Kay and Lucky Luciano play upfront vocal house, electro and old school classics at Glasgow’s newest gay-friendly night. ■ The Garage’s 18th Birthday Party at the Garage. 2 Mar, 11pm–3am. £5 (£3). Four rooms of chart, R&B, electro, rock’n’roll and karaoke tunes, complete with giveaways, balloon drop, face painting, birthday cake, and more. ✽✽ Numbers at the Sub Club. 2 Mar, 11pm–3am. £tbc. One of Glasgow’s most eclectic clubbing successes goes from strength to strength each month, with rotating residents and a diverse array of dubstep and techno-playing special guests from around the globe. A Numbers ambition is fulfilled this month with the booking of Four Tet, featuring support from Spencer. ■ Shaka at Bar Bloc+. 2 Mar, 11pm–3am. Free before midnight; £2 after. House, disco and electro based on the ‘shred/skate/surf and extreme sports lifestyles’, they tell us. With residents Jay Allan, Martin Bongo and Visual Experimentation, alongside live percussion. ✽✽ Supernova at the Arches. 2 Mar, 10pm–3am. £12. A regular electro- house, tech-house and minimal techno night from the Hell DJs. With a live performance from M_nus’ Hobo. See preview, page 50. ■ Bad News at the Arches. 9 Mar, 11pm–3am. £10. The team behind i AM bring a new night celebrating soundsystem culture to Glasgow, playing hip hop, garage, dubstep, reggae and drum & bass. With a resident 26kW wall of sound supplied by Electrikal Sound System and a fresh graffiti wall created live for each event. With guests Benji B (Radio 1), Coki (Digital Mystikz), Pangaea (Hessle Audio), Phaeleh (Afterglow) and the Mungo’s Hi-Fi team. ✽✽ Pyramatrix at Chambre 69. 9 Mar, 10pm–3am. £8 in advance; £10 on the door. A new guest-led house and techno night from resident Ewan Storie, with a pre-club at the Courtyard on West Nile Street from 6pm until midnight. The launch party will feature a special guest set from Heartthrob (M_nus) and appearances from local guests Johnny Allen (Hector’s Discoteque) and Eddie Wagner (AV). See preview, page 50.
■ ReFrame at Basura Blanca at the Brunswick Hotel. 9 Mar, 10pm–3am. £3. The brainchild of resident DJs Martin Lindinger and 27B, bringing you some fine quality house and techno. With Davie Blair. ■ Return to Mono at the Sub Club. 9 Mar, 11pm–3am. £12 (£10). Slam’s monthly residency, with top-line house and techno guests and a set from the residents themselves. With Berlin duo Pan-Pot, long-time Slam associates and a sell-out on their last visit to the Subbie. ■ Jacques Renault and Justin Miller at Berkeley Suite. 9 Mar, 11pm–3am. £3. A DFA-endorsed back- to-back night. ■ 2ManyDJs at the Arches. 16 Mar, 10pm–3am. £19.50. Riotous night of mash-up mayhem and cutting edge tunes from Belgium’s Dewaele brothers, the men behind Radio Soulwax. Back for their annual Arches show, nine years after their Scottish debut here. ■ Argonaut Sounds at Blackfriars. 16 Mar, 11pm–3am. £3. The Argonaut soundsystem returns playing reggae, dancehall and dub. With special guests, the Bass Warrior Soundsystem. ■ Mixed Bizness x Hush Hush at La Cheetah. 16 Mar, 11pm–3am. £7 (£5). A special team-up night, with residents Point to C and Djemba. Benjamin Damage & Doc Daneeka make their Glasgow debut, having released their debut album They! Live on Modeselektor’s 50 Weapons label. ■ Vibes at Stereo. 16 Mar, 11pm–3am. £7. A new night presenting up and coming house music names from around the world, with producer and Sankey’s resident Jozef K. ■ Blackout at Stereo. 23 Mar, 10pm–3am. £5. A new monthly night playing house, tech-house and techno, with residents Craig Birrell, Steven Fallon, David Heggie and Graeme Cameron. With guest Scott Byrne (Substanz Underground). ■ The Hot Club at Nice’n’Sleazy. 23 Mar, 9pm–3am. £tbc before 11pm; £3 after. Rafla and Nobodaddy play garage, punk, psych and rockabilly, with occasional live bands and art interventions. In association with Beagles & Ramsay’s Uncle Chop Chop, with Organs of Love playing live. ■ Hype Williams at SWG3. 23 Mar, 10pm–2am. £10 in advance; £12 on the door. Elusive experimental outfit from London/Berlin who have been described as the missing link between Aphex Twin and Ariel Pink – and a latter-day Throbbing Gristle. A Cry Parrot and Braw Gigs presentation, with support from Silk Cut and Nackt Insecten. ■ Lock Up Your Daughters at the Flying Duck. 23 Mar, 11pm–3am. £5 (£4). Ass-shaking session from the LUYD fanzine pitched as ‘a response to the boredom and brain dead stagnation that plagues modern gay culture’, with residents DJ Suezz, Lock Up Your DJs and Skeleton Boy. With guest DJ Prince Mog. ■ Lone at the Art School. 23 Mar, 11pm–1am. £5; free to GSA students. The Nottingham producer plays a late- night set of stark, blissed-out tracks. Presented by the Arches, with support from Sam & Shaun Vitamins and HaHaHa. ■ Loop at Basura Blanca at the Brunswick Hotel. 23 Mar, 10pm–2am. £4. A bi-monthly house and techno club from residents Neill Murphy and Jamie Knox. With 54th & West (Scenic Tones, Animal Tune). ■ Mungo’s Hi Fi at Chambre 69. 23 Mar, 11pm–3am. £tbc. Dancehall, grime, ragga and dubstep for your pleasure at this legendary soundsystem party. With special guests to be confirmed. Weekly ■ Audiofilth at Common. Weekly 9pm–3am. Free before 11pm; £7 (£5 students) after. Ross McMillan and Big Al orchestrating some of the filthiest house, electro, hip hop and indie.
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Ballroom aka Ballroom House, or Ha, proper noun: house sub-genre, which owes its lifeblood to the highly expressive dancers (‘voguers’) who dominate the scene. The music is raw, with fierce snares and crashes, heavy kicks and short, snappy vocals. Recent strains have seen a proliferation of samples from R&B and pop.
ORIGINS Ballroom exploded in to the international consciousness via Malcolm Maclaren and the Bootzilla Orchestra’s 1989 dance hit, ‘Deep In Vogue’, Jennie Livingston’s 1990 documentary, Paris Is Burning, and Madonna’s gargantuan pop smash, ‘Vogue’, the same year. But the roots of New York’s LGBT drag scene go right back to the annual queer masquerade balls of late 19th Century Harlem. Musically, the balls always espoused the dance music du jour. But, while Madonna’s spotlight spelled the beginning of the end for the more tightly-knit 80s scene, a clutch of DJ/producers have recently emerged to re-define it. KEY FIGURES Junior Vasquez’s 1989 production as Ellis D, ‘Just Like A Queen’, plus his ‘X’ (1994), Masters At Work’s ‘The Ha Dance’ (1991), Danny Tenaglia’s 1992 hit with The Daou, ‘Surrender Yourself’, Armand van Helden’s 1994 smash, ‘The Witch Doktor’, and Green Velvet’s 1994 behemoth, ‘Flash’, are all recognised as ballroom classics. Of the new school, New Jersey’s DJ MikeQ, Atlanta’s Legendary DJ Angel X and Washington, DC’s Vjuan Allure are its most prominent champions, alongside Bok Bok, L-Vis 1990 and Kingdom in the UK. (hobbesmusic.co.uk) ■ You’re likely to hear some Ballroom at any house night in Scotland.
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