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Events are listed by day of the week, divided into weekly and monthly/one-off nights, then sorted alphabetically. Submit listings at least 14 days before publication to david.pollock@ list.co.uk. Glasgow listings are compiled by David Pollock. ✽ Indicates Hitlist entry
Glasgow Thursday Monthly & One-Offs ■ I Hate Fun at Chambre 69. 18 Oct, 11pm–3am. £tbc. Club night. With guests Yoin, DJ Akeera and Bamboo Palace. ■ Puzzles at Chambre 69. 25 Oct, 11pm–3am. £tbc. Club night. With NoFace, Floyd and Offbeat. ■ Shaka: Rhythm, Sound and Vision at the Sub Club. 1 Nov, 11pm–3am. £6 in advance; £8 on the door. Shaka Events is a new collective of DJs, artists, musicians, riders and creatives running club nights and snowsports events around Scotland, and this is Glasgow’s only extreme sports club night. With residents Jay Allan, Martin Bongo and Visual Experimentation, alongside live percussion. ■ Subversion at Classic Grand. 8 Nov, 11pm–3am. £4 (free before midnight with Classic Grand wristband). DJs Catnip and Pasta mix up 80s/90s alternative pop hits, dance, industrial and classic rock.
Weekly ■ The Afterparty at the Buff Club. Weekly 11pm–3am. £4 (£3). DJ Euan Neilson (Killer Kitsch) plays classic R&B and hip hop. ■ Common Room at Common. Weekly 10pm–3am. Free before 11pm; £5 (£3) after. 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. 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. ■ Jellybaby and Rubbermensch at O2 ABC. Weekly 11pm–3am. £5 (£3). A night for indie lovers with Andy Wilson in charge. FREE Life Fridays at Bunker. 18 Oct–26 Oct & 28 Oct–1 Feb, 5pm–3am. 27 Oct, 5pm–2am. Dominic Martin and Robin B kick off the weekend with a selection of party sounds. FREE Loaded at Opium. Weekly 10pm–3am. Emo and punk special. ■ 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. ■ Polo Goes POP at the Polo Lounge. Weekly 11pm–3am. £3 (£2). DJ Queenie injects your ears with pop sounds. FREE Shore at Nice’n’Sleazy. Weekly 11.30pm–3am. Club night. ■ Sol’s Club at Sol’s Club. Weekly 10pm–3am. £5. Bollywood, Latin, Afro- Caribbean and reggae club nights. ■ Taking Back Thursdays at the Cathouse. Weekly 11pm–3am. £4 (£2). Rock, metal and emo with DJ 32 and DJ Muppet. ■ 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. FREE Up the Racket at Maggie May’s. Weekly 10pm–3am. DJ Paddy plays indie, rock, disco and pop. ■ Walk’n’Skank at Berkeley Suite. Weekly 11pm–3am. £3 before midnight; £5 after. Some of the best bass music Glasgow has to offer, with residents Mungo’s Hi Fi, DJ Kokoro (Neo Tokyo Bass) and Breezak (BASS Alliance), and rotating guests Metropolis Sounds (Sub City), Mixkings, Matthew Craig (One More Tune) and Ali T (Acidraft/Resen).
■ 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 ■ Argonaut Sounds at Blackfriars. 19 Oct, 11pm–3am. £3. The Argonaut Sounds team return playing roots, reggae and dancehall. With special guest Fenomeno Show (London). ■ Basement Jams at La Cheetah. 19 Oct, 11pm–3am. £8. A party from the team behind Monox and the new Dixon Avenue Basement Jams label, residents Dan Monox and The Wasp. This month with special guest MadTeo, all the way from New York. ■ Bottle Rocket at Nice’n’Sleazy. 19 Oct, 11.30pm–3am. £3. A night for dancing to indie-pop, post-punk, Motown, twee and anything else that gets feet tapping. ■ Flash Mob Glasgow at Chambre 69. 19 Oct, 11pm–3am. £3 before midnight; £5 after. Flash Mob Glasgow brings you High Sheen’s Mia Dora, Ben Martin, Sam Vitamins and Thrust Club for a blend of house, techno, disco and more for your aural pleasure. FREE Future Days at Berkeley Suite. 19 Oct, 11pm–3am. African disco, liquid funk, digi R&B, psych synth and yacht rock, so residents Ian Crawford and John Petrie promise us. FREE Loop at Basura Blanca at the Brunswick Hotel. 19 Oct, 8pm–2am. A house and techno club from residents Neill Murphy and Jamie Knox. With local guests Wrick Hedley (Bigfoot’s), Beatphreak (Jak) and Mark McKerracher. ■ Sensu at the Sub Club. 19 Oct, 10pm–4am. £18.50. A typically great house, techno and electro night from the Sub Club. The eighth birthday party, featuring Ricardo Villalobos and the Sub Club’s own Junior. ■ Shuffle at the Old Hairdressers. 19 Oct, 7.30pm–1am. £5. Unity Dance Collective present another fundraising night of beats and whirrs with a team of local DJs playing techno, tech house and electro. With DJ TPR (Ctrl+Alt+Del), Kerin McEwing and Charlotte Claire (DIFTG), Nic303 (O///D), Marc Baddison (By Demand, Archon), Craig Murphy (Squelch) and Duke of Argyle (Sleazy Social). ■ Strangeways at Black Sparrow. 19 Oct, 8pm–1am. £4. A regular tribute night for The Smiths and Morrissey, with a proud fan club atmosphere. All proceeds raised go to charity. A Hallowe’en special, so dressing up in Smiths/ Morrissey related manner is encouraged. ■ Back to the Future at O2 Academy. 26 Oct, 8pm–3am. £tbc. A customarily huge night of hardcore, rave and old skool at this established large-scale event. The GBXperience Hallowe’en party 2012 with The Rhythmic State, QFX, Sol Fiesta, Darren Styles, George Bowie and many more. ■ Crimes of the Future at Berkeley Suite. 26 Oct, 11pm–3am. £5. Andrew Weatherall associates Scott Fraser and Timothy J Fairplay embark on a new project with Alan Gray from Transmission, playing Krautrock, electronica, dub and everything in between. ■ Friday Street at Blackfriars. 26 Oct, 10pm–3am. £5. Classic mod sounds, 60s psych and northern soul at Scotland’s premier mod club, with regular DJs Mikey Collins and Paul Molloy. ■ The Hot Club at Nice’n’Sleazy. 26 Oct, 11.30pm–3am. £3. Rafla (Nice’n’Sleazy) and Nobodaddy (The Phantom Band) play garage, punk, psych and rockabilly, with occasional live bands and art interventions. ■ Lock Up Your Daughters at the Flying Duck. 26 Oct, 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 electro-clash and pop from residents Lock Up Your DJs. Issue #6 launch, featuring Prince Mog, Bounce and Kaleidoscope. Part of Glasgay!
✽ Motor City Electronics at La Cheetah. 26 Oct, 11pm–3am. £10. A new series of clubs at La Cheetah present- ing the biggest and best classic names in Detroit techno. With DJ Godfather, founder of ghetto-tech label Twilight 76 Records. ■ Mungo’s Hi Fi and Chungo Bungo at Chambre 69. 26 Oct, 11pm–3am. £tbc. Dancehall, grime, ragga and dubstep for your pleasure from these legendary soundsystem parties. With special guest Pupajim. ■ Pressure at the Arches. 26 Oct, 11pm–4am. £18. More techno action from Slam at their monthly residency, featuring some big-name guests. Vitalic (live) heads an impressive bill including Dave Clarke, Slam and Karotte. ■ ReFrame at Basura Blanca at the Brunswick Hotel. 26 Oct, 10pm–3am. £6 in advance; £7 after. The brainchild of resident DJs Martin Lindinger and 27B, bringing you some fine quality house and techno. With special guest Spatial (Infrasonics/Well Rounded) and Asthmatic Astronaut. ■ Sub Club 25 at the Sub Club. 26 Oct, 11pm–3am. £12. The latest of the Subbie’s 25th birthday celebration nights. With guests Julio Bashmore (Broadwalk Records), Ben Martin (High Sheen) and Point To C. ■ Deusas del Sol at Arta. 2 Nov, 11pm–3am. £5. Brazilian DJ Eletricat pay homage to Latin, Arabic, chart and world music. ■ Digital Society at the Arches. 2 Nov, 10pm–4am. earlybird £12; £16 on the door. A Hallowe’en trance fest and the first ever Scottish club show for Leeds label and promoters Digital Society. This will be a fancy dress night, so come dressed for the occasion. ■ Nomad at La Cheetah. 2 Nov, 11pm–3am. £10 advance; £12 on the door. Tech-house grooves and subtle minimal undertones at this night from Ivan Kutz, formerly of Club 69’s Seasons. Presenting a ‘Haunted Disco’ special with guest Mark Henning (Soma/Cityfox). FREE Traktion at Hummingbird. 2 Nov, 11pm–3am. Residents Colin Forbes and Chaz Johnston deliver house and techno sounds. ■ Common People at the Flying Duck. 9 Nov, 9pm–3am. £5 (£4). The 90s are fair game for a nostalgia night now that a decade has passed, says this monthly night, and who are we to argue? With 90s bingo from 9pm. ■ J Dilla’s Rebirth of Detroit tour at O2 ABC. 9 Nov, 11pm–3am. £10. Late night line-up of Detroit rappers associated with the late J Dilla, including Guilty Simpson, Frank Nitt and Phat Kat. Plus DJ Bunty. FREE Kino Fist at Nice’n’Sleazy. 9 Nov, 11.30pm–3am. Night of cross-genre delights, new wave, Krautrock, spiky pop and freak beat from Charlotte and Rafla. ■ Laidback Luke at the Arches. 9 Nov, 10pm–3am. £19.50 in advance; £24.50 on the door. Colours presents a night of big electro house from the Dutch DJ/producer. With support from La Fuente. ■ Luska at Chambre 69. 9 Nov, 11pm–3am. £12. Techno, tech-house and deep house with Jack Swift and Dara Estafaghi. With guests Kaiserdisco (Drumcode, KD Music). ■ Tim Sweeney at Berkeley Suite. 9 Nov, 11pm–3am. Free before midnight; £5 after. The head of iconic New York radio show Beats in Space returns to Scotland.
Weekly ■ Audiofilth at Common. Weekly 9pm–3am. Free before 11pm; £7 (£5 students) after. Some of the filthiest house, electro, hip hop and indie. FREE Badseed at Slouch. Weekly 11pm–3am. Heather McCartney plays indie, rock‘n’roll and electro.
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Trap proper noun
67–95/135–190bpm; fusion of hip hop and dubstep styles, the latter’s heavier bass, more com- plex drum programming and structure playing a key role and also introducing much higher tempos to the mix; the Roland 808 drum machine features heavily as do ‘chopped and screwed’ (slowed) rap vocals.
ORIGINS Hip hop producers from the southern US states started making Trap in the early 00s, the name a reference to the ‘trap houses’ where many rappers bought and sold their drugs. Recently Trap has become affiliated with a more frenzied fusion of hip hop and dubstep, its lyrical motifs also amplified. As a result, commentators have suggested it’s ‘the new dubstep.’ Naturally, the style’s main practitioners are keen to avoid such labels, recognising that they potentially herald the sound’s death knell, not to mention their own espousal of a fleeting fad. KEY FIGURES Cough syrup-quai n’ Houston duo UGK and DJ Screw are credited as pioneers, while At- lanta rapper TI called his 2003 album Trap Muzik. 22-year-old Virginia producer Lex Luger has been broadly lauded for popularising the modern Trap sound, working with MCs such as Alabama’s Gucci Mane and Atlanta’s Young Jeezy and Waka Flocka Flame. 16-year- old Chicago rapper Chief Keef and his producer, Young Chop, found themselves with major label deals (Interscope and Warner), at er their ‘I Don’t Like’ single went viral and was picked up by fellow Chicagoan Kanye West for a remix. New York’s RL Grime, Brooklyn’s Baauer, Montreal’s Lunice and his collaboration with our own Hudson Mohawke, TNGHT, are all cited at the more up- tempo end of the spectrum. Chicago duo Flosstradamus are also riding the wave, following their Jubilation 2.0 EP (Fools Gold) and Lana’s h eme boot- leg. (hobbesmusic.co.uk)
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