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FREE Jama at Bar Groove. 14 Jun, 4pm– midnight. A Polish group of DJs meet their Scottish friends behind the decks. Expect house, breaks, and techhouse. Confirmed DJs include Jan Cree, Exer, MasterG, Martin ES, Damon, Acid Kid and a special live act from Payda. FREE Mungo’s Hi Fi Soundsystem at Alexandra Park. 21 Jun, noon. Glasgow reggae institution Scotch Bonnet Records bring Mungo’s Hi Fi and their full soundsystem to the Alexandra Park Gala Day with the full- on dancehall stomp of Tippa Irie and YT, ably assisted by the Mungo’s Hi Fi DJs. Part of East End Social. ■ Philanthrobeats x Re:Verb at Stereo. 21 Jun, 10pm–3am. £4 (asylum seekers and refugees free). Two of Glasgow’s night-life promoters will team up to transform Stereo into interactive audio-visual carnivals. Flying the flag for conscious clubbing, all proceeds go towards Philanthrobeats’ projects for asylum seekers and refugees. Part of Refugee Week Scotland. ■ Pretty Ugly at the Admiral. 14 Jun, 11pm–3am. £5–£6. The Pretty Ugly girls play sexy, glamorous indie rock’n’roll, electro beats and 60s soul. A night of Boys & Beard Pop with guest DJs Rab Florence (‘Burnistoun’/’The House of Him’) Prides (Island Records) and more to be announced. ■ Shout Bamalama at Blackfriars Basement. 21 Jun, 11pm–3am. £5 (£3). Raucous rock’n’roll, groovin’ R&B, thumping soul and other sounds from the past that’ll make your backbone slip. ■ Southside Soul at Pollok Ex- Servicemens Club. 28 Jun, 8pm–1am. £5. Felonious Munk and guests play 60s and 70s soul, Motown and R&B from the original 45s on a top quality sound system in a friendly social club. With Trevor Bond (Soul Cellar), John Adams and Felonious Munk.
✽■ 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 John Talabot (21 Jun, see preview, page 47) and Dixon Avenue Basement Jams (28 Jun). ■ TYCI at Bloc+. 21 Jun, 11pm–3am. Free before midnight (or if you write ‘TYCI’ on your knuckles); £2 after. A club and live event from TYCI, a Glasgow collective run for women by women. Featuring a live set from Birmingham punk trio Youth Man and Claudia Nova (hausfrau) on the decks. 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. ■ Voodoo Voodoo at Stereo. 14 Jun, 11pm–3am. £3. Alternative rock’n’roll, vintage R&B and sleazy soul night. The last Voodoo Voodoo before Glasgow legend Duncan Harvey moves. ■ 0ddi0 at Berkeley Suite. 21 Jun, 10.30pm–3am. £5. A new club whose mission is ‘to explore the outer realm of warped sonic advancements.’ With resident Jim Hutchison (Hum + Haw). 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. ■ Hair of the Cat at the Cathouse. Weekly 11pm–3am. £4 (£2). DJ Mythic playing killer rock, metal and punk on level one with a £10 cash card for every 10th person in through the door. Slide It In plays rock classics on the last Sunday of every month on level two. FREE Yes! at the Flying Duck. 6 Jul, 8pm–3am. See LGBT listings.
Monday Glasgow ■ Burn at the Buff Club. Weekly 11pm–3am. £3 (free with trade wage
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HOUSE / TECHNO STEPBACK 6TH BIRTHDAY PARTY Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh, Fri 4 Jul
In selling his night to us, Richard Keyte shows just why Stepback has for the last six years been one of Edinburgh’s finest clubbing dates. ‘I’d hope we bring a fresh and fun approach to clubbing in Edinburgh,’ he says. ‘We won’t ever get bogged down playing the shit that everyone else is, basically. We don’t target a particular market other than people who like great music and a fun night out, and most of all we don’t ever take ourselves too seriously.’
They know their music, though. In a lifespan which started in the then-new Sneaky Pete’s and continued to Medina, Cruz and currently the Wee Red Bar, Stepback has been home to an eclectic sound which has mixed house, techno, hip hop, Baltimore, ghetto-tech and dubstep. ‘It really just depends who we’ve booked to play on the night,’ says Keyte, who now runs the night with Hammay (Graeme Ramsay), employing a resident DJ roster of Beefy, Fred Lemon and original co-founder Wolfjazz (Richard Tucker). He recalls guest highlights including Jackmaster (Stepback’s first guest), Rustie (their second), Hudson Mohawke, Neil Landstrumm, Alex Smoke, L-Vis 1990, Doc Daneeka, Benjamin Damage, Eclair Fifi, Si Begg, and Radioactive Man, although the most memorable came when Wolfjazz drove to Manchester to pick up Piddy Py and got his car broken into, driving back with a DJ and a smashed window. This year’s 6th birthday honours Independence Day with a US special, taking in styles from Detroit to Baltimore, while Keyte and Hammay will be giving only the second performance of their new live alias, Synthagram Project, ahead of more dates this summer. ‘At the moment it’s a pretty short set,’ he says, ‘but I’d describe it as a raw analogue techno sound, a bit old school with acid flavours and proper thump.’ (David Pollock)
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. ■ Space Invader & A Night in the Attic at the Garage. Weekly 11pm–3am. £6 (£3). Andy R plays requests from all genres plus lasers, retro consoles and DJ David Lo Pan plays 80s/90s/00s. Tuesday Glasgow
■ Juicy Tuesday at Kushion. Weekly 10pm–3am. £6 (£4). A night to entertain the masses across two rooms featuring hip hop, indie pop, electro and R&B. ■ Killer Kitsch at the Buff Club. Weekly 11pm–3am. £5 (£3). Euan Neilson, Dave Sinclair and newly recruited resident Hushpuppy (RPZ, Death Disco) present one hell of an evening. Upcoming guests include Bodhi (18 Jun). FREE Unicorn Chaser at Nice’n’Sleazy. 24 Jun, 11.30pm–3am. Ewan Chambers and Konx-om-Pax play all the party music you could ever dream of.
Wednesday Glasgow ■ Beast at the Cathouse. Weekly 11pm–3am. £4 (£2). Pop punk and more with DJs Izzle and Hutchy.
■ I Heart Wednesdays at Viper. Weekly 9pm–2am. Free before 11pm; £5 after (£3). DJ Jimmy Eleven playing all the best chart, dance, R&B, cheese and student anthems. FREE So Weit So Gut at Nice’n’Sleazy. 25 Jun, 11.30pm–3am. All vinyl club night of tropicalia and leftfield house. FREE Take It Sleazy! at Nice’n’Sleazy. 2 Jul, 11.30pm–3am. A no-holds-barred mix of 80s pop, electro synths, techno beats and nu-disco.
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Thursday Edinburgh
Jun), Cloudo & Mayhem (26 Jun) and Cowgate Massive (3 Jul). ■ Temple at Silk. Weekly 10pm–3am. £tbc. Three floors of dancing with house and electro on the mainfloor plus hip hop and R&B in the Funk Room. Friday Edinburgh
■ Confusion is Sex at the Bongo Club. 4 Jul, 11pm–3am. £5 before midnight or in costume; £8 after. Twisted and freaky mix of burlesque, glam techno, electro, indie punk and rock’n’roll where ‘the weird is normal’. ■ Defcon at Studio 24. 20 Jun, 10.30pm–3am. £5 in advance; £8 on the door. A night celebrating fresh UK jungle and hip hop talent presenting Phatworld, Kid Lib and Concept of Thought featuring Benaddict. ■ Electro Cycle at Wee Red Bar. 20 Jun, 11pm–3am. £5 before midnight; £7 after. Eighties house and electro fused with the latest beats by resident DJ Nikki Foxx.
✽■ Fly at Cabaret Voltaire. Weekly, 11pm–3am. £6-£10. House, dubstep,
FREE Anime Thursdays at Shanghai. Weekly 10.30pm–3am. House in a club. FREE Camp at CC Blooms. Weekly 11pm–3am. Deejay Bird spins camp classics from Hi-NRG and disco to pop. ■ I AM at Cabaret Voltaire. Weekly 11pm–3am. . Electronica and house supplied by Beta and Kappa, this time on the East Coast. Upcoming guests include residents v Witness (12 garage and UK funky from a selection of Edinburgh DJs. Upcoming guests include Cheap Picasso (13 Jun), Ben Pearce (20 Jun) and Nolan & Herd (27 Jun). ■ I Am Hardwell at Royal Highland Centre. 4 Jul, 6pm. £39.50. Young Dutch big room house producer Hardwell headlines. ■ Judge Jules at City Nightclub. 13 Jun, 10.30pm–3am. £8 in advance;