Clubs, Issue 608

Melting Pot

‘Disco music as a genre essentially stopped in the mid-80s and became dance music as we now know it,’ says Andrew Pirie, promoter and DJ at Glasgow’s Melting Pot. ‘Everything happening in dance music today has some sort of roots in disco. Just as disco…

Live at Loch Lomond

Another festival for the Scottish calendar, now in its second year, Live at Loch Lomond offers up a solid dance line-up. Subculture and Death Disco host a tent on Saturday and Sunday respectively, while names such as UNKLE, Groove Armada, Morcheeba and…

Jimpster

Ultragroove has invited a dance music polymath to help launch this year’s Festival in style. Jimpster (aka Jamie Odell, aka Audiomontage) not only DJs, he also produces and remixes for Freerange Records (of which he is co-head) on a selection of future…

Club Noir to takeover Edinburgh International Conference Centre

Following its huge success last year, Club Noir is set to bring some risqué decadence to the Edinburgh Fringe for one of the biggest burlesque nights the city has ever seen. Usually based in Glasgow, CN is giving the capital a taste of what it has to…

Sick Note

The weekly indie/electro night surpasses itself for its first date in August with a live set from none other than arch trouble makers Selfish Cunt (pictured). With a name like that you know you’re not in for an easy ride, so expect a confrontational mix…