Melting Pot

Crate Digging: Melting Pot's Simon Cordiner and Andrew Pirie

A selection of tunes ahead of the disco night's eleventh birthday

8 Mar 2012

Fonda Rae ‘Living In Ecstasy’ (Mood II Swing mix) (Wave Music) has to be one of our favourite ever records. It’s now a classic, a timeless house track featuring a fabulous vocalist from the disco era in Fonda Rae and the superb house producer Mood II…

Hogmanay 2010/2011 clubbing highlights in Edinburgh and Glasgow

The best New Year's Eve club nights in Scotland

15 Dec 2010

Hogmanay is the biggest night of the year in many clubbers’ calendars, and, as usual, crowds in Edinburgh are spoilt for choice. The Official Edinburgh Hogmanay Afterparty (HMV Picture House) will rock to the frenetic live show of electro-house heroes…

Der Supermax Love Machine

Brunswick Hotel, Glasgow, Sat 28 Aug.

19 Aug 2010

Although Supermax is only celebrating its third birthday, DJ and co-promoter Billy Woods has had plenty of time to hone his tastes over the last 15 years. His first big gig was a residency at Melting Pot, then he co-ran his own monthly night called…

New York's Danny Krivit guests at Melting Pot's Easter Weekender

30 Mar 2010

Melting Pot: so good it’s taking over the weekend. After a successful bank holiday double-header last year, the underground disco night will be repeating the trick this Easter. On Saturday they’re joined by DJs from the city’s Dance! Dance! Dance! night…

Clubs hitlist

4 Nov 2009

Volume! Dubstep mayhem from the masked marauder Stenchman. Why not join in the insanity by donning your own disguises for this masked masquerade? The Bongo Club, Edinburgh, Fri 6 Nov. Melting Pot presents the Rizla Invisible Players Tour…

Hitlist: Clubs

Where to go and what to dance to this week

20 Aug 2009

David Holmes, Modern Lovers, Elextric Frog Street Carnival, Million Dollar Disco, Club For Heroes, Eyes Wide Open, Tokyoblu, Melting Pot, Second CIty

Outdoor clubbing

25 Jun 2009

With the unpredictable nature of Scottish weather al fresco clubbing isn’t quite the major deal in Scotland that it is in, say, Ibiza or Miami. But parties under canvas, on boats and in beer gardens have proven to be the best ways for Scots to hedge…

Melting Pot Weekender

30 Apr 2009

There’s another Bank Holiday on the horizon and disco-house kings Melting Pot are planning on taking full advantage. Kicking off on the Saturday night with a residents special, on Sunday they team up with Million Dollar Disco for very special guest…

Hogmanay 2008 - Clubbing

11 Dec 2008

‘It’s on’ is the simple motto which Glasgow überclub Optimo are using to promote their famous Hogmanay special – it’s at the Fruitmarket again, and will see Twitch and Wilkes joined by Glasgow Italo-punks Den Haan and laptop-wielding Parisian show-offs…

Sal P

27 Nov 2008

POST DISCO Although early-80s pioneers of the New York New Wave and post punk sound Liquid Liquid have enjoyed something of a revival in the UK during 2008, they should have been on the radar of Glasgow’s more discerning clubbers for a few years now.

Melting Pot

31 Jul 2008

‘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…