Tokyoblu

The Hot 100 2008

11 Dec 2008

It’s been a helluva year. 2008 has been a time of significant global change, socially, politically and culturally, with Scotland no exception. So here, for your delectation, is The List’s pick of the 100 people, places and things that rocked our world…

Tokyoblu celebrates its 100th party

Co-founder of established Edinburgh house night reflects on journey through capital's club scene

28 Jan 2011

‘I haven’t been sitting at home counting them off with a score card, honest,’ protests Tokyoblu co-founder John Hutchison ahead of his club’s 100th party. ‘It was actually Gibby [fellow founder Iain Gibson] that did it.’ It’s a bit of a spurious excuse…

Edinburgh Freshers week clubbing for the discerning listener

Cabaret Voltaire lines up Joey Negro, Paul Woolford and Gramophonedzie

23 Sep 2010

Freshers week: no other seven days on the country’s clubbing calendar will see so many excited youngsters stay up all night drinking, try to bag off with each other and just generally enjoy the freedom that not having mum waiting to chastise you for…

Rebel Waltz’s Murray Richardson returns to Tokyoblu

28 Apr 2010

Tokyoblu has become one of Edinburgh’s most reliable house nights, dishing out the best in house grooves on a monthly basis. And while some clubs may have crumbled when their eponymous house band called it a day, the resident DJ team of John Hutchinson…

Fresher's week club nights

An evening's entertainment for student sorts

3 Sep 2009

Although Edinburghers might not notice it quite so much thanks to their fancy festival throughout the month of August, the clubbing scene does tend to go into a state of semi-hibernation over the summer. And there’s one over-riding reason you just can’t…

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

Tokyoblu

The Tokyoblu live band say goodbye in style

20 Aug 2009

After four years the Tokyoblu live band will be saying a final goodbye. Their funked up house, electro grooves and disco rhythms have been heard from T in the Park to V Festival alongside their residency at the Cab. ‘To mark this last gig we will be…

Exposure: Tokyoblu

19 Nov 2008

Hail the Scottish Groove Armada! At least that’s how Edinburgh’s Tokyoblu style themselves, and it’s a comparison which most commentators seem happy to run with. Formed from their identically-named monthly club night – which has been held at the late…

Musika & Stereotype

16 Oct 2008

HOUSE It seems that scarcely a day goes by without news of a merger or takeover bid screaming across the screens of 24-hour news channels. Stereotype and Musika have obviously been watching the markets to discern which way the wind is blowing…

Tokyoblu

18 Sep 2008

HOUSE ‘It’s a really exciting time for us right now,’ says Tokyoblu founder and DJ John Hutchison. ‘After six years of constant, hard-at-it aiming to get somewhere, we’re only now starting to approximate what our plans were back then.’ Tokyoblu…

Tokyoblu

4 Jan 2008

Although they’ve been pounding the Edinburgh scene for the best part of half a decade, gaining a large and faithful following in the process, it’s only now that Tokyoblu are starting to gain some of the respect and attention they deserve. Their…

Review of the year - clubs

13 Dec 2007

We can’t look back on 2007 without mentioning two of the biggest (but very different) clubs in Scotland reaching their tenth birthday. Optimo (pictured) have continued to plough their own furrow of weird goodness as Twitch and Wilkes forge ahead with…