It may only be February, but the buzz about summer festivals is slowly building as tickets go on sale and strong line-ups are being released across the board. It’s no surprise that February weather has […]
Love Muscle, Encouraging Safer Spaces
Love Muscle is an alternative LGBTQ+ club night that aims to save the community from “sonic evil”, by providing high quality nights filled with funk, soul, techno and disco. The self-proclaimed “pumping gay dance party” […]
IntheMiddle with The Night Café
The Night Café are quickly gathering popularity and pace with their upbeat indie and big ambitions. Clubs Editor Amelia Whyman spoke to Sean from the band about inspiration, resolutions, and massive plans for 2018. […]
Editor’s Cuts: November 2017
Clubs Editor Amelia talks you through her album picks for November Kllo- Backwater Australian duo Kllo infuse melancholic electro-pop with soulful R&B elements for their debut album. The result is warm and ambient, and easy […]
Dancehall: A History
In late 1970s Jamaica, popular music shifted away from its reggae roots towards a more modern, risqué and different display of culture. This new trend was called Dancehall and it was the first emergence of […]
Limit: The Social 002 at Wire 22/03
After the success of their first ‘Social,’ Limit UK came back to wire last Wednesday, to host ‘The Social 002,’ an event focused on showcasing the maximum amount of talent in a minimum space of […]
Toothless @ Brudenell, 3/3/17
A smaller and smiley crowd gathered to watch Toothless perform amongst the fairy lights and disco balls of Brudenell Social Club. Only the fifth show of their first UK tour, there was a lovely rapport […]
Everyone loves a taste of the Good Life
Think Friday night in the desolate setting of the queue for Beaver Works. Think girls in flower print flares with an aptitude for creative use of glitter. Think eccentric décor and ambitious uses of space. […]
Flux 6th Birthday w/ Benjamin Damage and Mister Saturday Night at Beaver Works 03/02
Another Friday rolls around and with it comes another Flux to get people talking. But this time was different. Flux has turned six years old and rightly put on a huge birthday party to celebrate. […]
Folk Acid and Moral Ravers: The Rise and Fall of the Acid House Movement
Acid House rose to prominence in the 1960s to the 1980s from the clubs of Chicago, characterised by the ‘squelchy’ sounds of the emerging bass synthesiser, the ‘Roland TB-303 Bass Line’. By the late 1980s […]
Dusky bring live ‘Outer’ tour to Canal Mills this February
The house revival of the early 2010s gave rise to artists that created originality within the genre, and made it the oh-so-popular section of the music scene that it is today. London house duo Dusky […]
Review – Flux x Snowbombing w/ Denis Sulta and Levon Vincent
Walking into the Flux x Snowbombing party I was met with the familiar and dulcet tones of ‘Last Night a DJ saved my life’. Flux is renowned for dabbling in disco classics and I’m a […]