Music/Arts: Pop Boutique/Do It!
March 10, 2010
Pop Boutique: Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 March | 22 Schoolhill | 10am-5pm| Free
Do It!: Saturday 13 March | The Tunnels | 9pm | £3
A couple of events this weekend in aid of social care charity VSA:
First up, in the old Harley Clothing store at 22 Schoolhill, Pop Boutique (Facebook event page) gives you the chance to buy exclusive pieces from young Scottish artists, designers and creative bods…
Then it’s off down The Tunnels from 9pm on the Saturday for an afterparty courtesy of the Do It! crew. A move from their regular haunt of Cellar 35 means they can kick up things a notch, so expect all the things they’re good at (great visuals, eclectic selectors, funk, house, 80s tunes, dancing, artwork, that kind of stuff) to be somewhat multiplied and amplified, which, to state the screamingly obvious, is a good thing. Soundtracked by Do It! resident White Chocolate alongside guest Kid Bell, the night also sees the launch of the Aberdeen Sketch Book project (look! another Facebook event page). Aye, this lot know how to fuse art and music together alright. More power to them…
Music: Errors, Marionettes, Min Diesel
February 22, 2010
Friday 26 February | The Lemon Tree | 8pm | £8.50 Tickets
Glasgow instrumentalists Errors’ soon-to-be released second album ‘Come Down With Me’ sounds like that Channel 4 show you pretend you don’t watch if said in a clipped, 70s sitcom upper-class English accent: Come Dine with me. Let’s go Dine to my Hice. Hmmm. Kind of works. I’ll leave it in anyway. I’ll read it back later and wonder what the hell I was on about though. Guaranteed.
Anyway, Errors are signed to Mogwai’s Rock Action label and their new stuff is a pretty glorious mix of synths, guitars and driving drums which draws on krautrock, house, funk and post-rock with some big, swirling sounsdcapery thrown in for good measure. Check out their ace, bouncy, new single (out today, Mon 22nd) below. F**k knows what’s going on in the video though…
Support comes from tight, melodic and energetic local indie types Marionettes and the mysterious Min Diesel.
Music: The Deep End
February 12, 2010
Saturday 13 February | Snafu | 11pm | £6/£3 before 12
Some of the city’s best up-and-coming talents join regular Saturday night resident Funky Transport down Snafu way this weekend. Expect quality underground house in all its shapes and forms. Pre-party upstairs in The Athenaeum from 9pm with discount/free passes on offer too…
Music: Liquid Liquid (DJ Set), Findo Gask & more
January 30, 2010
Sunday 31 January | Snafu | 9pm | £6
A little reminder for this one, the second of The Dirty Hearts Club’s 4th Birthday nights (Thursday with the Filthy Dukes was a stormer by all accounts). There’s a wee bit more info in our previous post here (the competition’s closed now, obviously). Get down early to catch Findo Gask live. Good band…
Music: Haiti Fundraiser
January 28, 2010
Thursday 28 January | 99 Bar & Kitchen | 8pm | £5 (Donations)
Tonight (Thursday)! Great cause. Nice bar. Excellent line-up of DJs. What’s not to like?
Music/Competition: Dirty Hearts Club 4th Birthday
January 21, 2010
We’ve got a great prize to give away for this, but more of that later…
I’d imagine quite a few of you reading this have been to the Dirty Hearts Club down Snafu way at some point; it’s a beacon of good taste on a Thursday night, I mean check out some of the bands and DJs who’ve played there on their myspace. Pretty impressive.
Anyway, they’re celebrating their fourth birthday in style with two cracking nights which encapsulate the club’s eclectic nature perfectly…
Music/Competition: One-Up Records 30th Birthday
December 18, 2009
Wednesday 30 December | The Tunnels | 8pm | £12 (Tickets avail. from One Up)
Bang! It’s like waiting for a bus with regard to competitions on The Kiosque at the moment. Two in quick succession. Unless the bus you’re waiting for is a First Bus bus of course. Then it might be worth just cutting your losses and walking…
Anyway, details on how to win a pair of tickets for this show are after the spiel;
We’re really lucky to have something like One Up Records still trading in our city you know, especially since so many other iconic independent record shops have fallen by the wayside of late. I’m sure many of you frequent the place on a regular basis, so I won’t need to tell you what it’s like (in the unlikely event that anyone reading this hasn’t visited, they’re on Belmont Street in Aberdeen by the way).
To celebrate an incredible 30 years of being an integral, nay essential, part of the city’s music scene, this rather tasty-looking takeover of The Tunnels is on the cards. Anyone who’s ever spent their Saturday mornings combing the record racks of the place owes themselves to get down to this one. So, who’s playing then?
(drumroll)
Music: Do It!
December 9, 2009
Friday 11 December | Cellar 35 | 8.30pm | £3
The Do It! crew have been putting on great little parties down at Cellar 35 for over a year now, and there’s no reason why this night with a distinct Norwegian flavour to it will be any different.
Said flavour comes, not from a taste of that weird sweet brown cheese they have over there (which is, quite frankly, minging) but rather in the shape of guests Put Your Hand Up For Neo-Tokyo, a duo who’ve been making waves in Bergen’s burgeoning scene of late. Influences? Aphex Twin, Dimlite, Jeru the Damaja, Gary Numan and Devo. Not bad. Not bad at all. There’s a bit of early Madchester stuff in there too for good measure…
Glasgow deep house/disco don DJ Clinical (Cosmic Microwave) and Do It’s own funk/80’s selecter White Chocolate provide ample extra tuneage alongside all the extra visuals and artwork we’ve come to expect from this lot. Getting down early gives you the chance to pick up a free exclusive mix from Bergen’s Nabovarsel collective too. Done. Forget the oil, this is one Scando-Scottish exchange we heartily endorse. Skål!
Music: Mr Scruff
December 3, 2009
Saturday 5 December | The Warehouse | 11pm | £12.50 adv/£15 door
When you look up ‘eclecticism’ in the dictionary there may well be a picture of Manchester DJ/producer Mr Scruff. Actually, there won’t. Dictionaries don’t have pictures. Unless it’s some sort of special picture dictionary. Or one for kids or something. Always hated that phrase. Ridiculous.
Anyway, said tea-obsessed DJ brings a four-hour set with all the trimmings to The Warehouse tonight. Expect everything from original blues to house, tea stalls, incredibly cool merchandise, a venue festooned with his famed funky artwork…the whole shebang. If you’ve been anywhere near the club scene over the last ten years, you’ll know about this man, probably have at least one of his albums/mixes kicking around somewhere and will be looking forward to this immensely. If you haven’t, his superb website is as good a place to start as any. Recommended.
Music: Allen Toussaint Cancelled
November 19, 2009
Sigh, another cancellation. Due to travel problems Allen Toussaint will not be performing at the Lemon Tree tonight. More info here
