Club nights in Manchester this week (14-21 Jul)
Banana Hill return to the Soup Kitchen basement with Boiler Room's Thris Tian in tow, plus Channel One Soundsystem, a free in-store party at Eastern Bloc and a mansion takeover.
We've scoured the listings to bring you our pick of club nights in Manchester this week – plus the latest news on clubs you should book ahead for, festivals and more. Think we've missed something? Send lauren@theskinny.co.uk the details...
Don't-miss parties this week:
Fri 15 Jul
Global Roots Soundsystem with Thris Tian, Cervo & JVC
Soup Kitchen, 11pm, £5/£7
Those good lads at Banana Hill present their fourth quarterly residency with Global Roots Soundsystem/Boiler Room's Thris Tian, and step up to the decks themselves (they're Cervo and JVC, don'tchaknow). From Turkish disco to Ghanaian dance, Detroit techno to deep Durban dubbiness, expect their signature bottomless dish of vibrant world flavours.
Hit & Run vs Red Eye HiFi
with Channel One, Fox & more
Hidden, 10pm, £5.50/£8
One of the world's best-known reggae sound systems Channel One (repped by Mikey Dread and Ras Kayleb) goes tête-à-tête with Red Eye HiFi, refereed by the one and only Fox. In their own words: 'trust me, these guys have some serious dubplates!'.
Sat 16 Jul
Eastern Bloc instore: Micron & Friends
Eastern Bloc, 4pm, free
Continuing Eastern Bloc's run of tip-top in-store events, this free party helps celebrate ten years of Micron club with Will Tramp! (HomoElectric) and reps from ace nights Doodle, Love Dose and Cosmic Disco. It's all in anticipation of a big Micron event this month – a 12-hour party with Kiwi at Mantra Warehouse on 23 Jul – and the tenth anniversary proper in Liverpool in September (headlined by Ame).
Covert Mansion Party
Antwerp Mansion, 10pm, £3
For the first in a series of Covert Mansion events, the Covert crew will be taking over Rusholme's crumbling Narnia with their forbidding blend of techno, house and humid summer soarers. Just Jorge, Brian Murphy, Lewis Smith and more take the wheel across two rooms.
Get booking...
High Hoops 1st Birthday
with Honey Dijon, Delta Funktionen, O'Flynn & more
Islington Mill, 23 Jul, 4pm, £10-£18
Celebrating their first year, High Hoops bring Chicagoan vinyl head (and Derrick Carter protégé) Honey Dijon, and the Four Tet-friendly O'Flynn, to the Mill (playing 'til 2am). Dutch selector Delta Funktionen leads the afterparty at the White Hotel (2am-8am).
Inside Out 1st Birthday with Beautiful Swimmers
Soup Kitchen, 29 Jul, 11pm, £10
There's a lotta love in Manc for trippy duo Beautiful Swimmers, with past parties for Wet Play and HiKu having helped spread the word. What could be better to celebrate Inside Out's first annum than their crushed synths and beachy house...?
Moving Metals
with Beatrice Dillon, Sean Canty & Felix Hall
Soup Kitchen, 30 Jul, 11pm, £5
Karen Gwyer collaborator Beatrice Dillon tops a tremendous bill, with Demdike Stare's Sean Canty and Trilogy Tapes' Felix Hall also on aural exploration duties.
Festival watch
This weekend!
Beat-Herder (Ribble Valley, Lancashire, 15-17 Jul): take your rabble to the Ribble for Todd Terje, Booka Shade, A Guy Called Gerald and loads more. Weekend tickets still available.
Farr Festival (Hertfordshire, 14-16 Jul): Move D, Moomin, Maurice Fulton and lots of people whose names don't begin with M lead a great bill in the sleepy South. Get on it.
Next weekend!
Liverpool International Music Festival (21-24 Jul): Thris Tian, Lewis Boardman, Gilles Peterson, Yousef and more play various events across LIMF weekend.
bluedot (Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, 22-24 Jul): find art by Brian Eno, a headline set from Underworld, and disc-spinners including Ben UFO and Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve all performing at a space observatory. Ridic.
Tramlines (Sheffield, 22-24 Jul): One of the biggest weekends in Yorkshire returns with a ridiculously good clubs lineup as ever, including Boddika, Derrick Carter, Leon Vynehall and oh god, the quality just goes on forever.