Club nights in Manchester this week (21-28 July)

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 22 Jul 

Rhythm Section release party
with Hidden Spheres, Bradley Zero & more 
Eastern Bloc, 4pm, free

Celebrate the release of a new record on Rhythm Section by Manchester's Hidden Spheres with an in-store at Eastern Bloc, spilling out on to Stevenson Square with all manner of sounds from label compadres Bradley Zero, Contours, and Mali playing back to back with Anu. A good one to get you warmed up for the weekend.

(Saturday afternoon also gets a nice psyching up from the shop's own Tom, and Seb of Stop Making Sense.)

Meat Free presents XDB 
Soup Kitchen, 10pm, £10

Reliable hosts Meat Free bring Metrolux label boss XDB back to Manchester after a six-year hiatus. Ahead of an appearance alongside the likes of Mike Denhert and Luke Hess on a new compilation, 15 Years of Echochord (out September), he should be on fine form. They're promising their standard glitter and inflatables, too. 

CHRISTEENE presents Trigger
Islington Mill, 10pm, £8 

If you haven't experienced CHRISTEENE live, prepare to have your mind retooled and your body resurrected. CHRISTEENE's confrontational shows combine performance art, provocateurism and punishing jams, and new spectacle Trigger wants you to abandon 'all previous notions of normative living'. Well, it is Friday night, after all.  

Sat 23 Jul

High Hoops 1st Birthday
with Honey Dijon, Delta Funktionen, O'Flynn & more
Islington Mill, 4pm, £10-£18

Marking their first year, High Hoops welcome Chicagoan vinyl head (and Derrick Carter protégé) Honey Dijon to the Mill, accompanied by the Four Tet-friendly O'Flynn (playing 'til 2am). Dutch selector Delta Funktionen heads the afterparty at the White Hotel (2am-8am). 

Get booking...

Inside Out 1st Birthday with Beautiful Swimmers 
Soup Kitchen, 29 Jul, 11pm, £10 

The time is nearly nigh for another happy, happy evening from trippy duo Beautiful Swimmers, whose past parties for Wet Play and HiKu have secured them a big place in our heart. What could be better to celebrate Inside Out's first year than their crushed synths and beachy house...? 

Moving Metals
with Beatrice Dillon, Sean Canty & Felix Hall
Soup Kitchen, 30 Jul, 11pm, £5

Audio explorer and Karen Gwyer collaborator Beatrice Dillon leads a tremendous bill here, with Demdike Stare's Sean Canty and Trilogy Tapes' Felix Hall also on hand.

Warehouse Project 2016
Various dates from 23 Sep, Store Street Warehouse

It's baaaaaaack! Tickets for WHP 2016 go on sale at the not-exactly club-friendly time of 9am on Friday morning; highlights from this year's line-up include curated nights from Four Tet and Ninja Tune, a Numbers and Jackmaster-programmed show topped by Ricardo Villalobos b2b Seth Troxler, and a third birthday bash from Manchester hip-hop crew Levelz. Here's our round-up; full details over at the WHP website.

Festival watch

Liverpool International Music Festival (21-24 Jul): Thris Tian, Lewis Boardman, Gilles Peterson, Yousef and more play various events across LIMF weekend. Check out some fave track selections from Yousef.

bluedot (Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, 22-24 Jul): find art by Brian Eno, a headline set from Underworld, and DJs 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 stupidly good clubs lineup as ever, including Boddika, Derrick Carter, Leon Vynehall and oh man, the quality just goes on forever.