Scottish Clubbing Highlights: September 2025
Feeling fresh? School’s back and so are club programmes across the country to power you through the atrocities of academia. Top picks this month include Slikback, Scandal.gla, Josi Devil, and Lena Willikens
Glasgow's newest – and weirdest – venue to stand the test of time, EXIT, on Maxwell Street, celebrates its second birthday on Friday 5 and Saturday 6 September, with a two-day freaky blowout featuring leftfield DJs, live acts, and £3 tickets not to be frowned upon. For something a little poppier, check out Scandal.gla Hosted by Playmymixtape at The Art School with Rahul.mp3, or across the motorway, Lena Willikens lands at The Berkeley Suite for Fenix, where you can alternatively expect a solid, but strange selection of wonky downtempo wormholes (7 Sep).
On Friday 12 September, we're back at EXIT for another birthday, but this time to celebrate Richard from Rubadub's 50th at HAVE YOU BEEN RUNNING? A Fundraiser for Refuweegee with Sparky (Live), the Conor Thomas Latin freestyle set, Ribeka and much more from 7pm. Over at Renfield Lane inside Stereo, Ink Tank returns with a lineup recruiting SOFSOF, Roy Don, and Jurnalist on the microphone. In the capital, and more specifically in the Cowgate (shock), techno, trance, and gabber will be ground into one at Alien Disko: Miss Cabbage + Mollie Rush – not for the faint-hearted (12 Sep).
On Thursday 18 September, head to the Dance No Evil 1st Birthday Party with Josi Devil, promising a special set from the Hessle Audio sound design virtuoso inside Stereo (18 Sep). The next day at Sneaky Pete's Palidrone x Volens Chorus join forces to bring high-intensity rhythms of Kenya's Slikback to Edinburgh – expect bass, footwork, techno and trap (19 Sep). On Saturday 20 September in Glasgow, it's ERP with Boosterhooch and her brilliantly bonkers programming inside EXIT – the less you know the better.
Looking for a midweek dance? Mile High Club has you covered as yung kidd showcases Lukas Wigflex and his wonderful take on contemporary UK club sounds at Sneaky Pete's (24 Sep). If you fancy tackling one final festival to close out your month and quite possibly the year, on Saturday 27 September, DAYS returns to The Pitt Market in Edinburgh with Erol Alkan, Leon Vynehall, Or:la, and Ross From Friends.