Clubs
The Skinny guide to clubs in Edinburgh, Glasgow and across Scotland. Discover the best club nights in Scotland with our monthly highlights; find great new music with our DJ charts and playlists; and hear from some of electronic music's best new producers in our regular interviews.
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InterviewsFuture Rhythm Machine: Auntie Flo brings Huntleys & Palmers to Manchester
Introducing thousands to Highlife at T in the Park? Reducing crowds to ritualistic frenzies, begging for the sun? All in a day's work for Auntie Flo, who teams up with Huntleys & Palmers label boss Andrew for a party in Manchester this month Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
InterviewsGoing Places: DJ Cassy presents her Fabric mix
Ahead of her appearance at SWG3 in Glasgow, internationally revered DJ Cassy discusses her recent Fabric mix, her approach to DJing and her continually itchy feet Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
HighlightsNorthwest Clubbing Highlights – September 2013
Fresher? Addled second-year? Panicking third-year? Either way, order your books second-hand and instead blow your loan on Plastician, Bondax, Seth Troxler and Auntie Flo Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
HighlightsClubbing Highlights – September 2013
This month’s more compact highlights column packs in the likes of UK techno icon Regis, bass music producer Addison Groove and booty-goading ghetto house showman DJ Funk... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
Interviews
No Grand Narrative: Sync In Squares
With no fixed abode, an apparent disregard for any notion of genre and a commitment to only that which is 'forward-thinking', Sync In Squares present a series featuring Just Blaze, Thundercat, Andrés and DJ Haus Read more »| 05 Aug 2013 -
Interviews
Tell Me No L.I.E.S.: Ron Morelli on wax and NYC
With his Long Island Electrical Systems imprint forging a defiantly individual path through modern dance music, label boss Ron Morelli talks keeping it in the family, 'knackered house' and the lack of good wax Read more »| 01 Aug 2013
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InterviewsRedressing the Balance: Introducing Nightrave
As she prepares to welcome Parisian ghetto house player Big Dope P to Glasgow, DJ and producer Nightwave gives us the low down on her fledgling club event Read more »| 01 Aug 2013 -
Highlights
Clubbing Highlights Scotland – August 2013
Ahead of a particularly alluring month, we cast a bleary eye over the August schedule to pick out gems including hip hop turned house maestro Andrés, techno goodness from Jerome Hill and Jeff Mills, and jazz-flavoured electronics from LA’s Thundercat... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Reviews
Maiden Voyage: NTS Radio
Influential station NTS Radio held its first party outside of London in Manchester last month. Our intrepid clubber reports back Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Highlights
Northwest Clubbing Highlights – August 2013
Sweating is great! We love sweating. Here, find out about some places to sweat in this month, or even better, some people to sweat alongside, from Adam Shelton to Ron Morelli, to Theo Parrish at Beacons. Then get a lovely sweaty bear hug off The 2 Bears Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Interviews
Hero Worship: Matthew Herbert
Mancunian minimalist Howes tells The Skinny why sonic wiz Matthew Herbert's relentless innovation inspires him to challenge his own laziness Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Interviews
Rave It Up and Start Again: Simon Reynolds Revises Energy Flash
A new edition of Simon Reynolds' 1998 book Energy Flash, expanded with fresh material, taps into the recent co-option of rave by America's brash, commercial EDM movement – but he refuses to be too down on the kids Read more »| 29 Jul 2013 -
Highlights
Heads Down: Shangaan Electro Hit the UK
South Africa's Shangaan Electro craze reduces crowds the world over to jibbering masses of jelly-like limbs. The movement's head honcho, Dog, reveals the drive behind his fervid, furious dance phenomenon Read more »| 08 Jul 2013 -
Interviews
Making the Grade: Meet Midland
Meet Midland, one of the UK's most exciting producers, who this month marks the launch of his own label, Graded, with a new EP Read more »| 08 Jul 2013 -
Highlights
Scotland Clubbing Highlights – July 2013
This month we point you in the direction of Marquis Hawkes, Rinse FM's Oneman, and Future Times boss Maxmillion Dunbar. We also have a few tips for TITP's Slam Tent... Read more »| 03 Jul 2013