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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HighlightsCom Truise @ Sneaky Pete's, 3 Dec
Some artists make their mark with simple raw energy or bold originality. Others are content to show that they are well schooled in existing forms and a... Read more »| 31 Oct 2011 -
InterviewsBlitz – Interview with Corrina Hornsby-Walsh and Paul Challinor
First time DJs Corrina Horsnby-Walsh and Paul Challinor launch their queer and camp eighties inspired club night, Blitz, at Glasgow’s Flying Duck. Expect New Romantic tunes and thought-provoking, hilarious visuals Read more »| 06 Oct 2011 -
HighlightsDispatches from the Golden Isle
As Ibiza's party season wraps up for another year Kat Young checks out two of the major players, We Love and Cocoon. Read more »| 28 Sep 2011 -
Highlights
Clubbing Highlights – October 2011
Festivals: over! Summer: over! You might as well get a good selection of soup stocked in your cupboards, dig out the winter wardrobe and invest in a SAD lamp... Read more »| 28 Sep 2011 -
Highlights
Blitz
First time DJs Corrina Hornsby-Walsh and Paul Challinor launch their queer and camp 80s-inspired club night Blitz at Glasgow’s Flying Duck. They were i... Read more »| 28 Sep 2011 -
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Perc @ La Cheetah, 19 Nov
Pounding pounding techno music comes to La Cheetah this week in the form of bass throbbing tub-thumper Perc. With releases on Kompakt, Adam Beyer’s Dru... Read more »| 28 Sep 2011
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HighlightsTribute (Launch Night) Presents DJ Stingray
Detroit’s enduring influence on electronic music is hard to play down, not least it would seem, in Glasgow. It’s fitting then that the city&... Read more »| 28 Sep 2011 -
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Death Disco Presents Peaches (DJ Set)
Outlandish costumes and lascivious lyrics have been the cornerstone of the stratospheric rise of Lady Gaga in recent years. The idiosyncrasies of Ms Germanot... Read more »| 28 Sep 2011 -
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Gasoline Dance Machine Presents Mustang
Belgian duo Mustang can be best surmised as traversing right across the entire electro spectrum. Combining elements of funk, synthy pop and disco invariably ... Read more »| 28 Sep 2011 -
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Clubbing Highlights - September
Sophistry of the Roland TR909 variety to report on Sat 10 Sep, as Jeff 'The Wizard' Mills descends from the skies above the Electric Frog dressed i... Read more »| 31 Aug 2011 -
Interviews
Soma: Business as Usual
As Glasgow label Soma Quality Records celebrate their twentieth year co-founder Dave Clarke gets nostalgic about bin lids being banged in Miami and discovering Daft Punk at Euro Disney Read more »| 29 Aug 2011 -
InterviewsDeath Disco: The Noise of Art
Factory Floor discuss the genesis of their post-industrial trance inducing music Read more »| 29 Aug 2011 -
Interviews
DJ Rolando: Escaping the Jaguar
Roland Rocha is a DJ and producer formerly of Underground Resistance, a legendary techno stable founded by "Mad" Mike Banks and Jeff Mills. He meets The Skinny for a few jars to discuss ancient history in Detroit and new beginnings in Edinburgh, all the while trying to figure out "what the hell dubstep is" Read more »| 15 Aug 2011 -
Festivals
Electric Frog Summer Festival
To call the third installment of Electric Frog a success would require too many qualifying remarks: the truncated lineup (Electric Frog was originally a two-... Read more »| 04 Aug 2011 -
Festivals
LuckyMe Festival 2011
Nick Hook, Claude Speeed and Machinedrum have more in common than just long hair and Acme spectacles: they're playing the Fourth LuckyMe Festival Party later this month. The Skinny compiles a primer to the Glasgow label's ever-expanding roster Read more »| 03 Aug 2011