Don’t feel doomy when you see the words ‘End of Summer party’. Just celebrate the fact that soon nights out will take on a different sense of occasion - one where you run in from a dark rainy night to a friend's for a pre-club warm up, listening to music in comfort and enjoying a takeaway. Come going-out time you’ll run down the cold leaf-mulch road as fast as possible because you haven’t taken a jacket (cloak room queues are a pain) and will immediately break into a misty-sweat the moment you get inside a club. Before you put away the pool slides for another year - we’re promised some warm days to come - check out these end of summer events taking place this weekend.
**Burn Out Festival End Of Summer Party w/ MF Doom, Preditah, Zed Bias, Newham Generals @ Victoria Warehouse, Manchester **
Fri Aug 29
Following on from the Burn Out night that took place at Manchester’s Kraak gallery in July is this send off at the city’s Victoria Warehouse space. Taking in hip-hop, grime and plenty of multi-genre electronica music, get down from kick off to see the likes of Klose One, Spooky, the heavy, hard and spacey Darq E Freaker, free-remix favourite DJ Q, UKG long timer Zed Bias, producer Paleman plus grime from Birmingham’s Preditah and D Double E and Footsie AKA Newham Generals. Alt hip-hop overlord and mask-wearer MF Doom will headline. The venue also houses a hotel, if you’re feeling decadent and can’t be bothered to go home afterwards.
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**Sensu Boat Party feat East Everything @ Clyde Cruises, Glasgow **
Sensu After Party feat Eats Everything @ Sub Club Glasgow
Fri Aug 29
If you missed out on all the boat parties taking place in Croatia this summer, this final Sensu boat jolly might be the next best thing. Leaving from the Glasgow Science Centre at 7pm (get there for 6.30pm or else), you can sail down the Clyde to the sound of a set from Bristol’s Eats Everything (‘this is a guy who certainly knows how to rock the boat’ say promoters) plus ‘deck hands’ Junior and Barry Price. If you don’t have sea-legs or really do prefer to keep your water-clubbing to places that calls for a bikini rather than a Sou’wester there’s an after party at Sub Club where Eats will continue the party.
Stay Fresh w Bok Bok & Faze Miyake @ The Art School, Glasgow
Sat Aug 30
East End Social Last Big Weekend @ Richmond Park, Glasgow (& Sunday)
Sat Aug 30
Sun Aug 31
Also in Glasgow is the slightly-doomy sounding THE LAST BIG WEEKEND in Richmond Park. Featuring ‘One Big Top, Two Great Parties’ on the Saturday you can hear plenty on the noisier side of things with a headline set from Scottish institution Mogwai, the earslamming Fuck Buttons, ‘sonic voyager’ James Holden plus bands like The Twilight Sad, The Wedding Present and Honeyblood. The Sunday is a celebration of the city’s connection to some of the most exciting electronic music in the world and fantastic club scene with the needs-no-intro huge sound of Hudson Mohawke, Optimo and Jackmaster plus the pioneering Jeff Mills, LCD Soundsystem man James Murphy and more. If that’s not enough, also on Saturday at Glasgow Art School promoters Stay Fresh have decided to throw a hype party before the summer ends and they get back to work. Night Slugs’ Bok Bok and Rinse’s Faze Miyake feature.
Space-Time: The Future w/ Nik Colk Void, Holly Herndon, Helena Hauff, Yola Fatoush, Trash Kit @ Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire
Sat Aug 30
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If you’ve ever read the Wire magazine these names will feel like familiar old friends, if not, take a chance on Cambridgeshire and this year’s Wysing Arts festival. This year the festival is focussing 'primarily on women in experimental and electronic music and art, or bands fronted by women,' with twelve stages, stalls, merch and artist publications. Highlights include the Golden Pudel club’s DJ Helena Hauff, exciting composer Holly Herndon, Factory Floor’s Nik Colk Void, and the No Pain in Pop signed Karen Gwyer.
Nightowl SS:005 w/ MK, Secondcity @ Motion Skate Park, Bristol
Sat Aug 30
And in Bristol it’s the fifth and final event of the Nightowl Summer series (each night happened in a different city with only the best house & techno) featuring US house DJ MK aka Marc Kinchen who recently remixed Storm Queen’s Look Right Through the top of the UK Chart, plus *I Wanna Feel * producer Secondcity. Expect hits.
The Best Of The Rest
Fri Aug 29
Get Loose x The Fox Den w DJ Zinc @ Brixton Jamm, London
Jungle United: Congo Natty @ Brixton Electric, London
The Alexanders + Lindstrom @ XOYO, London
Raw Silence presents Giom @ Pacha London, London
Joe Goddard 5hr Set @ The Nest, London
Field Maneuvers @ TBA, London
For The Love Of Garage w Oxide & Neutrino @ Plan B, London
Balamii w Boddika, Tom Demac @ Bussey Building, London
Fabriclive w Marky & Friends @ Fabric, London
Ape-X & 12 inch Disco @ The Prince Of Wales, London
Egg presents Doorly @ The Egg, London
Service with Special Guest (Swamp 81), Mella Dee @ Fire 2, London
Boombox @ Bussey Building, London
Circus 82 @ Cargo, London
Rhythm Section w/ Simon Caldwell @ Canavan’s Pool Club, London
Ctrl Shift Relaunch @ The Shelter, London
Abattoir Summer Party @ Dalston Superstore, London
Ad Lib @ Bar 512, London
Rude Movements @ The Horse & Groom, London
Psyche Tropes Launch @ The Apiary, London
SM Soho presents Madtech 2nd Birthday @ SM Soho, London
Eddie Temple Morris @ Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, London
Bela Afro House Extravaganza @ The Alibi, London
Celestial @ Bulls Head, Birmingham
Astral Industries w Deepchord @ Soup Kitchen, Manchester
Butter Side Up Friends & Family Party @ Wire Club, Leeds
Lost Control @ Kraak Gallery, Manchester
Patrick Topping @ Gorilla, Manchester
Burn Out Festival End Of Summer Party w/ MF Doom, Preditah, Newham Generals @ Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
Burn Out With Zed Bias @ The Ritz, Manchester
Modicum presents Delta Funktionen @ The Menagerie, Belfast
The Shimmy presents Detroit Swindle @ Saint Judes, Glasgow
Innershades @ La Cheetah Club, Glasgow
Richy Ahmed @ Red Room, Peterborough
Sundown Festival @ Norfolk Showground, Norwich
OTC Music Festival @ a Field Approx 20 Mins from Portsmouth
Reconstruct @ Lakota, Bristol
Sat Aug 30
Klockworks with Ben Klock @ Village Underground, London
Extrawelt Live @ Electric Brixton, London
Soul London Soul train 16 Hour Day and Night Summer Festival @ Studio 338, London
Nina Kraviz @ Fabric, London
Louche w Move D All Night Long @ Plan B, London
Tweakaholic Jackmaster + Artwork @ XOYO, London
Astral Industries w/ Deepchord @ Dance Tunnel, London
Resonance Records Showcase @ Lightbox, London
Jerome Sydenham @ Egg London
Wired Saturday Service @ Dukes, London
Warm with Orson Wells @ Bussey Building, London
Maxi Jazz @ The Old Queens Head
Switched @ Cargo, London
Andy Blake @ Oslo, Hackney
Cat Lovers with Severino @ Queen Of Hoxton, London
School Daze @ Stokey Stop, London
Bank Of Switches @ Tipsy, London
Contradisco w A1 Bassline @ Department of Liquor and Social Affairs, Northampton
Camelot @ The Park Hall Hotel, Charnock Richard, Lancashire
Twitch w Joy Orbison, John Heckle @ The Bunatee, Belfast
Subculture vs Warehouse Project @ Sub Club, Glasgow
No Artificial Colours @ Saint Judes, Glasgow
Horse Meat Disco @ The Tunnels, Glasgow
A Love From Outerspace (Andrew Weatherall & Sean Johnston) @ The Berkeley Suite, Glasgow
Shoot Yohot @ NicenSleazy, Edinburgh
Mosca @ Coalition, Brighton
Warehouse w Maribou State @ Audio, Brighton
Dancetripp w Isaac Tichauer @ Tripp, Southampton
Ruffnek Diskotek 9th Birthday @ Cosies, Bristol
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