Don’t know about you, but this week all I can think about is a summer holiday – one with terraces, where the drinks are cheap but delicious, the restaurants make you feel like a local, and you don’t ever wear underwear because you’re in and out of the sea all day. That means it’s time to save up, which also means trying to spend as little £££ as possible, while still listening to some great DJs and new tracks. Here’s a selection for this weekend that don’t top £10 entry (and in some cases are FREE)…
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for the past two months, so believe when I say that her sets are always a huge huge joy. The Paris-based DJ and producer (real name Giulietta Canzani) also has a great show on recently-launched Rinse France AND is part of unstoppable collective Girls Girls Girls, who have been making people move at their Parisian Social Club night and globally over the last couple of years. Catch her at this VITAMINS-promoted night in Edinburgh, or at Deviation in London next week with the rest of the Girls Girls Girls, before her new mixtape (produced by Ryan Hemsworth) drops in June. Tickets are a £5 and the VITAMINS crew say, 'It fills up quick so get down early, Leave your inhibitions in the hoose.'
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of 2014 and described it as something to listen to on headphones 'when you’re zooted on a greyhound bus heading home thinking about her perfect face'. HOT. Grab tickets for a slightly more pricey (but not really, considering it’s two headliners, plus residents) for £8. He’ll be back in the UK On May 2 (Audio, Brighton) and May 3 (Oslo, London).
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(heartache for the dance floor), who is back with a new EP at the end of this month. Get down to dance (and a cry if the feeling takes you) for just £5 advance (and not that you care but 2 for 1 cocktails until midnight). The following nigh,t Tevo Howard brings his Chicago-grown expertise to Undertone. 'His soulful productions and hypnotic sets speak for themselves,' say promoters Groove Theory. Swnio’n wych.
Joe @ The Audacious Art Experiment, Sheffield
Friday 25th April******
Finally to the brilliantly named The Audacious Art Experiment in Sheffield, where Hessle Audio favourite Joe (replay this FACT mix again and again and again, don’t bother trying to Google him) settles in for another adventurous ‘WTF just happened? This is amazing, my body wants to move in six different directions at once and I feel a bit sick' set. £6 before 11, £8 after.
The Best Of The Rest
Gorgon City @ The Art School, Glasgow
Subdub w/ Mala, The Bug @ Coronet Theatre, London
Spacestation x Total Garage @ Bussey Building, London
Bicep @ XOYO, London
Tief w/ Pepe Bradock, Francis Inferno @ Corsica Studios, London
Get Twisted Label Showcase w/ Tough Love, Border Town @ Lightbox & Protocol
Dense & Pika @ Egg London
Booka Shade play Noise Of Arts 100 Years Electronic Music @ Village Underground, London
Andy C @ Electric Brixton, London
For The Love Of Mic 2nd Birthday @ Concrete, London
HeavenlySocial @ The Social, London
Eliphino @ Venom, Leicester
White Material @ TBA, Manchester
Scuba @ Sub Club. Glasgow
Missing Persons Club @ La Cheetah, Glasgow
Gorgon City @ The Art School, Glasgow
JD Twitch @ SWG3, Glagsow
Disco Deviant w Andrew Weatherall & Daniel Avery @ Audio, Brighton
Boddika @ Sub89, Brighton
Mosca @ Thekla, Brighton
Saturday 26th April
Gorgon City, MNEK @ Electric Brixton, London
Dream States w/ White Material @ Corsica Studios
The 2 Bears, Toddla T @ XOYO, London
Springtime party w Addison Groove @ Jamm, London
Livin Proof @ Village Underground, London
Warm w Horse Meat Disco @ Bussey Building, London
Ikonika @ Plan B, London
Leisure System @ Oslo, London
Bok Bok @ Queens Student Union, Belfast
Jackmaster @ Karma Lounge, Inverness
Jesse Rose & Space Dimension Controller @ The Forum, Aberdeen
Klose One @ La Cheetah Club, Glasgow
AME @ Audio, Brighton
Skreamizm w Route 94 @ MO Club, Southampton
Hudson Mohawke, SOPHIE @ Start The Bus, Bristol
This article originally appeared on The Debrief.