There are mysterious mono-chrome posters all over the city, but people have got the message. There is something big happening in Glasgow tonight, and an hour long queue is there to prove it.
New head teachers have entered the Classrooms, tore it down just like sixth year students on their last day, and set a new curriculum: decent club music, cheap drinks, amazing nights. All right in the heart of Glasgow’s main clubbing area: the (in)famous Sauchiehall Street.
After installing a supremely advanced Funktion One soundsytem, graffiting everywhere, and landing the best of Glasgow’s talent in various terminals, the place is ready to take off as one of Glasgow’s best collaborative efforts yet.
Bringing together a force of local talent, Terminal 2 is our first arrival, where Vitamin and Numbers are piloting the decks. Despite the names sounding like a primary school lesson, the Vitamins and Numbers boys graduate things to the next level. Shaun, Vitamins resident, is more used to playing raves in forests and parties on Islands, but teaching the floor with obscure, jumping electro, and mixing in hits like Daft Punk’s “Da Funk” in please the crowd. JackMaster from Numbers is up next, playing heady electronic beats and some hyperdub – but it’s not as an abrasive a set as some of his followers at the regular Sub Club Numbers night might have expected.
Killer Kitsch, on the other hand, doesn’t hold anything back, unleashing a complete air-raid on terminal 1. Those who enjoy a session or two at his Buff Club residency may recognise a few all too familiar mixes, but when pummelled with classic after classic like MIA’s “Gangalang”, “Intergelactic” by the Beastie Boys , and Duck Sauce’s “Barbara Streisand” (with that name hilariously replaced with “Justin Beiber”), it’s impossible to be cynical. Killer Kitsch really goes for the upper cut tonight, and doesn’t fail to slay us all.
With all this, and even an extra reggae and acoustic terminals tucked away somewhere, Club 520 has the potential to be something special: a place clubbers of Glasgow can be proud of – pulling together talent from the entire city’s best nights, and cementing the fact that Glasgow’s music scene is thriving massively. The class of 2011 is looking extra exciting, and with places like Club 502 piloting us into the new year, I’m sure we’re all going to return with honours.
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