Clubbing

Welsh dance duo Overmono have had about as good a year as an underground rave act could hope for. There were sold-out headline shows, a debut album in the charts, a busy festival season playing peak slots, and to top it all off, three shows over the new year period. So where can you catch one of the hottest tickets in the UK dance-music market right now? Australia.It’s not just Overmono. Many big artists are gigging abroad this new year. It used to be that every UK club would have an end-of-year party. DJs would play two…

The year was 2010, the last vestige of time in which, when the beat dropped in the club, there would be thousands of hands in the air simultaneously cutting through the laser lights instead of holding up little glowing bars to film it.Swedish House Mafia, the superstar DJ trio comprising Steve Angello, Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso, had taken over the world with their euphoric Eurodance bangers, and those who’d managed to get into their residency night at Pacha, the superclub in Ibiza’s Mediterranean Old Town, knew that…

The attorney for embattled actor Jonathan Majors — who was arrested last month on suspicion of assault and charged with misdemeanors a day later — has filed evidence with a New York court that appears to show the accuser uninjured and out on the town after parting ways with the “Creed III” star the night of the alleged incident. Majors was charged March 27 with misdemeanor assault and harassment. In the complaint, the alleged victim said the “Lovecraft Country” actor, 33, struck her “about the face with an open hand,…

London-based photographer Aiyush Pachnanda, aka Yushy, spent five years documenting and capturing the euphoric energy and momentary connections among the crowds drawn to Welsh capital’s drum’n’bass scene and the re-emerged nightlife of post-lockdown in the UK capital London-based photographer Aiyush Pachnanda, aka Yushy, spent five years documenting and capturing…

For Sheffield’s music scene, 1985 was a year of change. Jarvis Cocker fell out of a window trying to impress a girl with a Spider-Man impression. Hospitalised and in a wheelchair, he had a lyrical epiphany that would change the fate of Pulp from cult outsiders to Britpop’s finest. Industrial-funk outfit Chakk signed a major deal and used the money to build FON studios, which produced countless hit records and effectively led to the birth of Warp Records. And a pioneering new club night began: a place where Black and white…

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever star Letitia Wright was quick to call out an article that has included her name for the anti-vaccine controversy along with two ‘controversial’ men in the industry for consideration in the upcoming awards race. (Also read: Letitia Wright breaks silence on anti-vaccine controversy)In her Instagram story, Letitia Wright posted a screenshot of the article that has the headline, "How Personal Baggage Will Impact Oscar Chances". Letitia called out the journalist as well as the publication,…

In 2019, Andrew Fleming-Brown realised that the venue he manages in Glasgow, called SWG3, a collection of industrial warehouses “designed for holding tobacco, not people”, was falling behind when it came to sustainability. Then he had an idea: “We realised that our audiences could be our source of energy.”He recruited inventor David Townsend and his company TownRock Energy to investigate greening the complex and, in just over a year, they developed and built Bodyheat: a system that provides carbon-free climate control by…

Hello, and welcome back to the Guide. For this week’s edition, Chal Ravens, a writer specialising in electronic music and club culture, takes the mic to break down why the capital’s nightclubs are struggling – and why it isn’t only the pandemic to blame. I’ll be back next week. Gwilym Mumford---What’s that ringing in your ears? Maybe a car alarm in meltdown after this week’s infernal heat? Or just the same old tinnitus? No: it’s the death knell for yet another of Britain’s beleaguered nightclubs. This week we learned that…

In November 1995, six twentysomething mates in London were sick of never finding anywhere to go out that fitted their idea of fun, so they put on a night of their own at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern (RVT) and called it Duckie. They were host Amy Lamé, DJs the London Readers Wifes (Mark Wood and Mark Johnston), producer-promoter Simon Strange (AKA Simon Casson) and “door whores” Jay Cloth and Father Cloth. It was the start of one of the world’s longest-running LGBTQ+ club nights and the ignition of a powerhouse performance…

On carretera de El Saler, a highway leading through the Albufera natural park half an hour from Valencia, the road is flanked by paddy fields growing rice for paella. Tourists ride bikes, and horse-drawn carts plod around the land as I head towards an old barraca, an adobe farmhouse with sloping roofs, traditional in Valencian agriculture.It is hard to believe that this was once one of Spain’s wildest nightclub scenes, home to bakalao, a relentless Eurodance sound that drew partygoers to Valencia from across the country…