This New Year’s Eve the Glasgow School Of Art and Mixed Bizness will knock it’s heads together, kick open the doors and bring in 2009 with a bang. While other nights scramble over the latest big name, overpriced and over hyped guest DJs, we have come up with a party to celebrate not only the buying of a new calendar but also the vibrant and exciting clubbing scene the city of Glasgow continues to nurture. We genuinely feel that New Year’s Eve should not be treated as an opportunity to jack up drinks prices and make like bandits on the door, but it should be the chance for everyone to party hard and together, on the one night we know we can.
Setting things off in the main room are two DJs who’s names have become inseparable from pulse racing, forward thinking club nights and DJ sets. Boom Monk Ben, creator and curator of Mixed Bizness and official DJ for Ninja Tune’s Solid Steel crew, has seen his star steadily shine brighter over the last 12 months. Joining Benny Boom in the DJ booth is A La Fu. Resident DJ and creator of the award winning Radio Skool mix series and club nights, A La Fu has established his name as one of the very best electronic DJs going. As Big Dada’s main man on the turntables he has toured the globe time and time again alongside the likes of Scratch Perverts, Roots Manuva and many more, continuing to set himself apart as one of the most skilled and musically accomplished spinners you’ll ever hear. Expect a freeform smash up of electro, house, dubstep, dancehall, hip hop and all the dancing beats you can handle.
Live sets on the night will come courtesy of Sleepless Crew and Fancy & Spook, two of the city’s very best electronic music acts. The ragga tinged electronics of Sleepless Crew are tipped for the biggest of tings. Releases on labels Dalriada and Subplate Recordings have confirmed them as some of the best producers of dance hall, hip hop and electroid beats in UK and introduced their acid dancehall sound to the masses. Fancy & Spook are not about fuss and frills, just hi energy, all-analogue electro. They start a lo-fi party with yesterday’s hi-tech. Their recent ep ‘We Had The Technology’ is heavily influenced by the old school electro sound of the Motor City, like classic Direct Beat or Aux-88, full of snares rolling loud from the boombox. A must for fans of old school Detroit Electro but brought up to date with their own contemporary twist.
In the Vic Bar we have two bastions of Glasgow clubbing and music. Mr Andrew Divine and Chris ‘Beans’ Geddes will be joining forces to bring us a psychadelic sound clash that you’d be a fool to miss. Andrew “Divine” Symington has steered Glasgow School of Art’s soul, funk, reggae and jazz extravaganza, Divine, for over 15 years - rendering it Glasgow’s longest-running club night - and an exigent, one-stop institution for lovers of northern soul, 60s grooves, psych-jazz, hipster Mod and Motown. Chris ‘Beans’ Geddes is best known for his world famous band Belle & Sebastien but we love him just as much for his ear opening and feet shuffling DJ sets, brimming with unearthed gems and forgotten classics from the last 40 years. Expect a healthy dose of the greatest in northern soul, heavyweight funk, Tamla Motown, sixties freakbeat, dynamite ska, E-Z listening and psychedelic soundtracks - a unique blend of established classics and new discoveries…