Clubs

Thursday
Representing quality homegrown electronic talent is Bugged Out! at Fire. Intrepid fans will follow them south to catch Erol Alkan’s six-hour electro odyssey, with an indie-electro disco Durrr-hosted room next door.

In the rock ’n’ rave corner, it’s the ever-brilliant Adventures In The Beetroot Field who chuck another slew of ace buzz bands in with top jocks like Simian Mobile Disco, Mogawi and Foals DJs.

Championing leftfield house-fuelled sounds are Deadly People, who head to under The Arches, where they unleash The Mighty Boosh, Drop The Lime and Night Slug’s Bok Bok & L-Vis 1990 for electro bass fans.

Flying the disco flag are Dalston basement hoppers and polysexual faves Disco Bloodbath, who team up with Optimo Espacio for a secret Easter Warehouse Ball, or Horse Meat Disco who host a room at Secretsundaze at The Coronet.

Sophisticated tech-house heads will make the most of Egg’s many rooms as Formula returns with D Ramirez; alternatively, they can help celebrate ten-and-a-half years of John Digweed’s prog house label Bedrock at Matter. Feature continues

Good Friday
Want killer electro-techno with a whole room of bassline-house goodness? Head to Always Fridays at Egg, which snips its cover charge to zero pounds despite luring such great DJs as Ed Banger’s Vicarious Bliss and Mr Flash up York Way. Craving kinky, corseted fun? Head to neo-baroque-styled Hendrick’s Masked Ball at The Guildhall Vaults, which has erotic life-drawing and the usual cabaret antics.

The Gallery’s dedicated trance goers will stand in line to see another of Marcus Schulz’s driving sets, while Mixmag’s diverse dance goulash lures hordes of youthful ravers. But students of the rumbling bassline variety won’t want to miss FabricLive, with D&B pioneer DJ Marky’s three-hour set leading the junglist parade.

On a groovy guitar tip, mop-top Mods will boogie, baby, at 229’s Swingin’ Sixties weekender, Le Beat Bespoke.

Saturday
Saturday saves itself for big house beats. By far the most monstrous bash is Tranz-mission, where frenetic party crews like Hardcore Heave, Raindance, One Nation and Frantic unite under Alexandra Palace’s giant roof.

Down south at Ministry of Sound, Saturday Sessions opens its doors to David Guetta’s vocal-led anthems, but those who prefer their soundtrack a leetle less cheesy can cram into Matter’s main boom room for electro house producer Eric Prydz.

For a more rock ’n’ roll-edged evening, opt for either Healer Selecta’s sizzling vintage takeover at our favourite whiskey bar-cum-club The Lexington or Stranger Than Paradise’s carnivalesque gypsy romp at The Miller Bar.

Easter Sunday
The polysexual disco fiends will have a field day: Dalston’s lawless and vibrant gay mafia Gutterslut take over Ghetto for their bitchy noir electro-techno mélange, while over at Fabric, Wet Yourself! are taking over all three Fabric rooms with the help of Trailer Trash and Glimpse, coaxing legendary DJ Hell into the box for their trendy fashion peeps. Fetishistic frolickers can get their trashy kicks at the Cramps Fetish Night at The Victoria pub in Mile End.

Balearic beat-fuelled hedonists, as usual, hold out for the return of Circo Loco, which strips down to its skimpy white bikini at Heaven for three rooms of minimal, techno and house, plus a Kubicle-hosted after-party, which this year spills into Vauxhall’s Lightbox.

Need more techno? Mulletover are throwing another secret warehouse bash to large it for five years of underground electronic sounds. Ministry of Sound thrives on 15 hours of dancing with Riot! first up to give you a hardcore thrashing until the scorchin’ salseros grind on down for monthly urban Latinfest La Bomba.

What’s more, no Easter weekend would be complete without a Sunday drum ’n’ bass marathon or two. Opt for either ball-crunching bass party Essence Of Chi, which rumbles out of Plan B with a hefty dubstep contingent, and Breakin’ Science, which boasts more than 20 huge DJs like Hype and Friction at The Coronet.

But for those who are wiped out yet still holding out for a soft rock singalong, seek out a battered leather sofa where you can recuperate as Bugged Out! host their after-party meltdown of guilty pop pleasures at the Old Queen’s Head.