Clubs

Go celebrate Turnmills!
Turnmills wisely sold tickets to its regulars first, so most of the people at its momentous three finale parties – Friday’s The Last Ever Gallery At Turnmills, The Heavenly Get-Together on Saturday and Sunday’s The Last Dance – will be there because they love it and bought the tickets before they even knew about the all-star line-ups. Thirty lucky winners nabbed tickets through Time Out last week, but love nor money won’t get you on the list now. See www.turnmills.co.uk/finalweekend/messages.asp to read the goodwill greetings and groans of anguish from the where-will-we-go-now? crowd.
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Go out on Bad Thursday!
The night before Good Friday is the best excuse to party since New Year’s Eve. Adventures In The Beetroot Field returns to Fabric with great DJs (Erol Alkan, Four Tet and Filthy Dukes) and no fewer than 11 live sets including The Presets, Gruff Rhys and Boom Bip’s Neon Neon and Southend’s ace girl band Ipso Facto. Best of all it is an adventure; a festival mix but without muddy fields. Secretsundaze & Friends brings German/Ibizan heroes Monza, London’s own house-with-soul champions Need2Soul, Dalston’s mirrorball-manic Disco Bloodbath and Secretsundaze all together in The Coronet. Down the road in SeOne the Remix All-Nighter comes up trumps with DJ action from a host of Ninja Tune heroes, Orbital’s Phil Hartnol and Ed Banger’s Busy P alongside live sets by The Whip and electro titan Vitalic. So many vital sounds: that’s why it’s listed under Freestyle…

Go indulge!
A double-decker weekend with two bank holidays, Easter is all about indulgence already, but at Guanabara they make their priorities clear at The Choc Shot Ball on Friday. The clue’s in the title, as everybody gets a chocolate bottle filled with Sagatiba Velha caçhaca – the liqueur they make caipirinhas with – to kick start a night of sambas and Brazilian beats, and live performances by Mandinga and drag star Natally Drag. Go easy on the chocs and you will have a ball! Master mixer James Holden has developed a real passion for cheese on his travels and he and the Allez-Allez DJs indulge their love of gooey Gruyère and equally hot tunes at The Fondue Fun-Do at the Swiss-styled St Moritz on Wednesday. No cheesy tunes, but lots of fromage.

Go continental on Sunday!
Sunday clubbing always attracts the most cosmopolitan crowds and that goes double at Easter. Actually, triple that, as there’s a six-way soundclash of ‘contimental’ partying to savour on Sunday. Circo Loco and Superfreq bring their DC10-style hedonistic excess, gorgeous crowds and twisted, brooding beats to The End; there’s similarly unbridled Balearic abandon from the polysexual crowd at Matinee ‘La Leche’s' milk-themed, dressed-in-white spectacular at Fabric; Wet Yourself Bank Holiday Special adds Kompakt signing Oxia and the Italo Boyz (Get Physical) to its Super Soaker special by the pool in Club Aquarium; Belgian DJ duo The Glimmers give away their ‘Gee Gee Fazzi’ album at P45 & Sparkly Nutz at Clapham’s White House; there’s a unique gathering of the Swedish House Mafia up at Koko and don’t forget Retox, the weekly Sunday session which draws the most polyglot party people in town (and surprise guest DJs) to its all-nighter at Sosho.

Go west!
West Londoners have parties coming their way this weekend, which will suit them as (adopts hushed Attenborough tones) they rarely travel far outside their local habitat. Faith brings its annual Easter house-up (and special guests Dennis Ferrer from New York and German duo Ame) to 12 Acklam Road on Thursday, and local heroes and electro funsters Death To All Culture Snitches take charge of the same space on Good Friday (they’re joined by Riton, Spektrum and Mock’n’Toof). Black Rabbit kicks off a monster weekend of parties at The Westbury in Kilburn, with Hot Chip DJing at Pin-Up’s Carboot Bingo on Saturday. Also for the brilliant festival-style mix of London scenes (Gaz Mayall to The Count and Sinden to burlesque) at The Paradise Show at Paradise by Way of Kensal Green on Sunday.

Go all day!
After-parties and all-dayers mean you don’t even have to miss out on beauty sleep! Stuart Patterson at Shoreditch’s new East Village grabbed the first chance he could to host the debut East Village All Dayer. Detroit’s Omar S joins him in the basement techno-house mix while there’s a big disco special up in the bar. Bugged Out isn’t hosting any big nights this weekend but its reviving its New Year’s Day tradition with a Bugged Out Easter Sunday All-Dayer at Essex Road’s Old Queen’s Head. Too far north? Kerfuffle delivers top techno and house talent to Brixton’s Jamm from 3pm on Easter Sunday. Well, why not start early?

Go raving!
Battling bassbins, Batman! Breakin’ Science is billed as ‘the ultimate back-to-back drum ’n’ bass showdown’ on Easter Sunday at The Coronet and the humongous triple-arena line-up of drum ’n’ bass dons all playing ‘B2B’ (as they say) sure is impressive. But the real showdown is that on the same night around the corner at The Ministry of Sound, Alchemy is hosting a multi-room drum ’n’ bass spectacular… The Ministry of Sound’s Martin Audio sound system will be working hard all weekend as Back to ’95 rewinds to UK Garage and soulful house anthems on Thursday, and on the next night Epidemik present Good Friday Feeling at the Ministry will use 50 DJs and MCs (now that is authentic: nothing succeeds like excess at raves) to play ‘the seven ages of rave’ around a live set by The Jilted Generation. Yep, they’re a Prodigy tribute band.

Go figure!
Minimal is so over as a nightlife trend (see those ‘minimal my ass’ T-shirts) but you’ll still hear a lot of minimal techno this weekend; it just won’t be all night long (we pray). Minus Records, Ritchie Hawtin’s label which helped pioneer the move to stripped-back beats a decade ago, celebrate its anniversary by taking over the whole of Fabric for Fabric presents Minus Tenth Birthday on Saturday. But don’t go expecting to hear only glitchy clicks. ‘DJs at the forefront are mixing it up and it’s house, techno, electro, vocals, instrumentals, all of it,’ Hawtin told Time Out in September. An incredibly skilled decknician who’s there to entertain as well as introduce new music, he plays the main room alongside longstanding sparring partner DJ Magda. It runs for 12 hours and it will be brilliant.

Go on and on!
All-nighters are all over the listings, but you can rave around the clock if you fancy it. Let’s say you start the weekend in proper Balearic style at Summertime Global First Birthday Party at Club 54 (Mile End) on Thursday, where fellow Ibizan reprobates Filthy Gorgeous and We Love… DJs join the party. Leave there anytime after 4.30am and head over from E1 to EC3 for Nu Breedz at Departure which carries on until 11am. By which time Lasermagnetic’s Long Good Disco Daytime Good Friday Party will have started at The Old Blue Last in Shoreditch. That carries on until 7pm (thereafter the Lasermagnetic crew carry on up at the Big Chill House) but by then East Village All Dayer will be well underway, which is set to continue until 4am. Just about time for Nu Breedz to start again…

Go techno!
And talking of techno, there’s an inspired meeting of DJ talent at The End on Saturday when Detroit’s Carl Craig and London’s Gilles Peterson share the turntables at Carl Craig ‘Sessions’ Album Launch. Craig’s compilation features many of his finest jazz and soul-flavoured techno tracks from a 20-year career during which he’s been variously known as Paperclip People, 69 and Innerzone Orchestra. He and Peterson have worked together many times and Peterson’s jazz, house and techno selection makes for another compelling Saturday nighter. Oh, and Hercules & Love Affair will be adding disco loops DJing in the AKA Bar, too.

Go see…
Go see the Shoreditch fashion kidz and gay-straight-whatever reprobates who frequent Friday’s weekly Trailer Trash really living large at the Trailer Trash 4th Birthday Warehouse Party: Zoo Rave at Hearn Street on Easter Sunday… Go see the debut UK live set by Chateau Flight at Warm at East Village on Saturday… Go see the South Rakkas Crew (top dancehall producers signed to Diplo’s Mad Decent label) and Baltimore DJ don Aaron La Crate at Alwayz Frydaze presents Deadly Rhythm at Egg on Friday.