Your challenge, should you choose to accept it: to have a non-political party this weekend lasting longer than it takes for a new government to be formed (good luck). Start with a General Election night special hosted by General Ludd at Sleazies. Continue with the tropical house sounds of two disgustingly youthful DJs at The Arches on Friday, then cruise on into Saturday at the same venue with the Behaviour Festival’s closing knees-up. Then stick the BBC News Channel on come Sunday when you’re in need of a good (U)kip. They’ll still be droning on...
Deep Cuts @ The Election Party Special – Nice’n’Sleazy, Thursday May 7
General Ludd, the DJ/producers super-duo comprising Tom Marshallsay (AKA Dam Mantle) and Richard McMaster (from Golden Teacher, Lovers Rights and Silk Cut), continue their Nice’n’Sleazy residency with a party after polling has closed, worth going to just for the punning title (Deep Cuts) alone. Expect a night of twitchy house, techno and disco from the freakier side to get everyone voting with their feet. Best of all, it’s (door) tax free.
Thomas Jack and Sam Feldt – The Arches, Friday May 8
Look away now if you feel sensitive about your age. Making their Arches debuts on the same bill, Thomas Jack (pictured above) from Bemboka, Australia, and Dutchman Sam Feldt are a pair of 20-year-olds (20!) pioneering the “tropical house” sub-genre – i.e. basically deep house with added relaxed summer vibes (pan flute alert). Tropical house founder Jack (“it was kind of a joke at the start,” he says) had a viral hit with ‘The Final Speech’, and has since remixed for the likes of Of Monsters and Men and Adrian Lux.
Dark Behaviour – The Arches, Saturday May 9
Hedonistic clubbing meets exhilarating live performance at a night where nothing is as straight as it seems. Part of The Arches’ Behaviour Festival of cutting-edge performing arts, this risk-taking club night promises “an international assault of new music, queer hip hop, drag terrorism, cutting edge DJs” and more (much more, you have been warned). Entertainment on the night comes from the likes of Aerea Negrot, CHRISTEENE, David Hoyle, Eloise Fornieles & Dan White, Owen G. Parry, Oozing Gloop and the charmingly-titled CVNT TRAXX.