Have you got your tickets for Optimo’s Foodbank Fundraiser yet? We’re flagging that one up a week early, because it’s for a great cause, and should be an incredible night with special guests galore (Dixon Avenue Basement Jams, Harri & Domenic, Laetitia Pleiades, many more). This week highlights include the return of Supermax, an appearance from two young rising stars of house, and your chance to cross dress at a club without anyone looking at you funny.
Drag Night – The Art School, Thu Mar 5
No rattling charity boxes and organising bake sales for GSA Paint and Print department students when it comes to raising funds for their Degree Show, oh no. Instead, they invite you to 'come trans-dressed and prepared to transgress' at this 'night of debauchery where you will enact the wildest of all your fantasies'. Crivvens. There’ll be live music from Penny Cress, Drag Sabbath, The Weakest Link and Clip Art (pictured above), plus DJ sets from A Beginner’s Guide, DJ Androginny, DJ Sychophantasy and Craig Mullholland, and drag and dance acts.
Supermax – The Berkeley Suite, Sat Mar 7
Take it to the max as Berkeley Suite regular Supermax returns for another taste of the decadent sound systems of Studio 54 and New York’s disco era. Christopher Kane, Tim Sweeney, Tim Goldsworthy, Jim Lambie, JG Wilkes, Slam and Horse Meat Disco’s Jim Stanton and James Hillard have all guested at this routinely packed night over the years, though on this occasion you’ll be in the capable hands of resident DJ and discotheque technician Billy Woods.
Voodoo Presents Sam Feldt & Henry Krinkle – The Arches, Sat Mar 7
A house music double-header at The Arches rounds off this week’s recommendations. Spinnin’ Records regular Sam Feldt is a young Dutch DJ and producer who has been storming the Beatport charts with his tropical tracks and remixes and touring all over Europe and America. He’s joined by Floridian Henry Krinkle, an ex-New York taxi driver turned acclaimed producer channeling the sounds of UK post-dubstep and future house.
