events // Subcity in Stereo #1
Stereo // 16th February // £4 // Facebook
Coming soon: this time, in Stereo!
Have we got a programme for you. Subcity presents... all your favourite radio stars under one roof. (Every third) Thursday nights will never be the same again, as we launch a new monthly series considered too vulgar for the BBC, too edgy for STV and too highbrow for channel five.
Drama! Romance! Cheap cans of Oranjeboom!
Episode 1 (pilot) - airs 16th Feb
First in a new series. Things kick off to an exciting start when the exam results come in - but will the vicar accept culpability? And what exactly has Gloria been keeping in her outhouse for all those months?
STARRING:
Episode 2 - airs 15th March
Pam has a proposition for Donald - but will Derek be able to accept it?
Posted at 18:26, 2nd February 2012
events // Subcity Night Vision
Subclub // Free with a Freshers Pass // £5 (student/ non-student before 11) // £7 (non-student after 11) // 14th September // Facebook
Face it. Summer’s gone, and it’s that time of year again where rollicking students in ties and fake glasses outnumber authentic school children 5:1.
It’s been a while since we last threw you kids a party, but this one should be enough to make you forget all about that demeaning summer job, and start remembering what it feels like to wake up knowing you’ve said goodbye to another two hearing grades. To kick off the year Subcity are heading underground, and we’re bringing the city with us. This is our night vision.
We’re not talking about the kind of night vision you’d find on ‘Derek Acorah’s Spookiest Bungalows’. There’ll be no heavy breathing, wobbly cameras or Early Learning Centre spy goggles. Instead, we’ve got some of the station’s finest DJ’s guiding you through the hottest records in their crates and pranging out the sweetest dubs for your bass starved ears.
Expect sound. Expect production. Expect hyperbole... licence pending.
Posted at 14:19, 5th September 2011
events // Vibes
SWG3 // £5 // 21st May // Facebook event
Lets get this started, there’s only soo many kicks to the kidneys by pricks shouting “here we fucking go!” that beautiful summer babies can take. This is the season of lil denim cutoffs, hating your day job the most and taking on those long summer nights with every kid in your city.
This is the station dedicated to keeping it fresh, free-form and not-for-profit, so forget those sweatboxes pranging out dick slapping brostep, we have some of the station’s crate diggers to vibe with this bitch all night long. Cheap tickets, no bullshit, all fun at the newly refurbished SWG3. These long summer nights are for everyone - even you bb, even you.
- Paul Thompson (punk/disco/afro)
- Point to C (p-funk/dub/bass)
- NoFace (funky/hiphop/house)
- Build + Destroy (electronic/rave)
- Joe Crogan (visuals/installations)
Posted at 20:54, 2nd May 2011
events // Subcity's Sweet Sixteen
Saturday 5th March, 11pm-3am, The Arches (map)
£8 advance from SRC Reception, John McIntyre Building (map)
£10 door
Facebook Event // Buy Tickets Online
Sweet Sixteen is going to be the envy of every over-indulged brat that’s ever wailed about their unicorn drawn carriage being the wrong shade of blue. This isn’t some simple legal convention, we are not coming of age: we know how to throw a party. So while there’s no gift wrapped Hummers sitting in our Daddy’s garage, or a thousand Taiwanese orphans putting the last few crystals into the platinum tiara that completes outfit no. ...7, we are giving over The Arches to the garish and tacky, with some of the station’s dreamiest pinups celebrating sixteen years of free-form radio that only a mother could love.
One More Tune
Dim Sum (Deadly Rhythm)
Datarape (live)
HaHaHa b2b Raksha
Jackie Your Body
Beat Beneath
Chungo-Bungo
Worst Chips Ever
Kaleidoscope
Synth
Posted at 20:29, 17th February 2011
events // Who Da Best?
Friday 21st Januaray 2011 Stereo 20 Renfield Ln (map) £6/7 door // 11pm-3am
January is the time for the universally dull to stop talking about their dreams, and start telling you about their resolutions, and Subcity are no exception.
After abandoning our initial resolution to give up hyperbole (it was too enormous a task) we’ve decided to make this the year of bringing you more. Why have two DJs when you can have four? Why have four when you can have eight battling it out across four different genres? Aye, why not. In this race against the clock showdown, Stereo will become our battleground, as we attempt to discover WHO DA BEST?
Come down and do the judging for us – like Louis Walsh, but without any self esteem issues.
- 2300 – 0000 // House & Techno:
Roll N Square vs No Sleep - 0000 - 0100 // UK Funky & Garage:
Theez boyzvs BRAILLE - 0100 - 0200 // Dubstep & Grime:
Al (Itch) vs Xtra Dust - 0200 -0300 // No holds barred:
Shaun & Sam (Vitamins) vs Benny Boom (Mixed Bizness)
And remember what Drizzy said - you da fuken best. really, you all are.
Posted at 08:32, 13th January 2011
events // Subcity Party
Thursday 2nd December
Nice n Sleazy
421 Sauchiehall Street (map)
£5 door // 12pm-3am
It’s snowing. Winter is well and truly upon us. Before you all start hiding nuts and entering hibernation mode, we’ve got a wee surprise- Subcity invite you to come dance with us for one last time this year.
The last few parties have been pretty crazy. September was 500 people and 28 TV screens in a warehouse to make sure y’all felt Fresh. Then there was the ridiculous set up at Halloween; a 16 ft Steel deck DJ structure, live video mapping and a dimension shifting entrance portal- our tech team’s hands have only just stopped bleeding. It was one of the most mental nights we’ve put on, thanks to the 900 souls who came to be transported to Dimension B with us.
But remember back before these monolith parties, when a Subcity night meant 200 fandans, a ridiculous PA and one strobe crammed into the Hetherington Research Club? Man, we miss that, so this time we’re going in small and taking it back to that vibe. Unfortunately, the Research Club ain’t around no more, and no amount of burglar bill-ing will see any sneaky parties in its old shell so instead we’re using the similarly sized basement of Nice & Sleazy for a one off claustrophobic, sweat off the ceiling party with a lineup of some of the stations most banging dj’s. Let’s get old school.
There’s no tickets in advance, it’s a show-up-on-the-night affair. 12 - 3am, this thursday, five dollah. Capacity for this wee sweatbox is a ridiculous 150 people.
Biba Nights // Jinty (Gutter Riddim) // Codeine Drums // Bangers & Mashup
Posted at 19:04, 29th November 2010
events // Dimension B Wipeout
You can take our recent facebook silence as an admission that Party in Dimension B wiped us out.
It was the most technically ambitious event Subcity's ever thrown. A big shout out has to go to the techs who worked silly hard for three days constructing the monster amounts of steel deck for the stage and entrance portal. Shout outs also to the PR team for running around town with bundles of posters and flyers on miserable days to get the tickets sold out, to the events team for managing the whole thing, and to the design crew who busted their asses to make a 22 page comic for the night. We can’t remember the last time a club night had its own comic. Props. Final shout out goes to the 900 people who came down dressed up to spend yet another night partying with us, we’re glad you enjoyed yourselves, hell Skream and Benga turned up just past midnight and they enjoyed themselves too.
Subcity is run completely by volunteers. No one in charge of organising, publicising, building, managing or playing at any of these ridiculous events does it for any kind of wage- we do it because we enjoy doing it, and enjoy knowing we can put a smile on the faces of a couple of hundred sweaty idiots nearly every month. Working for free is how nights involving such mega effort can have such low ticket prices. The ticket prices are set to make a little amount of money just so that our radio station can keep playing out nearly 24 hours a day- which it does thanks to the dedication and enthusiasm of over 80 shows involving over 250 volunteers, and thanks to the tech team and web geeks who work to keep the hand-coded website and studio equipment from breaking under the mammoth amount of usage they get. We’re glad so many of you enjoy coming to our parties and listening to some of the brilliant, original shows that go out on the station, day in, day out. We’re even gladder that we’ve got with us such a brilliant team of dedicated, creative and talented souls who bust their balls all-nighter after all-nighter to make Subcity as exciting as it is. So, to everyone, thank you. This is why we do this shit.
Now we’ve got you teary eyed, have a swatch of the photos from Dimension B: http://www.flickr.com/photos/subcityradio/sets/72157625321000174/
Finally, a wee heads-up: the next party might be on 2nd of December, but it’s not for sure just yet. It’s been a while since Subcity threw one of the tiny sweaty rammos we used to be famous for. Now the nights are getting colder, everyone could do with a bit of collective body-heat... stay tuned.
Posted at 20:40, 14th November 2010
events // Comic from Dimension B
From the makers of Stay Fresh and the people who brought you the Party in Dimension B facebook event comes... the Party in Dimension B comic book!!!
// Read now - full colour pdf
The cash-grab prequel to the sequel that no one asked for.
Are you a misanthropic virgin? Got an aversion to getting bokeh'd whilst in costume? Want to enjoy the mega wizzo aesthetic and hyper-relevant narrative background of a Subcity party in another dimension without all the fun, loud noises and social interaction? Look no further. This is one for the serial masturbators, chin-strokers and 'concept' appreciators. What's more, you can enjoy all this from the comfort of your own home - the internet!
With colours too vivid to print, a plot-line too contrived to question, and artists too important to talk about; the Party in Dimension B comic book offers the perfect accompaniment to super serious clubbers who take their clubbing super seriously AND the ideal substitute to those too skint to dish out a tenner to get in.
Experience the real thing in motherfucking 4d on the night, or enjoy the heavily punctuated spin-off at any time of your choosing on your own internet book: at home?!, work!? or play!?
Bold idea, bolder execution, bolderest illustrations - effects are instantaneous and guaranteed.
This online internet comic is available now through online, at the internet and in websites now!
The Subcity Party in Dimension B comic book: like a flyer, but 12 pages long!!
Download Party in Dimension B Comic
Posted at 17:02, 28th October 2010
events // Party in Dimension B
Saturday 30th October
Glasgow School of Art
167 Renfrew Street (map)
£8 early bird (SRC, Vic Bar), £10 advance (SRC, Vic Bar, Tickets Scotland), £10 door
10:30pm-3am
Facebook Event // comic // photos on flickr
From the makers of Stay Fresh, comes a story of survival...
In a world where joy is measured by the consumption of cold Happy Meals and talk revolves wearily around last night’s TV. A world splattered with endless facebook events, hiding the next auto-tuned meme from your idiot "friends" under waves of ‘2 more sleeps!!! till the bass fueled party’ updates. A world where everything is getting boring, something is brewing...
Subcity Radio invites you to join us on the other side. It’s time to choose between all that you know and another, better place. A world where the freaks, mutants and renegades roam free. It might not be pretty, but imagine the old worries: tinnitus, deadlines, awkward small talk - all eradicated, given up and replaced with a life of simple hedonism in a futureshock asylum. A Party in Dimension B.
Physical Memory // Tarantism // NASA // Wavy Graves // Animal Farm // HaHaHa (live)
Posted at 19:33, 15th October 2010
events // Important Notice
FAO all humans,
your current dimension will be deleted at 0200 31.10.10.
If you would like to transfer to the backup dimension, a portal will be available outside the art school on Renfrew street from 2230-0000 30.10.10.
Please alter your physical attributes so as to fit the backup dimension schema, details of which will be available online closer to the time.
Best regards,
gav
IT Systems Manager
it-admin@subcity.org
Posted at 07:39, 4th October 2010
events // Subcity Says 'Stay Fresh'
Wednesday 15th September
SWG3 Studio Warehouse
100 Eastvale Place (map)
£0 Freshers Pass, £5 adv (SRC, Tickets Scotland), £7 door // 10pm-3am
OH-KAY. Summer’s over and it’s back to school, back to reality. We haven't been gallivanting for the last 4 months like the rest of you dafties. We've been in the lab, with a pen and a pad, trying to get this damn party sorted out. We're ready to remind the old crew and show the new kids on the block how we do things around here. Now some o yall been runnin around talkin about bass like we ain't got none. What, you think we sold it all? Bitch please. This time it's going off in Studio Warehouse SWG3 with a soundsystem that will finally do the space justice and a lineup that is guaranteed to boot the baws out of it. Add to this a bass fuelled visuals battle between Joe Crogan and Visual Aids on the heaviest CRT set up yet and we’ve got ourselves a party worthy to kick start the clubbing season.
Stay Fresh.
Pasty 32 // Diggin The Twelve Inch // All Caps Radio // Indra // Shaun fae Solar // Joe Crogan (Visuals) // Visual AIDS (Visuals)
Audio from the night:
All Caps // Digging the Twelve Inch // Indra // Pasty // Shaun fae Solar
Posted at 00:47, 31st August 2010
events // Subcity at the West End Festival
Subcity at the West End Festival
Sunday 13th June // Kelvingrove Park // 1pm-6pm
Get Back to 8 Bit // Does Not Affect Play // Felonious Munk // Broomhill Mix // Funkey Dorey // Roots, Rock, Reggae // Tarantism // Argonaut Sounds
Subcity will once again be providing an accessible introduction to our very own brand of summer frivolity at the West End Festival for hardened party-goers and pre-school bass enthusiasts alike. We've been allowed back to our own wee corner in Kelvingrove Park again, just slightly detached from the belly dancing and face painting, which we plan on packing with PA and party tunes. Come down and soak up up some sun with our spot-on blend of soul, funk, reggae, dancehall and a bit of mental chiptune thrown in to get things going.
We've carefully selected the day's DJs with the aim to get you dancing and right in the mood for summer. Get Back to 8 Bit will be supplying the video-game inspired kickoff followed by Does Not Affect Play, Felonious Munk, Broomhill Mix, Funkey Dorey and Roots, Rock, Reggae serving up a healthy dose of soul and funk. Tarantism have been known to play everything from italo to techno, we're hoping for all this plus some sweet percussive balearic house to keep it chilled whilst offering the perfect beat to keep us dancing away to. Argonaut Sounds have rocked the Subcity stage three years in a row and have never failed to deliver. They will be returning once again to headline with their signature reggae and dancehall sounds -we reckon their set should be just enough to mellow out Festival security and keep the cops at bay, so we can keep on partying.
Posted at 19:55, 18th May 2010
events // Subcity LASER Party
Subcity LASER Party
Sunday June 13th // The Art School // 2300-0300
Beam me up, Subcity
After a family-friendly, sun-soaked party in the park, Subcity will be seriously messing with your sense of time and space. When the daytime fun ends we invite those of you who are ready and willing to jump on your Tron lightbikes and head down to the Art School, where you will be trapped inside an electronic arena of LASERS and bass, programmed by our very own master control. Jeff Bridges might even be there.
Expect to be enveloped in sound in our dance sphere, completely surrounded by a specially tailored soundsystem from our pals Cheesy & Zambo. And then there's the lasers. Think huge production, restricted capacity. The place will be saturated with laser action. As for the music, we'll be providing an apt, prime selection of bass and beats --dubstep, drum n bass, garage, hip hop, electro and grime all to keep you immersed in the surroundings and dancing all night.
This will be the last Subcity party of this year's broadcast, and after the our blow-out 15th Birthday Bash, we want to make it extra special. How? MEGA TURBO LASER BASS. YASSS.
Casio Canteen vs One More Tune
Sub Terrain
Custom
Masha Was Beaming
Mapping Terra Incognita
£4 Limited Advance Tickets available from Glasgow University SRC (65-67 Southpark Avenue), GSA Vic Bar and Tickets Scotland from Friday 21st May.
Posted at 21:21, 13th May 2010
events // Subcity Radio's 15th Birthday
Subcity Radio 15th Birthday Party
Saturday 6th March // The Arches // 2300-0300
£6 limited adv, £7/£8 door
Full 15th Birthday Press Pack (pdf)
facebook event // photos on flickr
Listen back to the outside broadcast
On Saturday 6th March, Subcity Radio will be celebrating 15 years of passionately geeky lowbudget broadcasting with an all-out, balls-to-the-wall birthday bash at The Arches, featuring some of the best Subcity talent, past and present.
Raising the stakes from their recent infamous parties at 150 capacity Research Club and other small sweatbox venues across the city, the team are returning to The Arches for the first time in 4 years. With 15 acts across 2 stages, it’s the biggest party they’ve thrown in years.
Returning to the Subcity decks for the first time since 2001 to headline is Freakmenoover and LuckyMe baller, Dema. He held down a show for 5 years at the station before moving on to continually bigger and brighter things. Other aural highlights include sets from R-P-Z, Shaun fae Solar and young upstarts Thirty Two.
Visually the night also has high aspirations. The station’s tech team are piling every light The Arches own into one arch for a spectacular show whilst the eyes in the other arch will be curated by Visual AIDS, Sweets and Spacewood who will be making up for the lack of remaining lights by using every projector and TV they can find.
Rest assured... this certainly isn't going to be a Hallmark moment.
// Featuring:
Dema (LuckyMe/RKGB)
R-P-Z
Symbiosis
Argonaut Sounds
Shaun fae Solar
NASA vs The Beat Route
Slave To The Rhythm
Music Always Comes First (live)
Party Party
Thirty Two
Theez Boyz R Athletes
Charmicarmicat
Visual AIDS
Sweets (Thunder Disco)
Spacewood
// Limited £6 advance tickets on sale from:
The Arches Box Office
Ticket Scotland
Rub a Dub
Fopp (Byres Road)
Glasgow Uni SRC (map) (no booking fee)
Posted at 20:56, 29th January 2010
events // Subcity at The Research Club
Saturday 16th January 2010
Hetherington Research Club
13 University Gardens (map)
9pm-2am // £4 before 10.30pm, £5 after
Orderly Disorder //
All Caps
Metro Soul // Tarantism
Deep House // Tech House // Garage // Funky // Electro
'07-'08 saw Subcity fill a hole in the Glasgow club-scene, ramming the upstairs of everyone's favourite listed Victorian party house every month with sweaty idiots who craved the kind of basslines and house-party vibe only Subcity knew how to provide.
This year, with a freshly re-established authority, Subcity have taken these parties to new pastures, continuing to dehydrate the city's fan dans whilst giving the residents something to complain about.
But, FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY, the original Research Club party returns, with all its incendiary high-speed dancing mania. Subcity stands ready to showcase yet more of the station's furiously talented DJ's with the customary Subcity soundsystem to keep you dancing that bit longer and harder to our hand-picked belter of a lineup.
The venue are imposing a strict limit on capacity so get down sharpish.
Posted at 18:43, 2nd January 2010
events // Subcity secret Social
Saturday 19th December 2009
Secret Venue // Secret Lineup
6pm - late // free entry
We're not in the Ivy this month for the Subcity Social. We're taking the party to somewhere a little more eh, "off the beaten track" for one night only.
Details of the location and how to get in will be announced nearer the date on Facebook but keep it in your diary cause the line-up (also a secret for now) is a peach.
Facebook Event // Photos from this event
Posted at 12:05, 9th December 2009
events // Subcity Dark Party
Saturday 28th November 2009
The Lite Club
Under The Corinthian, Virginia Place/Ingram St (map)
11pm - 3am // £4
Custom // Beat Beneath // Digital Dust
The Beat Route // Kill The Kid // Twisted
Last month's Hallowe'en scare fest persuaded us to keep things on the shadowy side for our next event: The lights have gone off and Subcity has gone to the deep, dark depths of its musical resources to find a suitably heavy lineup for the Dark Party.
Under the pavements of Merchant City lie the murky tunnels of the lite club, with two rooms ready to be shaken into life by the legendary Subcity soundsystem. Expect pounding techno and electro in one room with Subcity's own The Beat Beneath, Kill the Kid and Twisted and deep, wobbly bass and breaks in the other with Subcity newcomers Digital Dust, Custom and The Beat Route's Beat Nazi and Stroudy. Illuminating the gloom will be Visual installations from Fake Name.
Subcity parties continue to be rammed to the reaches of the rafters with queues snaking over pavements. For the 28th doors are at 11
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Posted at 15:53, 17th November 2009
events // Subcity Social
Saturday 21st November 2009
5pm - 9pm // free entry // 20% off food
The Ivy (1102 Argyll Street)
Roots, Rock, Reggae // Does Not Affect Play // Kaleidoscope
Subcity Social #2
The third Saturday of every month sees Subcity taking over The Ivy on Argyle Street from 5-9pm, installing some of their best DJ's, and playing music from across the station's vast & varied output. If you've been looking for the chance to chew programmes ear off about your idea for a show, pester the music team for some free cd's, or bask in the glow of Matthew Craig, you've got it. Last time there were a slew of yous down and a good day was had by all.
It's free. It's on from 5-9. The Ivy are giving us brilliant deals on their top notch scran- 20% off food for the Subcity massive. bring yer pals. sit down, chill and have a natter.
Behind the decks for the second social are Roots, Rock, Reggae, Kaleidoscope and Does Not Affect Play. The music starts at 5pm sharrpppp, come be social.
Facebook Event // Photos from last month's social
Posted at 18:07, 11th November 2009
events // Subcity Social
Saturday 24th October 2009
3pm - 8pm // free entry // 20% off food
The Ivy (1102 Argyll Street)
Masha was Beaming // Hot Tramp // Tom & Lol
Subcity Social #1
Subcity needs gatherings, social events where anyone can show up to a cool pub on a Saturday afternoon and have a swally with some of the station's choice DJs and pals, pals of theirs and pals of pals of pals. This Saturday this plan will be realised and you're all welcome.
Subcity Social is the new bar residency from Subcity Radio. The third Saturday of every month (except for this first one, shhh) will see Subcity taking over The Ivy on Argyle Street from 3-8pm, installing some of their best DJ's, and playing music from across the station's vast & varied output. If you've been looking for the chance to chew programmes ear off about your idea for a show, pester the music team for some free cd's, or bask in the glow of sam murray, you've got it.
The lovely folks at The Ivy have also knocked 20% off their top notch tuck for us this time round. The music begins at Three Pee Em SHARP this Saturday, Come make a buzzzzzz.
Photos on flickr from this event
Posted at 19:54, 20th October 2009
events // Haunted Disco 31.10.09
Saturday 31st October 2009
Subcity and The Art School presents...
Haunted Disco
10.30pm - 3am
£6(Limited Adv @ GUSRC / Vic Bar) // £7 (students) // £8
Falconi Bros // Saavedra (La Disco Freaks) // The Sober Session // Men & Machines // Shaun fae Solar // Johnny Whoop // Boom Monk Ben // Visual AIDS
Hell is overflowing, and Satan is sending his dead to us. Why? Because you have grown men in girls' jeans, you let Crookers remix your sacred songs, you invent whimsical throwaway musical genres. Sauchiehall Street is scattered with wasted watered down versions of Girls Aloud. How do you think your god will judge you? Well friends, now we know. When there is no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.
A beacon amongst the madness, The Art School is a safe haven this All Hallows' eve. The Ghosts will be moving outside, but the inner sanctuary protects all that is sacred for the wise few who get there in time before the blood-and-gut-shed ensues on the outside. The upstairs lineup will be raising the dead with a mix of techno, house, fidget and hiphop, or you can chill down in the crypt with some disco... You can move freely between the two realms, but leave the premises at risk of death, or worse. Visual AIDS are working on channelling just enough of the darkness in so we can monitor it from the safe place, expect to be amply terrified, horrified, freaked the fuck out.
Advance tickets on sale now from GUSRC (map) and the Vic Bar(map)
Facebook event // Photos from this event
Posted at 05:47, 11th October 2009
events // Subcity's Freshers' Party at The Research Club
Wednesday 16th September 2009
Hetherington Research Club
13 University Gardens (map)
Free with Freshers' Pass / £4 without // 8.30pm-2am
Benny Boom // Killer Kitsch
Theez Boyz R Athletes // The Bentinck Sessions
Subcity kick off the new academic year and their week long broadcast on 106.6FM with a party in everyone's favourite Victorian town house. Subcity secret weapons Bentinck Sessions and Theez Boyz R Athletes provide a warm welcome of funk, disco, soul and dubstep. Heavyweights of the Glasgow clubbing scene Killer Kitsch will be on hand to lay down some serious bass before Benny Boom takes command of the legendary Subcity soundsystem.
Facebook Event // Comment on this event // Photos from this event
Posted at 13:26, 9th September 2009
events // End of Broadcast / West End Festival Afterparty
Sunday 14th June 2009
Hetherington Research Club
13 University Gardens (map)
9pm-2am // £4 before 10pm, £5 after
Hook Me Up // Men & Machines
Matthew One More Tune // All Caps Radio // Paper Monkey
June in Glasgow - long days, short nights, and four-in-the-morning electric blue skies, all sponsored by Tennents.
The mental rush to enjoy the sun before it starts chucking it down means you can't miss a second, so Subcity have got it sorted. Take a Sunday afternoon in the park, recovering from the night before. End 13 hours later in a West End town-house after taking it up a notch with rave, proper techno and electro without getting your flat trashed and spending the next day apologising to your flatmates.
Kicking off at 9 in the Research Club, for the last time this year Subcity are bringing the kind of jaw grinding club tunes you know you want, and those you're not even sure what to do with. You'll also get afrobeat, darkwave and wobble, if you're looking for something more quoteable to namedrop to anyone who misses out.
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Posted at 23:56, 10th June 2009
events // West End Festival Subcity Stage
Sunday 14th June 2009
Kelvingrove Park (map)
1pm - 6pm // free entry // all ages welcome
Wee Cheesy // Nasa // Argonaut Sounds
Poporopo Especialista // Felonious Munk // One Louder
The West End Festival - a groggy sea of empty bottles, discarded chai lattes, kids roped in to their mum's organic drumming group and fully grown men with their taps aff being forced to listen to world music.
Or, escape all the nonsense with the exhilaration of a decent festival - one with amazing sound-system, hand picked DJs, and an off-licence round the corner. Moving from the traditional home of Lilybank Gardens, this year the stage is wisely being positioned where it can't annoy the neighbours: Kelvingrove park.
If it's anything like the previous years, the huge pile of speakers will attract clubbers, students and excitable dogs, with rock n roll, party tunes, tropicalia, funk, and an unhealthy amount of day time ground-shaking, belly-wobbling bass.
Head down from 1pm and we'll see how long we can get away with it until the police roll up.
Facebook event // Comment on this event // West End Festival info
// Photos from this event
Posted at 01:01, 4th June 2009
events // Subcity vs Mixed Bizness with Caspa
Bank Holiday Sunday 24th May 2009
Glasgow School Of Art (map)
Extra Heavyweight sound by Subcity & Mr Zambonini
£6 advance / £8 on the door // 11pm - 3am
Caspa (Dub Police)
Benny Boom (Mixed Bizness & Solid Steel)
Djamba (Subcity / EES)
Caspa has ridden the wave of the dubstep phenomenon and now sits proudly amongst the cream of subsonic dynamos responsible for reshaping electronic music in recent years. Old friends Mixed Bizness and Subcity Radio conspire to bring you his Glasgow debut.
Bass in your face Glasgow
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Advance tickets available from Tickets Scotland & Glasgow Uni SRC.
Posted at 13:45, 27th April 2009
events // Subcity at the Research Club
Friday 17th April
Hetherington Research Club
13 University Gardens (map)
£4 // 9pm-2am
RPZ dee-jays // Johnny Whoop!
Get in the Van // Bigfoot's Tea Party
nuff said
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Posted at 21:00, 2nd April 2009
events // Subcity at the Research Club
Friday 27th March
Hetherington Research Club
13 University Gardens (map)
£4/5 // non members welcome // 9pm-2am
Armed Response // Jay Sin! // Benny Boom
Last weekend, we gave you blacked out buses, a secret venue, a free party with Detroit legend DJ Assault and enough booty bass to leave you aching for days - just enough time to recover for the Subcity party this Friday.
Never ones to let a month of FM go to our heads, it's time to get back to business: resident Benny Boom is punishing the PA with a three-hour bass mash-up - surely, one of the only DJs about whose white-hot mixes can justify the whored-out 'mash-up'. Get down early for Ben's opening set because it's sure to get busy with the Mixed Bizness legend on first. The Armed Response boys, D_Fade and Yellow Benzene, will be bringing us a little of what they do best - drum and bass fresh from the city's primary outlet, Symbiosis, and special guest Jay Sin! (Art of Parties) will be rocking the genre rightly known as bangin' electro.
We're back to our online broadcasting home at subcity.org - Listen.
Finally, a big thank you to everyone who had fun with us this weekend.
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Posted at 18:19, 23rd March 2009
events // Party with DJ Assault
Last night, in a sweaty old house, somewhere in a Glasgow industrial estate, Subcity Radio packed in some of the best soundsystems in Glasgow, added the most mental party people brave enough to jump on our bus and threw in the cream of the stations DJing talent.
Unfortunately DJ Assault wasn't there to witness any of this, he was stranded in Heathrow airport, although there were reports he could hear the heavy basslines that JOHNNY WHOOP had stepped up to deliver in his absence. So when he touched down in Glasgow this morning, plans were immediately made to get another party sorted for tonight.
Pivo Pivo (map) is the venue, it all kicks off at midnight tonight, and of course its FREE, but space is limited so get down early to avoid disappointment.
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Audio from the night: DJ Assault
Posted at 19:43, 21st March 2009
events // End of 106.6FM Party with DJ Assault
Friday 20th March 2009
A Secret Glasgow Location
Buses Leave 2130-2330 from The Ivy (new venue 1102 Argyll Street)
£7 (limited) / £9 / 3AM Licence
DJ Assault // OOFT! // Shaun fae Solar // Simon Bryan // Bentinck Sessions // Ghetto Scientist // Bogey Music // Felonious Munk & Fraser Dunn // Does Not Affect Play
Only a handful of people know where the Subcity End of Broadcast party is to be held. On March 20, fans will be transported in blacked-out coaches from the Ivy bar, which has recently upped sticks to Argyle St, to an undisclosed venue, where ghettotech legend DJ Assault stands in position, fingers poised, ready to treat them to 100 decibels of booty, baltimore and bassline.
The night, celebrating the end of FM broadcast, honours the station's dedication to diversity across three rooms. Pumped up sets from Shaun fae Solar and Ghetto Scientist will warm up the Assault-ready crowd with ass-shaking Baltimore, electro and chiptune, with funk, soul and disco from Does Not Affect Play, Felonius Monk & Fraser Dunn and the Bentinck Sessions to please a more chilled out crowd. Filthy electro mess and minimal bleepery come courtesy of re-edit champion Ali Herron (Ooft!), Simon Bryan and Ewan Chambers (Bogey Music).
If their monthly nights at the Hetherington Research Club are anything to go by, expect manic lights and body-shaking beats.
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Posted at 22:09, 6th March 2009
events // Subcity 106.6FM Launch Party
Friday 20th February
Glasgow School of Art
£6 Limited Tickets & £7/8 Tickets from GUSRC and Vic Bar // £8 (door)
10pm-3am
On February 20, Subcity Radio is going FM for a month. Of course, we're having a party to celebrate.
Kid Zipper // Pooch (Live) // Dance! Dance! Dance!
Vendor Defender (Live) // Theez Boyz R Athletes
Full Phat & Matthew One More Tune // Whoa!gan
Butterscotch, Loki & Skribbo (The Being) with DJ Krash Slaughta
The Glasgow Gospel Choir // Ladyboydisco // The Revenge of Tom & Lol
We didn't need to look too far to find out how to pack the Glasgow School of Art. We've got new faces, fresh tunes, and hot talent growing right under our nose. The ones-to-watch, the hottest-new-things - whatever you want to call it - this kind of line-up's not happening anywhere else in the city because no-one else knows how.
By ramming the Art School with over 12 acts we've covered musical bases to please even the most stubborn afficionados and get the place sweating. Think electro to dubstep, techno to retro, disco to gospel.
Acts to look out for include Twisted Wheel's Dance!Dance!Dance! DJs bringing disco-funk, a live set from self-styled dirty disco bitches Pooch, slick electro from dance conoisseurs Theez Boyz R Athleetz, and a back-to-back mash up from Subcity veteran Full Phat (Obese) and Matthew Craig (One More Tune/Cheap N Nasty).
The night's a pretty good idea of what to expect from a month of FM broadcasting, and if the past nights put on by the station are anything to go by, this one should be a belter. For over 13 years, Subcity has been piling in the speakers in venues across Glasgow, from The Arches to the Hetherington Research Club, and the name's become notorious for putting on homegrown acts to make any professional DJ quiver, from motown to grime, hiphop to neurofunk. The latest series of party nights at the Research Club has seen the station's own DJs and guests alike playing to an intimate, sweaty crowd, selling out every time. Say no to the superclub - say yes to music generated in the city's own tenements.
Tune your boom box to 106.6FM from February 20 for the best mix of talent to hit the west of Scotland.
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Posted at 13:18, 28th January 2009
events // Subcity at the Research Club
Friday 23rd January
Hetherington Research Club
13 University Gardens (map)
£4 // non members welcome // 9pm-2am
Motor Psycho // Benny Boom
Slave to the Rhythm // Party Party
So that's 2008 done and dusted. What was your highlight? Sipping Oranjeboom in Lilybank gardens at the best (and most unofficial) stage at the west end festival? Maybe the hours spent perfecting your killer costume for Subcity's sell out Halloween disco at the Art School. Or perhaps dancing your socks off to some incredibly banging tunes in the Research Club.
Start the new year as you mean to go on and get yourself down to Subcity's first party of the new year. Same venue, same time, same meaty sound system but mixed up with even more fresh talent from the radio station of choice for the musically educated.
Motor Psycho, resident at Blackfriars clubnight Spectrum, plays music to give you a buzz. Think electro, bassline, fidget, then wham, you're hit with some dirty rock and roll. The Research Club is the first of a spattering of other appearances around the city this year, including Rocket at Barfly next month, so come get him while he's all hyped up and raring to go.
Slave To The Rhythm have been bringing their Italian-inspired tech-house beats and their excellent taste to the station via their own seamless mixes and an impressive range of guest DJs, getting the speakers shaking and walls vibrating. On our infamous soundsystem, their deep dark beats will get shown some respect, and the techheads out there will get shown a good time.
Cheesy, Rydo, Rossco, Tanner and the Big C - put 'em all together and what have you got? Indulgent musical nonsense with some pretty fine pop tunes thrown in. In two words? Party Party: electro/disco/pop to get even the most chronic naval-gazers shuffling on the dancefloor, as well as absurd gems for the fandans.
Resident Benny Boom, the latest talent to join the Ninja DJ team, has even knocked together a new mix to get you all in the mood.
Speaking about the Research Club parties, Subcity veteran Ben said: "It's a fantastic community of music loving hedonists that make you want to drop the next tune a little faster and a little fatter. The new people at the station are full of fresh ideas but refuse to ignore the roots that have made it the success it is."
Boom Monk Ben's Subcity Smash Up (mp3) // tracklist
Posted at 12:20, 28th January 2009
events // Subcity at the Research Club
Friday 19th December 2008
Hetherington Research Club
13 University Gardens (map)
£4 // non members welcome // 9pm-2am
Benny Boom // Sunday Circus
Troutfish // Suezzzz
Roll up, roll up, it's time for the Subcity party to warm your hands and get the blood flowing harder and faster in all the right places.
We don't need ten hours, we don't need expensive suits - no, a satisfying handful of top class DJs and a sweaty dancing box of hyped-up party people will suffice. Oh, and definitely no organised fun.
At Subcity we're fond of putting the right music in the wrong places - our summer spot at the West End Festival, anyone? - and so we're very excited to offer some quality pounding techno courtesy of Sunday Circus. For those of you who haven't stumbled across their gem of a residency at The Courtyard, the boys are famed for bringing dirty, filthy, minimal electronic sounds to their unrightful place - a Sunday afternoon. The clue is in the name, and top-hats off to them for bringing a carnival vibe to the rainy city and creating Glasgow's own, and definitely more idiosyncratic, answer to London's Secret Sundaze or Ibiza's Circo Loco (DC10). Catch them in nocturnal mode as they kick off your weekend.
We're also fond of blowing our own trumpet, and treating you to the best the station has to offer in terms of hot young talent. Joining resident Benny Boom (Ninja Tune/Solid Steel) will be fellow Subcity veteran Troutfish, with a box full of full-on fidgety house, as well as italo disco from relative newcomer to the station Suezzzz.
So come on down, and marvel at the only night which can possibly do justice to that hard-worked head of yours.
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Posted at 12:20, 5th December 2008
events // Subcity at the Research Club
Friday 21st November 2008
Hetherington Research Club
13 University Gardens (map)
£4 // non members welcome // 9pm-2am
Benny Boom // ASCII
Poporopo Especialista // Ruin It
Its been a whole year since Subcity Radio first loaded in the speakers, turned up the amps, and proceeded to give the West End residents something to complain about. For lovers of pounding electro and hyped-up techno, well, they got given a clubnight to sink their teeth into. Substance, with some home-made style.
It's not often you find chiptune, reggaeton, dubstep and jungle in the one night, followed by a decent helping of classic, addictive, bass heavy electro to rile up the heartrates.
Benny Boom, who started out with a show on the station, is part of the next generation of genre-defying party DJs, recently becoming inaugurated into the hotbed of talent that is the Ninja Tune DJ team to rub musical shoulders with Coldcut, DJ Food and DK. He's recently complemented the Hows Your Party? nights at the SubClub with the relaunch of Mixed Bizness at The Art School, which is drawing in capacity crowds. It's run in conjunction with Mixed Bizness Artists, a creative collective and booking agency focused on showcasing the very best talent in modern electronic music, working closely with artists such as Hint (Tru Thoughts) and Jackmaster (Numbers/Wireblock), and displaying the same relentlessly pioneering ethos as Subcity.
The past months have seen the DJ/Producer, real name Ben Coghill, in constant demand, with gigs ranging from the exotic - touching down in Cape Town, Malawi and Zagreb - to the plain impressive, with stints such as a record six sets at this summer's Bestival on the Isle of Wight.
But his ultimate aim? Playing his favourite tunes to pretty girls in exotic, and not so exotic, locations. Coghill, who has always retained a respect for the station's ambitions, said:
'Subcity nights have always been and most likely always will be my favourite nights to play at in Glasgow. It's a fantastic community of music loving hedonists that make you want to drop the next tune a little faster and a little fatter. The new people at the station are full of fresh ideas but refuse to ignore the roots that have made it the success it is.'
Ever aware of the burgeoning talent under their noses, support comes from the station's presenters; Poporopo Especialista will be upping sticks from the Halt Bar Hijack to melt latino hiphop into reggaeton and tropicalia, whilst Game Boy geeks ASCII bring chiptune and 8bit with the intentions of not just challenging the norm, but chopping it up and setting it to top speed. They'll be welcoming DJ Whoa!gan to the decks for punishing layers of breakcore, dubstep, and jungle.
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ASCII // Poporopo Especialista // Benny Boom // Shaun fae Solar // Ruin It.
Posted at 18:57, 15th November 2008
events // Haunted Disco
Friday 31st October 2008
Subcity and The Art School presents...
Haunted Disco
11pm - 3am
£6(Limited Adv @ GUSRC / Vic Bar) // £7 // £8
Johnny Whoop // Pro Vinylist Karim // Yellowbenzene // Soosh
Findo Gask // Falconi Brothers // Tintin & Snowy
This All Hallows' Eve, Subcity Radio and the Art School will be bridging the gap between the living and the dead the only way they know how; with bass, bass and more bass.
Upstairs in the graveyard, Subcity have reanimated Death Disco resident Johnny Whoop, who'll be playing homage to the hobgoblins with fidgety-house and tormenting techno. Joining him on the altar is long lost Subcity favourite Pro Vinylist Karim - rumour has it his spectre's been floating around the Captain's Rest in recent months; now he's been kidnapped to help raise the dead with blood-curdling booty and grime.
Meanwhile downstairs in the dungeon, the Art School present a live aural treat in the Vic Bar with local indie-electro starlets Findo Gask getting the bones shaking. Warming up the blood will be the electric Falconi Brothers (Pump Club) and a taste of ambient noise and gloomy classical from Tintin and Snowy.
Prizes for the best costume are sponsored by American Apparel, so get digging out your scariest disguises for a sinfully punishing night.
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Advance tickets available now at GUSRC (map) or Vic Bar(map)
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Posted at 16:30, 10th October 2008
events // Subcity at the Research Club
Friday 17th October 2008
Hetherington Research Club
13 University Gardens (map)
£4 // non members welcome // 9pm-2am
Shaun fae Solar // Argonaut Sounds
Codeine Drums // Our Kid
Forget getting settled into the new academic year, get settled back into Subcity's monthly parties. It's time to get in from the cold, shake off the autumn blues and get sweaty.
Last year saw the station's top DJs take over the University's research club every month building up a following of clued up and not so clued up Westenders.
The second party of the new year sees the return of one half of last years resident duo, Shaun fae Solar. He's bent on loosening the refurbished fixtures with baltimore fused hiphop, rave and house. There'll also be fresh faces - Codeine Drums makes her Subcity debut with off-kilter hiphop beats alongside loved-up house from Our Kid.
Special guests Argonaut Sounds bring dancehall, soca and ragga from Jamaica
Govan. Best known for their cult nights in the basement of The Ivy, catch them at the best house party in town - now with added airhorns, bomb drops and slengteng.
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Posted at 16:31, 1st October 2008
events // Subcity at the Research Club
Friday 26th September 2008
Hetherington Research Club
13 University Gardens (map)
£4 // non members welcome // 9pm-2am
Simon Bryan // Ooft // David Sinclair // Full Phat
Just as the weather begins to turn, trust Subcity to bring some light to the darker nights with the return of the infamous Subcity parties.
To celebrate, we've got a mix of some of glasgow's darlings from every corner of the city to grace our disturbingly large soundsystem, all having started out with shows on the station - and my, aren't we proud. For any party virgins out there not yet acquainted with the night, the idea is to bring together the best DJ talent from around the city, arm them with a pile of speakers, and let them do their best at dislodging a few fixtures.
David Sinclair is best known for transforming Tuesday nights into a downright electro-fest with his Killer Kitsch nights at The Buff Club, in between bringing the party to Bunker, Abc, and now Nice n Sleazies with his newly launched clubnight Damaged Goods. This Friday sees him joining up with the boys from the other side of the motorway as Ooft, fresh from their irregular nights at the Ivy, as well as curating the L.E.S.S. Productions edits series and producing records for UK label Five20East records, will be playing everything from dubbed-out re-edits to bleepy house with a truly admirable dash of technical geekery. We've also got jacking house from Glasgow's roaming fidgety house pioneer Full Phat, and latest Subcity talent Simon Bryan will be sneaking out of his bedroom to kickstart the night with some minimal bleepery and bulging basslines.
Welcome back to belly-shaking beats and neighbour-bothering bass.
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Review in Glasgow University Guardian 29/09/08
Posted at 20:28, 8th September 2008
events // Subcity Freshers’ Party 08
Tuesday 16th September 2008
Deep 6, Glasgow University Union (map)
free with freshers' pass // 8pm-2am
Benny Boom // Shaun fae Solar // Our Kid
Matthew Craig (One More Tune) // Visual AIDS
To get a taste of what Subcity has to offer, head to the GUU’s Deep 6 on Tuesday for a mix of fresh faces and city-known veterans, all hailing from the station's bursting catalogue of talent.
The audio-visual assault kicks off with one of Subcity’s latest young finds, Our Kid (pictured), determined to make the station proud with a party-geared mix of house and electro, whilst Matthew Craig, recent founder of monthly club night One More Tune, also makes his Subcity debut after a busy year behind his new decks found him playing a mix of electro, techno, and disco alongside the likes of Glasgow darling JG Wilkes (Optimo). Crude visuals will be supplied by Subcity's favourite VJ, VisualAIDS.
Station veterans Shaun fae Solar and Benny Boom, former residents at Subcity's infamous campus parties, will step in to take care of the basslines, baltimore and booty-shaking ghetto-house with a smattering of dubstep, electro and breaks, as well as the fancy tricks others don't dare to try. From having shows on the station, both have gone on to start pioneering nights in the city, with Benny Boom most recently known for the Hows Your Party? explosion at the good old SubClub.
Expect to leave the night more than a little worse for wear.
Posted at 18:31, 6th September 2008
events // Aftermath of Subcity at the West End Festival
Once again, Subcity managed to not only justify the hype, but unite children, dogs and clubbers alike with their stage at last Sunday's West End Festival. Lilybank Gardens was transformed into a sweaty, throbbing mass, thanks to the hundreds of people who turned up to enjoy the station's finest DJ talent, a six-pack and some sunshine. Public appreciation of the day has been pouring in, so a massive thanks to everyone who turned up and shook that ass to help make it into the banging success it was.
See the day in pictures on Facebook here.
Or Listen Again to the hottest stage at the festival, in order of appearance:
Felonious Munk // Bogey Music
Rock Island Line // Vegas! // OOFT
Argonaut Sounds // Matt Lygate
Wee Cheesy // Shaun fae Solar // Full Phat
If you caught any of the Subcity party vibe, then
let us know how it was for you.
Special thanks to Philip Zambonini and to Graham Hendry at Tannoy for the best sounding PA at the festival.
Posted at 01:58, 9th July 2008
events // Subcity at the West End Festival
Sunday 15th June 2008
Lilybank Gardens
grass behind Ashton Lane
Noon - 7pm, Free entry for all ages
Glasgow's premier party starters Subcity Radio have once again blagged a stage at the annual West End Festival this Sunday.
A selection of the station's finest DJs will be adorning the recently re-turfed Lilybank Gardens with a pair of decks, a massive pile of speakers and a crowd of people intent on leaving the latte drinkers behind.
Whether you want to tap your feet to some rock n roll in the sun, or burn off those beers with a punishing electro-tech mash-up, we've got it all.
11:45 Felonius Monk
12:30 Euan Chambers(Bogey Music)
13:15 Rock Island Line
14:00 Poporopo Especial
14:45 VEGAS!
15:30 OOFT
16:15 Argonaut Sounds
17:00 Matthew Lygate
17:45 Shaun fae Solar vs Wee Cheesy
18:30 Full Phat
Head down to hear everything from dancehall to drum n bass, techno to pop, as we continue to rile up the Ashton Lane crowd and shake the grade A surroundings.
Posted at 00:42, 8th July 2008
events // Aftermath of Subcity at the Research Club
A big thanks to everyone who came down for our final blow-out party last Friday and helped make the night into a floor-shaking, brain-cell-bothering success.
Residents Shaun fae Solar and Boom Monk Ben were joined by Glasgow's favourite fidgety pioneer Full Phat and rising star Simon Bryan. To celebrate we brought in two more decks and a load more speakers.
If you're itching for more, Subcity will be returning to their usual spot on Lilybank Gardens as part of the West End Festival on Sunday 15 June with a truly eclectic handful of Subcity talent. Keep checking subcity.org for the full line up.
Posted at 11:32, 7th June 2008
events // Subcity at the Research Club
23rd May 2008
Hetherington Research Club
13 University Gardens (map)
£4 // non members welcome // 9pm-2am
Boom Monk Ben // Shaun fae Solar // Simon Bryan // Hudson Mo // Full Phat
Summer's here; it's time to turn off the radiators and stuff the jaikets back in the wardrobe, and Subcity's having a final blowout party to celebrate. Friday 23rd May sees the last in the series of the Subcity house parties at the Hetherington Research Club. True to the station's music policy on air, the nights have been about re-defining the clubscene: a hand picked selection of the station's talent playing every record like it's someone's living room and the police are on their way.
True to the station's reputation as a springboard for aspiring young DJs these parties have also showcased the best in new talent the station has to offer alongside the stalwarts of the city's clubs.
Since the start of the academic year, for one Friday each month, the drinking spot of postgraduates and professors has been transformed into a sweaty dancing box with a couple of hundred idiots out on the randan dancing to everything from digital disco fiends Record Playerz to Govan's finest selectors Argonaut Sounds.This last night is going to be a special one:
Starting things off is Simon Bryan, the newest find from the late night depths of the Subcity schedule: an unassuming bedroom DJ with a passion for minimal bleepery and German tech-house. Next up residents Boom Monk Ben and Shaun fae Solar will have four decks between them, but they'll be contending with Glasgow's fidget pioneer Full Phat trying to hustle his way on the decks whenever one of them turns their back. Expect a slightly worrying mix of house, baltimore, basslines and 80s pop classics all played through the excessively large soundsystem.
Following up this nonsense and finishing off the night is a man on everyone's lips right now, Hudson Mo (Warp / Luckyme). A Subcity veteran presenting various shows since his days as the youngest UK DMC finalist, he has recently seen success as a producer, having already being snapped up as the latest signing for Warp Records. His critically acclaimed Ooops EP sees Hudson re-jigging R&B tracks, slowing them down, deconstructing and rebuilding them with a deep, bass-heavy edge and a loose, almost frayed percussive swing - the result being a series of unbelievably heavy, funked up and utterly filthy reinterpretations that will no doubt wreak havoc in clubs long after this release has disappeared into the eBay ether.
It's going to be a messy one. The racks are being loaded with extra amps, the carpet's being rolled up, the paintings are off the walls and safely locked away. Arrive early to be part of the rammy.
Posted at 14:49, 7th May 2008
events // Subcity at the Research Club
21st March 2008
Hetherington Research Club
13 University Gardens (map)
£4 // non members welcome // 9pm-2am
Record Playerz Dee-Jays // Boom Monk Ben
Shaun fae Solar // Ruin it
A couple of hundred sweaty young bodies stuffing their jackets behind the radiators, trying not to knock the picture frames off the walls, dancing to bass heavy re-edits, inside an old Victorian town-house in the Westend.
By day you'll find professors and post-graduates having a quiet coffee, but come the end of the month Subcity Radio have other plans: loading in a pair of decks and a pile of speakers to have themselves a house party.
Resident DJ Boom Monk Ben is enjoying getting sweaty in a small room:
"I remember the massive nights at The Arches very well but I feel these more intimate events are exactly what the station and the West End of Glasgow needs. It's free of any pretence and macho posturing that often comes with the promotion of fresh sounds. The energy from the crowd is unrivalled and the venue is perfectly suited for an under the radar rave up. I have played all over UK and Europe in recent months but these nights are still the most fun to be had."
Along with fellow resident and Mixed Bizness veteran Shaun fae Solar, each night sees the station's hottest DJs get the party going and the windows steamed up. So far this year guests have included re-edit scenesters Ooft (Five20East), Glasgow's fidgety pioneer Full Phat (Obese), drum n bass heads Armed Response (Symbiosis) and Govan's finest selectors Argonaut Sounds. The musical policy is much like it is on-air: everything from Sinden to the Pet Shop Boys with a Baltimore remix of Deee-Lite thrown in for good measure.
Joining Shaun and Ben behind the decks on the dancefloor are digital disco party fiends Record Playerz - newcomers to the airwaves but stalwarts of Glasgow clubbing with their institutional Thursday night Art School residency. With such an intimate space the dancefloor fills up quickly, so all the more reason to get down early for the station's top Dubstep show Ruin It who are getting the place loosened up with some heavy heavy basslines.
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Posted at 14:47, 7th May 2008
events // Subcity at the Research Club
22nd February 2008
Hetherington Research Club
13 University Gardens (map)
£4 // non members welcome // 9pm-2am
Lord of the Dancehall // Argonaut Sounds
Shaun fae Solar // Full Phat
This February 22nd sees Subcity continue to pack the dance floor in the next in a series of seriously hot parties.
Subcity have been distorting and ignoring the boundaries of student radio for 13 years, as well as dotting the city with their notorious club nights, live showcases, DJs and genres before the rest of the city have caught up. Friday 22nd sees the station moving in off the streets and steaming up the windows of the University's Research Club as we defy the Glasgow winter Jamaican-style with the finest DJ talent the station, and the city, has to offer.
This February 22nd sees Subcity continue to pack the dance floor in the next in a series of seriously hot parties.
Subcity have been distorting and ignoring the boundaries of student radio for 13 years, as well as dotting the city with their notorious club nights, live showcases, DJs and genres before the rest of the city have caught up. Friday 22nd sees the station moving in off the streets and steaming up the windows of the University's Research Club as we defy the Glasgow winter Jamaican-style with the finest DJ talent the station, and the city, has to offer.
This month we're cooking up a treat for those hungry for some belly-shaking baselines. Get your elbows at the ready as we kick off with a bowel-quaking blend of reggae, ragga and dirty dancehall beats - Lord of the Dancehall arrives fresh from London to get your hips moving and your arse grinding. Representing Glasgow, resident Shaun fae Solar (Rab's Boutique) is joined by Full Phat (Audio Ice Cream, Symbiosis) serving up a truly indulgent mix of baltimore, ghetto-tech, electro and house before its back to the bassline with the Argonaut Sounds boys getting a discovery ticket each and bringing Govan's finest reggae riddims and dancehall delights, infused with the slengteng flavour of Jamaica.
So get down, get low, and keep it high.
Posted at 10:09, 9th February 2008
events // Subcity at the Research Club
25th January 2008
Hetherington Research Club
13 University Gardens (map)
£3 // non members welcome // 9pm-2am
Boom Monk Ben // Armed Response
Pete MacLeod // Shaun fae Solar
Just as everyone else is hiding indoors from the cold, Subcity have been working their way through the winter to provide you with an excuse to get loud and loaded. This January 25th, start the new year Subcity-style with a mixed bag of the finest DJ talent the station has to offer, from baltimore to drum'n'bass.
Subcity have been distorting and ignoring the boundaries of student radio for 13 years, as well as spotting the city with their notorious clubnights, live showcases, djs and even genres before the rest of the city have caught up. The second in this new monthly series of parties sees the station moving in off the streets and steaming up the windows of the University's Research Club in the most intimate offering of hot dj talent the station, and the city, has to offer in one night.
The night kicks off early with funk, soul and hiphop courtesy of Pete McLeod, a prominent face in Glasgow's hiphop dives, before residents and Mixed Bizness veterans Boom Monk Ben (Sub Club HYP) and Shaun fae Solar (Rab's Boutique) take over making sure the dancefloor stays packed with all things baltimore, ghetto-tech, electro and house.
Heading down after their Friday night radio show to bring the night to a sweaty close are Subcity's flagship drum'n'bass DJs Armed Response. One half of the act Yellow Benzene has been making a name for himself in the Scottish dnb scene as resident at hotly tipped night Symbiosis.
Posted at 17:57, 14th January 2008
events // Subcity at the Research Club
23rd November 2007
Hetherington Research Club
13 University Gardens (map)
£3 // non members welcome // 9pm-2am
Boom Monk Ben // Get OOFT // Camouflage // Shaun fae Solar
Alright listen up. Subcity's having a party, and you're invited. Swing by the research club for around nine on Friday 23rd November. We'll supply the decks, the tunes, and the dark corners. Just bring a few quid, some dancing shoes, and a couple of mates who can last 'til the end. Party ends when we get thrown out.
Some of Subcity's finest slackers and party people are gonna be there to give you a taste of a real house party. Subcity stalwart BoomMonkBen's been busy around town, rocking the legendary Mixed Bizness nights at The Arches and the Glasgow School of Art, as well as the How's Your Party nights at the Sub Club. With a record collection bigger and brighter than you'll find at any student bedsit, the Boom Monk knows how to keep you on your feet. If that's not enough for you, he's bringing a few mates to mix things up. We've got breaks, twisted disco, and everything electrofied in between with rising Glasgow scenesters OOFT!, fresh from sharing the decks with the liked of Sinden and Switch. We've got dark and dirty dubstep and techno from Soundhaus residents Camouflage if you like your beats twitchy and raw. And, if you're still standing, we'll get fellow Mixed Bizness veteran Shaun fae Solar to throw down the breaks, beats and party-electro to keep your hands in the air and get you shaking that a-a-a-ass.
Expect a night of trouser-flapping basslines and belly-shaking beats. All after-parties will be compulsory. You up for it?
Posted at 21:48, 9th January 2008
events // Freshers' Week Hyper Rave
Friday 21st September
9pm-2am, free with freshers' pass
Debates Chamber, GUU
Subcity is Glasgow's student radio station, famed for putting on some of the hottest parties on the Glasgow club scene; from huge block parties on University property, to niche nights in the city's most respected clubs.
True to form as one of the only student-run radio stations that refuses to pander to expectations, this Friday sees one of the oldest buildings on campus transformed into a multicoloured sweaty dancing box as the city's finest slackers, dropouts and party people plant a deliciously dangerous mix of crazy visuals and cranked up DJs in the historical GUU Debates Chamber.
The audio-visual assault kicks off with the finest Subcity has to offer, teasing you with a taste of the talent dominating the airwaves from 14th - 23rd September (106.6FM) and all year round on www.subcity.org. From house with Full Phat to party electro with Frantic Ant there's something to tempt even the most reluctant of dancing feet; meanwhile, they've sent down their most dedicated tech-heads to let you live the night in technicolour with light effects and oversized visuals. Neon never looked so good.
Past legendary Subcity nights have included names as hot as Dizzee Rascal and ShitDisco, and this year there's no relenting as they're stepping the pressure up with a double onslaught. This Friday sees French progressive house come to Glasgow as DJ Atom (C2C) makes the kids shake face to face. A must for anyone who knows what's hot and what's not for those excited by the imminently erupting French electro-house scene, Atom's sound emerged at Lyon's underground raves before exploding on to the Ibizan club scene, neatly scooping first place at the DMC World Team DJ champions along the way in 2005 as one half of C2C. Moving onwards and upwards, Subcity have blagged him for one night only to show Glasgow why he deserves the title. Check him out here (bbc.co.uk), here (youtube.com) or check out his MySpace profile here
If you like your music and you like to move, the beats begin at 10.30. The night should undoubtedly finish with your own hazy warden-enraging after-party; get your sunglasses ready for the next morning's walk of shame. A night of big beats, heavy basslines, dirty guitars and sweaty boys and girls.
Check it out on www.subcity.org and during freshers' week on 106.6FM.
Posted at 03:50, 22nd September 2007
events // Subcity Radio Stage @ West End Festival 07
Sunday 10th June 2007
Lilybank Gardens
grass behind Ashton Lane
Noon - 7pm, Free entry for all ages
Glasgow's premier block rockers Subcity Radio will once again be donning their shorts and shades as they stick a massive pile of speakers and a gazebo on university property. They've promised The Secretary of Court they will be on their best behaviour but that hasn't stopped them in the past.
Plugging in to a Lilybank Gardens lamp-post will be a selection of the finest young (and not so young) DJs in the city, including: Vegas, Argonaut Sounds, Nuff Stylee, Build and Destroy, Yellow Benzene, Rab's Boutique, Screaming Blue Soul and Solar Island's Tim (royale rumble champ). If their radio shows are anything to go by, expect to hear anything from rock n roll to sesame street hiphop with a touch of dancehall and drum n bass to shake the grade A surroundings.
The closest thing to a block party the west end will see, as long as the university big-wigs are distracted by the parade.
Lilybank Gardens is the large grassy area just up from Ashton Lane and Byres Road
Byres Road will be closed to traffic all day.
Stalls, Live Music, Food, Drink and a Mardi Gras Parade.
For more info on the rest of the festival, check the west end festival programme.
For high resolution images or more info contact shaun@subcity.org
Posted at 20:29, 16th May 2007
events // Tight Meat / Richard Youngs / Heather Leigh
Glasgow University Union
Wednesday 21st March, 9pm
£6 on the door
TIGHT MEAT will be finishing off their UK tour with a potentially head-spinning home-coming performance in the Glasgow University Union on 21st March 2007. After a slew of high-profile gigs with the likes of ALEXANDER TUCKER, JOSEPHINE FOSTER, JAZZFINGER and MV+EE, this heavily intoxicated aural spine-melt is sure to be a proper knees up! Expect skittery, densely polyphonic free rhythms (courtesy of SCATTER / BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY's drummer), wailing post-AYLER sax and the most physical double-bass playing you've ever seen from a man in his 60s.
RICHARD YOUNGS had to cancel his last appearance with Subcity due to illness, but this time it's a sure thing. Performing a vocal and electric guitar set, this one's going to be pure molten psych. As a lynchpin in the 90s British underground folk/improv scene, Richard Youngs has quietly built himself a massive reputation for twisting archaic, rustic folk forms into fresh, liberated mediums without sacrificing any of the magic that characterised the best 60s/70s shamanism. Glasgow performances from this man are beyond rare - miss this at your peril.
HEATHER LEIGH's spine-tingling vocals are still haunting the recesses of everyone's brain matter after her last Subcity appearance with MATTHEW BOWER and CHRIS CORSANO. Switching from a gentle, innocent melancholia to a full-on paint-stripping banshee wail at the drop of a hat, this former CHARALAMBIDES member is an true undergroung jewel. And you will never have heard a pedal-steel guitar played like this in your life!
So come on down to the GUU on 21st March at 9pm for an evening of beautiful, unique and exhilarating live music. BLACK STATIC TRANSMISSION will provide some suitably chilling audio entertainment between bands as an extra bonus. £6? Bargain.
Posted at 17:49, 15th March 2007
events // Subcity Battle Royale - Friday 2nd March 07
Subcity Battle Royal
Friday 2nd March 2007
Glasgow School of Art
£5 adv (src & vic bar) / £7 door
Only a month after packing out the Vic Bar with the house party vibe of Subcity's HiFi, Glasgow's finest return to the Art School to bring you two floors of sports-entertainment inspired mayhem. Subcity's Battle Royale will see over 20 DJs slog it out over 2 rooms, 8 decks and 10 rounds. Who's arm will be raised as the undisputed champion?
Subcity's management have punched above their weight to bring you an electrifying card, featuring a mix of Subcity superstars and enthusiastic rookies. The stipulations are set and the titles are on the line. You will see DJ's battling for supremacy, letting their fingers do the talking while the crowd are asked to vote with their feet. Dancing in the red or blue corners will allow you, the audience, to select your champions. Belts will change hands, depending on who rocks the crowd on the night.
full details and card on the forum
Posted at 12:29, 28th February 2007
events // Subcity and Volcanic Tongue present...
Glasgow University Union
Saturday 24th February, 8pm
£8 on the door
Join Subcity and Volcanic Tongue for an evening of pure psychedelic indulgence at the GUU on Sat 24th February. Multi-limbed fire-drumming legend Chris Corsano joins Matthew Bower (bliss-out hallucinogenic mind-melt) and Heather Leigh Murray (haunting vocal innocence and deconstructed pedal steel blues). This is the first (and possibly only) time these 3 legends of outsider music have played together - be there or gouge your own face out.
Richard Youngs also makes a rare appearance with a solo electric guitar set, hooked straight into the vein of 70's psych wailing and melancholy avant-garde folk. After a storming set at All Tomorrow's Parties last year, this promises to be pure electricity straight from the source.
Support comes from Nackt Insecten (zoned-out drone syrup) and GODOT (sub-bass trauma and skin-grafting laptop abuse).
Head to the Reading Room inside the GUU at 8pm with £8 in your back pocket - it couldn't be spent on anything else.
Check out the forum for more details
Posted at 16:17, 22nd February 2007
events // Subcity's HiFi - Friday 2nd Feb 2007
Subcity's HiFi
Friday 2nd February 2007
The Vic Bar (School of Art)
£FREE ENTRY
On the Decks
- Soulful Allsorts (Northern Soul)
- SuburbanFM (Felonious Munk brings the Funk)
- Black Static Transmission & Frantic Ant (live)
- Rock Island Line (Rock n Roll)
- Argonaut Sounds(Dancehall set)
- Nuff Stylee (hiphop)
Swing by the Vic Bar on Friday for a wee sample of this year's Subcity broadcast in the flesh. Featuring faces for radio old and new, should be a nice warm up for bigger things to come this year. This Friday night, usual Art School Bar prices, free entry, sweet soundsystem, good tunes... see you there.
Posted at 23:35, 1st February 2007
events // Subcity Block Party 2006
Subcity Radio Block Party IV
Friday 20th October 2006
The Art School
£5adv / £7 door
On the Decks
- Leisure Allstars (Native, Bristol)
- Numbers
- Boom Monk Ben
- The Frantic Ant
- Green Sofa
- Freaky Bitches
- Psychadelic Soup
Live on stage
- Gay Against You
- Black History Month
- Bigg Taj
Tickets from SRC Reception (John Mac building) and Fopp (Byres Rd & Union St). full press info
Posted at 14:15, 20th October 2006
events // Subcity Freshers' Week 06
Freshers' Week 2006 (16th - 22nd Sept) sees the return of Subcity to the decks of the QMU. A team of crack DJs will be on a mission to expose the wide-eyed youngsters to as many new genres and as many bowel moving frequencies as possible.
Subcity's Freshers' Week HiFi Saturday 16th September - Qudos, QMU
- The beat Elitist
- Rock Island Line
- Psychadelic Soup
- Andy Piacentini
Sunday 17th - Jim's bar, QMU
- The Frantic Ant
- Electroclit
Monday 18th - Jim's bar, QMU
- Paul Needles
- Rock n Roll Meltdown
Wednesday 20th - Jim's bar, QMU
- Full Phat
- NASA
Friday 22nd - Jim's bar, QMU
- The Full Homeopathic Orchestra
- Rab's boutique
- The Ill Technique
Posted at 01:34, 14th September 2006
events // Radio Clash, Thursday 15th June
Oxfam and Control Arms Campaign
In association with Subcity and Radio Clash present
- DJ Each
- DJ Magal
- Bebado
- Troutfish
Sub Club, Jamaica Street
Thursday, 15th June 2006
11pm-3am, £2 < midnight < £4
Each and Magal are back supporting the Control Arms campaign with their unique genre busting party hard sound. They're touring Brazil and Europe to get clubbers, through Sou da Paz volunteers, to sign up for the Million Faces petition ahead of the UN Review Conference on gun control in June. It continues the DJs' long-term relationship with the campaign.
Subcity plays host for this charity bash with old favourites Bebado supplying their trademark Brazillian Breaks sound, Troutfish gets to warm things up and although he's not playing his usual happy hardcore beats he will no doubt get it started with a bang.
Posted at 10:02, 8th June 2006
events // Radio Clash - The Bassline Experiment
Subcity at Radio Clash
Sub Club, Jamaica Street
Thursday, 18th May 2006
11pm-3am, £2 before midnight £4 after
- Imogen Velouria (Freaky Bitches)
- Get Effect (NASA)
- Thomas The Search Engine (Live/Virusb23)
- Dangamouse (Tongue n Groove)
- Big Matt
Here at Subcity Radio we have decided its time to give the brand spanking new Subby sound system a proper low fequency work out. A line up of bass heavy contenders from the schedule has been selected & assembled, ready to attack your very being with a full sub-sonic assault. Expect a bone crunching mash up of Tearout Breaks, Dubstep, Electro & Tekno.
Posted at 15:51, 8th May 2006
events // Radio Clash at the Sub Club
Subcity at Radio Clash
Sub Club, Jamaica Street
This Thursday, 20th April 2006
11pm-3am, £2 before midnight £4 after
- JayDoubleU
- D_Harvey
- Stupid Idiots (live) myspace
- Plan B
Come down to the Subby this Thursday for Subcity's first proper shot on the best soundsystem in the UK. We've got some of the best upcoming talent from the broadcast behind the decks and Solar Island's resident MC duo the Stupid Idiots playing live. Get down early and its only £2.
Full details in the forum here
Posted at 12:18, 18th April 2006
events // Subcity Radio End of 106.6FM Party
Subcity Radio End of 106.6FM Party
Thursday 16th March
Sub Club £3 adv / £4 door
- Boom Monk Ben
- Vancouver Deluxe (Live)
- All Time High (Live)
- The Institute for Electronic Artists
After another month hijacking the local FM airwaves, Subcity celebrates its return to its online roots with a night of funk, punk-electronica, hip hop, a human beatbox and a showcase of the best new local electronic music.
Advance tickets from SRC Reception (John Mac Building, University Avenue)
Posted at 14:58, 5th March 2006
events // Subcity Radio 106.6FM Launch Party
Subcity Radio 106.6FM Launch Party
Saturday 11th February
The Arches £7adv / £9 door
Subcity marks its return to the Glasgow airwaves with a night featuring some of the best talent from the broadcast, a full samba band, MCs, VJs and a third arch of experimental electronic noise and projections.
The station is on air on 106.6FM from Saturday 11th February to Friday 10th March. There will be a live broadcast from the launch party all night.
Arch 1:
- Bebado
- Samba Ya Bamba
- Soulsa
- Celmac 3006
- Matt MacD
- Duncan Harvey
Arch 2:
- Tongue n Groove ft MC RST
- Armed Response
- Happy Hardcore
- NASA
- Unco
Tickets from SRC Reception (John Mac building), Fopp and the Arches box office.
Posted at 21:07, 25th January 2006
events // Subcity Sessions Presents
Subcity Sessions Presents
Tuesday 6th December
The Arches £5 adv (SRC, Fopp)
Featuring:
- The Needles
- Titus Gein
- The Flying Matchstick Men
- How To Swim
- Subcity DJs
New music courses through Subcity's veins and the station has long been hosting sessions with the great and good long before the rest of the world know anything about them. Other than the omnipresent Franz Ferdinand, previous City Sessions guests have included, Biffy Clyro, Dogs Die in Hot Cars, Belle and Sebastian and countless others.
Hot on the heels of the box office bustin' Block Party 3, Subcity Radio cement their reputation as a champion of new music with a showcase of Scotland's best live talent. The gig is hosted by the station's award winning show 'Subcity Sessions'.
Subcity Sessions can be heard 8-9pm every Tuesday evening on Subcity Radio
Posted at 13:32, 24th November 2005
events // Subcity Block Party 3
Subcity Radio Block Party 3
Thursday 20th October
The Arches £5 adv £7/8 Door
Featuring:
- Souljam
- Frankie Sumatra and Dino Martini
- Boom Monk Ben
- Full Phat
- Jimmy Wax
- Nu Inbred Generation
- Electric Safety Pin
- Loki
- Bigg Taj
- Lord Of The Dancehall
- Live Graff and Breakdancers
Tickets £5 from Fopp, The Arches box office and the SRC reception (John McIntyre Building)
£7/8 on the door.
Subcity Radio returns to The Arches for their third annual Block Party to launch their internet broadcast. The event is rapidly becoming a firm fixture in Glasgow's clubbing calendar, selling out yearly.
This year the events team at the award-winning station asked themselves if a block party were to be held in Glasgow in the present day, what exactly it would sound like.
Posted at 13:30, 4th October 2005
events // Subcity at Freshers' Week 05
Freshers' Week 2005 sees the return of Subcity Radio to the decks of Glasgow's clubs. On a mission to expose the freshers' to as many new genres as musically possible, we will be hosting Subcity's HiFi in Jim's Bar, QMU, from Tuesday to Thursday. On Friday night we up-sticks and move down to Deep 6 in the GUU for the Freshers' Party 05.
Tuesday | Jim's Bar, QMU | 9pm - 2am Tuesday is all about house, in the broadest sense. Ranging from US garage (as in the kind of stuff underground disco legend Larry Levan played at his infamous NYC club the Paradise Garage), to the tougher house sound of Chicago and deep, moody techno from Detroit, right through to contemporary grooves and twists from Europe and America.
Wednesday | Jim's Bar, QMU | 9pm - 2am If Tuesday was brought to you by the reassuring 4/4 beat, Wednesday is brought to you by the people who reacted to such self-assurance by twisting it into unrecognisable and often unsettling forms. From warped soundscapes and downtempo beats, to 2-step dub, glitch and breaks mixed by DJs who know how to make a dance floor rock.
Thursday | Jim's Bar, QMU | 9pm - 2am Thursday is roots day with bowel-shaking b-lines, Jamaican dancehall riddims, funk, hip-hop and bashment - delivered with attitude and irresistible energy.
Friday | Deep 6, GUU | 9pm - 2am All hints of musical snobbishness go out of the window on Friday as Subcity go into party mode, featuring some of Glasgow's most loved party DJs playing classic disco, hip-hop, funk and soul anthems and a few surprises guaranteed to get the party started - Subcity style.
Posted at 00:02, 15th September 2005