One last time up the Arty

final rpz at the art school

On thursday 24th June 2010 RPZ presented their final night in the Vic Bar and bid farewell to the Art School for EVER.

It has been just over 8 years since Record Playerz started their night in the Vic Bar in the Glasgow School Of Art. Since that time, the night has grown to be one of the largest and most successfully weekly club nights in Scotland. There have been a great many fantastic nights in that time, many firm friends have been met and been made over the years and the club has been, and continues to be, the blue-print for many many other nights that have come in its wake.

However the time has come to move on. There have been a number of changes in the dj booth at RPZ over the years - founder HiFi Sean departed in 2006 to be replaced by Bonjour Boi and Jackson Stars. Stars himself left in 2008, and most recently the night has now bid farewell to Bonjour Boi who now resides in Stockholm with his beloved girlfriend.

It is this most recent departure has led to a serious re-think of what the night is about, and where RPZ is going.

Left on my again, I decided that I didn't want to recruit another new dj. I had become so used to djing with the Bonjour Boi I doubt any partnership could be as rewarding and enjoyable. It would be like trying to replace my best friend. And that being the case, I also knew I couldn't spare the time needed to run a weekly night if I was going to do it alone.

So the decision had to be to abandon RPZ as a weekly event, adapt it to a monthly party, AND have it on the weekend. Try out a whole new venue on a completely different night. So RPZ will live on, and as a monthly it will still be able to have myself and Bonjour Boi as its residents. Details of the new venue are still being worked out, but the RPZ gang will be back with their first event in late August, with plans to return with their Aussie brothers the Bang Gang deejays.

We hope that you will be able to make it along to our final farewell to the Art School. Its bound to be a tearful affair. RPZ has been the best thing i have ever created, and the most fun i have ever had at a club night, with all the best friends i have ever met. Far more fun that any one person could ever deserve.

I'm gonna miss it up the arty.

And remember kids, I'm gonna miss YOU most of all.

Hushpuppy 2010.

Posted at 19:22, 7th July 2010