With about 150 contributors to the station, there are plenty of them doing cool things around the city on any given weekend so we thought we'd try doing them a solid and start a regular Subcity listings post.

Clubs

14th

Hawkchild DIY and Hyperfunk take to the Stereo basement for a benefit night in aid of the Grenfell Tower survivors, and have recruited Sarra from OH141 alongside 皚桐 (Heidi Chiu).

15th

Danse Macabre (Heartbreak Beat) are in Stereo with special guest Frankie D from Club Stigmata with their usual goth / italo / synthy offerings.

21st

Sofay (Self Service) plays all night long at The Art School as part of their July programming.

GK Machine's Invisible Inc. residency at The Rum Shack returns with Peter Power (Multi Culti/Voodoohop/Invisible Inc (DJ) + Konzel (Optimo/Junto Club/Invisible Inc) + GK Machine (Invisible Inc)

25th

Only the Subject (ran by relatively-new-to-the-station Sorbie Rd.) returns to Nice n Sleazy's for the second time, this time featuring the debut live performance of Unskilled Labour, and the Sorbie Rd DJs.

28th

Loose Joints bring Honey Soundsystem back to the Berkeley Suite for some serious dancefloor heat.

GK Machine plays Nik Nak in Paradise Palms, Edinburgh

29th

Domestic Exile (Unearthly Matters) host Kübler-Ross with SUE ZUKI and Uzumaki in Nice n Sleazy's.

Festivals

23rd

GK Machine @ Audio Soup Festival, Abnormal Loads Stage

29th-30th

GK Machine plays twice at Mugstock, with a headline techno set on Saturday and a downtempo cosmic beach set on Sunday morning/afternoon.

Releases

Komodo Kolektif's (GK Machine) record "Sumantras" was released on Invisible Inc in June.

Octo Champ (Rigid Disco) released his Southern Uplands EP on Shapes of Rhythm at the end of June.

Contact us !

Subcity contributors who would like their nights/gigs/releases etc to be featured in future listings posts should email [email protected] with relevant links and information.

Who are you? I’m Sophie. I’m a DJ & radio show host, studying for my masters and working in a library too.

What's your show? My show is called Self Service.

How long have you been a part of Subcity? Since 2010.

Favourite shows on Subcity? Past shows: It’s a Trap, Test Card, Under Heavy Manners. Present shows: Narratives, Night of the Jaguar, Eve Was Framed.

Favourite thing about the Glasgow music scene? The unbelievable spectrum of sounds you can hear in one night. I’m always very overwhelmed when I am djing and see how willing the dancers are to be challenged musically, they are very happy to be pushed in various directions. I don’t think that happens everywhere, I love Glaswegians and their “I don’t give a fuck, I just wanna dance” attitude.

What one thing would you change about the Glasgow music scene? More femme/POC/LGBT+ DJs on line ups across the city, particularly in clubs that are in the position to make this happen. I’d like to see more women promoting too because I think in order for the line ups to become more diverse we need more women and POC putting the parties on too. Very pleased to see projects like Grassroots Glasgow providing a starting point for this. They’ve been introducing newcomers to the city and people who have lived here a long time to djing and the music scene here in general. Sarra and Cat (fellow Subcity radio hosts!!) have created a very supportive environment with their DJ workshops - so inspiring, big love to all involved!

What song did you most recently Shazam? I’ve never used Shazam but I often ask my friends for IDs when they are playing. I think the most recent ID I asked for was a Pepe Bradock remix that I purchased the next day and hasn’t left my record bag since.

One song you've got on repeat at the moment? I can’t think of one particular song but the Laps record on MIC has been getting a lot of my attention. Lo Kindre’s Plant Up 12” on Optimo is another record I listened to repeatedly when it came out. Oh and the new Happy Meals record, I looooove them. And they are all Glasgow based, wooo!

What's your rainy journey song? Usually something by Haruomi Hosono in an attempt to distract myself from the dreich weather.

Anything exciting coming up? Some close friends and I have launched a multidisciplinary project called Sssuperstudio. Our first party was with Ben UFO, Laps, Klaus, Ome Sa, Florist, Mellowdramatics & Junglehussy. We invited lots of different artists across the city and further to produce some work for a zine that doubled up as a ticket for the party. I’m looking forward to moving in weird and wonderful directions with that project! I’m also very excited to play Optimo 20 in August alongside some serious dreamboats (especially fellow Subcity presenter, Becky Marshall.) It’s the first show that my mum and dad are coming to see me play so I’m quite nervous, they are very discerning!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ssofay

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ssofayyy

Another year of Primavera Sound, another year we all scream in hysteria about the line up. It’s a festival that somehow manages to up its game year after year. The excitement we felt rumbling away in our bellies was almost too much to bear. Solange, Grace Jones, Van Morrison, Arcade Fire… just some of the main, absolutely m a s s i v e names to be making an appearance in Barcelona this year, along with the one and only Frank Ocean!

Oh wait…

Ocean’s cancellation on the Friday was undoubtedly a massive blow to all present and, as a result, Rose and I found that Friday missed a certain je ne sais quois. However, our discovery of our now new favourite band, Whitney, along with the crazy hysteria that overcame us as we crowd-surfed Mac DeMarco backstage was more than enough to lift our spirits, as well as the pure quality of the other two days.

Thursday saw our first day at the festival. Bright eyed and bushy tailed, we leisurely made our way to Parc Del Forum to have a wander before the main acts took to the stage. The atmosphere at Primavera is hard to describe, apart from maybe just perfect. It’s a festival that hosts such a range of musical genres that it has something for literally everyone there (who, incidentally, are all sickeningly cool and, surprisingly, Scottish – we ended up wondering who was actually left in Glasgow). However, after perusing around the smaller stages, we headed over to Heineken and Mango to see a triple bill of amazement. Miguel, Solange and Bon Iver. Ahh, if heaven exists it’s surely in Miguel’s beautiful face and equally beautiful voice. We melted. This melting was accelerated, of course, when one of our main attractions took to the stage. Solange. Not much can really be said of that lady, because whenever words try to come out, they fail. She’s a goddess. A superstar. Her set reduced us to Goosebumps and tears of pure joy. Suddenly it was 7am and we were wandering home down a sun dabbled boulevard, dancing to Sophie Ellis Bexter. Life was good.

The beauty of festivals, though, is the ability to discover something new. Friday brought us to Whitney, Thursday we stumbled across No Zu, an Australian “heat beat” band, and Saturday Junun featuring Shye Ben Tzur and The Rajasthan Express – bands we would definitely recommend looking up. On top of that, it’s the opportunity to see a pile-up of such big names all in the one place, and Saturday, for us, blew it out the water. Van Morrison, Teenage Fan Club (s/o for Rose’s favourite), Grace Jones and Arcade Fire. Woooaah is all that can be said about that I think.

Our Saturday night ended on Sunday at midday after a delightful sunrise and a sleepless and shaky, but nevertheless delightful breakfast. It was a weekend of wonders, of bumping into a ridiculous amount of familiar faces, of mind-blowing performances and top-class noodles for dinner, every night. I wonder what “best line-up ever” they’ll have for us next year…

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