Preview: Butter Side Up Summer Party w/ Fudge Fingas
Butter Side Up Summer Party Fudge Fingas Ste Roberts Butter Side Up Residents Friday 8th June 2300 – 0500 £6/8 Tickets: http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?368570 Butter Side Up have been working tirelessly over the last 18 months to bring you the freshest talents in underground music, month in, month out. This time we make no exceptions! Bringing another [...]
Preview: Square One 1st Birthday – Night Slugs Showcase
Square One 1st Birthday - Night Slugs Showcase Bok Bok Jam City Girl Unit Wire Friday 4th May 2300 – 0500 £8 adv / £10 otd In just a year, Square One has brought some of the most eclectic and forward-thinking DJs and producers to Leeds in a series of highly regarded nights. To celebrate this milestone [...]
Preview: Butter Side Up presents Gerd Janson
Butter Side Up Gerd Janson (Leeds Debut, 4 Hour Set) Butter Side Up DJs Wire Friday 13th April Well, well, well…Butter Side Up have got quite a treat in store for you this month. Gerd Janson is one of the true innovators of the modern electronic music scene and is the quintessential DJ’s DJ, regularly unearthing the [...]
Review: Coloursound – A Guy Called Gerald
Coloursound 005 A Guy Called Gerald Live (Acid House Set) Maurice Fulton Tom Trago Wire 11.11.2011 Coloursound 005 at Wire went well and truly underground last Friday night as it continued its pervasive dance music rampage across the North of England. This new and exciting club night has spread across Leeds and Manchester this term [...]
Review: ReWind – A Night of Classic UK Garage
Rewind – A Night of UK Garage Jo Kira Rewind Residents Wire 14.11.2011 Coming to a night of classic UK garage, one could be forgiven for being a bit sceptical about the possibility of the organisers cashing in on the recent resurgence in it, without the djs necessarily having the appropriate selection of tunes to [...]
Previews
Friday 11th March Tropical 1st Birthday After a year of delivering some of the freshest underground vibes in Leeds, Tropical celebrates with sets from Pangaea, T.Williams, Krystal Klear and a solo debut from Boddika, better known as one half of DnB duo Instra:mental. Wire Club £6/£8 after midnight Hangar Drum and bass staple Hangar team up with Radio Frequency [...]
Interview: R&S Records
Originally based in Ghent, Belgium, R&S Records is one of the most influential electronic music labels in existence. Founded in 1984, it helped launch the careers of Aphex Twin, Model 500, Derrick May, and Joey Beltram to name just a few, and its back catalogue features a multitude of rave and techno classics, as well [...]
Feature: Previews
We’ve all been there – back in your student abode after the Christmas party season, staring woefully at a desk submerged under university work. Kicking yourself for ignoring the exams for so long, you sigh, wrench the lid off your fourth Redbull and curse the day Mark Zuckerberg even had an inkling to put the [...]
The Power of Music
On Friday 16th November Wire will host a tribute to Muslimgauze, a one-man band masterminded by late Mancunian Bryn Jones; both prolific and pioneering, Jones released over sixty records of experimental electronic music before his death in 1999. Jones’ uncompromising sound could never achieve mainstream popularity but his work has garnered a cult following – [...]
November 16, 2012