The Electric Frog Summer Festival, Glasgow
Originally a weekender with events scheduled on both Saturday and Sunday, an unfortunate clash with construction works have reduced the programme to Saturday only, but with high hopes to restage Sunday's original lineup later in the year. Happily, the Frog folks' ethos of staging an event which picks up the diversity of Glasgow's dance heritage and runs with hosting both iconic live acts and DJs from the past alongside emerging talents remains intact. Attractions include an appearance by Dubfire, formerly one half of Grammy-award winning duo Deep Dish, plus live shows from Nitzer Ebb, Minus Records star Marc Houle and Chicago's ghetto house pioneer DJ Funk. Major local players include Optimo's Twitch & Wilkes presenting their Warehouse Party, while Slam's Orde Meikle (Slam) and Silicone Soul's Graeme Reedie host the Pressure Street Party, with support from Hung Up! resident Pro-Vinylist Karim.
SWG3 Studio Warehouse, Eastvale Place, Sat
Patric Baird
FON Festival, Barrow-in-Furness
A festival of music and sound art, Full Of Noises offers a programme of installations and workshops, culminating in a weekend of public performance. The Bluebird Cabaret Club houses the event's key club-night session on Friday, headlined by dark, Detroit electro revivalists Dopplereffekt, plus Planet Mu's Boxcutter and spontaneous live performer Anchorsong. Curatorship of this event is superb, as demonstrated by exciting artists in residence including UK composer Philip Jeck and multi-disciplined Japanese artist Tetsuo Kogawa, who will produce new work to be shown next Saturday at Barrow Island's St John's Church. Next weekend also sees FON inhabit Barrow Park with an lineup of installations and some contributions supplied by schoolchildren from the south Cumbrian area, allowing the event to be accessible to an all-ages audience.
Various venues, Fri to 6 Aug
Marc Rowlands
Farr Festival, nr Baldock
Set in an old oak wood in Hertfordshire, this 1,500-capacity festival plays host to some of the hottest names in underground house music: Hot Natured's Lee Foss, Dirtybird's J.Phlip, fast-rising UK whizkids Hackman and Julio Bashmore, and redoubtable old hand Ewan Pearson. The live bands are very much of the up-and-coming variety, but sizable things are expected of tropical indie-pop trio Get People and nerd rapper Mikill Pane. The music runs from Saturday lunchtime to Sunday morning, at which point you can either retreat to your tent or catch the first available cab out of the sticks. So near, so Farr.
Bygrave Wood, Newnham, Sat
Sam Richards
Heresy n Heelz, Brighton
In their native Derby, H n H attract a cool crossover crowd, mixing fetish-scene leather and corsets with the vintage glamour stylings more usually associated with burlesque. And it's this broad-based appeal they hope to tap into on Friday for a Brighton debut packed with stage shows, lavish decor and even a cupcake stall. DJ Peter von Sleeze kicks off with a set of swing, jive, rockabilly and psychobilly till 10; Pagan Flame plays alternative classics till the close, and sandwiched between those two is an eye-popping array of onstage talent. Burlesque favourites Slinky Sparkles and Marnie Scarlet twizzle their tassles, there's a "performance fashion installation" from Engineers Of Desire, plus Graveyard Johnnys deliver a set of menacing live psychobilly. Compere Jim Devereaux will valiantly attempt to maintain, if not decorum, a semblance of order.
Concorde 2, Madeira Drive, Fri
John Mitchell
Cocadisco, London
Cocadisco is London's longest-running night for all things Italo, synthy and cosmic. They may not stage regular events these days, but it means that when they do put their name to something, it's usually a corker. In this case, the reason for Cocadisco's stirring is a rare UK visit from Chicago underground maven Jamal Moss aka Hieroglyphic Being. Moss has been keeping the spirit of the original Chicago acid house pioneers alive for years, both through his own raw, idiosyncratic productions, and via the stark, uncompromising but thoroughly rooted output of his Mathematics label. An imperious, dreadlocked presence behind his vintage analogue kit, Moss's freestyle acid set is likely to be as fibrous and weird as anything you'll hear all year. Support comes from London coldwave chap Design A Wave, while the Cocadisco DJs are on hand to provide a soothing disco massage afterwards.
The Victoria, Dalston, E8, Thu
SR
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jul/30/clubs-picks-of-the-week
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