Clubs

With skies as gloomy as their tunes, The xx took to Hatfield House for a not-so-XXL day festival...

Setting up a massive outdoor soundsystem in the middle of a city and getting away with it is no easy feat these days, especially in the UK, so when FACE/Below pulled off Circoloco in the Arena on a stretch of industrial wasteland in the heart of Birmingham last Easter, they had us impressed to say the least.

Expect festival-sized production sets, state-of-the-art lighting and gigantic LED walls which backdrop performers flown high above the dancefloor

The Hare & Hounds is B-Town's classic old boozer with a banging soundtrack. We step into the old Irish pub not only for a pint...

When we opened the Sunday paper earlier this year to find the headline 'HORSE MEAT TESCO' (on retrospect, perhaps with a colon), DJ Mag got very excited. Some of the world's best parties have taken place in shops.

For Mobilee boss Anja Schneider, recent gigs include Mexico, France and Romania, and then there is time required in the studio putting together robust tech funk numbers like her own 'Diagonal' (out now), as well as the marketing, promo-ing and mastering of label mates like Rodriguez Jnr and Sebo K and Ray Okpara. She's a very busy girl, indeed!

Enough daytime parties to give Ronald McDonald post-traumatic stress, July is the month to disco while al fresco...

Our first trip to Amnesia of the summer brought back memories of watching Ibizan sunrises ignite the carnival atmosphere of the colossus terrace. And tonight we are bracing ourselves for one of the biggest techno line-ups of this summer at Marco Carola’s Music On.

Mother of all festivals, Glastonbury is a fantastic place to go for dance music fiends — and indeed for fans of pretty much any style of music. The DJ Mag crew arrive on Saturday morning, having already missed a wealth of talent such as Boys Noize, Simian Mobile Disco, Julio Bashmore and Gold Panda, as well as Chic, the Arctic Monkeys and Portishead, but it doesn’t matter as there’s plenty more to be had over the next two days of frivolities.

One thing Guy Gerber is known for is style. Chic, slick, dapper... call him what you will. More important is this guy’s ability to make masterful music.

In a city positively brimming with talent during the recently christened 'OFF-Week', FACT's three pool parties still stand out from the crowd thanks to the...

The Hotflush boss swapped the grimy innards of basement clubs for the cavernous realms of The Forum for his latest live show...

DJ Mag tasted the techno at a free impromptu Richie Hawtin gig in a Street Feast courtyard for Land of Kings – and of course, the culinary delights too!

Bionic residency has shifted a few blocks down to Hysteria

Breaking onto the scene in 2009, Farr Festival has gone from a party in the woods for a few hundred into one of the UK’s most anticipated boutique events...

DJS: Simon Baker, Eric Volta, Jonny Cruz, Silky, Toil & Trouble, Shadow Aspect

As far removed from the Christina Aguilera album of the same name as Thatcher was from rave culture, Bionic started life at The Shelter in London, formerly The Russian Bar, until moving to Hysteria this May...

DJ Mag takes to Club Myst to get a taste of clubbing, Asia style!

We've all had a day job we'd rather not think about. Whether it's manning the till at Tescos or pulling the feathers off dead turkeys at christmas, we've all had to endure some pretty shitty tasks to get to where we are now. Even DJs. Heidi might have dished out wax at Phonica, Damian Lazarus once a crime reporter for The Sun and Laurent Garnier was a chef before taking on the world's noisiest rooms, but not all clubland's most wanted have lived such notable lives.

We've all thrown “shapes” on the dancefloor, but for Simon Day and his team the word has a different meaning. When they throw Shapes, rather than some solitary arms movements and a funky wiggle, they end up with a room full of groovy mentalists at it all night. Shapes is not a dance move, it's a dance movement.