Floating Points: The ecology of sound
An intimate 150-capacity club will open in Liverpool for 12 months, Best Before
A new 150-capacity club is opening in Liverpool for 12 months, called Best Before.
Opening in a condemned building attached to the event space Constellations, the club's name is a nod to its temporariness, given its tenure ends just before the building is scheduled to be demolished.
Inspired by the close-knit intimacy of London's tragically closed Plastic People and Dance Tunnel, Best Before will also feature minimal lighting and a no-phones-on-dancefloor policy.
PLASTIC PEOPLE CLOSING
Plastic People, one of the most historically important clubs in London, is set to close. The club, which was home to the famed FWD>> night that was so essential in dubstep's formation, has also been host to residencies from Floating Points, Four Tet, Theo Parrish, James Blake and Carl Craig.
MR SCRUFF: INFECTIOUS PERSONALITY
To describe Andy Carthy as a one-off is probably to understate the situation. He designs all his own album covers and artwork. He's launched his own brand of tea and has a pop-up tea shop set up at many of his gigs selling brews and biscuits. He lugs boxes of vinyl, his own decks and a mixing console around the world in an era when it's quite de rigueur to turn up with nowt but a pair of headphones and memory stick in your pocket.