Dax J locked for DJ Mag Presents party in Manchester
Dax J is set to play at our DJ Mag Presents in Manchester on Friday 7th December.
The techno don and DJ Mag UK's April 2018 cover star will unleash his uncompromisingly heavy selections on the crowd at Gorilla, one of the north of England's busiest nightspots, which will also host our Med School event in November, featuring Etherwood, Whiney, Keeno, Lakeway and Bane.
The Marcus Intalex Music Foundation set up "to support and nurture talent"
The Marcus Intalex Music Foundation (MIMF) has been set up in Manchester "to support and nurture talent".
The enduring impact of Store Street on UK club culture
The UK club scene has changed hugely since the mid-noughties. The End is gone. As are The Cross, Turnmills, The Arches, Sankeys and countless more iconic venues. Hands in the air have been replaced by smart phones in the air, the CDJ has become a staple of the booth over the 1210 and most tech-house doesn’t sound anything like tech-house once did. But few places have had such an enduring impact in the years between then and now as Manchester’s The Warehouse Project at Store Street.
As the Warehouse Project’s longest running home, the venue has had a much larger cultural impact on UK clubbing than just hosting the event’s parties. Having started in 2006 at Boddingtons Brewery in Strangeways, The Warehouse Project moved to Store Street – a former air raid shelter underneath Manchester Piccadilly station – in 2007, where it remained until 2011. After moving to Victoria Warehouse to the west of Manchester’s city centre near Old Trafford for two seasons, it returned to Store Street in 2014, where it has remained until now.
During an interview for our 2016 feature on what Fabric’s reopening means for the future of London clubbing, Fabric co-founder Cameron Leslie told DJ Mag that he’d think twice before opening a permanent club in the current climate, in part due to the annual costs of upkeep attached to running a fixed venue as oppose to a seasonal series like The Warehouse Project. Because of the ever-increasing length of the festival season, clubs in the UK’s busiest period is now during Autumn, between October and December.
This combination of factors – rising costs for clubs with an increasingly limited peak season and the constant fear of losing their lease – has led to the rise of promoters like The Hydra, Percolate and Origins running one-off events at spaces rather than being tied to a specific venue. With this model, you get parties at more makeshift venues like The Silver Building, a 50,000 square foot factory in Silvertown, east London, which saw a series of parties from collectives like NYC Downlow and Mulletover in 2017, and has since been developed into studios.
For Store Street’s first season in 2007, Four Tet featured low down on an Eat Your Own Ears bill, and has since gone on to host his own Four Tet & Friends nights. This year, it features Josey Rebelle, Flava D, Bake and more. Similarly, UK artists like Ben UFO, Joy Orbison, Jon Hopkins, Artwork and more have grown exponentially through the years alongside the brand, whilst more recent success stories see Denis Sulta and Patrick Topping host their own nights at Store Street.
New four-storey club YES to open in Manchester this month
A new four-storey venue called YES will open in Manchester later this month.
The multi-purpose wheelchair accessible venue will boast a music venue, bar and restaurant and will be controlled by local promoters Now Wave. The building was formerly used as an auctioneers house and printers press but is undergoing a renovation to install a basement club and rooftop terrace with a NASA-approved soundsystem.
Multi-million pound arts venue The Factory gets green light
OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) has won aproval for its plans to build a £111 million multi-purpose arts space in Manchester.
Set to attract audiences of up to 850,000 per year, the original proposal for The Factory was approved in January 2017.
However, alterations were suggested in July so that a larger budget of £1.6 million could improve the facade and an orchestra pit could be allocated.
Other changes to the size of the theatre and some sections of the builidng were also made.
The Warehouse Project locks full programme for last ever season at Store Street
The Warehouse Project has revealed the full 12-week programme for its last ever season at Store Street. You can see the line-up below.
Kicking off with an opening party on Saturday 22nd September that sees Seth Troxler, Dixon, Peggy Gou and more all spin, the programme also sees a Rush Hour day and night party, Jackmaster bring a Numbers showcase and Daniel Avery curate his own event.
The programme currently ends on Wednesday 26th December. It hasn't been confirmed whether the usual new year events will bring the curtain down on Store Street.
The Warehouse Project announces this season will be its last at Store Street
Having returned to the venue back in 2014, Manchester’s biggest party promoters The Warehouse Project have announced that their forthcoming season will be their last in Store Street.
Four Tet to host an all-dayer with Ben UFO at The Warehouse Project
Four Tet is hosting an all-day party alongside Ben UFO at The Warehouse Project in Manchester Saturday, 6th October.
The event, dubbed Four Tet & Friends All Day Long, is set to run from 2pm to midnight and will feature a solo performance by Four Tet as well as a five-hour b2b set between Four Tet and Ben UFO to kick off the show, according to a tweet. The full line-up will be announced in July.
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Parklife festival has banned potato peelers
Parklife festival has banned potato peelers from the Manchester event, which just announced its line-up for this year’s instalment, taking place on 9th and 10th June.
Parklife Festival 2018 confirms Carl Cox, Andy C, Nina Kraviz, Adam Beyer, more
Parklife Festival 2018 has confirmed Carl Cox, Andy C, Nina Kraviz, Adam Beyer, and an enormous list of other names for this year's spectacular, which takes place in Europe's largest municipal green space— Heaton Park, Manchester— on 9th and 10th June.