Baby Love, London
While your typical indie, funk and pop nights have never been ones to shy away from digging out the 1960s girl group platters, Baby Love must be the capital's only club dedicated wholeheartedly to the sweet, soulful sound of lady-led Motown. And about time too. Playing shower sing-alongs you know and ones you don't from the likes of the Supremes and Martha Reeves And The Vandellas, the night's resident DJs Paddy Hughes and Tors Beedles will also be branching out into the Brill Building beat of the Shirelles and the Chiffons as well as the Phil Spector-fiddled oeuvre of the Ronettes and the Crystals. A free-entry Sunday session, this new weekend wind-down will also host guest decks sessions from various East End faces, who'll be playing songs that owe a serious debt to all those wonderful women in matching sequinned evening gowns and backcombed bouffants. It's all really saying something ?
Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen, N1, Sun
Leonie Cooper
A Taste Of Eden Warm-up, Glasgow
Organisers of this summer's Eden Festival ? a three-day family and eco-friendly celebration of music, dance and culture ? preview a host of acts from the festival bill in Glasgow tonight. No representation of the Garden of Eden would be complete without its resident serpent so, compering is Viper, introducing circus show-band the Carny Villains, corseted suppliers of sin-with-a-grin the Voodoo Dollz plus a smattering of sauce from the Club Wonka Performers. Tune spinners include Wee G, Swank'n'Jams, the Jumblesale Soundsystem and Junglist Alliance DJs, while the wandering Fruit-Bearing Mistresses ensure things stay messy and juicy throughout the night.
Stereo, Renfield Lane, Sat
Patric Baird
Back In The Dark, Bournemouth
The biggest adventures sometimes begin with the smallest of coincidences. When Bournemouth's geezers-about-town DeepBlue played a private party in London last year, not only did they thrill to the chilled deep house soul of Zero 7's Sam Hardaker, they managed to persuade him to take an excursion down to their manor. Steering resolutely away from the "chill" tag his band are often labelled with, Hardaker's DJ sets are as widescreen as his recorded work and take in jazz and soul influences as well as uplifting house. The lush marble'n'mahogony-lined confines of Bournemouth's uber-cool Winchester pub is the venue for this scene of sonic experimentation and Hardaker is ably supported by Back In The Dark residents including deep house nuts Gary Ellis and Wayne Bailey. The frankly unsettling-sounding Special Branch Room is staffed by Dave Hornby, Paul Moore and Stalker.
The Winchester, Poole Hill, Sat
John Mitchell
Mono_cult 4th Birthday, Leeds
Heading back to The Faversham for the first time since New Year's Day, Mono_cult are making a pretty big deal out of tonight's birthday. Though presently without a permanent home, the night is still in great form, popping up for special parties wherever and whenever they've got something exciting to add to Leeds' almost-too-good club scene. And this massive student boozer will allow three rooms of music. That's just as well, as the evening's soundtrack will be pretty varied, from the disco-tinged house of Panorama Bar residents Soundstream or Dead Rose Music Company, through the deep house of We Play House Recordings' FCL, to the eclectic and very current UK bass sounds of Julio Bashmore. Typically for Mono_cult, each of the guests is making their Leeds debut, alongside residents Matt Long, Brad Mercer and Paul Kaminski.
The Faversham, Springfield Mount, Sat
Marc Rowlands
One More Time!, London
Boldly celebrating the music of the 90s and the noughties, One More Time! rifles through the all-encompassing record bags of the recent past to create a gleeful, unselfconscious south-of-the-river soiree. Likely to attract a crowd who happily remember the songs from first time around, there'll probably be a fair few young'uns scratching their heads when the En Vogue drops, wondering if they're listening to a rare Destiny's Child B-side, in attendance too. Unfettered fun is the name of One More Time's simple but effective game, with Amersham Arms and Guilty Pleasures man Dan Hayes holding the fort alongside Old Queens Head DJ Max Raymond. What's also exciting about this new night is its location, the sumptuous, light-up dancefloor-boasting Clapham Grand, which normally plays host to rowdy events like the notorious Aussie piss-up, The Church.
Clapham Grand, SW11, Fri
Leonie Cooper
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