MAY

Thurs 2nd: STRIPPED DOWN THURSDAY

All acoustic action with Donal Scullion, Dani, Gavin Ferris, and Lonesome George

9pm / £5 suggested donation

https://www.facebook.com/events/101599903377115/

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Fri 3rd: OPEN DECK#12 - IMPRINT DJS - FREE ENTRY!
Paul McCarthy (Ecker / Chutney) & Matt Hazley 

For our twelfth Open Deck, we go full circle and welcome back our inaugural jocks - Matt Hazley and Paul McCarthy from the IMPRINT podcast series.

Paul and Matt are curators, podcasters, and music junkies of the highest calibre. 
Their regular show has hosted sessions from the likes of Girls Names, Barry Lynn & James McConville, and Documenta.
It’s also an outlet for their choice picks of electronica, bass, psych, space-rock and whatever else is tickling their fancy.

As well as bringing the likes of Solar Bears and Knxwledge to our stage, IMPRINT recently celebrated it’s 50th podcast with live sets from Desert Hearts & Third Man Theme recorded at The Menage.

It’s our pleasure to have the lads back in the booth and we can’t wait to hear what they have in store.

https://www.facebook.com/events/607014479310008/

9pm / £0
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Sat 4th: SUNGLASSES AFTER DARK
The Groundlings (live) + Special Guest DJ Liam “Rumble” Killen (The Sabrejets) 

This time round we have playing live and VERY LOUD..the hard hitting Rhythm & Blues Bastards of Belfast THE GROUNDLINGS who will leave you spinning to their primitive sounds. A must for those who dig that raw r&b and early rock’n’roll sound. The Groundlings are a new band , formed by some of this cities best musicians and they have been rocking crowds of late, after hearing their blistering set in tribute to the Cramps we thought you guys deserved a taste. 

We also have a very special guest DJ, one quarter of the hard rocking greaser kings of Belfast. The guitar slinging, horror loving, fanzine writing gent that is LIAM “RUMBLE” KILLEN. Liam’s been knocking out killer riffs for many years and he’s got some awesome records to pull out of the bag for you all. 

Sunglasses After Dark is a club night playing only the finest and rarest rockabilly, strollers, boppers, jump blues, surf, fuzz, b-movie trashiness, soundtracks, horror howls, dischord, rhythm and blues , garage , exotica and proto/horror punk noise. Expect to hear everything from Charlie Feathers,Dale McBride,Ronnie Dawson, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley through to Trashmen, The Sonics, Del Tones, Surfaris , Fender 4, Strandelles, Frantics, right up to The Cramps, Johnny Thunders, Misfits and many more.

9pm / £5

https://www.facebook.com/events/147058362130640/
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Sun 5th: SUNDAY SOCIAL

Wind-down yr weekend (or keep the party going) with cocktails, drinks promos and Menagerie folk spinning the tunes until midnight.

8pm / £0

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Thurs 9th: GladiARTors The Movie!

You are invited to a night of fun and frolics to celebrate the GladiARTors event that happened earlier this year and to thank all those who helped so kindly to make it happen.
Debut screening of the GladiARTors movie and DJs playing right thru the night

9.30pm / £0 

https://www.facebook.com/events/491008907619665/
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Fri 10th: BELFAST MUSIC CLUB PRESENTS STEVE SUMMERS LIVE! (L.I.E.S. / CLONE / CONFUSED HOUSE)

Tough and raw house project from Jason Letkiewicz (Innergaze, Alan Hurst, Rhythm Based Lovers) heralding the halcyon days of Chicago House, Larry Heard, and Trax Records.
Summers has released a series of jackin’ twelves inches for Clone’s Jack For Daze Series, L.I.E.S, Echovolt, Future Times and recorded an amazing live session for Tim Sweeney’s Beats In Space.

Riding high in most peoples top label lists last year and look well on their way of achieving similar acclaim this year too L.I.E.S. became an iconic imprint not by championing a particular genre but for its rough-around-the-edges aesthetic. Sharing as much with punk and noise as with house and techno

Steve Summers has launched his own label Confused House, with the first planned release a collaborative effort between himself and fellow L.I.E.S. affiliate Bookworms.

9pm / £8

https://www.facebook.com/events/559050554129267/

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Sat 11th: STEP DnB TENTH ANNIVERSARY
w/ MOVING FUSION, BLOOM, PADDY TOWE, CHILL

It’s hard to believe it was a full decade ago since we ran our first party!
At our 10th Anniversary special one-off event, Step are proud to present legendary DnB artists Moving Fusion (Ram Records/Viper/Lifting Spirits/Audio Porn). Support includes Belfast’s Bloom, who is taking the world by storm - Fact magazine described his release “Quartz” as the “grime track of 2012”. Also playing a special electronica set is one of Belfast’s best loved DJs, Paddy Towe from Twitch… plus Step resident Chill will be thumping out the DnB.

This one is not to be missed!

9pm / £8

https://www.facebook.com/events/287800764683428/
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Thurs 16th: DAYTRIP #8 - FREE ADMISSION

DAYTRIP is back for it’s eighth outing with more indiepop, post-punk, ’60s pop and other awesome music! As always it’s free in.

Expect to hear the likes of…

The B-52’s, Beat Happening, Belle & Sebastian, Camera Obscura, DEVO, Felt, The Field Mice, Hefner, Helen Love, Kenickie, The Kinks, The Long Blondes, Orange Juice, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, The Pastels, Pulp, Saint Etienne, The Shangri-Las, Suede, Talking Heads, Talulah Gosh, Television Personalities… 

9pm / £0 / Drinks Promos until Midnight

https://www.facebook.com/events/454239044659418/
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Fri 17th: STRANGE VICTORY PRESENTS: ULRICH SCHNAUSS

If you mix shoegaze, beep and Tangerine Dream, you get the wonderful Ulrich Schnauss, who has been quietly gathering up devotees for a number of years.

Ulrich, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms, has been cutting incredible records ranging from all-out techno to drum ‘n’ bass, before settling into his own wonderfully peculiar electronic groove.

While many electronic composers thrive on being machine-like, Schnauss has allowed elegant, human emotion into his work, making records that have that fragile, eerie heartbreak of the Cocteau Twins, as well as the psychedelic ticks akin to Boards of Canada.

His new LP, ʻA Long Way To Fallʼ, is out on January 21st 2013, and the NME have referred to him as an “all-round genius” who makes “music as big as the oceans”.

8.30pm / £8 (tix available from www.wegottickets.com )

https://www.facebook.com/events/614770825205532

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Sat 18th: OPEN DECK #13 - JAMIE NELSON - FREE ADMISSION

For our thirteenth Open Deck, we are psyched to welcome back Jamie Nelson.

As well as residencies with Bloodsport and now Ramp - Jamie Nelson has recently supported Loefah in Newcastle and supplied a deadly guest mix for SubFM.

He killed it at our Halloween bash in 2012 and his previous Open Deck session. Jamie will, no doubt, be playing a bit of UK Garage, African dance music, House, Techno, Hip Hop, Bashment and whatever else takes his fancy…

In his own words - “Smooth, sexy tunes with nice warm bass…”

9pm - late / £0

Drinks Promos until Midnight 

https://www.facebook.com/events/541005679270904/
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Sun 19th: SUNDAY SOCIAL

Wind-down yr weekend (or keep the party going) with cocktails, drinks promos and Menagerie folk spinning the tunes until midnight.

8pm / £0 

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Mon 20th: BOMB CITY 7, MC LARS, CULL, SKETCH NINE

Bomb City 7 are a punk rock hip hop band made up of members from Axis Of, Bee Mick See, Empty Lungs, Hornets and Pocket Billiards. 

“Genre mongrel hip hop” - Phily Taggart BBC Radio 1

MC Lars is an American rapper from San Fransisco. His lyrical content ranges from socially aware songs about the hipster movement to sing song raps about Edgar Allen Poe poems.

As well as coining the term “i-Generation” he has collaborated with “Weird Al” Yankovic, Ian MacKaye and KRS-One. He has also opened for hip-hop legends Nas and Snoop Dogg

Cull is a human beatboxer and voal percussionist from Belfast. He has been wowing crowds in Ireland and London with his ability to recreate percussive sounds and musical instruments with only the use of his voice box

9pm / £5

https://www.facebook.com/events/397191677055552/

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Thurs 23rd: SEVEN SUMMITS, VANILLA GLOOM, CLAPS FOR ALASKA 

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Fri 24th: BOXCUTTER + KEN & RYU - Free Admission!

After a killer Open Deck session last month, we are chuffed to welcome back Barry Lynn (Boxcutter) and James McConville (Ken & Ryu) as they kick off an irregular residency of all night DJ jams…

One of the UK’s most innovative producers, Barry Lynn has been pushing forward dance music’s boundaries for nearly a decade. 

Over six LPs for Planet Mu, Barry has stepped out from the dubstep scene he was lazily lumped in with and outlined his love for jazz, funk, psychedelia as well as the dancefloor.

James McConville is one of the sickest drummers in town - currently playing with space-rockers Documenta and featuring on a selection of Barry’s records.

James is soon to release a 12inch on the RESET label of his warm cosmic analogue funk.

With record collections that take in everything from Free Jazz to Footwork, we’re sure that tonight’s sets will provide treats for both head and feet.

9pm - late / £0 

Drinks Promos until Midnight

https://www.facebook.com/events/160615757447416/
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Sat 25th: THE ZUVUYA PROJECT
w/ Chuck (Homespun) 

A glorious little shindig.

Woven in light and projections

Full of Bass and Rhythm
Where dance speaks louder than words

The Zuvuya Project aims to provide a bit of space and time, 
to nurture your imagination, question your beliefs and shake your ass.

With DJ Chuck at the controls, mixing, cutting and trainwrecking through all sorts of Funkativity

9pm / 

https://www.facebook.com/events/313054138825201/

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Sun 26th: SUNDAY SOCIAL

Wind-down yr weekend (or keep the party going) with cocktails, drinks promos and Menagerie folk spinning the tunes until midnight.

8pm / £0 

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Thurs 30th: THE OTHER SIDE 

Our resident montly live showcase curated by NI Soul Troop’s Donal Scullion.
Line-up to follow.

9pm / £5
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Fri 31st: SCOPE PRESENTS: RADIOACTIVE MAN (WANG TRAX / ROTTERS GOLF CLUB) 
w/ Scope Residents - Paul Acroplane / Gbo / Nez / Kev Lovski

Keith Tenniswood (better known as Radioactive Man and to most perhaps best as one half of Two Lone Swordsmen with Andrew Weatherall) is one of those cult status DJ’s – skirting the vanguards of rave culture serving as the UK’s figurehead of Drexcyian born electro. Speak to many a contemporary and they cite R_man as one of their major influences and a producer and DJ doing very much his own thing.

Over the years, he’s put many accolades to his name – credited with co-producing with David Holmes the award winning ‘Lets Get Killed’, engineering the live sound for Sabres of Paradise on the Primal Scream UK tour in 96, being among the first to contribute to Fabric’s mooted mix series and - for Tenniswood - it’s still his Swordsmen era album ‘Tiny Reminders’ that is to this day one of his proudest moments.

Live, he’s performed in many stand out situations as Radioactive Man as resident at Bloc festival, regular sessions at Fabric, as well as international festival and club dates – a highlight being at Sonar in front of 8000 international music fans before Jeff Mills and Mad Mike. 

After a four year period of quiet, 2012 saw somewhat of re-emergence of Tenniswood to the music fold, with the release of his first studio album in four years ‘Waits & Measures’ through WANG Trax.

He also made his debut on the infamous RinseFM, featured on Dazed Digital’s mix series and making the top ten of the year on Rob Booth’s Electronic Explorations podcast series.

9.30pm / £8 (£7 before 11pm)

https://www.facebook.com/events/241464739333697/

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