It’s going to be an enormous struggle to get through this week’s Halloween clubbing previews because all I want to do is talk about Glow. It has consumed my every waking moment for an entire week; since I first laid eyes on personal trainer James and hair stylist Lauren and night club owner Brian, I have been unable to stop thinking about their trials and their tribulations and their black-tie balls and their silly staged arguments.

Likewise, dear reader, I know that all you want to read about is Glow. Sunday might have been Glasgow derby day, but Glow had the city united. Quite literally every single person that I know watched on in horror as Lauren struggled to get through the door of her shop. I was outside my close no more than 30 seconds on Friday morning before I heard two of my fellow commuters discussing boxer Paddy’s inner bout to contain the indescribable magnitude of his feelings towards Stephanie. Who could fail to have been moved by that touching moment on the patio, when Paddy (whose professional boxing debut was captured earlier in the episode in a powerful cinematic homage to Scorsese’s 1980 classic Raging Bull) presented his new beau with an archive box of red roses? It is no exaggeration to say I had tears in my eyes.

Apologies – I appear to have gone off on a tangent. We’re here to talk about where you’re going to be partying this weekend, not who you’re going to be watching through your fingers tonight. Aside from Kavalii, the biggest nights are at SWG3: tomorrow, techno overlords Slam host their uniformly epic monthly night Pressure and on Saturday, house honcho Hot Since 82 turns up the temperature in the Finnieston Warehouse.

The venue will be lucky to survive tomorrow night’s riotous affair, when Birmingham’s industrial electronica don Surgeon doubles up with Slam for a live modular hardware set. For the purists in the crowd, this is a bit like being in the room with James Joyce while he wrote Ulysses, or – to indulge in some ludicrous overstatement – being up the scaffolding with Michelangelo as he painted the Sistine’s ceiling. Breathing the same air as a bona fide legend of the genre creates something new and unique with the trade’s original tools… it doesn’t come around often. For the non-purists, well, it’ll be chance to hear some properly banging techno while dressed up in costume. We’re all winners here.

By contrast, Hot Since 82’s gig on Saturday is all about ultra-hip underground house. The Leeds-based producer has been touring his Knee Deep parties around the world lately, playing to sold-out audiences in Latin America, Amsterdam and the equally exotic Sheffield. “It’s just straight up house music and a little bit of techno. It’s just party music, really,” said Daley Padley, the man behind the Hot Since 82 name, ahead of his residency at Pacha Ibiza this summer. “People are familiar now with Knee Deep in Sound, and when they see the artwork or the name, they know it’s going to be quality.”

• Pressure, tomorrow, SWG3, 10pm – 3am, £22

• Hot Since 82, Saturday, SWG3, 9pm – 3am, £23

Another Soulful Evening

After his tremendous guest slot at August’s edition of Divine!, the writer and broadcaster Stuart Cosgrove returns to The Admiral this Saturday for the launch of his expanded and revised edition of Detroit 67. The book focuses on the Motor City during that turbulent year, and covers the soul music, street crime and social rebellion that characterised the time. Cosgrove will be reading excerpts and answering questions early doors, before the party moves to the basement and he takes to the decks alongside legendary soul collector Lenny Harkins. They’ll be spinning a Detroit-centric selection of ultra-rare 45s and unreleased Motown acetates, with legendary resident Andrew Divine pumping out funk and northern soul beforehand.

• Detroit 67: Another Soulful Evening with Stuart Cosgrove, Saturday, The Admiral, 7.30pm – 3am, £5

Claptone

House heavyweight Claptone headlines the pick of the Halloween parties at the Subbie tonight. Partygoers are invited to join the masked German as the club is “transformed into a mythical, long-forgotten world of freaky indulgence.” Whatever that means, it sounds decadent although the prospect of dancing all night in a big-beaked gold masquerade mask has me sweating profusely already. Support on the night from Lárus and Berkeley Suite resident The Yellow Door.

• Claptone, tonight, Sub Club, 11pm – 3am, £12/£14 with Claptone mask.