DJ rule number three: don’t insult an entire city’s prime musical export mere days before you play there.

Dusky’s Alfie Granger-Howell told Skiddle said they used to listen to happy hardcore but thinks it hasn't stood the test of time.

Rude! You do not come to the come of DJ Rankin, Hixxy and Scott Brown and say that.

Do you see Belle and Sebastian writing off the grime community when they go down to play in our nation’s capital? Thought not. Do you hear PAWS slagging off Oasis when they cross the Pennines on tour? Unlikely. The London duo should count themselves lucky that there (probably) won’t be a horde of angry protesters outside their late show at SWG3 tomorrow night.

You’d be forgiven for being less understanding, dear reader, but I’m not going to call for a boycott just yet. If anything, I’m going to encourage you to attend tomorrow, because a Dusky live show has to be seen to be believed.

Their critically-acclaimed album Outer, which was released earlier this year, was a clear artistic progression: an expansive record that incorporated hints of Belgian techno, ambient and UK hardcore.

Its lead single Ingrid is a Hybrid was described as a “rave and electronica mutation,” according to critics while the Wiley-featuring Sort It Out Sharon was described as a “warehouse techno curveball”.

Lighting design from Disclosure and Hudson Mohawke collaborator Will Potts and live visuals from Flat-E mean that no synapse will escape un-frazzled. It promises to be an absolute treat.

While that’s going on in the TV Studio, round two of the SWG3 Yard skatepark fundraiser will be rolling out in the Poetry Club downstairs. A quadruple-header of residents from local cassette-only label HNDPCKD will be bringing sun-kissed, soundsystem-punishing funk and soulful beats to the Jim Lambie-designed venue, all in the name of skate culture.

• Dusky (live), tomorrow, SWG3, 10pm – 2am, sold out

• Party for the Yard, tomorrow, The Poetry Club, 10pm – 2am, £5/£7

Ben Pearce

The dance music world is full of pretentious characters, but Ben Pearce is not one of them. The British new-school house producer has been brutally honest in revealing his struggle with depression that caused him to cancel a string of tour dates last year, and he has been refreshingly open about his love of emo and indie rock bands like Brand New (“I've got their lyrics tattooed on me,” he said in 2014) and Death Cab For Cutie.

He’s now back on the road after several months out, and his recently-released EP Ascension – his first new material since 2015’s Nothing Ever Hurts – has been picking up positive reviews for its prickliness and “sizzling buoyancy”.

He plays at the Sub Club tonight – expect an outpouring of love for the headliner and straight-up amazing tunes from Vicious Creatures’ Lárus, who’s on warm-up duties.

On Sunday, the Sub Hub returns and continues its track record of outstanding and unique events as it presents the first UK screening of the Middle Eastern music documentary Raving Iran. The film follows two Tehran DJs who risk their freedom by sharing banned Western music, lifting the lid on the city’s illegal underground rave scene. The screening is accompanied by Iranian street food too, in case the riveting documentary wasn’t enough of a draw.

• Ben Pearce, tonight, Sub Club, 11pm – 3am, £8

• Raving Iran UK Premier, Sunday, BAaD, 6pm – 10.30pm, £14

Stereotone’s Second Birthday

In the two years since it moved into La Cheetah’s sweatbox basement, Stereotone has hosted some of the city’s most raucous Thursday night parties. The figure behind it all is DJ Wheelman, a Huntleys and Palmers collaborator and maker of woozy, chopped-up techno and electronica.

He started the night as a platform for himself and his friends to play records, the way so many people do.

He said its hard for newcomers to get warm-up slots and prove themselves to people so after a few years he decided to just do it himself, and started up Stereotone. It seems to have paid off: he’s now one of the most respected residents in the city and is in charge of a label that’s releasing tunes by the likes of Boiler-Room certified Glasgow DJ Bleaker. The only way is up.

If you’re feeling the pinch, an alternative is to get to La Cheetah early doors on Saturday. The first 50 entrants get in free to see the Dutch DJ Interstellar Funk, one of Amsterdam’s new wave of rambling, cosmic disco DJs, tear the basement a new one.

• Stereotone’s Second Birthday, tonight, La Cheetah, 11pm – 3am, £5

• Interstellar Funk, Saturday, La Cheetah, 11pm – 3am, first 50 free/£8