UNIVERSITY tutors the length and breadth of the country will be dismayed at what went down at The Arches on Monday night.

To mark the opening of the Red Bull Music Academy's fifteenth year, the company have curated a series of lectures, subtly segueing into parties, across the country.

Like this one, they all share one pretty astonishing characteristic: normal university-age young adults voluntarily sitting through a lecture in their spare time. It was billed as a lecture, so they had an excuse to avoid it.

Universities all but have to threaten students with bodily harm just to get them to turn up, and here they are spending their spare time in a cavernous lecture hall being, well, lectured.

It helps when those delivering the lessons happen to be some of the biggest DJs in the country.

Here, local hero Jackmaster chaired a session, as did Radio 1's T. Williams and Glasgow's own Nightwave.

The omnipresent Optimo (seriously, you can't get out of bed without coming across at least one of their sets) hosted a hands-on workshop, and afterwards, at 11, the whole thing descended into a low-key knees-up with beats from the erstwhile educators.

Soma's Petrichor also played: usually a driving, pulsating techno force, his set was toned down a little for the surroundings. The boy Jackmaster put off a gig with Jasper James at West Regent Street's Kokomo to be here: that'll now be on Monday coming (February 3), if you want to see what all the hype is about.

Let's just say that if the energy drink music academy were an international centre in the specialised field of party starting, then this guy would be Chancellor for life.