This Easter weekend promises such a dizzying variety of clubbing options. And a jam-packed few days at The Arches kicks off tomorrow night with maverick Italian Benny Benassi.
Saturday sees some of techno's biggest names back to back to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Slam's first night under the fabled Arches.
The unstoppable Mssrs McMillan and Meikle are joined by Laurent Garnier in his L B S guise, flanked by cohorts Benjamin Rippert and Stephane Scan X Dri.
Ben Klock returns to Glasgow to warm up – last time he was here he took on Electric Frog, Pressure's Arches afterparty and Substanz Underground and destroyed all three.
Heavily hyped English dubstepper Flux Pavilion stops in on Monday night, and on Tuesday Late, Glasgow's first inclusive club night, gives those with or without disabilities who may feel excluded from mainstream clubbing a chance to get down in the company of Garry Spence and DJ Bowers.
n Benny Benassi, tomorrow, 11pm – 3am, £16; Pressure Easter Special, Saturday, 10.30pm – 4am, £18; Flux Pavilion, Monday, 7pm, £8.50; Late, Tuesday, 7.30pm – 12am, £4
Suite sounds
Our new favourite Charing Cross speakeasy Berkeley Suite also has a heaving holiday schedule.
Tonight, Bobby Cleaver of the spectacularly successful Numbers collective takes to the subterranean club's dark DJ booth alongside Dirty Larry. The following nights offer live Canadian electro from Fairmont and disco from Supermax's Billy Woods, before Optimo signings Organs of Love unleash their seedy, lo-fi weirdness on Easter Sunday.
n Bobby Cleaver & Dirty Larry, tonight, 11pm – 3am, free Fairmont (Live), tomorrow, 11pm – 3am, £5; A Downtempo Night with Billy Woods, Saturday, 11pm – 3am, free; Organs of Love, Sunday, 11pm – 3am, £5
Opting in
In April 2010 Optimo (Espacio) retired from its weekly Sunday service at the Sub Club after 13 years, amid outpourings of grief for the mercurial JD Twitch and JG Wilkes.
Just as Glasgow's music-hungry hipsters were learning to live without it, that beacon for wild eclecticism is returning. Twitch and Wilkes will preside over a barrage of "sonic chaos", and for Optimo's devotees, it will be a very Good Friday indeed.
n Optimo (Espacio), tomorrow, Sub Club, 11pm – 3am, £tbc; Subculture, Saturday, Sub Club, 11pm – 3am, £10
