Busy, busy week ahead. It's fresher's week at Glasgow Uni, and being one of the residents means I've got a lot of late nights and cheesy tunes to prepare. So I'm taking my night off tonight as my opportunity to get a bit boozy, and since I missed One More Tune's third birthday last month, it's off up The Arty.
Created by uber-promoter Matthew Craig along with four-to-the-floor connoisseur Ralph Thompson, One More Tune is the type of night you can set your watch to, great crowd, great music and cheap pints! And tonight they've booked Craig Smith of the 6th Borough Project to bring the noise!
We caught up with Matthew earlier in the week ahead of tonight's disco nonsense, here's what he had to say about stuff:
S: Ok, so One More Tune has been going strong for three years now, you celebrated your third birthday at the Art School last month and tonight you have Craig Smith of the 6th Borough Project as a special guest. What would you contribute the success of One More Tune to? Do you think persistence is important in developing a successful club night?
M: Persistence is the key ingredient in my view - persistence to keep finding new music, to keep entertaining your audience and to remember that you're very lucky getting to do such a fun job.
S: Focusing on tonight, can you tell us a bit more about Craig Smith & the 6th Borough Project and what we should expect from his set?
M: 6th Borough Project's getting a lot of attention at the moment and "Do It To The Max" is one of our favourites tunes of the year. Craig Smith is a a special DJ who can mix Disco, Slo-Mo, House, Funk and much more together yet keep a reserved subtlety too. He'll build sets that make sense and doesn't need to play "big" songs to work up an energy, it's a real joy that he's agreed to come and play for us and it's immense that Scottish producers are doing well.
S: Obviously you have a formula that is working for you at the moment, but where do you see One More Tune going in the future, especially when the Art School goes under refurbishment. Do you plan on developing the night further with bigger guests or new directions for example?
M: Aye, the interiors are all being overhauled and the GSA will run parties/operate as a union in a two hundred capacity venue near Sauchiehall St come next Summer so we'll have a big decision to make because we're bursting at the seams in the three hundred capacity Vic bar already. Either we downsize or try changing things up in a different venue so that's very much on our minds just now but change is good so we'll find a way that works for us.
S: In a nutshell, what is One More Tune all about and what does it represent? If you had to sell it to someone for example how would you describe it?
M: Music = Hope. There's not much I can say than that.
S: Glasgow appears to have a really healthy clubbing community at the moment, although some would argue it’s too small to support the volume of nights and events the promoters are pushing. Do you think there is a danger of the scene becoming over saturated with smaller nights suffering losses or do you think the choice punters have can only be good?
M: The dance scene is pretty strong but you're right, many talented people are running great nights at the moment and struggling. Conglomerates are probably the main negative aspect in Glasgow, not the individual venues, promoters or punters. Recently the big names are proving harder to spot, employing a mercenary student crowd to write their press releases, design their posters and bring their pals to their clubs.
Smaller venues/promoters need to find better ways to entertain people or at least make sure that the music they provide is new and exciting. Punters deserve choice in a city like Glasgow, it just really saddens me when good nights or, worse, clubs end and are replaced with lowest common denominator cattle markets ran by businessmen adding to their portfolios. Fuck them and get the people with passion back at the centre of things and Glasgow's scene will truly flourish.
One More Tune takes place tonight at The Glasgow School Of Art
Ft/ The 6th Borough Project, Gnarly Face (Itch!) & Define Define
11-3am
£5 on the door
Facebook Event
Check this pure, mad-mental video of the third birthday created by visualist extraordinaire Joe Crogan to get your rave juices bubbling:
One More Tune = 3rd Birthday from Joe Crogan on Vimeo.
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