Ah, September. Lively freshers flood our fair city with youthful enthusiasm, ready to sample a plethora of clubs, djs and 90p spirits. Some will fail to look beyond the deep fried melting pot of Sauchiehall street, so god bless those adventurous souls willing to look a bit further for their new favourite night out.

One such party we wholeheartedly endorse is Mixed Bizness at Glasgow School of Art, who have just announced a post-summer re-launch just in time for the new academic term. Now in its second year, Mixed Bizness regularly welcomes a lively crowd of loyal fans as well as curious freshers, seeking everything from hip hop to dubstep, house to disco, dancehall to funk and most importantly, bass.

Resident DJ Benny Boom will be holding down the fort every Thursday alongside a new batch of rotating upstarts, namely MGCK, NoFace, Point to C and Djamba. Forthcoming Mixed Bizness highights include dubstep posterboy Benga at the Art School on Friday 17 September and hip hop pioneer Grandmaster Flash at the Sub Club on Wednesday 20 October.

Check out some of resident, Boom Monk Ben’s past mixes and podcasts on Radio Magnetic for a taste of what to expect.

Glasgow School Of Art
Every Thursday
11pm – 3am
£3/4, GSA students free before midnight/£1 after

www.mixedbizness.co.uk
www.myspace.com/boommonkben

The line-up for the Glasgow leg and the remainder of the UK tour consists of eight Wu legends in Gza, Ghostface Killah, MastaKilla, Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, Rza, UGod and Mathematics.

We are offering you lucky people the chance to go along too! Yes, yes, y’all. We’ve got 5 pairs of tickets to giveaway!

To win a pair of tickets to the gig, answer the simple question in the comments box below. We’ll email the lucky winners on Sunday afternoon with details of how to collect your tickets.

Competition

Which of these three is not a Wu Tang Clan song?

1. C.R.E.A.M.
2. Bring The Noise
3. Tearz

Rules and Biz

Tickets are still available people and cost £29.50 and can be purchased from the o2 Academy website.

If you’re there as a lucky winner or as a regular punter tehn drop us a line after and tell us what you think. These guys are legends. Full stop.

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One of the UK’s true pioneer bands and first rate live act The Bays headline a night of extraordinary musical progression that also feature Edinburgh’s own Hidden Orchestra (formerly Joe Acheson Quartet – now signed to Tru Thoughts, on the verge of big tings) and Edinburgh cosmic beat-maker Asthmatic Astronaut.  Listen to Asthmatic Astronaut‘s set from Kelburn Garden Party 2009. You can hear our live recordings of tracks by Joe Acheson Quartet and The Bays in our best of Kelburn 2009 roundup.

Departure Lounge is promoted by Radio Magnetic contributor DJ Astroboy. Listen to his World Gone Crazy Mixtape.

The birthday party is being held in conjunction with the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival and together they have pulled together a fantastic line-up for a Sunday Summer’s Evening. We highly recommend you attend.

The bash kicks off at The Caves in Edinburgh from 9pm and goes on until 1am. Get involved people. Sounds like just the ticket. And on that, tickets cost a mere £12.50 in advance.

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I’m sure many Magnetic heads were sad to hear about the seemingly imminent closure of London’ s Fabric nightclub after rumors began circulating earlier this month. Well fear not! CMU reports that management have confirmed the sale of the club to a new business called Fabric Life and will continue to be run by the same team.

In a statement released on Thursday, Fabric said they were “delighted” that they were no longer in administration and added that nothing within the scope of the Fabric ethos or team would change.

All of this means fans of the club can breathe a sigh of relief, and with upcoming nights including Martyn, Cooly G, Shakelton and the Numbers 7th birthday, there are plenty of chances to celebrate the rescue of a truly vital venue.

Meanwhile, the clubs sister project Matter, whose mounting debts reportedly caused the whole mess in the first place is currently closed. While the website states that this will only last the summer, many have reservations about the future of the O2 venue. Watch this space.

To hear the latest installment of the 24-carat Fabric podcast series featuring Surgeon, click here.

Calling all you unsigned bands, producers and singer songwriters! The Green Man festival are looking for an amazing, undiscovered act to open this year’s festival. You’re chance to share a bill with Doves, The Flaming Lips, Joanna Newsom, Beirut, Steve Mason, Fuck Buttons, Wild Beasts and These New Puritans comes in the shape of Green Poll.

On Thursday 8 April, Born To Be Wide presents Wide Days an informative music industry networking event bringing together the creative industries in Scotland and beyond.

The daytime program consists of four music industry seminars and a Keynote Q&A with Gavin Bain, whose book California Schemin’ describes how he and fellow Dundonian Billy Boyd fooled the music industry into believing they were American, earning considerable sums of money and partying like Rock stars and touring with Eminem and D12 along the way!

The seminars on the day are, How To Get On A Festival Bill, with oranisers of top music festivals in Scotland and further afield moderated by BBC Scotland’s Vic Galloway. A seminar on essential legal advice entitled I Am The Law, an indepth discussion on music industry management, Speak To The Management, featuring high profile managers of acts like Stevie Wonder, Primal Scream and Simple Minds and a discussion seminar entitled What Next? looking at the future of the music industry in general.

The same evening your wristband will give you access to various venues and showcases throughout Edinburgh.  Finally ending with a big party and Born To Be Wide guest DJ Sets.

Anyone with an interest in a career in the music industry or even just an interest should definitely make it along for this great opportunity to debate and discuss the current industry.

A standard ticket costs £30 + booking fee and you can get them alongside further info here.

Tennent’s are once again on the lookout for the best unsigned musical talent in Scotland to play the T Break stage at T in the Park 2010.

Since 1996 Tennent’s have been giving unsigned Scottish musicians a chance to showcase in front of Scotland’s most passionate music fans and the T Break panel of industry judges. The new T Break website launches on the Wednesday 17 March and will be releasing more entry information in the coming weeks.

This year’s festival takes place from the 9th to the 11th of July in Balado near Kinross and features a star studded lineup including hip hop heavy weights Jay Z, Dizzee Rascal and Eminem as well as Hot CHip, Mayer Hawthorne, Vampire Weekend, Plastikman and Four Tet (and that’s just for starters).

If you’re an aspiring artist or in a band then get your demo’s ready and you could be featured on the same lineup!

For more information and to register for updates go to:

tennents.com/tbreak
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So far acts on the bill, over and above the unmissable Arches finale, include Jeffrey Lewis, Hot Club De Paris, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, British Sea Power, The Wave Pictures and Kitty The Lion.

Tickets are only £10 for early birds and this ticket allows access to all events, venues and gigs over the course of the Saturday. Sounds like a bargain to us.

Plus there’s a load more to be announced over the coming weeks including the full lowdown on acts and exactly which of the city’s venues are taking part. Watch this space for more info or check out the official Hinterland website.

As one of the most influential electronic bands of all time, Leftfield delved into a new style of music that no one had ever touched on before. The fusion of epic soundscapes with intoxicating rhythms in their album, Leftism, was what truly marked them in dance music history. The Face magazine described it as  “… the best dance album ever.” Even now, bands such as The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers and Underworld are still inspired to use the pounding beats of Leftfield although none of it compares.

Jim King, Festival Director and huge fan of Leftfield shared his excitement by saying:  “We’ve been trying to get Leftfield to do some shows for years and now its actually going to happen.” After last year’s great success, RockNess 2010 takes place on Friday 11 June to Sunday 13 June which is sure to bring an outstanding line up of acts to the stage for another year.

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