The Sub Club, 22 Jamaica Street, Glasgow.
W / DOM SUM / MARTYN FLYN
P / LUCKYME
Great Escape – ‘It’s On' (Jay Prada Laser Remix)
Great Escape have played at the Sub Club with members of LuckyMe.
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It’s only a single step up from the level of the dancefloor to the height of the DJ booth, and only a few further to the height of a stage, but we can still remember it feeling like such a long, long way for us in the Sub Club on Jamaica Street.
We’d been going to clubs for what felt like our whole life, even occasionally playing shows at bigger capacity venues. But it was just obvious as soon as you stepped across the threshold of the Sub Club that it was special. It’s a sweat box. No doubt about it. With the bar lit only by a red bulb, this dark hole of perfect sound and exposed stone just seems to align itself with the booth. It’s all about that booth in the Sub Club.
It was November 2007 that Hudson Mohawke first played at our favourite club, Numbers, alongside Flying Lotus and Jackson and his Computer Band. All of us at LuckyMe knew it represented more than one night. He had succeeded in playing the Sub Club, the home of our biggest influences, a place where we’d learned so much.
[The Sub Club, 22 Jamaica Street]
Hudson Mohawke, Nadsroic and Joe Kalamo from Ballers 5ocial have all swept its floors and worked its bar. We were fans at Optimo, every Sunday, for many years. We had worked its lights and sat on the door. We had seen this venue from every angle before we were finally allowed to step inside the booth and take centre stage. From roof-dripping birthday parties to Nadsroic fitting a pink wig in the hidden green room to Rustie headlining last month, the Sub Club is tied to LuckyMe. Lucky us.
It just sits there, unchanging; our gold standard, a wall of bass bins in a dark basement.
'LuckyMe in the City', created by and with thanks to: Dom Sum, FineArt, Ivor Williams, Edwin Pickstone, Christina Kernohan, Pete Marsden, Innes Maran, Tom Konx–Om– Pax, Jay P, Dema, Mike Slott, Great Ezcape, 7VWWVW, American Men, Isoceles, Rustie, Hudson Mohawke, Eclair Fifi, Nadsroic, Tiago, GSA, Tchai-Ovna, Mono/Stereo and the Sub Club.
www.thisisluckyme.com
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