Having run every week since it was founded in 1997, on thursday 11 march 2010, it was announced on the official facebook page that the weekly nights would come to an end on sunday 25 april 2010. Optimo espacio faq, have all those burning questions about jd twitch. Shop for vinyl, cds and more from optimo at the discogs marketplace. Jg wilkes optimo with support from ally mckenzie wilkes needs no introduction but hes getting one anyway wink emoticon arguably one of the greatest djs of all time lives in glasgow and works between here and whomever books him internationally.
Optimo espacio home, see what upcoming events and guests weve got lined up. Keith mcivor and jonnie wilkes ran optimo in glasgow for well over a decade. The duo also host their very own regular optimo event at the sub club, in their hometown of glasgow, and for the past 9 years the party has featured artists such as rapture, liquid liquid, esg, franz ferdinand and over 120 other bands. Optimo 20 i wanna see all my friends at once, read the large sign hanging above the main dancefloor, and thats what this unique oneday mini. Keith mcivor, better known as jd twitch and one half of optimo, attributes. However, jd twitch and jg wilkes would continue to tour, promote and release music as optimo. We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is. It has always been at the sub club except for the 3 or so years of its life when the sub club burned down.
Optimo espacio was a weekly sundaynight club based in glasgow, scotland at the sub club on jamaica street, as well as a collective moniker for the nights resident dj duo. Michael dracula optimo, sub club, glasgow, sun 1 jul. It has also featured djs such as harvey and ivan smagghe. After countless lineup changes and an absence for a year or so from playing live, michael dracula. Before optimos infamous sub club residency, both twitch and jonnie wilkes had already gained experience as performers in their own right. Then we were very briefly at the th note on clyde street, at planet peach on queen street for a year or so and at mas on royal exchange square for a year or so. We also run a record label nautilus rising, a festival sub club. Optimo and subculture sprang up in the sub clubs hallowed basement space and slam first made their mark there with their legendary. Optimo is dj duo twitch and jonnie wilkes, whose legendary optimo night in. The sub club always had more faith in optimo than we did. This year the sub club celebrates its silver anniversary, wedded to glasgows. Although djs twitch and jg wilkes called time on the club in 2010, optimo still operate as a label and music duo. But really its at sub club where the magic multiplies.
Legendary favorites like saturdays subculture house and sundays. Optimo espacio optimum space was a weekly sundaynight club based in glasgow, scotland at the sub club on jamaica street, as well as a collective moniker for the nights resident dj duo. Back in 2015, sub club launched sub hub a creative local hub located in a loft space in glasgow city centre, bringing. Its no surprise that one of the best nightclubs in the world is located on the party mecca of ibiza. Mark vonnegut we have a new mailing list facility on the site. To mark 20 years since optimo launched at sub club in glasgow, the duo will host a special alldayer in august. The bunker is one of the citys rare oases of serious dance music, and yet the party isnt too purist to host optimo, the evereclectic duo that once made glasgows sub club one of the world. In the smaller, sweatpacked poetry club there were dj sets from ben ufo and the sublime allfemale trio from copenhagen by way of glasgow, apeiron crew, while the. The sub club is a club and music venue located at 22 jamaica street in glasgow, scotland.
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